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Today is Memorial Day in the United States and to honor the day, Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft Bing all have special logos or themes on their home page. Google also has a special inside page for its search results with an animated top right section with American flags in the grassy hills. Google has historically done nothing for the day, but in 2019 Google went with a grayed out logo and flag theme. They did the same thing this year. Here is what the Google home page looks like today,… Source link

The Independent ‘Shame on the Republican party’: GOP senators block Capitol riot commission Senate Republicans have blocked a bipartisan commission to investigate the Capitol insurrection, hoping to crush a probe into the violent assault before critical 2022 elections while GOP lawmakers manipulate a narrative around a riot inspired by persistent election myths. Despite a last-minute lobbying effort from US Capitol Police officers and the family of an officer who died after the attack,… Source link

Last year, the U.S. reported 1,288 COVID-19 deaths on the Friday before Memorial Day weekend. Over 46,000 Americans were hospitalized because of the virus. And more than 5 percent of tests were still coming back positive, foreshadowing a huge summer surge. At the time, a full 70 percent of Americans said they were either “very worried” or “somewhat worried” about COVID-19. Just 30 percent said they were “not very worried” or “not worried at all.” Exactly one year later, as… Source link

The Google logo is seen on on the company’s European headquarters in Dublin, Ireland, February 27, 2021. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne Russia’s communications watchdog on Monday gave Google (GOOGL.O) 24 hours to delete what it called prohibited content or be fined and said Moscow could eventually slow down the company’s traffic in the country. Russia has already placed a punitive slowdown on U.S. social network Twitter (TWTR.N) for not deleting banned content, part of a push by Moscow to rein in… Source link

Stock futures opened little changed Thursday evening after a surge during the regular trading day, which saw the major U.S. equity indexes recover some losses after three straight days of declines.  Contracts on the Dow edged higher after the index posted its best single-session gain since March. Contracts on the S&P 500 and Nasdaq were little changed after advancing strongly earlier.  Shares of Disney (DIS) slid after the company posted quarterly revenue that missed estimates, with… Source link

The Telegraph The glitzy, TikTok-ready Vax Live let the message – and Prince Harry – outshine the music The Vax Live charity extravaganza staged at the SoFi stadium in Los Angeles had one thing going for it that no large-scale concert has enjoyed for over a year: an actual audience. There was, admittedly, plenty of elbow room, with 27,000 masked and fully vaccinated key workers assembled in a space for 100,000. But the performers certainly seemed pleased not to be playing into the usual… Source link

Google Sunday is Mother’s Day in the US, the day we show our (extra) appreciation for all Mom… Source link

Make your Google Home or Google Nest a daily helper. Google “Hey, Google” might be an integral… Source link

Yahoo Sports’ Senior NFL Writer Charles Robinson and Lead Draft Analyst Eric Edholm share which team’s moves they liked, and which teams they have questions for from day two in Cleveland. The teams they discuss include the Cowboys, Patriots, Browns, and Dolphins. Source link

Sens. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., and Mike Lee, R-Utah, are seen during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in Dirksen Building titled “5G: National Security Concerns, Intellectual Property Issues, and the Impact on Competition and Innovation,” on Tuesday, May 14, 2019. Tom Williams | CQ-Roll Call, Inc. | Getty Images The two top senators on the Senate Judiciary subcommittee on antitrust sent a letter to Google Tuesday asking about an alleged call to Tinder-maker Match Group the day before its… Source link