It looks like Netflix’s (NFLX) $200 million bet on “The Gray Man” might have paid off. The action-packed film starring Ryan Gosling, Chris Evans, and Ana De Armas made its debut on the platform on Friday and quickly climbed its way to the top of the streamer’s competitive top 10 list, despite lackluster reviews. According to the company’s latest global viewing report, subscribers watched more than 88 million hours of the movie within its first three days on the platform (July 22 – July 24). For… Source link
Read More »Has Google’s SEO Office Hours Lost Its Spark?
Google’s John Mueller answered a question about what strategy to use to make specific pages show as sitelinks in Google’s search results. Mueller provided an answer that noticeably matched what’s in the official Google Search Central documentation for sitelinks, although he added a little more nuance than what’s in the official documentation. Nevertheless, Google’s new tightly controlled SEO Office Hours format is starting to show some limitations. How to Make Pages Appear as a… Source link
Read More »NBA plays on hours, miles from Uvalde elementary school shooting
DALLAS — Stephen Curry looked his coach directly in the eye, accompanied by a firm handshake — no words spoken, the bond formed by these two men didn’t need verbal confirmation. The Dallas Mavericks’ usually boastful and always heard PA announcer Sean Heath’s voice cracked when calling for a moment of silence before the start of Game 4’s Western Conference final, a rarity even though in-arena commemorations of mass shootings are as commonplace as pyrotechnics and eardrum-blasting… Source link
Read More »3 takeaways from ‘a wild 48 hours in retail’
It doesn’t take a brain surgeon to suss out a host of negatives from the brutal earnings results and conference calls from Target and Walmart this week. All of them come to the same conclusion though: Consumers are being financially battered by inflation and the economy is slowing much quicker than Wall Street economists have factored into their 500-step multi-factor models. “It has been a wild 48 hours in retail,” Jefferies Analyst Steph Wissink said on Yahoo Finance Live (video above). “We… Source link
Read More »Google Explains How AI Helps It Fix Inaccurate Business Hours
How does Google Maps know when a particular business is open? It turns out that AI plays a pretty important part in making sure Google can provide accurate information to its users. In response to the constantly fluctuating hours of operation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the company says it developed a machine learning model “that automatically identifies if business hours are likely wrong, then instantly updates them with AI-generated prediction.” This model relies on the Popular Times… Source link
Read More »Google is using AI to update business hours that are out of date on Google Maps
Google has shared how it’s using artificial intelligence, including its restaurant-calling Duplex tech, to try and keep business hours up to date on Google Maps. The company says that if it is confident enough in the AI’s prediction of what a business’s hours should be, it will update the information in Maps. In a blog post, Google outlines the various factors its AI analyzes to determine whether it should do these updates. First, it looks at when the business profile was last… Source link
Read More »An entrepreneur told police he was tortured for several hours by masked criminals attempting to steal his bitcoin millions
Zaryn Dentzel, cofounder of Spanish social networking site Tuenti. Tuenti An entrepreneur told police he was tortured by masked robbers targeting his bitcoin millions, Spanish media reported. Zaryn Dentzel, cofounder of Spanish site Tuenti, was attacked at his Madrid home. He was tied, bound, and gagged before the assailants fled with his passwords. An entrepreneur has claimed to police he was tortured for hours by masked robbers who entered his home in an apparent attempt to steal millions of… Source link
Read More »shares fall in after hours
Uber (UBER) posted its first-ever adjusted profit, but its Q4 outlook weighed on shares immediately following the ride-sharing company’s third quarter results. Uber reported third quarter revenue of $4.85 billion versus Wall Street estimates of $4.4 billion. Gross bookings reaching an all-time high of $23.1 billion, up 57% year over year. The company reported its first adjusted EBITDA profit of $8 million for the quarter. “While we recognize it’s just a step, reaching total-company Adjusted… Source link
Read More »Why the world’s largest social network was down for 6 hours
Facebook’s (FB) week went from bad to worse Monday when the social networking giant’s apps went dark worldwide for roughly six hours. In a post written Monday afternoon, Facebook VP of infrastructure Santosh Janardhan blamed the outage on a configuration error on the “backbone routers that coordinate network traffic between our data centers caused issues that interrupted this communication.” That error, Janardhan writes, had a cascading effect on Facebook’s entire network, both… Source link
Read More »Zuckerberg Loses $7 Billion in Hours as Facebook Plunges
(Bloomberg) — Mark Zuckerberg’s personal wealth has fallen by nearly $7 billion in a few hours, knocking him down a notch on the list of the world’s richest people, after a whistleblower came forward and outages took Facebook Inc.’s flagship products offline. Most Read from Bloomberg A selloff sent the social-media giant’s stock plummeting around 5% on Monday, adding to a drop of about 15% since mid-September. The stock slide on Monday sent Zuckerberg’s worth down to $120.9 billion,… Source link
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