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The New York Times The Caribbean Conundrum: United by Tourists, Divided by COVID On the glassy blue waters surrounding the U.S. Virgin Islands, catamarans and pleasure yachts have packed the shoreline for the past year — a scene so busy and crowded, it is unimaginable, even before the pandemic. Indeed, the business of charter yachts is booming, and expected to pump at least $88 million into the local economy this season, almost double the roughly $45 million that came in 2019, according to… Source link

In a wonderful cybersecurity move that should be replicated by all vendors, Google is slowly moving to make multi-factor authentication (MFA) default. To confuse matters, Google isn’t calling MFA “MFA;’ instead it calls it “two-step verification (2SV).” The more interesting part is that Google is also pushing the use of FIDO-compliant software that is embedded within the phone. It even has an iOS version, so it can be in all Android as well as Apple phones. To be… Source link

Second largest car-sharing operator in Russia is entering the capital of Tatarstan As it became known to Realnoe Vremya, the federal car-sharing operator Delimobil, controlled by Mikro Kapital fund of Russian-Italian businessman Vincenzo Trani, has come to Kazan. . Coming of the independent player may shake the market position of the services of another major participant, Yandex.Drive and Yandex.Taxi,… Source link

A shareholder resolution calls for a third-party audit of Google’s whistleblower policies. SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images A year after Alphabet’s board voted against a measure to review its whistleblower protections, one of its shareholders is pushing the measure again in the hope that institutional investors will bolster support for the effort in light of high profile firings at its subsidiary, Google and complaints of illegally spying on employees. Brought by Trillium… Source link

Billionaire investor Warren Buffett said Saturday that near-zero interest rates have completely changed the financial landscape, warning that the consequences of easy money policies remain an unanswered question. As the COVID-19 pandemic gripped the United States last year, the U.S. central bank slashed interest rates to near zero and began aggressively absorbing assets to prevent another financial crisis. Among the Federal Reserve’s purchases: government debt. Those actions allowed the Source link

YouTube creators can more easily change their profile name and picture now, without changing their Google account information.  James Martin/CNET … Source link

When most people flip on a light, they don’t think about where the power comes from before it illuminates the room. But for President Biden’s climate plan to succeed, the United States is going to have to move a lot more electricity across much greater distances—and catch up with China in the process. Biden’s plan calls for eliminating greenhouse-gas emissions from the power sector by 2035, and from the entire economy by 2050. To encourage other nations to aggressively combat global… Source link

YouTube creators can more easily change their profile name and picture now, without changing their Google account information.  James Martin/CNET … Source link

by: via Nexstar Media Wire, The Associated Press Posted: Apr 18, 2021 / 08:42 PM CDT / Updated: Apr 18, 2021 / 08:42 PM CDT A person looks at a Google Earth map of Paris, France on a screen as Google Earth unveils the revamped version of the application April 18, 2017 at a event at New York’s Whitney Museum of Art.(Credit: TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty Images) SAN RAMON, Calif. (AP) — The Google Earth app is adding a new video… Source link

by: via Nexstar Media Wire, The Associated Press Posted: Apr 17, 2021 / 10:00 AM CDT / Updated: Apr 16, 2021 / 07:06 AM CDT A person looks at a Google Earth map of Paris, France on a screen as Google Earth unveils the revamped version of the application April 18, 2017 at a event at New York’s Whitney Museum of Art.(Credit: TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty Images) SAN RAMON, Calif. (AP) — The Google Earth app is adding a new video… Source link