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When will your next stimulus check go out? Congress faces a deadline Legislation to give you a third COVID stimulus check — for up to $1,400 this time — is sprinting through Congress, clearing hurdles like an Olympian. And the finish line is in sight. A powerful committee in the House gave its approval last week, and Speaker Nancy Pelosi (pictured, with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer) revealed that lawmakers are racing to beat a looming deadline. Congressional leaders already have the… Source link

Following the election of President Trump in 2016, a growing number of software engineers and product developers began to question Silicon Valley contracts with the U.S. military and police departments. They formed into activist groups like the Tech Workers Coalition and publicly challenged management decisions. The Google walkout in 2018 was the most dramatic public showing of this growing discontent. Last year, a group of about 80 subcontracted white-collar workers at a Google office… Source link

Google’s philanthropic arm plans to spend nearly $250,000 to cover application fees for immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children and who are seeking protection from deportation under an Obama-era program. Google.org announced Wednesday it would donate the money to the nonprofit United We Dream. The funds will benefit about 500… Source link

U.K. antitrust officials are investigating whether Google’s plan to remove some user-tracking tools from its Chrome browser could hurt competition in the online-advertising industry. The U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority said it has opened a formal probe into Google’s plan for Chrome to end support next year of a technology called third-party cookies, which many companies use to track individuals’ browsing habits across multiple websites. The… Source link

(Bloomberg) — It’s been a tough year by all accounts. But for Bitcoin, 2020 has been a marvelous time. The cryptocurrency almost quadrupled, surpassing $20,000 for the first time as it notched record after record. The diehards cheered it as an inflation hedge in an era of unprecedented central bank largesse. Wall Street veterans from Paul Tudor Jones to Stanley Druckenmiller blessed it as an alternative asset, adding to the rally. And companies like MicroStrategy Inc. and Square Inc. moved… Source link

Google said a ‘significant subset of users’ of its email service were inconvenienced Tuesday. Photo: Gareth Fuller/PA Wire/Zuma Press … Source link

It’s not nearly on the same scale as Google’s outage earlier today, but it turns out that Microsoft’s Outlook email service has been having problems, too. Readers are reporting to us, and an update on Microsoft’s site status for its various Office services confirms, that some Outlook users may not be able to sign in and use their email on Outlook.com because of a glitch in its Active Directory infrastructure. It is not clear how many users are affected but it is definitely not… Source link

TipRanks Billionaire Ray Dalio Picks Up These 3 “Strong Buy” Stocks Sometimes, the experts will tell us what we already know. Ray Dalio, the founder of Bridgewater Associates, has built a legendary reputation in financial circles, for taking his firm from a home business in his two-bedroom apartment to the international hedge fund giant, employing over 1,500 people and managing more than $138 billion in total assets. But when questioned on how he did it, or how today’s investors can… Source link