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Google and Samsung have partnered to create Health Connect, a platform and API (application programming interface) that gives developers a toolset to sync users’ health data between Android apps and devices. This should make it easier for users to keep track of their health and fitness data across several different platforms. Once a user opts in, developers can compile their health data in an encrypted hub that’s located on a user’s device. Google says users will get full control… Source link

Tony Fadell is one of the most important figures in Apple’s (AAPL) history. As the creator of the iPod, he helped turn the struggling company’s fortunes around. And as the co-creator of the iPhone, he can take (at least some) credit for Apple becoming a company with a market cap of more than $2.5 trillion. But Fadell wasn’t sure he wanted to join up with Apple when he pitched the idea for the iPod. “Apple was a very, very different company back then,” Fadell told Yahoo Finance. “A… Source link

Could two of the most famous athletes in the world soon have a stake in one of the biggest soccer clubs on the planet? According to multiple reports, both Serena Williams and Lewis Hamilton have pledged money to be a part of a group attempting to buy London’s Chelsea FC. The team is for sale under orders from the British government after longtime Russian owner Roman Abramovich was sanctioned as a result of Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. Reports said that Williams and Hamilton had… Source link

A group of workers for a Google Fiber subcontractor in Missouri has voted to unionize, the first of its kind at Google’s parent company Alphabet. The votes were counted Friday in a Zoom hearing with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). The workers are employees of Google contractor BDS Connected Solutions, a staffing agency in Kansas City. Ten of the 11 workers signed union cards in January to organize under the purview of the Alphabet Workers Union (AWU), which is part of the… Source link

Amazon’s (AMZN) big stock split could pave the way for entrance into the 30-member exclusive club known as the Dow Jones Industrial Average. “We expect that the stock split should increase the accessibility of shares to a broader array of potential investors, and note that the split should allow for potential inclusion of Amazon shares in the Dow Jones Industrial Average,” said Wells Fargo analyst Brian Fitzgerald. Shares of the e-commerce giant rose 5% in pre-market trading on Thursday on the… Source link

Ben Simmons isn’t ready to make his debut with the Brooklyn Nets just yet while he’s dealing with a lingering back injury. He will, though, be with the team when they take on his former team on Thursday. Simmons, Nets coach Steve Nash said on Tuesday, will join the team in Philadelphia on Wednesday and then sit on the bench with them on Thursday night. “It’s great. He’s on our team, he needs to be with his teammates and get the whole Philly thing out of the way a little bit,” Nash… Source link

Netflix, China-based TikTok join Google, Apple, other companies cutting ties with Russia | Fortune … Source link

Four colleges within the Alamo Colleges District have been selected to become an academic partner in the Grow with Google Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI) Career Readiness Program.  Among the Alamo Colleges selected were San Antonio College, St. Philip’s College, Northeast Lakeview College and Palo Alto College. The initiative will help Latino students at more than 20 HSIs prepare for the workforce through digital skills training and career workshops.  Through a $2 million investment… Source link

Alex McLenon With another partner onboard at Michigan Central, a team of Detroit city officials has been set up to help companies seeking approval for mobility testing. Google says it will join Ford as a tenant at Michigan Central Station in Corktown when restoration of Detroit’s largest monument to blight is complete. Ford Motor Company officials say that work could be finished by early 2023. The announcement comes as City of Detroit and Michigan… Source link

Two members of Google’s Ethical AI group have announced their departures from the company, according to a report from Bloomberg. Senior researcher Alex Hanna, and software engineer Dylan Baker, will join Timnit Gebru’s nonprofit research institute, Distributed AI Research (DAIR). In a post announcing her resignation on Medium, Hanna criticizes the “toxic” work environment at Google, and draws attention to a lack of representation of Black women at the company. “Prior to… Source link