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Quick! Read this now. Google says it’s cracking down on clickbait, and we hope this article makes the cut (we’re pretty sure it will). The tech giant announced on Thursday that it will start prioritizing “content by people, for people” in a push to get rid of clickbait articles that seek to grab readers’ attention with a catchy headline but don’t always deliver the goods. But this one’s different (we promise). The so-called helpful content update will enable Google’s search… Source link

(Bloomberg) — Whatever else is on Americans’ minds — and that’s a long list right now — the state of the economy looms large in any US election. That spells big trouble for Democrats in November’s midterm vote. Most Read from Bloomberg A new study by Bloomberg Economics takes one gauge with a knack of predicting ballot outcomes — the misery index, calculated by adding up the inflation and unemployment rates — and projects it forward through election day. The result: Based on past… Source link

The U.S. economy added nearly half a million jobs in March. The Dow Jones industrial average is within 6% of its record high. And U.S. households accumulated roughly $2.5 trillion in excess savings throughout the pandemic. Still, despite all the good news, predictions of an impending recession are widespread on Wall Street. Billionaire investors, former Federal Reserve officials, and now even investment banks have repeatedly warned that the economy may hit a wall in 2023. What’s driving the… Source link

By Makiko Yamazaki and Stanley White TOKYO (Reuters) -Nomura Holdings Inc on Monday flagged a possible $2 billion loss at a U.S. subsidiary, prompting Japan’s biggest brokerage and investment bank to shelve a hefty bond issuance and sending its stock tumbling by the most in over a decade. Nomura’s stock was greeted by a deluge of sell orders at market open, pushing its price down as much 16% in early trade. The firm in a statement said the $2 billion hit derived from transactions with a U.S…. Source link

Enlarge / The current state of Google’s iOS app lineup. Aurich Lawson Google’s major iOS apps have been seeing serious neglect for the past few months. On December 8, Apple’s App Store started requiring all apps to show privacy “nutrition labels” in their app store listing, where developers self-report what data an app uses for tracking and how that data is linked to a user. Coincidentally, a lot of Google’s apps, especially the most popular… Source link

The 854 cases represent just .5% of the more than 180,000 positive Covid-19 tests the state has recorded since the app’s launch. The app has been downloaded 1.1 million times, which would represent 7% of the adult-age population in New York, though it is unlikely that each download represents an active user. As cases rise again in New York, Gov. Andrew Cuomo has pushed for people to download the app as a mitigation measure during the new surge for the virus, with a link to the app placed at… Source link