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How Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos can help save our democracy

How Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos can help save our democracy

With all the attention on politics and COVID-19 right now, you may have missed this recent headline: “Elon Musk overtakes Jeff Bezos to become world’s richest person.” Or maybe you did see it and thought, who cares? Well you should. (Before you continue reading, a trigger warning: This column is about staggering wealth. The numbers you are about to read will shock you.) It’s not so much that Musk is now worth some $200 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, versus… Source link

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Google and Facebook antitrust cases are last chance to save the economy from monopolization

Google and Facebook antitrust cases are last chance to save the economy from monopolization

It’s the same question asked by tech executives of an earlier era whose companies had also been accused of illegal monopolization — Kodak, Xerox, IBM, AT&T, Intel and Microsoft. And the honest answer, one that regulators and politicians rarely say out loud, is that when companies are so successful that they achieve dominance in their markets, then some of what they used to do — and what their rivals can still do — becomes illegal. At its core, antitrust law says that to save… Source link

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NCAA basketball leaders need to rethink season to save tournament

NCAA basketball leaders need to rethink season to save tournament

College basketball is scheduled to start its season on Wednesday. If, that is, there are any remaining teams, healthy coaches or programs still up and running. That’s a slight exaggeration, of course. Duke, Arizona and Tennessee all lost games on Monday. The A-list of coaches sidelined with COVID-19 includes Syracuse’s Jim Boeheim, Baylor’s Scott Drew and Tennessee’s Rick Barnes. Michigan State’s Tom Izzo just returned. There will be more, especially with an indoor contact sport… Source link

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Sabbar: Save files from your Google account with Google Backup and Sync | Business

Sabbar: Save files from your Google account with Google Backup and Sync | Business

If you need to migrate the contents of your Google Drive to your computer, here is how to use Google Backup and Sync to do so. Using Google Backup and Sync is a great way to make sure files, documents, photos, and more from your computer get backed up to the cloud (internet.) And if you have material in Google Cloud – your own or shared with you – Backup and Sync can help you save that to your local computer. Here’s how. Install Google Backup and Sync as follows: Note that Backup and Sync… Source link

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The creator of Inbox is ready to save Google from itself

The creator of Inbox is ready to save Google from itself

If you’ve followed my ramblings for long, you know how I feel about Inbox — Google’s short-lived experiment with reinventing the way we experience email. Inbox, built atop Gmail’s foundation, was a wildly different approach to managing messages. At its launch in 2014, the service was described as being “years in the making” — a “completely different type of inbox, designed to focus on what really matters.” Google told us Inbox was “designed for the problems… Source link

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