Google’s tradition of dropping little interactive games for holidays and special occasions shows no signs of stopping for Valentine’s Day 2022. The doodle for Valentine’s Day this year features two hamsters whose love knows no bounds – that is, except for the treacherous maze separating them that is in the shape of Google’s logo. Your mission is to help these two crazy kids reunite by pulling a series of levers and switches until Google’s logo is complete. Is this game as difficult… Source link
Read More »Safer Internet Day: How to take the Google Security Checkup
On the occasion of Safer Internet Day 2022, Google has pinned a shortcut to its Security Checkup feature right below the search bar on the Google homepage. Here’s how you can use Security Checkup to make sure you have no security loose ends that could compromise your Google account in the future. How to take Google’s Security Checkup Step 1: Go to the Google Security Checkup page Today you can find a quick shortcut to this page right below the Google homepage search bar. If you don’t… Source link
Read More »Did you mean: Groundhog Day? Google pokes fun at searchers with nod to iconic movie
Do you ever have déjà vu? Many Google users may worry they do this week. With Groundhog Day arriving on Wednesday, the search engine giant poked fun at users looking for information on whether a small weather-forecasting mammal in West Central Pennsylvania saw his shadow. Normally, a slightly incorrect spelling on a Google search will lead the site to ask, “Did you mean: _____.” For example, a search for “Best Bill Murrey mvoies” may turn up a result of, “Did you mean: Best Bill… Source link
Read More »Nvidia’s Arm deal ‘was dead from day 1’ — and that’s OK
This article was first featured in Yahoo Finance Tech, a weekly newsletter highlighting our original content on the industry. Get it sent directly to your inbox every Wednesday by 4 p.m. ET. Subscribe Wednesday, January 26, 2022 Nvidia’s (NVDA) $40 billion bid to buy chip designer Arm is effectively over. The deal, which would have blown apart the balance of power in the microprocessor industry, already attracted intense scrutiny from regulators both in the U.S. and abroad. Industry… Source link
Read More »Anthony Davis ‘taking it one day at a time’ in return
The NBA All-Star Game is just more than a month away, and if you ask Anthony Davis, he fully intends on making a ninth consecutive appearance. Davis spoke with Yahoo Sports about the upcoming festivities and his fitness since being sidelined with an MCL sprain for the last month. The 28-year-old said he “feels good.” “Body’s getting better, knee is getting better,” he added. “I’m just taking it one day at a time. Hopefully soon I’ll be able to step back on the floor and go back to playing the… Source link
Read More »Miami upsets No. 2 Duke in wild college basketball day
Saturday was a wild day in men’s college basketball. Upsets occurred throughout the day, including No. 2 Duke in a thrilling ACC battle with Miami. By the end, seven ranked teams fell. Here’s everything that went down throughout the top 25 on Saturday: Miami shocks No. 2 Duke Miami’s winning streak continues. The Hurricanes picked up their ninth straight win on Saturday night with a huge 76-74 road win over the Blue Devils, thanks largely to a hanging layup from Kameron McGusty in the final… Source link
Read More »Why Wall Street set new records on the same day COVID cases did: Morning Brief
This article first appeared in the Morning Brief. Get the Morning Brief sent directly to your inbox every Monday to Friday by 6:30 a.m. ET. Subscribe Thursday, December 30, 2021 What COVID-19 ‘on our terms’ means for the market, and everyone else Another day, another shattered record of COVID-19 infections in the United States — and yet another set of new milestones in the Dow (^DJI) and S&P 500 (^GSPC), as Santa Claus continues to bestow gifts on Wall Street. One of the aforementioned records… Source link
Read More »Stephen Curry leads Warriors past Suns in Christmas Day battle
The Christmas Day battle between the NBA’s top two teams did not disappoint on Saturday afternoon. Thanks to a late and historic explosion from Stephen Curry, the Golden State Warriors will head back to the Bay Area with a huge win in their ninth consecutive holiday game. The Warriors, behind 33 points from Curry, beat the Phoenix Suns 116-107 at the Footprint Center. That performance marked a career-high for the Warriors star on Christmas Day, as he’s never scored more than 20 points in… Source link
Read More »Stock futures extend gains after S&P 500’s best day in seven weeks
Stock futures opened higher Thursday evening to hold gains after a recovery rally, with an initial wave of concerns over the economic impacts of the Omicron variant at least temporarily easing. Contracts on the S&P 500 advanced. The blue-chip index closed higher by 1.4% during the regular session, marking its biggest jump since Oct. 14 Thursday. The Dow and Nasdaq each also advanced. Volatility from earlier this week retreated, and the CBOE Volatility index (^VIX) dipped 10% to below 28. And… Source link
Read More »Stocks recoup some losses after Dow’s worst day since Oct. 2020
Stocks jumped Monday morning to recover some losses after Friday’s slide, when uncertainty over a new coronavirus variant stoked volatility across global markets. The Dow gained more than 300 points, or about 0.9%. On Friday, the index had seen its worst day since October 2020, dropping more than 900 points, or 2.5%. U.S. airlines and other travel stocks were mostly higher to steady after steep losses from late last week, when initial concerns over the newly discovered Omicron variant of… Source link
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