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Google News Showcase visitors will soon be able to read select paywalled articles at no extra charge. That’s one of several announcements that the search giant made today about News Showcase, the program where it pays publishers (with $1 billion committed initially) to license their content for a new format in Google News. So far, Google News Showcase has launched in countries including Germany, Brazil, Argentina, Canada, France, U.K. and Australia — in several cases, those are… Source link

Many started using Google Photos when the search giant announced free, unlimited photo uploads three years ago. Starting June 1, 2021, that deal is dead. Whenever a tech company uses the term “unlimited” for any of its services, take it with a grain of salt, especially where cloud storage is concerned. Online backup companies like Carbonite have taken heat in the past for their unlimited plans not being completely unlimited, and in 2015 Microsoft switched its unlimited storage plan in… Source link

For a long time, I felt my digital photos weren’t nearly as well organized as other areas of my life.  That situation changed overnight with Google Photos.  Google Photos is in the news because of a change in its policy — it will no longer be free for unlimited storage. Like any other service that has been free and begins to charge, confusion arises. This… Source link

MMA Weekly UFC 255 results: Valentina Shevchenko continues to dominate flyweight division UFC flyweight champion Valentina Shevchenko passed a strong test from Jennifer Maia at UFC 255 on Saturday in Las Vegas. Though Maia was tough and pressed Shevchenko, the champion proved why she is considered one fo the top fighters on the planet. Shevchenko has been stellar during her UFC tenure. Though she lost one time – to Liz Carmouche – prior to stepping into the Octagon, the only fighter to… Source link

Could Batum be Warriors option after Hornets waive vet? originally appeared on NBC Sports Bayarea Unlike the Warriors, the Charlotte Hornets actually made a big splash in free agency on Saturday, coming to terms with Gordon Hayward on a four-year, $120 million contract, ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski first reported. In order to create the necessary cap space for the deal, Charlotte reportedly waived swingman Nic Batum, who previously had opted into his $27.1 million salary for 2020-21 with the… Source link

NBA veteran Wesley Matthews is leaving one contender for another. The 34-year-old sent a picture of a Los Angeles Lakers jersey to Yahoo Sports’ Chris Haynes as soon as free agency opened on Friday evening. Matthews intends to join the defending champion Lakers on a one-year, $3.6 million deal, per The Athletic’s Shams Charania. The 6-foot-4 wing played for the Milwaukee Bucks on a veteran’s minimum contract last season, starting 67 games and averaging 7.2 points on 36.4% shooting from… Source link

The Associated Press Lindy McDaniel, MLB reliever for 21 seasons, dies at 84 Lindy McDaniel, an All-Star reliever who appeared in nearly 1,000 major league games over 21 seasons, has died. Bill Chambers, longtime friend and fellow elder at the Lavon Church of Christ in Lavon, Texas, said McDaniel died of COVID-19 on Saturday night at an acute care facility in Carrollton, a Dallas suburb. Steady as a long man and closer, McDaniel pitched in 987 big league games, trailing only Hall of Famer… Source link

The company will phase out unlimited storage on Google Photos, it announced Wednesday. The service, launched in 2015, allows users to easily upload, back up and sort through the thousands of images we fill our smartphones with. Any images users upload beyond June 1, 2021 will count towards the 15 GB limit imposed on Google accounts that already includes files from other services such as Gmail and Google Drive. After hitting that limit, Google Photos users will have to pay for extra space… Source link

Google changes its storage policy, Facebook extends its political ad ban and Ring doorbells are recalled. This is your Daily Crunch for November 11, 2020. The big story: Google Photos will end free, unlimited storage Google is changing its storage policies for free accounts in a way that could have a big impact on anyone regularly using Google Photos. Currently, Google Photos allows users to store unlimited images (and HD video) as long as they’re under 16 megapixels. Starting on… Source link

Google will start limiting how many high-quality photos users can store on the company’s cloud back-up service starting next June, it announced on Wednesday, in a move that could help protect profit margins. “Growing demand for storage” means Google Photos can no longer honor a years-old policy of unlimited capacity for high-quality images, the company said in a blog post. Storage of images, along with files in Google’s document editing services, will instead be capped at a combined total of… Source link