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This year, there wasn’t enough time to just breathe, he said. “Sometimes you just need to be able to sit and be like, some wild stuff happened,” said Lost, 22. “So in the video I didn’t want to feel like I was performing. I wanted it to feel like a spot where you can just sit and be like, wow, we really did go through a lot.” And millions of people did sit and watch: Google’s Year in Search 2020, released Dec. 9 on YouTube, has received more than 238million views as of this… Source link

TipRanks 3 Stocks J.P. Morgan Says Are Ready to Rip Higher Take a deep breath, get ready, the New Year is just around the corner, and while we’re all ready to celebrate – just on principle, because getting out of 2020 is reason enough for joy – let’s also take stock of where we are and where we’re headed.There’s a growing sense of optimism, engendered by the availability of COVID vaccines and the potential they give for a return to normal on Main Streets around the country…. Source link

(BLOOMBERG) – Back in November, it was possible to dismiss the Trump administration’s antitrust suit against Google as too weak, too narrow and too late. But now more than 40 states – and the Federal Trade Commission – have filed suit against another tech giant: Facebook. It seems unlikely to be the last major lawsuit against technology giants. Though these cases are ostensibly about antitrust violations, they are a sign of something bigger: the revival of a longstanding anti-monopoly… Source link

Though these cases are ostensibly about antitrust violations, they are a sign of something bigger: the revival of a longstanding antimonopoly tradition in the U.S. This particular view of large, powerful corporations – as threats to the political order – has repeatedly played a significant role in the nation’s history. As the historian Richard John has observed, antimonopoly is often confused and conflated with antitrust. In fact, it long predates antitrust law. In the 17th… Source link

One Patriot, for example, voiced the following objection: “The first Teas may be sold at a low Rate to make a popular Entry, yet when this mode of receiving Tea is well established, they, as all other Monopolists do, will mediate a greater profit on their Goods, and set them up at what Price they please.” Source link

Boston College has decided to opt out of a bowl game in 2020, with the team and administrators choosing to return home for the holidays instead. Boston College athletic director Dr. Patrick Kraft informed Yahoo Sports of the decision on Thursday, which marks the first program to publicly announce it does not want to play in a bowl game. BC finished 6-5 in head coach Jeff Hafley’s first season and were likely to play in either the Gasparilla Bowl or the Military Bowl, according to bowl… Source link

Researchers from Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School have launched an app-based research project to study the spread of COVID-19, influenza and other respiratory illnesses through a partnership with Google. It’s the first project to launch as part of Google Health Studies, an Android app Google launched Wednesday. It’s an effort to make it easier for researchers to recruit volunteers from across the country to participate in medical research, according to Google, by letting… Source link

ProFootball Talk on NBC Sports FOX NFL Sunday cast knocked out of studio for Week 11 Sunday’s pregame shows on FOX will look a lot different than usual. FOX has announced that the regular FOX NFL Sunday cast will not appear in studio tomorrow, “[i]n accordance with CDC guidance, Los Angeles County Department of Public Health safety guidelines — and out of an abundance of caution for our team — Sunday’s [more] Source link

(CNN) — If you’ve ever had a song stuck in your head but can’t remember enough lyrics to search for it, Google has a solution: hum to search. Google unveiled a new search feature Thursday that lets users search for songs by humming a few bars, in an attempt to help you identify music. The feature is now part of Google’s mobile app and Google Assistant, where you can say “what’s this song?” (add a “Hey Google” first on Google Assistant) and then hum, whistle, or sing… Source link