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This article first appeared in the Morning Brief. Get the Morning Brief sent directly to your inbox every Monday to Friday by 6:30 a.m. ET. Subscribe Thursday, December 30, 2021 What COVID-19 ‘on our terms’ means for the market, and everyone else Another day, another shattered record of COVID-19 infections in the United States — and yet another set of new milestones in the Dow (^DJI) and S&P 500 (^GSPC), as Santa Claus continues to bestow gifts on Wall Street. One of the aforementioned records… Source link

It’s not just the expanded Child Tax Credit. The end of the extra $1,600 for parents (or $1,000 depending on the child’s age) is just one of a series of COVID relief provisions set to expire this week. The expanded Child Tax Credit was implemented for one year as part of President Joe Biden’s American Rescue Plan, though many Democrats want to make it permanent. They plan to revisit the issue in the new year as part of the Build Back Better act, stalled after key moderate Sen. Joe Manchin… Source link

After four full days of deliberations in the fraud case against Elizabeth Holmes, no verdict was reached by the time jurors were excused on Thursday afternoon. Deliberations in the case, which includes more than 900 exhibits and testimony from 32 witnesses, including Holmes herself, resumed Monday following a three-day weekend due to a court holiday Friday. Deliberations are scheduled to resume at the federal courthouse in San Jose on Tuesday, starting at 8:30 a.m. Pacific Time. Holmes, 37,… Source link

President Biden said today that Americans will soon be able to order free COVID tests from a government-run website, which is not yet available. “We’ll have websites where you can get them delivered to your home,” he said of the 500 million at-home tests the government is purchasing to combat the Omicron surge. Details on this website are murky, however. White House press secretary Jen Psaki said today that “We will have more information as it is available including what the… Source link

Google Voice now lets you create rules that dictate how the service responds to incoming calls from specific contacts. And yes, this includes having Google Voice automatically ignore certain contacts for you. Even though Google Voice already has a call forwarding feature, the new rules let you customize it even further — you can set up a rule that forwards calls from a contact (or a group of contacts) to any of your linked numbers. … Source link

Google has delayed its return-to-office yet again, this time pushing its Jan. 10 full reopening further into 2022, according to a memo sent by the company’s vice president of security Chris Rackow, CNBC reports. Unlike previous announcements, the company did not set a new return date and says it will wait until the new year to assess when U.S. offices can fully reopen (nearly 40% of U.S. Googlers reported on-site in recent weeks) and provide a “stable, long-term working environment.” Google is… Source link

Notre Dame is looking to stay in-house for Brian Kelly’s replacement. According to Yahoo Sports’ Pete Thamel, Notre Dame defensive coordinator Marcus Freeman is expected to become the team’s next head coach after going through the Irish’s formal hiring process.  Freeman came to Notre Dame from Cincinnati after the 2020 season and replaces Kelly after a year in South Bend. Kelly was officially introduced as LSU’s new head coach Wednesday afternoon.  According to Sports Illustrated, Freeman… Source link

The 7-inch Google Nest Hub is a great device to either begin or expand a Google Home smart home setup, especially while you can still get it at a discount. … Source link

Google created a task force to deter Android users from downloading the popular game Fortnite outside of its Play Store, Epic Games alleged in an unredacted court filing made public on Monday. The move helped Google lock in fees from the game but contradicted the idea of Android being an “open” platform, according to the legal filing from Epic, which makes Fortnite. Epic has sued Google and Apple and accused them of operating monopolies by levying 30 per cent fees on in-app… Source link

Google Photos looking for a way to hide their pictures from others on your phone can use the app’s native Locked Folder feature. It lets you hide your pictures and videos in a passcode-protected space. This will allow you to keep your media content hidden when someone looks at the photos and videos saved on Google Photos or any other app on your phone. You can also move your existing pictures to the locked folder in Google Photos to protect them with your device’s screen lock. Introduced in… Source link