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Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are volatile and have been viewed as risky by skeptics within Wall Street ranks and veteran investors. And yet, more are warming up to the notion of crypto as part of a diversified portfolio, given what’s being viewed as its technological staying power. Amy Arnott, a portfolio strategist for Morningstar, says cryptocurrencies can be a part of a diversified portfolio. “Crypto is definitely becoming more established as a separate asset class and moving more… Source link

For inexperienced hikers, smartphones are a multipurpose tool: a flashlight, an emergency beacon and a GPS, all in one device. But it can be ill-advised, and possibly life-threatening, for hikers to rely solely on their phones as they head into the wilderness, experts say. Apps and online maps have disoriented hikers on both sides of the Atlantic. In Scotland, mountaineers are warning visitors that Google Maps may direct them toward “potentially fatal” trails that would force them to trek… Source link

Until recently, Google’s namesake Android app, which more than five billion installs to date, had a vulnerability that could have allowed an attacker to quietly steal personal data from a victim’s device. Sergey Toshin, founder of mobile app security startup Oversecured, said in a blog post that the vulnerability has to do with how the Google app relies on code that is not bundled with the app itself. Many Android apps, including the Google app, reduce their download size and the… Source link

AMC’s stock close to doubled on Wednesday amid a flurry of interest in the stock from day traders and other amateur investors. Photo: Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images The recent revival of investor interest in so-called “meme stocks” like US cinema chain AMC (AMC) and retro smartphone maker BlackBerry (BB) may already be over, according to analysis of retail trading flows. Vanda Research said on Friday that its proprietary tools tracking retail investor flows in the US and UK suggested… Source link

The Conversation Ultra-Orthodox Jewish women are bucking the patriarchal, authoritarian stereotype of their community Ultra-Orthodox women have become the primary breadwinners in their families. Menahem Kahana/AFP via Getty ImagesUltra-Orthodox Jews have been in the news a lot lately, partly due to their reactions to the COVID-19 pandemic. With a few exceptions, the stories present ultra-Orthodox Jews as a patriarchal community that is authoritarian and resistant to public health measures,… Source link

Google Analytics started life as a web server log analysis package developed by Urchin Software, which Google acquired in 2005. Google Analytics quickly came to dominate the website analytics space because it was offered for free at a time when site analytics software like Web Trends and Omniture cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. Practically all small sites and blogs adopted Google Analytics, because they could not afford anything else. Today, Google Analytics represents the vast… Source link

Major League Baseball (MLB) announced it will host its 2021 All-Star game in Denver this summer, just days after pulling the game out of Atlanta to protest Georgia’s new voting rights bill. “Major League Baseball is grateful to the Rockies, the City of Denver and the State of Colorado for their support of this summer’s All-Star Game,” MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred said in a statement. “We appreciate their flexibility and enthusiasm to deliver a first-class event for our game and the… Source link

Bloomberg Haunted by 2008, China and U.S. Diverge on Stimulus Plans (Bloomberg) — The U.S. and China are pursuing divergent economic policies in the aftermath of the coronavirus recession in a role reversal from last time the world economy was recovering from a shock.One of the takeaways from the annual National People’s Congress under way in Beijing is a conservative growth goal, with a tighter fiscal-deficit target and restrained monetary settings. That’s a big contrast with Washington,… Source link

The hearing: The Tuesday afternoon hearing — the first public congressional inquiry into the SolarWinds breach — will focus on the role that private companies have played in discovering, analyzing and sharing information about the breaches, as well as in fixing any underlying issues in their own products. The list: On Monday, Google offered up a list to lawmakers of more than a dozen questions that one Senate aide said were aimed at scrutinizing the security of Microsoft products, such… Source link

To Google it began as a niggle in a small, far-off market: a public inquiry by Australia’s competition commission into Big Tech and the media. But four years on, Australia is at the vanguard of a global regulatory fightback that threatens to reset the terms of trade between tech platforms and the news media, and more importantly for Google, to erode fundamental pillars of the internet that helped it thrive.  Australia’s parliament is closing in on a statutory code that… Source link