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United Parcel Service Inc. is set Tuesday to announce an expansion of its 2019 deal with Alphabet Inc.’s Google Cloud as the logistics company rolls out new data initiatives. As part of the expansion, UPS will receive increased network, storage and compute capacity. It will continue using Google’s artificial-intelligence and machine-learning tools to analyze its incoming data, which is… Source link

Ukrainian snipers had a problem: Russian forces in eastern Ukraine were trying to blind them. As the Ukrainians were looking through their scopes in order to find their targets, the Russians had begun pinpointing their location using the glare of the glass, and were shooting high-energy lasers into them, damaging the snipers’ eyesight. The two sides were squaring off in close proximity. In early 2014, Russia had already invaded and annexed Ukraine’s Crimea peninsula. Shortly thereafter,… Source link

U.S. airlines expect a surge of international travelers when the United States reopens to fully vaccinated visitors Monday. The Biden administration announced the new guidelines in September and set Nov. 8 as the day the borders open. “Delta (DAL) has seen a 450% increase in international point-of-sale bookings versus the six weeks prior to the announcement,” the airline stated in a press release that predicts many international flights will be 100% full and stay that way for several… Source link

Microsoft and Google have reportedly ended a six-year truce on legal battles. The Financial Times and Bloomberg are both reporting that Microsoft and Google formed an unusual truce in 2015, which expired in April. The pact was reportedly forged to avoid legal battles and complaints to regulators. It meant we haven’t seen Microsoft and Google complaining publicly about each other since the days of Scroogled, a campaign that attacked Google’s privacy policies. Now the gloves appear to… Source link

Bloomberg Asia Is Exception as Emerging Markets Start to Look Fragile (Bloomberg) — EXAMPLEDiscover what’s driving the global economy and what it means for policy makers, businesses, investors and you with The New Economy Daily. Sign up here.In the pandemic’s second year, some familiar worries — about inflation, capital flight or public debt — are starting to surface across the developing world. Except in one corner.In Asia, policy makers aren’t too preoccupied with these classic… Source link

Google algorithm updates are a well-known entity in the digital marketing world. While the average person might not be aware of the frequent changes and the specific ranking factors that help determine which sites get onto Page 1, SEO professionals are always looking for the next major update. According to a 2019 report from Moz, Google makes thousands of minor tweaks or improvements to its search engine algorithm each year. However, while many of these updates are minor, there are major… Source link

President Joe Biden hasn’t hidden his desire to raise taxes on corporations and the wealthy to fund a $2.3 trillion infrastructure package and new social safety net programs.  The administration has consistently floated lifting the corporate tax rate to 28% from its current rate, a Trump-era low of 21%. More recently, Biden said he is targeting an increase in the capital gains tax on the wealthiest Americans to 43.4%, including a surtax. The existing capital gains tax stands at a top rate of… Source link

As Google prepares to roll out its new ‘Page Experience’ search algorithm update, which will incorporate its three Core Web Vitals considerations, it’s shared some new details on the timeline for the roll-out, and a new tool to help website owners prepare for any potential impacts to their rankings. As explained by Google: “We’ll begin using page experience as part of our ranking systems beginning in mid-June 2021. However, page experience won’t play its full role as part of those systems… Source link

The Australia Letter is a weekly newsletter from our Australia bureau. Sign up to get it by email. It’s the first port of call for any random question that pops into our heads. The repository of basically all knowledge on the internet. The search engine so ubiquitous it’s a verb. And last week, Australians were forced to consider a future without it, after Google threatened to take its search engine offline if it can’t settle a bitter dispute with the Australian government over the… Source link

News of Moderna’s vaccine’s weakened response to the South African strain (B.1.351) of the coronavirus is raising more alarm bells amid the ongoing pandemic. Experts have been watching the strain closely as it may be resilient to the vaccine. Though it has not yet been detected in the U.S., the country should prepare for its potential spread, experts warn. Dr. Anthony Fauci said as much on CBS Sunday, and Moderna (MRNA) CEO Stéphane Bancel told Yahoo Finance Monday that Fauci agreed with… Source link