Tag Archives: Places

As previewed in early February, the Google Phone dialer app has removed the Nearby places search feature on Android. Phone by Google no longer lets you look for businesses using the search field at the top of the app. In fact, the hint has been updated from “Search contacts & places” to just “Search contacts.”  Additionally, “Nearby places” no longer appears in settings. The feature would use your location to take into account what was in close proximity…. Source link

The Phone by Google (as it’s officially named) app is losing a “Nearby Places” feature that “allowed business name search queries entered into the Phone app to provide local business phone number results beyond just your personal contacts.”  Google says “only a very small number of people use this feature” as the “vast majority of users go to Google Search or Maps when seeking business-related phone numbers.” Some people liked this capability for… Source link

For the last 15 years, Glassdoor has recognized the best places to work in the U.S. and four other countries with its annual Employees’ Choice Awards. And since the awards began in 2009, only two companies have made the cut every year: Bain & Company and Google. This year, Bain & Company ranked third on the Best Places to Work list, behind Gainsight and Box. The management consulting firm also ranked 3rd in 2022 after snagging the no. 1 spot in 2021. Google ranked eighth on this year’s list,… 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 Wednesday, September 28, 2022 Today’s newsletter is by Ethan Wolff-Mann, senior writer at Yahoo Finance. Follow him on Twitter @ewolffmann. The Dow fell below the 20% mark on Monday, joining the S&P 500 in bear market territory and capping off an abysmal slide since the peak at the end of 2021. The boom that followed March 2020’s COVID crash is… Source link

Blake Lemoine, a Google engineer working in its Responsible AI division, revealed to The Washington Post that he believes one of the company’s AI projects has achieved sentience. And after reading his conversations with LaMDA (short for Language Model for Dialogue Applications), it’s easy to see why. The chatbot system, which relies on Google’s language models and trillions of words from the internet, seems to have the ability to think about its own existence and its place in the… Source link

Trevor Bauer will start spring training the same way he ended the 2021 MLB season: on administrative leave, waiting for someone to make a firm decision. MLB placed Bauer back on paid leave Friday, according to the Los Angeles Times’ Bill Shaikin, continuing a state of limbo that has been in place since he was accused of sexual assault last July. The leave reportedly extends through March 19 and can be further extended by agreement between the league and MLBPA. The offseason brought at least… Source link

A Google Nest Mini on the front porch? Sure. Angela Lang/CNET … Source link

Warren Buffett keeps selling billions worth of stock in this frothy market — but here are 3 new places where he’s managed to find value Bloated valuations in today’s stock market aren’t exactly appealing to value investors. So it’s no surprise that the most famous value investor of all continues to reduce his stock market exposure. In Q3, Warren Buffett’s holding company Berkshire Hathaway sold a net $2 billion stock, including a complete exit of pharmaceutical giant Merck as well as… Source link

A man cycles through the snow in Pristina, the capital of Kosovo. (Hazir Reka/Reuters/HR/ABP) As much of the Northern Hemisphere continues to bake in a year of unprecedented heat waves linked to climate change, one paradoxical consequence of rising global temperatures is that some areas of the world could become much colder.  A study published this month by researchers at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research found that the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC)… Source link

Where would you go if you could go anywhere? Eliot Herman The coronavirus essentially shut down travel — local and… Source link