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Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save A co-founder of Yandex, Russia’s biggest tech company, has become the second major Russian businessman under Western sanctions to publicly denounce President Vladimir Putin’s war against Ukraine, even as other Russian billionaires remain silent. “Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is barbaric, and I am categorically against it,” Arkady Volozh said in a statement on Thursday. “I am horrified about the fate of people in Ukraine,… Source link

A founder of Russia’s largest technology company condemned his country’s war in Ukraine on Thursday, a rare step among Russian tycoons caught between fear of Western sanctions and retribution at home. “Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is barbaric, and I am categorically against it,” Arkady Volozh, who until last year ran Yandex, often referred to as Russia’s Google, said in a statement. “I have to take my share of responsibility for the country’s actions,” he said, without… Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Google Meet finally supports 1080p video calls  The Verge Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Fresh Street calls: A vicious downgrade on Etsy, McDonald’s feels inflationary pain  Yahoo Finance Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]3 big calls in the stock market you might have missed this week  Yahoo Finance Source link

Opening up another front in the increasing tensions between Big Tech and Washington, the Biden administration released a new report Wednesday that outlined what they say are a host of anticompetitive practices inside the nation’s biggest mobile app stores. The report from the Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) concluded that “the current mobile app ecosystem, and especially the current app store model, is harmful to consumers and to… Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Google calls on Larry Page, Sergey Brin to help with AI competition  Yahoo Finance Source link

Google’s Advanced Technology Review Council, a panel of executives that includes Jeff Dean, the company’s senior vice president of research and artificial intelligence, and Kent Walker, Google’s president of global affairs and chief legal officer, met less than two weeks after ChatGPT debuted to discuss their company’s initiatives, according to the slide presentation. They reviewed plans for products that were expected to debut at Google’s company conference in May, including Image… Source link

Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang has called on Israel to refrain from provocations that could worsen the situation with Palestine, saying Beijing supports a fair and permanent solution to the issue. “China is deeply worried” about the recent escalation of tensions between Israel and Palestine, Qin said in the Egyptian capital Cairo – his last stop on a five-nation African tour and first overseas trip since taking office in December. “Israel should stop all incitement and provocation and avoid… Source link

Google is finally rolling out emoji reactions to people using Google Meet for video calls starting today. The company said that this feature will be first available on iOS and the web with Android support coming soon. The search giant first announced this feature last year, but it is reaching users just now. Users can click or tap on the smile icon on the bottom pane to post a reaction emoji — with support for different skin tones — on the video call. When… Source link