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By Alexander Marrow, Darya Korsunskaya and Polina Devitt LONDON (Reuters) – Before Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine two years ago, Russia’s Nasdaq-listed search engine giant Yandex was briefly worth $30 billion. This week, a consortium of domestic investors agreed a deal to buy it for $5.2 billion. In normal times, that would represent a disaster for Dutch parent company Yandex NV and its Western shareholders. But in a world where Western firms have left Russia in droves, sometimes for a nominal… Source link

Day-trippers flocked to a popular Aussie beach as the mercury soared to 30 degrees earlier this month. As they splashed in waters that felt like a warm tropical bath, an extremely rare Antarctic seal joined them. But all was not well. Acclimatised to an icy wilderness rather than stifling Port Phillip Bay, the crabeater seal kept its eyes closed and barely moved. “Some people were really curious, but most were ignoring it and just trying to keep cool. They probably didn’t realise how rare… Source link

One of the biggest selling points of a Pixel device is the (usual) cadence at which Google releases new software updates and, apparently, Tensor-powered Pixels are about to get a rare software update that updates the kernel used behind the scenes. As highlighted by Mishaal Rahman on Twitter/X, Google appears to be working on updating the Linux kernel on all Tensor-powered Pixels. Specifically, the evidence presented suggests an update to version 6.1, which was… Source link

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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Here’s a rare look at Google’s most lucrative search queries  The Verge Source link

Claire Barrow, left, pictured with her mother, Heather Barrow, and Mia have found others with the same rare health conditions thanks to social media. (Courtesy of Claire and Heather Barrow and Mia) Thanks to social media, a growing number of people have found that health conditions they were once told were rare aren’t that uncommon after all. One such person is 39-year-old Mia, who posted on TikTok about experiencing painful Bartholin’s cysts. In a video that’s been liked nearly 53,000 times,… Source link

Meta’s stock has had a disastrous year in large part because the underlying company has had a disastrous year headlined by sweeping layoffs, weakening ad sales, and poor execution by CEO Mark Zuckerberg. But the stock caught one believer on Friday finally headed into the New Year. “Heading into 2023, we believe some of these top and bottom line pressures will ease, and most importantly, Meta is showing encouraging signs of increasing cost discipline, we believe with more to come,” said JP… Source link

Japan’s largest internet auction site will ban individuals from offering rare or endangered species, along with many other species that could potentially disrupt the ecosystem. Yafuoku’s (Yahoo Japan Corp.’s Yahoo Auctions) prohibition will begin from Sept. 29 and cover about 4,000 species, including the “ookuwagata” (Japanese stag beetle) and killifish, which are currently not banned by law for sale. “I expect (the Yahoo move) will lead to… Source link

Is Kentucky a basketball school? Yes. Should John Calipari have said that? Probably not. The Wildcats basketball coach ignited the rare intra-athletic department war of words with football coach Mark Stoops earlier this week when he took an unusual route to explain why his program deserves a new multi-million-dollar practice facility. From The Athletic’s Kyle Tucker: “And the reason is, this is a basketball school. It’s always been that,” he said. “Alabama is a football school. So is… Source link

Reports flooded in from Twitter on Monday evening as Google experienced a rare, widespread outage. Searchers around the world were met with this error message for a brief period when using Google:   According to Down Detector, the outage occurred around 9:39 p.m Eastern and lasted for a little over ten minutes. Image Credit: Screenshot from downdetector.com/status/google/, August 2022. Image Credit: Screenshot from downdetector.com/status/google/, August 2022. By all accounts the outage is… Source link