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This article was originally published on TipRanks.com U.S. stock futures were trending lower on Wednesday as the rapidly spreading Omicron variant continues to rattle investor sentiment. The emergence of the latest variant has recently caused an increase in volatility in global stock markets. Dow futures (DJIA) were down 0.08%, S&P futures (SPX) were down 0.17%, and Nasdaq futures (NDX) were down 0.34% at the time of writing. Upcoming earnings Live Ventures, Inc. (

Dec 2 (Reuters) – Timnit Gebru, the computer scientist whose disputed exit from Google’s (GOOGL.O) artificial intelligence research team prompted debate across the tech industry about diversity and censorship, said on Thursday she has launched a small lab to continue her work freely. The Distributed AI Research Institute has raised $3.7 million from foundations and aims to critically study services from big tech companies as well as propose AI-based solutions to issues such as food insecurity… Source link

Operator Tele2 Russia said customers can now subscribe to the Yandex Plus service from Russian internet search engine Yandex. Customers subscribing to the service will be able to use it free for first two months. The monthly subscription rate will amount to RUB 199 after that. Source link

Search engine and cloud computing juggernaut Google is hosting its Google Cloud Next ’21 conference this week, and one of the more interesting things that the company unveiled is several layers of software that makes its Spanner globally distributed relational database look and feel like the popular open source PostgreSQL relational database. Making the Cloud Spanner implementation of Spanner – meaning not the version that Google uses itself for its internal workloads like ad… Source link

Employee location has become a bit more complicated as some return to the office, while others work remotely. To embrace those hybrid working conditions, Google is making more changes to its Google Workspace offering by going live with spaces — its tool for small group sharing — in Google Chat for all users. Spaces integrates with Workspace tools, like the calendar, Drive and documents, to provide a more hybrid work experience where users can see the full… Source link

The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has opened investigations in five states regarding the prohibitions of universal indoor masking. Chief state school officers in Iowa, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Utah received letters today from the OCR questioning the states’ decisions to not mandate masks in schools. The Education Department maintains that mask-mandate bans discriminate against students with disabilities who are at heightened risk for severe… Source link

Robinhood shares began trading Thursday under the ticker HOOD, opening on the public markets at $38 per share. The shares had also been priced at $38. In the first half hour, the stock dropped around 5% to around $36. The stock was expected to be priced between $38 and $42, coming in at the lower end of the range, and giving the company a valuation of $32 billion.  The investing app offers a simple and mobile-first way for investors to buy stocks, ETFs, and even cryptocurrency and played a… Source link

Google is launching a new beta tester program for Android Auto, giving users the chance to get early access to features if they’re prepared to put up with the potential instability of unfinished software. Android Auto has had a testing program, but attempting to sign up for it has shown a message warning that the program had reached its “maximum number of testers.” “As a beta tester, you can help us build a better version of Android Auto. You can test how well new features work… Source link

Join executive leaders at the Conversational AI & Intelligent AI Assistants Summit, presented by Five9. Watch now! Google has announced that all Workspace (formerly G Suite) customers can now apply to access Google Meet through its face-mounted Glass device as part of an open beta program. While many people will likely have forgotten all about the once consumer-focused Google Glass, the internet giant has continued to offer the augmented reality (AR) contraption to businesses as… Source link

By Tom Hals and Sierra Jackson WILMINGTON, Del. (Reuters) – Elon Musk insisted in court on Monday he does not control Tesla Inc and said he did not enjoy being the electric vehicle company’s chief executive as he took the stand to defend the company’s 2016 acquisition of SolarCity. The lawsuit by union pension funds and asset managers alleges the celebrity CEO strong-armed Tesla’s board into wasting the company’s assets to buy SolarCity, which was running out of cash. Musk at the time… Source link