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Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. Photo: Cayce Clifford for The Wall Street Journal Updated June 3, 2021 7:43 pm ET Google removed a senior member of its diversity team over anti-Semitic remarks in a 2007 blog post, marking the… Source link

Carsten Koall | Getty Images Google has reassigned global diversity lead Kamau Bobb after it deemed his past comments as anti-Semitic. Bobb, a global lead for diversity strategy and research at Google, has been in the role at the company for nearly three years, according to his LinkedIn profile. The Washington Free Beacon recently surfaced a 2007 blog post by Bobb about Israel in which he wrote that Jewish people had an “insensitivity” to suffering and stated “If I were a Jew I would be… Source link

Google I/O 2021 gets underway today (May 18), and we expect a wide range of big announcements.  Google is sure to show off a more polished version of Android 12 with a revamped interface, a “brand new” version of Wear OS for smartwatches and maybe some new hardware in the form of a Google Pixel 5a phone and Pixel Buds A wireless earbuds.  The Google I/O keynote begins at 1:00 p.m. ET and runs through 3 p.m. ET, so there’s sure to be a lot of news. And we’ll be here to break it all down for… Source link

Earlier this month, in what many consider the copyright case of the decade, the Supreme Court released its much-anticipated decision in Google v. Oracle. In it, the Court ruled that Google’s copying of 11,500 lines of declaring code from Java SE for use in Google’s Android platform, was fair use. Having recently reviewed the history of the fair use defense in copyright infringement cases, we now turn to the case itself. Background of Google v. OracleBefore Sun Microsystems (now… Source link

When reading the Google Workspace Updates blog posts, you should change the order in which you read the sections to ensure you only get details relevant to the edition you use. Follow these steps. Illustration: Andy Wolber/TechRepublic … Source link

Google’s John Mueller advises site owners that removing all comments from a website may adversely impact search rankings. Mueller offers this advice during the Google Search Central SEO hangout recorded on February 5. A question is submitted by a site owner asking whether blog comments are factored into Google’s search rankings. They want to remove comments from their site and ask if that can be done without losing rankings. The short answers are: Yes, Google factors comments into the… Source link

The Kansas City Chiefs and Tampa Bay Buccaneers meet up Sunday in Super Bowl 55, a game that can be live-streamed on the Yahoo Sports app. Led by Tom Brady, the Buccaneers have won three straight road games in the postseason to get to the Super Bowl. But they face a strong opponent in defending champ Kansas City. Will Brady get his seventh ring? Or will Patrick Mahomes and Co. steal his thunder? We’ll be following all the action live here on Yahoo Sports. The music was better than hologram… Source link

The Associated Press 76ers fan to give memorabilia back to Johnny Bench The winning bidder on over $1 million worth of memorabilia from a recent auction of Johnny Bench’s personal collection is returning the items to the Hall of Fame catcher, with whom he’s been friends since 1967. Businessman Alan Horwitz, a fan of the Philadelphia 76ers who sits courtside at home games wearing his Sixth Man jersey, successfully bid for Bench’s 1975 and ’76 World Series rings last month. Horwitz said he and… Source link

Reuters NFL: Denver QBs ineligible for Sunday’s game due to COVID-19 exposure Drew Lock, Brett Rypien and Blake Bortles were all deemed to be a “high-risk” close contact to fellow Broncos quarterback Jeff Driskel, who tested positive for the coronavirus on Thursday, it said. The report, which cited unnamed sources, said Lock, Rypien and Bortles were pulled off the field early during Saturday’s practice and told to isolate at home after contact-tracing concerns had arisen. Source link

Melania Trump US First Lady Melania Trump addresses the B’More Youth Summit in Baltimore, Maryland, on November 26, 2019. – The purpose of the summit is to promote healthy choices and educate students about the dangers of opioid use. NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty Images First lady Melania Trump is airing her personal grievances on the White House website to the astonishment of readers. President Donald Trump’s wife bashed her former friend Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, who recently published a… Source link