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Three former Google employees have sued the company, alleging that Google’s motto “Don’t be evil” amounts to a contractual obligation that the tech giant has violated. At the time the company hired the three software engineers, Rebecca Rivers, Sophie Waldman and Paul Duke, they signed conduct rules that included a “Don’t be evil” provision, according to the suit. The trio say they thought they were behaving in accordance with that principle when… Source link

If the coronavirus pandemic has shown public health professionals anything, it’s that no one can predict what’s to come next. “You learn really quickly that none of us are soothsayers,” Dr. James Simmons, a Los Angeles-based hospitalist nurse practitioner, said on Yahoo Finance Live (video above). “You don’t want to be a future teller. Who knows what the future is going to happen? I really point to the Delta variant as a big example of how a lot of places thought we were done with… Source link

The Biden administration’s pick for a top bank regulator role faced fire on Capitol Hill on Thursday, spending a good chunk of her nomination clarifying her views to a slew of hostile GOP senators — and at least a pair of Democrats — which left her confirmation prospects unclear at best. Saule Omarova, a law professor at Cornell Law School, testified to the Senate Banking Committee on Thursday for the head job at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. The OCC, which regulates… Source link

It may be a while longer before the Pixelbook gets its overdue reprise. Photo: Alex Cranz / Gizmodo If you’ve been holding out for a new Chromebook made by Google, you’ll have to keep waiting. A Chromebook team member just indicated there is no updated Pixelbook planned for 2022. Trusted Reviews reports that while attending a London-based event for Qualcomm, Google’s Chrys Tsolaki, retail partner manager for Chromebooks, commented on the future of Pixelbooks: “Next year there won’t… Source link

Nvidia (NVDA) CEO Jensen Huang doesn’t see the global chip shortage coming to an end anytime soon. The head of the largest chip maker by market cap, Huang is fresh off his virtual keynote at Nvidia’s GTC conference where he announced advances in the company’s metaverse and AI efforts. But Nvidia still makes the bulk of its revenue, about 47% in Q2, from the sale of its gaming cards. And those continue to be in short supply due to the pandemic-induced chip crisis. “I think that through… Source link

Better grab those Oreos while you still can, and while they’re still relatively cheap. With global supply chains ensnared by bottlenecks, Mondelez International (MDLZ) expects next year to be nearly as bad as the current one. The snack giant’s CFO addressed the labor and truck shortages mentioned in Mondelez’s third-quarter earnings results — and came around to a dispiriting conclusion.  Although some economists had predicted shipping bottleneck relief could arrive by year’s end, “quite… Source link

Major COVID stimulus payments in line for 2022 extension — don’t miss your free cash Congressional support is strong among Democrats to extend a popular stimulus payments program through next year despite a tug of war over Biden’s budget bill. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will likely push ahead this week to finalize a draft of President Joe Biden’s $1.75 trillion spending plan. It’s anyone’s guess, at this time, what the final version will look like. But here’s what we know so far… Source link

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has linked fresh whole onions to a growing and mysterious salmonella outbreak. In a food safety alert Wednesday, the CDC said 652 people have been infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Oranienburg from 37 states as of Oct. 18. The number of cases is expected to grow as more illnesses are reported. The outbreak was first reported in mid-September but the CDC, Food and Drug Administration and local health officials had not identified a… Source link

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 Tuesday, October 19, 2021 Jitters over inflation, supply and labor notwithstanding, the bull case is still intact After an encouraging run of bulge-bracket bank results that kicked off third quarter (Q3) earnings, this week’s earnings — which include Netflix (NFLX) and Tesla (TSLA) — will be an acid test for a skittish market that’s still Source link

This police camera video provided by The Moab Police Department shows Brian Laundrie talking to a police officer after police pulled over the van he was traveling in with his girlfriend, Gabrielle “Gabby” Petito, near the entrance to Arches National Park on Aug. 12, 2021. The Moab Police Department via AP Brian Laundrie, the sole person of interest in the murder of Gabby Petito, has been missing since mid-September. North Port Police spokesperson Josh Taylor said there was a lot of “oddness”… Source link