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Europe in ‘collective denial’ over the state of the COVID pandemic, former WHO official says

Europe in ‘collective denial’ over the state of the COVID pandemic, former WHO official says

A recent view of Milan. (Mairo Cinquetti/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) BARCELONA, Spain — A report released Friday morning by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) found that the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic on the continent was improving compared with the spikes of new cases and hospitalizations experienced in December. But experts who spoke with Yahoo News painted a much less encouraging picture, saying the ECDC “Country Overview Report” is based on… Source link

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Justice Department official cleared to oversee Google probes -source

Justice Department official cleared to oversee Google probes -source

WASHINGTON, Jan 13 (Reuters) – The Justice Department’s top antitrust official recently won approval from the department to oversee investigations involving Google parent Alphabet Inc (GOOGL.O), a person briefed on the matter told Reuters. The Wall Street Journal earlier reported the decision to allow Jonathan Kanter, assistant attorney general in charge of antitrust, to oversee matters involving the search engine and advertising company. The Justice Department and Google declined to comment… Source link

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Justice Department official cleared to oversee Google probes -source

Justice Department official cleared to oversee Google probes -source

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Justice Department’s top antitrust official recently won approval from the department to oversee investigations involving Google parent Alphabet Inc, a person briefed on the matter told Reuters. The Wall Street Journal earlier reported the decision to allow Jonathan Kanter, assistant attorney general in charge of antitrust, to oversee matters involving the search engine and advertising company. The Justice Department and Google declined to comment… Source link

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Google proclaims official Android RISC-V support

Google proclaims official Android RISC-V support

Google has officially announced that Android will support the RISC-V instruction set architecture. The announcement is from the RISC-V Summit held last month. For those unfamiliar, RISC-V is the Reduced Instruction Set Computer V architecture – an open, free-to-use standard without licensing or royalty fees. Essentially, it’s a competitor to ARM and x86 architectures on which companies can build chipsets. Particularly companies that aim to make lower-cost processors or reduce their… Source link

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Google announces official Android RISC-V support

Google announces official Android RISC-V support

Google has officially announced its support for the RISC-V architecture, an alternative ISA without licensing fees. Android, the operating system developed by Google, currently supports a couple of different instruction set architectures (ISAs), such as Arm and x86. Most devices that use Android, including smartphones, tablets, TVs, and smartwatches, use Arm-based chipsets. Intel stopped producing CPUs for phones, and support for MIPS was removed in NDK… Source link

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In farewell message to staff, Yandex founder Arkady Volozh makes it official: he’s out — Meduza

In farewell message to staff, Yandex founder Arkady Volozh makes it official: he’s out — Meduza

Russian technology entrepreneur and Yandex founder Arkady Volozh has finally, formally informed staff that he’s left the company completely. In a message posted today on an internal company portal, he announced his departure and thanked long-time colleagues for helping to build “the best technology company in the country,” according to The Bell. “All these 30 years, we’ve been doing this together,” Volozh wrote. “From nothing, amid global competition, we endeavored to operate… Source link

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Google introduces India’s DigiLocker integration to Files app to access official documents • TechCrunch

Google introduces India’s DigiLocker integration to Files app to access official documents • TechCrunch

Google has announced that it is bringing India’s online document storage service DigiLocker to the Files app on Android to let users access verified government-issued documents from the app. At the annual Google for India conference on Monday, Google announced its partnership with the Indian government to roll out the DigiLocker integration within the Files app. The search giant also announced a machine learning-based model that will help identify and organize… Source link

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U.S. officials condemn U.N. human rights official accused of making antisemitic posts

U.S. officials condemn U.N. human rights official accused of making antisemitic posts

Michèle Taylor, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Human Rights Council, at a hearing in Geneva on Aug. 11. (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images) WASHINGTON — American officials blasted a high-ranking United Nations diplomat in charge of monitoring the tense situation in Israel and the Palestinian territories, arguing that posts she made about the conflict there disqualified her from being an objective broker. The offending posts were made in 2014 by Francesca Albanese, an unabashed… Source link

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Google refused Hong Kong request over protest anthem – HK official

Google refused Hong Kong request over protest anthem – HK official

HONG KONG, Dec 12 (Reuters) – Google has refused to change its search results to display China’s national anthem, rather than a protest song, when users search for Hong Kong’s national anthem, the city’s security chief said on Monday, expressing “great regret” at the decision. Google’s parent company, Alphabet Inc (GOOGL.O), did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The row comes after Hong Kong police said they would investigate the playing of “Glory to Hong Kong” – the unofficial… Source link

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