A U.S. government agency created to counter Chinese infrastructure-fueled influence across the world is ramping up international vaccine distribution efforts, Yahoo Finance has learned. Coming on the heels of the U.S.-hosted COVID-19 summit, the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) on Wednesday announced that it would be providing $383 million in financing to help nine countries secure vaccine doses. “The President is leading the world to elevate the world’s ambition to end… Source link
Read More »Google’s R&D division experiments with newsletters powered by Google Drive – TechCrunch
Following entries into the newsletter market from tech companies like Facebook and Twitter, Google is now experimenting with newsletters, too. The company’s internal R&D division, Area 120, has a new project called Museletter, which allows anyone to publish a Google Drive file as a blog or newsletter to their Museletter public profile or to an email list. The effort would essentially repurpose Google’s existing document-creation tools as a means of competing with other newsletter… Source link
Read More »Porsche 911 Carrera S manual test drive
For car fans, and lovers of a true analog experience when driving a car, it seems time is running out — the electric revolution is coming soon. Sure, sales of EVs are around 2.7% of total car sales here in the U.S,, but we all see the writing on the wall, from Detroit to Düsseldorf: the gas-powered car is dying. At the IAA Mobility Conference in Munich this week, automakers debuted a slew of new electrified cars coming out in the not too distant future. Porsche (POAHY) was one of them. The… Source link
Read More »Google And Cisco Partner To Drive Collaboration Forward
One of Google’s new dedicated pieces of videoconferencing hardware that interoperates directly with … [+] Cisco’s Webex platform is the Series One Desk 27. Google As the demands and realities of hybrid work start to become more apparent, companies are beginning to face new issues. In particular, there’s growing recognition of the many challenges that organizations are going to face as they begin to integrate more combinations of in-house and remote workers. In… Source link
Read More »Afghanistan withdrawal ‘could drive a surge in radicalization’ and terrorist attacks, says leaked government report
The U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan could make terrorist attacks inside the U.S. and abroad more likely, according to an intelligence report distributed yesterday to government and law enforcement agencies. “We assess domestic and foreign violent extremists probably are attempting to exploit the US withdrawal from and deteriorating security situation in Afghanistan to inspire attacks and recruit like-minded extremists online,” reads the Department of Homeland Security report, dated Aug…. Source link
Read More »Can you recycle a hard drive? Google is quietly trying to find out
At a laboratory inside a Google data center in Mayes County, Oklahoma, researchers spent the fall of 2019 disassembling old hard disk drives by hand in order to extract a 2-inch-long component known as the magnet assembly. Consisting of two powerful rare earth magnets, the magnet assembly is a critical muscle within the hard drive, controlling an actuator arm that allows the device to read and write data. Over the course of six weeks, the scientists harvested 6,100 of these… Source link
Read More »Ad revenues, cloud computing drive big Alphabet beat
Alphabet, the parent company of search giant Google (GOOG, GOOGL) blew away Wall Street’s second quarter estimates on Tuesday, bolstered by strength in advertising and cloud computing. Here were the main results from Alphabet’s report, compared to consensus estimates compiled by Bloomberg: Thanks to the tech giant’s linchpin, Google Search, ad revenues skyrocketed by 69% from the comparable year ago quarter. Overall total revenue soared by 62% from Q2 of 2020. During the quarter, “there was a… Source link
Read More »Google is finally doing something about Google Drive spam
Enlarge / Blocking individual users in Google Drive! Finally! Google A notification pops up on your phone: “Click here for hot XXX action!” It’s Google Drive again. Someone shared a document containing that title, and now your phone is begging you to look at it. Even if you ban Google Drive from generating phone notifications, you’ll still get emails. If you block the emails, you’ll have to see the spam when you click on the “shared” section of… Source link
Read More »Google Drive will let you block other users to stop potential harassment
Google Drive is adding the ability for users to block other accounts from sharing files with them, in a move that’s designed to prevent potential harassment and spam on the platform. The feature, which is rolling out over the next two weeks, also stops accounts from accessing any files you’ve shared with them in the past, and removes any of their past files from your drive. “Drive’s sharing capabilities fuel productivity and collaboration, but bad actors can abuse tools that are… Source link
Read More »New Google Drive App for Windows, Mac Streamlines File Syncs
Screenshot: Google In order to better manage files for both home users and enterprise needs, Google is introducing the new Drive app, which is slated to merge and replace the features of the outgoing Drive File Stream and Backup and Sync apps. In a recent blog post, Google explained that the new Drive app is designed to be a unified client that lets you share and sync your files quickly and easily across all your devices and in the cloud. For the past few years, home users have relied on the… Source link
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