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Google is stepping up its background effects in Google Meet. The company’s videoconferencing software has been offering all sorts of effects for a while now, allowing you to blur your background or remove it entirely, adding a virtual background instead. But the way these effects worked left a lot to be desired. OK, I’ll be frank, they sucked. Now, they’re getting better. In a blog post Monday, the company said it has improved the background and foreground separation, allowing for more… Source link

Google is rolling out a small but significant update to its Google Photos service that will make it easier to keep control of your storage. In this recent update, spotted by 9To5Google, Google has added extra information to each photo, allowing you to view its selected backup quality as well as the amount of your precious Google One storage quota it’s using. If you have received the update, and not everyone has, you can view the new information by going to the Google Photos web interface,… 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 Friday, July 8, 2022 Today’s newsletter is by Myles Udland, senior markets editor at Yahoo Finance. Follow him on Twitter @MylesUdland and on LinkedIn. One of the biggest bulls on Wall Street has finally pared back their optimism for the rest of this year. In a note to clients published Thursday, Oppenheimer Asset Management Chief Investment… Source link

This article was first featured in Yahoo Finance Tech, a weekly newsletter highlighting our original content on the industry. Get it sent directly to your inbox every Wednesday by 4 p.m. ET. Subscribe Wednesday, July 6, 2022 The PC sales slump will hit chip makers too The red-hot pandemic-era PC market is finally cooling off, and that could spell trouble for everyone from PC makers like HP (HPQ) to chip manufacturers such as Intel (INTC) as shipments of devices collapse. The cause? You guessed… Source link

(Bloomberg) — Betting against tech has become a winning trade, with short sellers sitting on billions in paper profits as growth stocks slump. Most Read from Bloomberg A historic rout in the so-called FAANG cohort — Facebook owner Meta Platforms Inc., Apple Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Netflix Inc. and Google parent Alphabet Inc. — has delivered $19.8 billion in mark-to-market profits for investors speculating on declines as of June 30, according to data-analytics firm S3 Partners. “It was… Source link

‘A cold dark place’ — Michael Burry thinks the market has plenty of room to plunge. But he finally sees value in these 4 stocks Michael Burry — the hedge fund manager depicted by Christian Bale in The Big Short — has been aggressively investing during this market downturn. Burry’s latest 13F filing for the first quarter of 2022 shows a broad range of new investments and some interesting strategic moves with options. That’s a significant shift from the previous quarter when Burry… Source link

This article was first featured in Yahoo Finance Tech, a weekly newsletter highlighting our original content on the industry. Get it sent directly to your inbox every Wednesday by 4 p.m. ET. Subscribe Wednesday, June 8, 2022 The tech giant is listening to customers a lot more Apple (APPL) is famous for trying to anticipate its customers’ desires. And that tactic has obviously paid off. However, during its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) Monday, the company rolled out a new… Source link

Nearly a year ago, YouTube TV announced plans to add 5.1 surround sound support for its streaming TV package. When we spoke to YouTube chief product officer Neal Mohan earlier this year on The Vergecast about new features rolling out for the platform, he told us it would arrive soon. Now, it’s here for more devices, including the most recent Chromecast with Google TV. The company announced that, in addition to previously existing surround sound support on traditional Chromecasts and… Source link

Michael Burry — the hedge fund manager depicted by Christian Bale in The Big Short — has been aggressively investing during this market downturn. Burry’s latest 13F filing for the first quarter of 2022 shows a broad range of new investments and some interesting strategic moves with options. That’s a significant shift from the previous quarter when Burry was selling most of his stock portfolio and calling for the “mother of all crashes.” He’s not exactly bullish on the overall… Source link

Jack Wallen shows you how easy it is now to copy and paste files within Google Drive. Image: Goodpics/Adobe Stock I’m a Google Drive and Google Docs power user. I depend on the service daily to be productive, and given that my modus operandi has been to work as efficiently as possible over the years, not having the standard keyboard shortcuts available in Drive has been a frustration. Fortunately, Google has finally brought to us those standard keyboard shortcuts we… Source link