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Google will no longer allow advertisers, publishers, and YouTube creators to monetize content that denies the existence of climate change. The company detailed the changes in a support document on Thursday. “Today, we’re announcing a new monetization policy for Google advertisers, publishers and YouTube creators that will prohibit ads for, and monetization of, content that contradicts well-established scientific consensus around the existence and causes of climate change,” the… Source link

Chinese President Xi Jinping reviews the troops during a full honors ceremony in his honor, Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012, at the Pentagon. (AP Photo Manuel Balce Ceneta) Four somewhat random items caught my attention recently. Item #1. A snippet from a conversation with Michael Dell “It’s kind of frosty, Andy,” Dell tells me in an interview. “The relationship is a little bit frosty at the moment.”  The relationship in question being that of China with the United States, particularly in the… Source link

While that one setting covers a lot of bases when it comes to how your personal information is used, there’s more you can adjust. You can limit other data the company collects about you, like videos you watch on YouTube, your location, product reviews you’ve left, even your Google profile. Then you can ask the company not to target ads to you at all, if you find them more invasive than helpful. Source link

Apple (AAPL) may be teasing a bigger streaming content push at a big event scheduled for Sept. 14, but Wall Street thinks Netflix (NFLX) will remain the dominant force in the streaming category for years to come. “I have not been impressed by what Apple has done. They have created a couple quality shows and a lot of less than interesting shows. They are just not getting that broad appeal yet,” said Bank of America analyst Nat Schindler on Yahoo Finance Live. “They obviously have a lot of… Source link

Widely followed investor Cathie Wood remains a holder of Robinhood (HOOD) even as the threat of a clampdown on payment for order flow by regulators looms as a key risk.  The founder, CEO and CIO of Ark Invest said in an exclusive interview on Yahoo Finance Live that Robinhood is currently a 1% holding for her firm.  Wood sent the market for Robinhood’s stock into a tizzy in early August after she revealed purchases of the trading platform’s stock after a disappointing IPO in late July…. Source link

Stadia is getting a nice quality-of-life tweak this week, as the platform is now rolling out the ability for users to change their name without asking Google for assistance. Announced on the official Stadia subreddit, Google is now rolling out the ability for players to change their username instantly. Since the platform’s 2019 debut, changing your username has required contacting support for assistance. Now, it’s available as a “self-serve” option in Stadia’s settings. The… Source link

South Korea legislators on Tuesday approved the first law in the world that requires app stores to let users pay for in-app purchases through multiple payment systems, a blow to the market dominance of Apple and Google, which opposed the bill. South Korea’s National Assembly passed amendments to the country’s Telecommunications Business Act that prevent app marketers like Google and Apple from forcing certain payment methods, unfairly delaying the review of mobile content and unfairly… Source link

This photo shows cars and homes destroyed by the Dixie Fire line central Greenville on Thursday, Aug. 5, 2021, in Plumas County, Calif. (AP Photo/Noah Berger) It’s a great paradox that the two biggest stories of our time are invisible. COVID for one. You can’t see it. And that’s what makes it difficult to convince, say, 700,000 bikers at the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in South Dakota this week that they should socially distance, wear masks and get vaccinated. Of course, you do see COVID… Source link

A man cycles through the snow in Pristina, the capital of Kosovo. (Hazir Reka/Reuters/HR/ABP) As much of the Northern Hemisphere continues to bake in a year of unprecedented heat waves linked to climate change, one paradoxical consequence of rising global temperatures is that some areas of the world could become much colder.  A study published this month by researchers at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research found that the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC)… Source link

The growing spread of the COVID-19 Delta variant is creating an increasingly stark choice that could make the difference between more reopenings — or a return to restrictions that decimated the world’s economy, a World Health Organization expert suggested on Friday. Amid the leak of internal documents from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), comparing the transmissibility of Delta variant to that of chickenpox, new discoveries are sparking furious debate about how… Source link