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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Mexico marks deadliest election campaign in its modern history as country moves to elect 1st female president. Here’s …  Yahoo! Voices Source link

This week will be filled with palindrome dates, but Tuesday is a particularly special one: 2/22/22. Fittingly, Google is celebrating the occasion with a surprise for those who look for the date in its numerical form. Type in 2/22/22 into Google’s search bar and your computer screen will be showered with a graphic of confetti and a bunch of twos, followed by a message that reads “Happy Twosday 2You!” A palindrome is a word, phrase or numerical sequence that can be… Source link

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Tuesday marks the 151st anniversary of the founding of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and Google is celebrating with a special Doodle on its homepage. Created by Google artist Erich Nagler, the animation features a selection of objects from the Met’s collection, and it is viewable in over 20 countries. According to a representative for the Met, the museum and Google had originally planned for the Doodle to appear last year, which marked its 150th birthday. Its debut was… Source link

After more than 15 years, Yahoo is closing down its Yahoo Answers questions and response platform, marking the end of an internet era. Yahoo Answers, a staple of the web for so long, is shutting down, with Yahoo planning to focus on other products in its ecosystem. For more than a decade-and-a-half, Answers has enjoyed some of the spotlight in internet culture. However, in recent years, the platform dropped from the public consciousness like many before it… Source link

Howard Marks, co-founder of alternative investment manager Oaktree Capital, says he has reconsidered his previous “dismissive” stance on bitcoin. The investor, who is worth $2.1 billion according to Forbes, previously said in a 2017 memo that cryptocurrency was “an unfounded fad.” The comment was “a knee-jerk reaction without information,” Marks conceded in a video interview with the Korea Economic Daily on Monday. While he’d previously considered bitcoin to have no intrinsic… Source link

The Justice Department alleges Google has an illegal monopoly in search, setting up the biggest confrontation with a tech giant in more than 20 years. Don Ryan/AP hide caption toggle caption Don Ryan/AP