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“Looks like someone is trying to take more than $10,000 from us.” That’s the message my husband typed to me on a Monday morning in October. By the time I wrote back, he was on the phone with our bank. The weekend before, someone walked into a bank branch, pretended to be one of us, and took thousands of dollars from our checking account. We joined the tens of millions of Americans who each year are victims of identity fraud, where criminals steal a bank or credit card number and use the… Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content] 5 things we learned from the Epic-Google antitrust case this week  TechCrunch Google offered Epic $147 million to launch Fortnite on the Play Store  The Verge Google CEO Sundar Pichai to be grilled in antitrust trial with ‘Fortnite’ maker  New York Post Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]What has Google learned from its certificates program?  Fast Company Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Blue Jays takeaways: What we learned from season-opening series with Cardinals  Yahoo Canada Sports Source link

A Google recruiter said he learned he’d lost his job after a call with one of his candidates disconnected. Dan Lanigan-Ryan said he was gradually locked out of company systems “and then that was it.” Laid-off Google staff have criticized the abrupt and impersonal manner in which they were terminated. … Source link

Mitchell Miller signed an entry-level deal with the Boston Bruins on Friday. (via USHL) The Boston Bruins have signed Mitchell Miller. With that signing, according to hockey scholars, it has again been made abundantly clear that hockey has learned nothing, and that the insidious and toxic culture of the game persists. Originally selected by the Arizona Coyotes in the 2020 NHL Draft, Miller has a history. In school, Miller used racist slurs, including the N-word, toward a Black classmate and… Source link

Tim Cook, Mark Zuckerberg.Justin Sullivan/Getty Images (left), David Ramos/Getty Images (right) Meta’s effort to build the metaverse is a way to wrangle back control of consumer data from Apple, experts say. The attempt to gain a competitive advantage over Apple is reminiscent of Google’s effort to build Android. Google’s effort paid off, but it’s likely that Mark Zuckerberg learned the wrong lessons from recent history. Meta wants to wrangle control away from Apple. The company’s multi-billion… Source link

This article first appeared in the Morning Brief. Get the Morning Brief sent directly to your inbox every Monday to Friday by 6:30 a.m. ET. Subscribe Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2022 Today’s newsletter is by Brian Sozzi, an editor-at-large and anchor at Yahoo Finance. Follow Sozzi on Twitter @BrianSozzi and on LinkedIn. Read this and more market news on the go with Yahoo Finance App. If you aren’t listening, you aren’t learning — this is a motto I have long modeled my life around. So I put that into… Source link

Working together with Yandex smart speakers, the voice assistant of Alisa learned to distinguish the voices of all family members and select music for each. The developers announced the publication of the corresponding update in an official press release. It says that Smart speakers with Alisa became the first Russian speakers with a shared function. Music for everyone. As the developer noted, Alisa tried to remember all of his families’ tastes, and to mix their favorites and… Source link

When Covid-19 entered our lives, people started re-thinking how they vacation and some are choosing alternative modes of transportation. My family has switched entirely to road-tripping post-Covid-19. To date we’ve driven to Florida, Georgia, and Minnesota twice with plans to drive to Cape Cod and Georgia later this year — all in an electric car. Why did we switch? I’ve always dreaded flying with kids. Two young kids, two car seats, a stroller, plus all the luggage. And it’s expensive… Source link