Tag Archives: Reason

Extreme weather events, from droughts to floods, have inflated global food prices beyond the effects of the Russia-Ukraine war — and climate change will only continue to stress crop yields. “The climate is the No. 1 reason why food prices go up,” Sal Gilbertie, president and CEO of Teucrium Funds (CORN), told Yahoo Finance Live (video above). “It happens all the time. If you look at the last six or seven times that global grains have risen, all but one — and that would be the Ukraine war… Source link

Dwayne Johnson posted a ripped gym selfie on Instagram. (Photo: ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images) What motivates Dwayne Johnson to finish his workouts? The actor says it’s because his ancestors are always watching. On Saturday, The Rock posted an Instagram inside a gym, flexing hard for the camera. He captioned the photo “1 day. 2 workouts. HAWAII. I trained early this morning and had to cut the final 45 min of my workout to get back to the hotel for my meetings and work. It really gnawed… Source link

Google’s 3.2 billion Chrome users now have a reason to switch to Firefox, because the … [+] privacy-focused browser has just confirmed some big news. NurPhoto via Getty Images Google’s 3 billion Chrome users now have a reason to switch to Firefox, because the privacy-focused browser has just confirmed some big news. The announcement concerns ad blockers, and the Google Chrome changes dubbed Manifest V3, which may cause some ad blockers to break. It’s been… Source link

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Facebook Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg (L) and Google CEO, Sundar Pichai. REUTERS While Facebook is in the midst of its biggest stock drop ever and is trading at an 18-month low, Google remains near a record and has easily outperformed all of its Big Tech peers over the past year. The difference is Apple. Google and Facebook are the two dominant online ad companies in the U.S. and have been for years. While the companies do very different things and have faced their own unique issues, the… Source link

A while back, Google said that it was on board with the idea that cookies–the little pieces of software code that websites use to do all sorts of things like keeping you logged in, to letting an advertiser know when you’ve clicked on their ad and then made a purchase–were bad. At least, the third-party kind–the ones that track your activity across the internet. Those types of cookies would be blocked in Chrome by 2023.   Except, because Google–like every advertising platform–uses… Source link

Last week, the International Trade Commission (ITC) ruled that Google infringed on five patents held by Sonos, related to creating and controlling speaker groups. The ITC entered an order that would have restricted the importation and sale of a variety of the company’s Nest smart speakers.  Sonos, as one might expect, declared it a total victory because its patents were affirmed as valid, and the ITC agreed that Google had stolen its technology for use in its own products. The company was… Source link

For the past 15 years, since the day Steve Jobs stood on a stage and introduced the world to the iPhone, it has had one major advantage over the competition: Seamless integration with the overall Apple ecosystem. The iPhone, along with everything else Apple makes. just works together in a way that Android (or Windows, for that matter) devices never really do. For example, you can copy and paste from your iPhone to your Mac, or vice versa. Or, you can start reading an article on a website on… Source link

Blue states will get bluer, and red redder, in coming years, as more Americans factor political issues into their relocation decisions and head for places with like-minded tribes. That’s the forecast from real-estate brokerage Redfin, which included “more migration for political reasons” in its outlook for the housing market in 2022. The deepening political polarization of the country includes new city- and statewide laws likely to attract adherents and repel detractors, driving… Source link

Chrome’s 2.6 billion users have faced an increased number of security threats in recent months, but now arguably the biggest warning has been issued concerning Google itself. And it might just make you want to quit Chrome.  Through Chrome, it is claimed Google now has the power to determine how the web functions LIGHTROCKET VIA GETTY IMAGES MORE FROM FORBESGoogle Confirms Chrome’s 12th & 13th Zero-Day Hacks In 2021By Gordon Kelly In an explosive editorial, Source link