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The founder of Russian internet major Yandex, Arkady Volozh, could agree to a new shareholder and management structure for the company in exchange for the Kremlin’s permission to develop some of Yandex assets independently abroad, The Bell reported citing unnamed sources. bne IntelliNews covered… Source link

Topline Google bought a downtown Chicago building from the Illinois state government for $105 million, the parties announced Wednesday, delivering a much-needed symbolic victory for Illinois after three of the state’s largest companies announced plans to move their headquarters away from the state. The James R. Thompson Center, pictured in 2009. Getty Images Key Facts Google said it plans to occupy the James R. Thompson Center, formerly home to state government… Source link

Brooke Henderson follows her ball after playing on the second hole during the Evian Championship on Saturday. (Laurent Cipriani / Associated Press) EVIAN-LES-BAINS, France — Brooke Henderson stood over a birdie putt from three feet at the 18th green, a three-shot lead going into the final round of the Evian Championship seemingly at her mercy. For the first time Saturday — maybe all week, given her dominance of the fourth women’s major of the year — her putting stroke let her… Source link

After two rounds, here’s what we know about this year’s British Open at St. Andrews: the Old Course isn’t showing the teeth it has in past years. Scores have been low, with leader Cameron Smith posting the lowest course relative to par in the Open’s 150-year history. And with conditions expected to be benign throughout the majority of the weekend, it’s not likely that weather will play a major role in this weekend’s tournament. Cameron Young, the first-round leader, is still in the mix right… Source link

You’re reading the web edition of STAT Health Tech, our guide to how tech is transforming the life sciences. Sign up to get this newsletter delivered in your inbox every Tuesday and Thursday.  Shaping the future of brain-computer interfaces How do you live with something implanted in your brain? Can you shower the same as before? What happens to data the device generates? For many people who receive a brain-computer interface, they don’t know the answers to these and other questions… Source link

The premiere of Claim to Fame ended in a scandalous fashion on Monday. The series challenges mystery contestants to guess the famous relatives of the other contestants. And right out the gate, there was an unexpected twist at the end of the episode. Contestants are not allowed to have personal phones, because it would make it much too easy to cheat. During the first elimination, Kevin Jonas and Frankie Jonas revealed that one of the contestants cheated by using their phone. The guilty party… Source link

“YaLM 100B is a GPT-like neural network for generating and processing text. It can be used freely by developers and researchers from all over the world.” This is the introduction to a groundbreaking open source technology developed by Yandex on and made public on its platform “GitHub” (https://github.com/yandex/YaLM-100B) on 23 May 2022. The technology is available in the English and Russian languages, leverages 100 billion parameters and is reportedly the largest GPT-like model for… Source link

(Bloomberg) — Chinese technology stocks fell as a plan by Tencent Holdings Ltd.’s major backer to further cut its stake in the company fueled concerns more investors may look to take profits following a strong rally. Most Read from Bloomberg The Hang Seng Tech Index slid as much as 2.9% Tuesday, the most since June 22, before paring some losses. Tencent slumped as much as 5.8%, the most in nearly six weeks, after Prosus NV on Monday said it intends to sell more of the mobile gaming… Source link

In the midst of 2021’s soaring tech IPO and SPAC market, there was one former Wall Street analyst telling anyone who would listen that something was wrong. David Trainer, the founder and CEO of research firm New Constructs, was focused on the fundamentals of the businesses behind the record valuations, and what he saw wasn’t promising. Trainer warned investors in 2021 that many high-flying tech stocks and IPOs at the time were trading at “tech bubble” levels. And even worse, some were… Source link

Last week, the CEO of real estate company Redfin, Glenn Kelman, announced the company was laying off 8% of its employees in an email, saying that demand for the company’s realtor services had fallen 17% below expectations in May. “We don’t have enough work for our agents and support staff, and fewer sales leaves us with less money for headquarters projects,” Kelman wrote in the email announcing the layoffs on June 14. The layoffs at Redfin and another real estate company, Compass, on… Source link