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Google infamous Chrome tracking nightmare has just gotten worse. The company has confirmed critical changes to its promise to stop its browser’s 2.6 billion users being secretly tracked across the web, risking further, significant delay. Chrome’s dominance of the browser market is well understood, with an almost 65% market share. Only Safari offers any competitive scale at around 20%, which means that when you look to non-Apple users, Chrome’s dominance is incredible. The more… Source link

Supply chain woes continue to paint an increasingly bleak the picture for the trucking industry, said Jason Seidl, Cowen managing director of industrials — airfreight and surface transportation. Finding workers to drive trucks has increasingly been an issue in the industry, according to Seidl. “Clearly, we’ve had some problems hiring truckers lately,” he said in a segment with Yahoo Finance Live on Wednesday. “I’ve been around the trucking industry almost 30 years, and I’ve never… Source link

This article first appeared in the Morning Brief. Get the Morning Brief sent directly to your inbox every Monday to Friday by 6:30 a.m. ET. Subscribe Friday, November 12, 2021 Higher yields, higher dollar As I promised several days ago, today is the day I dig into the idea of interest rate differentials. The inflation-driven concept is accretive for both the U.S. dollar and stock investors — even if soaring prices are a net negative for just about everyone else. In summary, prices are surging,… Source link

Google’s approach to its Nest Cam with Floodlight is a lot like its competitors’: take an outdoor camera and slap some lights and a higher… Source link

Unvaccinated Americans are still driving a surge in COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths in various parts of the country, and one doctor believes that the country needs to appreciate the power of vaccines throughout history. “For us in the medical field and for the population in general, we forgot how bad these diseases are — how bad smallpox, how bad polio, how bad measles is — because they’ve been eradicated for the largest part in many parts of the world, especially the developing… Source link

Image: Google The last year or so hasn’t been great for Stadia, Google’s game streaming service. And now its Director of Games is leaving to join a different part of Google. This follows other high-profile exits from Stadia earlier this year and seems to signal that Google is truly done making or funding exclusive games for its fledgling game service. As reported by ZDNet, Jack Buser is leaving Google Stadia on September 13. He was the streaming service’s Director of Games, having… Source link

The need for workers is weighing on the trucking industry, where freight operators are struggling to raise wages fast enough to find drivers. Eric Fuller, the CEO of U.S. Xpress (USX), said that his company has doled out 30% to 35% in total pay increases over the last 12 months — but suggested more may be needed. “The driver situation is about as bad as I’ve ever seen in my career,” Fuller told Yahoo Finance on Monday. Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed that in the depths… Source link

Former female employees of Activision Blizzard (ATVI) are coming forward to share their experiences at the company after a California state agency filed a civil rights lawsuit against the gaming giant alleging widespread sexual harassment and gender and racial discrimination. The suit, which seeks compensatory and punitive damages, as well as unpaid wages, has kicked off a firestorm against the “Call of Duty” and “World of Warcraft” maker, with users across social media platforms… Source link

Google has finally given its new, unified smartwatch platform a name — and it’s an obvious one: Wear OS 3. That little detail was part of what may be a more contentious set of information about which current Wear OS smartwatches will be updated, when those updates will come, and what those updates will entail. On all three of those fronts, it’s not very good news. Google says that Wear OS 3 updates will start rolling out to a limited set of smartwatches in the “second half of… Source link

Medicare Advantage provider Clover Health (CLOV) is both despised and loved, depending on whom you ask. The newly-public company has earned a prized status among top meme stocks. But the company is also facing significant backlash in the form of lawsuits after a scathing report from short-seller firm Hindenburg Research.  [Read more: Clover Health CEO speaks out for first time on hospital controversies] It’s something the company’s normally media-shy CEO, Vivek Garipalli, recently discussed in… Source link