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JPMorgan Storms Into the Steel Space; Offers 2 Stocks to Buy

COVID is receding and the economy is rebounding. Talk about it, and most analysts will focus on consumer spending, government stimulus, and the rise and fall of jobs numbers. These are important metrics, and they merit their headlines, but they don’t necessarily give a full picture. While the US economy is consumer based – and consumer spending makes up almost three-fourths of the GDP – we cannot discount heavy industry. The steel sector may be old technology, but it’s still a… Source link

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Plans, how to check space and more

Google Photos will officially end its unlimited free storage policy for pictures at ‘high resolution’ and ‘express resolution’ starting tomorrow, June 1. The policy change was announced in November last year. If you’ve relied only on Google Photos to back up all your smartphone pictures, you will soon need to start worrying about the storage space on your account. The policy change also means Google wants more consumers to pay up for the cloud storage service. Here’s… Source link

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Virgin Galactic moves one step closer to commercial space flights

By Rich McKay (Reuters) – Flying at Mach 3 and reaching more than 55 miles above the Earth Saturday, British billionaire Sir Richard Branson’s private spaceship company Virgin Galactic Holdings Inc completed its first manned space flight from its new home port in New Mexico. This is a milestone in Branson’s near two-decades effort to create a commercial “spaceline” to take paying customers into outer space. Touted as the first human spaceflight from the state, Branson’s SpaceShipTwo craft… Source link

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How to convert your ‘original quality’ images in Google Photos to ‘high quality’ and save space

The countdown has started for Google Photos new storage policy. Come June 1, users will no longer get unlimited free storage in Google Photos. Google currently allows users to upload and backup images in two versions — ‘high quality’ and ‘original quality’. While the former are compressed images to save space, the latter are stored in the same resolution as users clicked them in. Presently, Google offers users unlimited storage for these ‘high-quality’ photos, while the… Source link

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Google announces Entertainment Space for Android tablets

Android tablets still exist, somehow. And people may still be buying them, for some reason. All of this in spite of Google’s best efforts to simply ignore the form factor completely for the past few years, and we don’t mean just by not releasing any more of its own tablets, but also in not adapting Android to the bigger screen sizes at all. Today the search giant has suddenly remembered that Android tablets exist, and has thus announced a new feature, just for Android tablets. Can you… Source link

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Google tries to make Android tablets fun with ‘Entertainment Space’

Android tablets may have been in decline, but it seems like the pandemic made us care about them again. According to Google, in the last year, “we’ve seen over 30 percent more people start using Android tablets compared to the prior year.” To make these devices potentially more useful, the company is announcing a new feature today called Entertainment Space that serves as a portal for all the media apps you’ve installed.  In a blog post, product manager for Google Play James Bender wrote… Source link

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Where is Microsoft headed in the ‘prosumer’ space?

Since then, Microsoft has rolled out a number of products and services aimed at prosumers. It announced its Microsoft 365 Family and Personal subscriptions and its consumer-centric Teams functionality. Microsoft also has been selectively adding features to the new Edge browser, its Bing search engine and Windows itself (with the coming News and Interests popup), to target these prosumers. While M365 Family and Personal seems to have gained a considerable amount of traction, Microsoft’s… Source link

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Where’s Microsoft going next in the ‘prosumer’ space?

Credit: Microsoft In 2018, Microsoft execs told its reseller partners that it had a plan to try to win back consumers, starting with “Modern Life” Services, the complement to its existing “Modern Work” business productivity services. Microsoft had set its sights on “professional consumers,” or prosumers: people who already know how to use… Source link

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Google doubles down on office space despite the rise in remote work

On Thursday, Google (GOOG) said it plans to invest more than $7 billion in offices and data centers in the United States and create at least 10,000 additional full-time jobs this year. “Coming together in person to collaborate and build community is core to Google’s culture, and it will be an important part of our future,” CEO Sundar Pichai said in a blog post. “So we continue to make significant investments in our offices around the country.” Google said it will invest more than $1 billion… Source link

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