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Equations built giants like Google. Who’ll find the next billion-dollar bit of maths? | David Sumpter

In 1998, a computer science PhD student called Larry Page submitted a patent for internet search based on an obscure piece of mathematics. The method, known today as PageRank, allowed the most relevant webpages to be found much more rapidly and accurately than ever before. The patent, initially owned by Stanford, was sold in 2005 for shares that are today worth more than $1bn. Page’s company, Google, has a net worth of well over $1tr. It wasn’t Page, or Google’s cofounder Sergey Brin,… Source link

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Crypto Diehards Are About to Find Out If It Really Was a Bubble

(Bloomberg) — To cryptocurrency true believers, Bitcoin is the ultimate store of value, the most solid hedge against the rampant inflation manufactured by reckless central banks and their money-printing. To skeptics, the crypto world as a whole is a mirage whose massive run-up past $2 trillion was simply the speculative byproduct of the extraordinary amount of easy cash that’s been sloshing around in the global economy — in effect, a big bubble. Most Read from Bloomberg Both of those… Source link

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To catch an insurrectionist: Facebook and Google are helping the FBI find January 6 rioters

A few days after the Capitol insurrection last January, the FBI got two tips identifying an Ohio man named Walter Messer as a participant, and both cited his social media posts about being there. To verify those tips, the FBI turned to three companies that held a large amount of damning evidence against Messer, simply as a result of his normal use of their services: AT&T, Facebook, and Google. AT&T gave the FBI Messer’s telephone number and a list of cell sites he used, including one… Source link

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‘You should find her guilty because of her words’

Closing arguments began Thursday in the trial of Elizabeth Holmes, who faces as many as 20 years in prison if convicted of defrauding patients and investors in her failed blood-testing startup, Theranos. In a four-hour closing argument, the prosecution pointed to numerous alleged misstatements about Theranos’ blood-testing technology, which Holmes had suggested could perform hundreds of diagnostic tests with a finger prick of blood. The prosecutor also cast off claims raised in her defense… Source link

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10 Google search tricks to help you find whatever you’re looking for.

How often do you turn to Google? Every day? Multiple times a day? If you’re focused on privacy, there are better options. Tap or click for alternatives to Google that work well without gathering so much of your data. You shouldn’t turn to Google, or any other search site, to diagnose symptoms. Tap or click for reasons you should ditch Dr. Google. When it comes to finding what you want, some tricks make the job easy. Here are 10 Google tips to try: 1. Filter search results by date Let’s say… Source link

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Google can now help you find doctors who accept your health insurance

Looking for a new doctor who takes your health insurance? An update to Google search might make that easier. Google announced updates to search results providing more information on doctors, such as which insurance providers they accept and what languages they speak in their offices. For example, if you search for doctors near your city, it will pull up results you can refine with details such as “accepts Medicare.” When you search for a specific doctor, you can click on an option to check… Source link

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New Google search features make it easier to find the right doctor

As part of efforts to expand the health information it provides, today Google announced a new feature in search that will allow doctors to list which languages they can speak at their offices. People who speak languages other than English often struggle to navigate the healthcare system in the United States and are at risk of bad medical outcomes because they have more trouble communicating with providers. They get better care when they have access to trained interpreters or are seen by… Source link

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Warren Buffett keeps selling billions worth of stock in this frothy market — but here are 3 new places where he’s managed to find value

Warren Buffett keeps selling billions worth of stock in this frothy market — but here are 3 new places where he’s managed to find value Bloated valuations in today’s stock market aren’t exactly appealing to value investors. So it’s no surprise that the most famous value investor of all continues to reduce his stock market exposure. In Q3, Warren Buffett’s holding company Berkshire Hathaway sold a net $2 billion stock, including a complete exit of pharmaceutical giant Merck as well as… Source link

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