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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Google Accidentally Sends Users Free Money  Futurism Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Clever Hack Uses YouTube to Back Up Your Data in Google’s Cloud for Free  Gizmodo Source link

Hotel Bills Influencer MillionsYouTube “Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below.” Soon after YouTuber Elle Darby asked Dublin’s White Moose Cafe and Charleville Lodge if she could stay for free, NY Mag reports the hotel’s owner Paul Stenson shut her way, way down. In a January 16 Facebook post, Stenson screengrabbed Darby’s apparent email in which she asked for a comped stay essentially in return for traffic to the hotel. She notes her… Source link

Rumor has it that Apple is going to debut its own search engine “sooner rather than later.” This is good news for consumers as competition between Apple and Google means more resources would be spent to do search even better, but oddly enough it’s also good news for Google on one front — the battle with regulators. Apple is definitely refining some search products and we know it is because of the companies it has acquired since 2013. Technology from Topsy Labs already powers specific… Source link

When Kim Talbot first launched her milling shop in southern Maine, she hoped to win a coveted contract with the federal government to manufacture steel and aluminum machine parts. With no idea where to start, she did what any inexperienced small-business owner might do: She Googled. The top search result was, in her eyes, an official-looking webpage. It prominently displayed a logo very similar to that of SAM.gov, the government website where businesses must register before pursuing such… Source link

A worker feels like a customer was too difficult when they demanded free food. He explained the situation on Reddit’s “Choosing Beggars” forum, a subreddit dedicated to “people who are being way too picky when begging for things.” According to the poster, he works at a locally owned Mexican restaurant. “The owners are two of the most kind, compassionate & selfless people I’ve ever met,” he explained. “The reader board outside of the restaurant reads as follows: ‘Hungry? No… Source link

A worker feels like a customer was too difficult when they demanded free food. He explained the situation on Reddit’s “Choosing Beggars” forum, a subreddit dedicated to “people who are being way too picky when begging for things.” According to the poster, he works at a locally owned Mexican restaurant. “The owners are two of the most kind, compassionate & selfless people I’ve ever met,” he explained. “The reader board outside of the restaurant reads as follows: ‘Hungry? No… Source link

Even though the Pixel 5 came out in late 2020, it’s still worth it in 2023. It has a 6 inches screen, which makes it more compact than the latest Pixel phones, and it has a higher 90Hz refresh rate than the budget Pixel 6a, which would cost you more than the discounted Pixel 5. The Pixel 5 features a very competent rear camera array which might not be as outstanding as the setup on the pricier Pixel 7, but easily puts most mid-range priced phones to shame and will… Source link

Meta isn’t the only tech heavyweight making tools to help root out terrorist content. The Financial Times has learned Google’s Jigsaw is developing a free tool to help smaller websites detect and remove extremist material. The project, built with the help of the UN-supported Tech Against Terrorism, makes it easier for moderator teams to deal with potentially illegal content. The effort has the assistance of the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (founded by Google, Meta, Microsoft… Source link

NurPhoto/Getty Browsers are great. Over the past decade, I’ve seen a whole swathe of applications replaced by services that run in the browser, so much so that nowadays, most of my working day is spent in front of my browser of choice — Google Chrome. Also: How I revived three ancient computers with ChromeOS Flex Problem is, the browser is a window to, well, the whole of the internet. And I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but there are a lot of distractions on the internet. I’ve concluded that… Source link