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Puddles, absurd conditions mar (and aid) USWNT’s wild win over Canada

Puddles, absurd conditions mar (and aid) USWNT’s wild win over Canada

The U.S. and Canada women’s national teams played in puddles Wednesday night in a W Gold Cup semifinal in San Diego. (Photo by Carmen Mandato/USSF/Getty Images for USSF) The U.S. women’s national team beat Canada on penalties Wednesday night in a wild Gold Cup semifinal that, by any reasonable measure, should not have been played. Torrential rain soaked Snapdragon Stadium in San Diego. Standing water covered the field, and turned the first half into a farce. The ball wouldn’t roll. Passes… Source link

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YouTube Music team laid off by Google while workers testified to Austin City Council about working conditions

YouTube Music team laid off by Google while workers testified to Austin City Council about working conditions

The entire YouTube Music team is out of a job after going on strike last year. Some of the workers were lobbying for support for their union at an Austin City Council meeting. A Google spokesperson said the move was a regular contract termination. The entire YouTube Music team is out of a job as tensions rise at Google parent company, Alphabet. The Alphabet Workers Union, which represents workers at Google’s parent company, Alphabet, said Google laid off the YouTube Music team on Friday. Some of… Source link

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‘We don’t get to choose the macroeconomic conditions always,’ Google CEO Sundar Pichai tells disgruntled staff

‘We don’t get to choose the macroeconomic conditions always,’ Google CEO Sundar Pichai tells disgruntled staff

Google CEO Sundar Pichai reportedly grew agitated during a “heated” all-hands meeting in which an employee asked why the search engine was nickel-and-diming workers by taking away perks and benefits. One worker summoned the nerve to ask Pichai why Google was “nickel-and-diming employees” when the company reported “record profits and huge cash reserves,” according to audio obtained by CNBC. Don’t miss: Remember the summer spike in layoffs that pointed to a U.S…. Source link

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‘We don’t get to choose the macroeconomic conditions always,’ Google CEO Sundar Pichai tells disgruntled staff

‘We don’t get to choose the macroeconomic conditions always,’ Google CEO Sundar Pichai tells disgruntled staff

Google CEO Sundar Pichai reportedly grew agitated during a “heated” all-hands meeting in which an employee asked why the search engine was nickel-and-diming workers by taking away perks and benefits. One worker summoned the nerve to ask Pichai why Google was “nickel-and-diming employees” when the company reported “record profits and huge cash reserves,” according to audio obtained by CNBC. Don’t miss: Remember the summer spike in layoffs that pointed to a U.S…. Source link

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‘We don’t get to choose the macroeconomic conditions always,’ Google CEO Sundar Pichai tells disgruntled staff

‘We don’t get to choose the macroeconomic conditions always,’ Google CEO Sundar Pichai tells disgruntled staff

Google CEO Sundar Pichai reportedly grew agitated during a “heated” all-hands meeting in which an employee asked why the search engine was nickel-and-diming workers by taking away perks and benefits. One worker summoned the nerve to ask Pichai why Google was “nickel-and-diming employees” when the company reported “record profits and huge cash reserves,” according to audio obtained by CNBC. Don’t miss: Remember the summer spike in layoffs that pointed to a U.S…. Source link

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Yandex Wants to Move Headquarters to Israel, With Conditions

Yandex Wants to Move Headquarters to Israel, With Conditions

People walk near the headquarters of Yandex company in Moscow May 23, 2011. The sign reads “Yandex”. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin CTech –  “I have made a decision to move the global Yandex headquarters to Tel Aviv and bring many hundreds of developers, engineers and technologists to Israel,” writes Arkady Volozh, CEO and founder of Yandex in a letter sent to Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and other ministers which has been seen by Calcalist. The letter is also addressed to Finance… Source link

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‘Conditions on the ground are worsening every day’

‘Conditions on the ground are worsening every day’

As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine intensifies with shelling of cities, the CEO of a private security contractor hired to extract clients from the region is troubled by what he’s seeing. “The conditions on the ground are worsening every day,” Global Guardian CEO Dale Buckner told Yahoo Finance (video above). “When we started, of course, the front line trace of the Russian forces which was much further north near Kyiv, the capital, was much further to the east near Donbas, and they were in,… Source link

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Google’s new tool will identify skin conditions — what will people do with that information?

Google’s new tool will identify skin conditions — what will people do with that information?

Google announced last Tuesday that it developed a new artificial intelligence tool to help people identify skin conditions. Like any other symptom-checking tool, it’ll face questions over how accurately it can perform that task. But experts say it should also be scrutinized for how it influences people’s behavior: does it make them more likely to go to the doctor? Less likely? These types of symptom-checking tools — which usually clarify that they can’t diagnose health conditions… Source link

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