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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Google ends updates and effectively kills 3rd-party Assistant Smart Displays  9to5Google Source link

The tight U.S. labor market may have reached a new peak this year with wage growth soon to follow. Last month employers added a surprise 528,000 jobs — a stunning figure that doubled Wall Street estimates and reflected the labor market fully recovered from pandemic job losses — while the unemployment rate ticked down to 3.5%, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. “What you have right now is effectively peak employment,” ZipRecruiter CEO Ian Siegal told Yahoo Finance (video above)…. Source link

The temperature in parts of the Antarctic was seventy degrees Fahrenheit above normal in mid-March. Pakistan and India saw their hottest March and April in more than half a century, and the temperature in areas of the subcontinent is above a hundred and twenty degrees this week. Temperatures in Chicago last week topped those in Death Valley. But, on Tuesday, three nonprofit environmental groups jointly released a report containing a different set of numbers that appear to be nearly as scary…. Source link

The Biden administration announced Monday that 20 leading internet service providers have agreed to offer basic low cost plans that will be free for millions of Americans after a refund. The 20 companies, including AT&T (T), Comcast (CMCSA), and Verizon (VZ), cover more than 80% of the U.S. population. They will immediately provide at least one plan that costs no more than $30 a month and provides download speeds of at least 100 mbps. The White House says that 40% of the U.S. population, about… Source link

Count Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak as a believer in crypto as a payments medium.  “Yes I am in that camp that crypto will be used effectively,” said Wozniak — also a panelist on the new show “Unicorn Hunters” — said Yahoo Finance Live. “We just have so much digital ways to pay for things now, even to transfer money to people. It goes back to PayPal, and now we have Apple Pay and Apple Cash. We have Venmo. So crypto has just a bit of anonymity. I don’t know if that’s right that, gosh I… Source link

As Robinhood (HOOD) prepares for its IPO on July 29 in a bid for a $35 billion valuation, some analysts warn that the company’s business model — specifically its reliance on payment for order flow (PFOF) — is an unseemly practice that won’t last. “This IPO is effectively selling investors on exploiting other investors,” David Trainer, CEO of New Constructs, said on Yahoo Finance Live (video above). “The whole payment-for-order-flow business model is probably not going to be long for… Source link

This is how Google’s foray into gaming ends — not with a bang, but with a whimper. Google Stadia — a horrible name, admittedly — was supposed to revolutionize gaming and carve out an entirely new ecosystem within the video game industry. Less focused on expensive hardware under the television and more on fast Internet connections, Stadia was destined to… Source link