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New Year’s Eve Google Doodle today: With the year 2022 just around the corner, Google has marked the New Year’s Eve with its newest doodle — a giant candy with the year 2021 that seems ready to pop. Once you click the candy, it pops to reveal celebratory confetti across the search page. Google has another fun surprise for its users as the results for ‘New Year’s Eve’ show a party horn, which when clicked, makes noise and throws up confetti. The doodle has twinkling fairy lights… Source link

By Daniel Stolte, University Communications Nov. 17, 2021 A fleet of rovers capable of navigating campus on their own is the latest addition to the University of Arizona’s portfolio of food delivery options. Chris Richards/University of Arizona Beginning Wednesday, more than 35,000 Wildcats will be able to order their favorite foods from on-campus dining locations – including IQ Fresh, Einstein Bros Bagels, On Deck Deli and Sabor – via… Source link

Subscribe to Yahoo Sportsbook Daily Pam Maldonado gets you set for the opening mid-week MAC college football games as she previews two bets she likes tonight. She also has an NFL survivor pick for you to consider as well. New BetMGM customers who bet $1 on ANY game will receive $100 in free bets added to their account. You don’t need to win your bet to receive the promotion. Must be 21+ in AZ, CO, IN, IA, MI, NJ, PA, TN, VA, WV, WY only. Terms apply. Go to BetMGM.com/YAHOOSPECIAL to get… Source link

All Elite Wrestling (AEW) is on a collision course with its rival World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) as the company gets set for a weekend of anticipated shows ‘Rampage’ and ‘Dynamite.’ AEW founder, co-owner, president, and CEO Tony Khan joined Yahoo Finance Live to discuss the evolution of the pro-wrestling industry and what it feels like to go head to head with WWE’s Friday Night SmackDown. “I was surprised when I found out we had head to head competition tonight because it’s kind of a… Source link

This year’s holiday season will be definitively better than last year’s. Nearly 220 million Americans have been vaccinated against Covid-19, compared with essentially none in 2020. Total employment is 5 million more than last December and work is slowly getting back to normal. Plus, there’s no presidential election for anybody to try to sabotage this year. Yet the outrage industry wishes you a Terrible Christmas, and pandemic hangover effects might just make it so. Snarled supply lines… Source link

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-CA, speaks during a press conference at the US Capitol in Washington, DC on September 8, 2021. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN / AFP) (Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images) Since it worked so well the last time, Congress is about to flirt once again with the prospect of a U.S. government shutdown, followed by an ignominious and totally unnecessary default on the nation’s debts. Yes, you’ve heard this before. Yes, it’s tiresome and foolish. But it’s happening… Source link

Year-to-date, the market trends are highly positive. The S&P 500 is up ~18%, while the tech-heavy NASDAQ, has put up a 14.5% year-to-date gain. There are potential headwinds – inflation is a worry, as is the possibility of further COVID-related restriction policies. But for now, the economy is mostly open, consumers are starting to spend, and investors seem optimistic. As J.P. Morgan’s chief US strategist Dubravko Lakos-Bujas recently put it, the economic gains are “not an event but… Source link

Amazon (AMZN) officially has a CEO not named Jeff Bezos as of Monday (it’s Andy Jassy), but a stock price that’s acting like it normally does: moving up and to the right.  Shares of the tech beast have surged 14% to $3,642 in the past month in the lead-up to Jassy assuming the CEO mantle from the soon-to-be astronaut Bezos. As of Tuesday afternoon trading, Amazon’s ticker page was the most trafficked on the Yahoo Finance platform — beating out Didi (stock down 21% after a China crackdown… Source link

The future of search is a conversation — at least, according to Google. It’s a pitch the company has been making for years, and it was the centerpiece of last week’s I/O developer conference. There, the company demoed two “groundbreaking” AI systems — LaMDA and MUM — that it hopes, one day, to integrate into all its products. To show off its potential, Google had LaMDA speak as the dwarf planet Pluto, answering questions about the celestial body’s environment and its… Source link

On Thursday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that fully vaccinated Americans are so unlikely to transmit COVID-19 or fall ill from the virus that they no longer need to wear masks in most indoor situations. According to a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll, the CDC’s surprise shift could finally signal the beginning of the end of masking in the U.S. — while also ushering in a new era defined by growing divisions between vaccinated and unvaccinated Americans. The survey of… Source link