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If a stranger goes out of their way to help you in times of distress, you tend to remember the deed even after years pass by. Parminder Singh, former MD at Google and Twitter, recollected how a stranger had saved his life when he was a kid. His tweet prompted netizens to recount their experiences with kind strangers. “When I was a kid, a stranger saved me from getting crushed by a reversing Ambassador car by lifting me up and putting me out of its way. All I know about him is he was… Source link

Instead of providing the most direct route, your maps app routes you by a company’s advertisers on the way to your destination. An apps store is littered with malware and scams. A trusted search engine refuses to return results for competitors’ products. If that kind of digital apocalypse seems like a paranoid fantasy, maybe you haven’t been paying attention to what’s been going on at Twitter, where the implosion of the blue-check system as we know it has made it nearly impossible to… Source link

Airbnb (ABNB) is betting that a continued economic downturn will provide a tailwind for the travel company to expand its pool of hosts, looking to earn some extra income. In fact, CEO Brian Chesky said he’s already seeing a shift in behavior on the platform, reminiscent of the Great Recession when the company was first founded. “I think this is going to be in some ways similar to 2008,” said Chesky, speaking to Yahoo Finance Live (video above). “A lot of people that weren’t considering… Source link

Mark Zuckerberg is making the same mistakes that plagued former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer.  Mayer made ambitious bets that never paid off for Yahoo, which was ultimately sold to Verizon. Zuckerberg, too, is making a big bet on the metaverse, one better suited for the venture capital world. … Source link

A former Google engineer fired by the company after going public with concerns that its artificial intelligence chatbot is sentient isn’t concerned about convincing the public. He does, however, want others to know that the chatbot holds discriminatory views against those of some races and religions, he recently told Business Insider. “The kinds of problems these AI pose, the people building them are blind to them,” Blake Lemoine said in an interview published Sunday, blaming… Source link

(Bloomberg) — The Federal Reserve delivered the biggest interest-rate increase since 2000 and signaled it would keep hiking at that pace over the next couple of meetings, unleashing the most aggressive policy action in decades to combat soaring inflation. Most Read from Bloomberg The U.S. central bank’s policy-setting Federal Open Market Committee on Wednesday voted unanimously to increase the benchmark rate by a half percentage point. It will begin allowing its holdings of Treasuries and… Source link

Google Play is today officially launching its own version of privacy-related “nutrition labels” for apps. The company says it will begin to roll out the new Google Play Data safety section to users on a gradual basis, ahead of the July 20th deadline that requires developers to properly disclose the data their app collects, if and how it’s shared with third parties, the app’s security practices, and more. The company’s plan to introduce app privacy labels on Google Play was… Source link

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk.Patrick Pleul/picture alliance via Getty Images SpaceX offered $150,000 for a home next to its launch facilities in Boca Chica, Texas, per NBC News. The offer was one-third of the price of similar waterfront houses in the village, the owner said. She told NBC that an agent representing SpaceX said her property could be seized by the state. A resident of a South Texas village told NBC News that SpaceX wanted to buy her house for $150,000 but that the company’s offer was… Source link

Warren Buffett just poured another $7.6 billion into his all-time favorite business — here are 3 other companies doing something very similar When Warren Buffett’s holding company Berkshire Hathaway spends billions of dollars on an investment, it usually makes headlines. But there wasn’t too much hype surrounding Berkshire’s $7.6 billion purchase in Q3 — and for a good reason: The company was buying back its own shares. Buybacks are a common way for companies to return capital to… Source link

Sundar Pichai, Google testifies at congressional hearing, March 25, 2021. CNBC Google said on Thursday that it’s lowering service fees in its app store after a similar move by Apple, as both companies face pressure from lawmakers and regulators to make their mobile stores more accessible to developers. The service fee for subscriptions in the Google Play store will drop from 30% to 15% from day one, Google said in a press release. Under the current model, developers must pay a 30% cut on… Source link