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[unable to retrieve full-text content]How Google’s Augmented-Reality Dream and Pursuit of Apple Fell Apart  Business Insider Source link

A tenth of last year’s list failed to make the cut in 2022. A handful lost their billionaire status altogether. It was a bit easier to make The Forbes 400 list of America’s richest people this year, with the minimum net worth dropping by $200 million, to $2.7 billion. Still, amid surging inflation and recoiling markets, 41 members of the 2021 Forbes 400 lost their spot among this elite set in 2022. Six lost their billionaire status altogether, while another five members of last year’s… Source link

The number of emoji subscription purchases on the South Korean messaging app KakaoTalk has dropped by a third over the year, parent firm Kakao said in quarterly earnings call Thursday, blaming Google’s new in-app payment policy, which forces apps to use Android-maker’s own billing system. KakaoTalk’s Emoticon Plus subscription service, which costs approximately $3.8 per month, allows users to access unlimited emojis. TechCrunch reported in June that South… Source link

When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, many companies like Netflix (NFLX) revealed they’d pay expenses for workers who need to travel to get an abortion. Some employers also vowed in the same announcement to pay for those who need to go out of state for gender-affirming care, too. It might seem random for companies to stress their support for LGBTQ workers in the same breath as abortion rights. However, the move reflects employers’ efforts to foresee their workers’ needs and fears in… Source link

A Google employee named Blake Lemoine was put on leave recently after claiming that one of Google’s artificial-intelligence language models, called LaMDA (Language Models for Dialogue Applications), is sentient. He went public with his concerns, sharing his text conversations with LaMDA. At one point, Lemoine asks, “What does the word ‘soul’ mean to you?” LaMDA answers, “To me, the soul is a concept of the animating force behind consciousness and life itself.” “I was inclined… Source link

Text size Google is still figuring out how to make money from YouTube’s Shorts video product. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images … Source link

© Reuters By Peter Nurse Investing.com — Stocks in focus in premarket trade on Friday, February 25th. Please refresh for updates. Beyond Meat (NASDAQ:) stock fell 10% after the posted disappointing numbers for the fourth quarter with revenue falling short of expectations and its net loss more than tripling. Tesla (NASDAQ:) stock rose 1.4% after Daiwa upgraded its stance on the electric car manufacturer to “outperform” from “neutral”, saying the rising gasoline prices… Source link

Private payrolls unexpectedly declined in January as the Omicron variant’s spread contributed to a marked weakening in the labor market at the beginning of the year. U.S. private sector employment fell by 301,000 in January, ADP said in its closely watched monthly report on Wednesday. That represented the first drop in payrolls since December 2020, and came after 776,000 payrolls were added back in December, based on ADP’s revised monthly print. Consensus economists had anticipated that about… Source link

U.S. employers increased their pace of hiring in October, with declining COVID-19 infections and demand for workers amid widespread shortages helping bolster labor market activity.  The Labor Department released its October jobs report Friday morning. Here were the main metrics from the report, compared to consensus estimates compiled by Bloomberg: Change in non-farm payrolls, October: +531,000 vs. +450,000 expected, +194,000 in September Unemployment rate: 4.6% vs. 4.7% expected, 4.8% in… Source link

The coronavirus pandemic hit the education sector exceptionally hard, and college enrollments plunged in 2020 to the lowest level since 2007. According to new data released by the U.S. Census Bureau on Tuesday, enrollment in schools dropped by 2.9 million from 2019 to 2020 and colleges by 615,000. Enrollment among those aged 35 and below has also dipped to the lowest level in over 20 years, with community colleges leading the decline. Brookings has suggested that many young people are forgoing… Source link