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Bloomberg CDC Eases Mask Rules; NYC Offers Burgers for Shots: Virus Update (Bloomberg) — President Joe Biden’s administration took its biggest step yet toward declaring victory over the coronavirus pandemic — announcing that fully vaccinated Americans can ditch their masks in most settings, even indoors or in large groups. Masks are still required on buses, trains and other forms of public transportation, as well as airports.To drive vaccinations, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio is offering… Source link

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global consumer spend in 2020. Consumers last year also spent 3.5 trillion minutes using apps on Android devices alone. And in the U.S., app usage surged ahead of the time spent watching live TV. Currently, the average American watches 3.7… Source link

Bitcoin crashed 10% to $49,332 (£68,482) on Friday morning in London, Ethereum slumped 11% to $2,227 after hitting record highs of £2,613 on Thursday. Photo: Getty Crypto markets pulled back sharply after reports US president Joe Biden is planning to raise capital gains tax for the wealthy. Bloomberg reported on Thursday that Biden is considering nearly doubling tax to as high as 39.6%, an increase from the current 20%. Cryptocurrency investors face higher taxes if Biden presses… Source link

Yandex: expanding e-grocery delivery service in Europe Russia’s NASDAQ-listed tech giant Yandex plans to launch its express e-grocery delivery service in Europe in the second quarter, after its success in the rapid on-demand grocery delivery segment in Russia and Israel. The service, which delivers approximately 2,500 types of goods from local warehouses within 10-15 minutes of receiving an order, is set to begin operating in central Paris under the Yango Deli brand. Yandex… Source link

Walmart (WMT), which recently gave many of its workers a raise, said on Wednesday that two-thirds of its hourly associates will be full-time with consistent schedules by the end of the current fiscal year. Of Walmart’s 1.2 million hourly U.S. store associates, approximately 740,000 will be full-time hourly associates by Jan. 31, 2022. Going back to 2016, about 53% of Walmart’s hourly store workers were full-time — meaning just over 100,000 will have been moved to full-time status in that… Source link

Changes to DuckDuckGo Browser Extension Changes to DuckDuckGo Search Engine Final Notes About FLoC DuckDuckGo announces plans to block FLoC, Google’s new way of tracking users’ web browsing activity in Chrome. As Google transitions away from using third-party cookies in Chrome, its developing a new technology called FLoC (Federated Learning of Cohorts). Google claims FLoC offers more privacy than third-party cookies because it monitors activity at a group level rather than an individual… Source link

GlobeNewswire iland Honored With Fourth Consecutive 5-Star Rating in the 2021 CRN® Partner Program Guide Partner program drives channel expansion, is honored as one of the industry’s premier cloud technology suppliers.HOUSTON, March 29, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — iland, a leading VMware-based provider for application hosting, data protection and disaster recovery services delivered on the iland Secure Cloud Platform, today announced CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, recognized iland with… Source link

Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. The COVID-19 health crisis in much of the U.S. seems likely to hasten the adoption of self-guided robots and drones for goods transportation. They require disinfection, which companies like Kiwibot, Starship Technologies, and Postmates are conducting manually with sanitation teams. But in some cases, delivery rovers like Refraction’s could minimize the risk of spreading disease. Recent market… Source link

Google’s Atlanta expansion is part of a $7 billion nationwide expansion by the company this year, which includes hiring 10,000 new full-time workers. A company spokeswoman declined to provide a breakout of how many new jobs Google will create in Atlanta this year. Atlanta has rival suitors on the East Coast for future Google projects. Google said last week that it will boost the size of its investments and hire more workers at existing offices in Boston, Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C.

My brother posed a tough question on Zoom recently.  How could I, as someone working in the cryptocurrency industry, justify bitcoin’s energy footprint in the age of climate change?  Didn’t I used to write about global warming and the dangers it poses? (I did).  A lot of people are having some version of this discussion at the moment.  With BTC’s price rising and lots of green-minded VIPs, like Elon Musk, endorsing the idea, the long-running bitcoin energy debate is seeing new life.  I… Source link