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Russia’s Yandex Maps to Stop Displaying National Borders 

Russia’s Yandex Maps to Stop Displaying National Borders 

Russia’s flagship IT company Yandex will stop showing national borders on its online maps. Speaking on Thursday, the company said that their updated digital maps would “focus on natural features rather than on state boundaries.”  “Our task is to display the world around us. So the map will show mountains, rivers, and other data usually found on such maps,” Yandex’s press service told Russian tech news site Durov’s Code, adding that further changes would appear… Source link

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Billionaire investor Bill Ackman says markets are imploding because investors don’t have confidence in the Fed’s ability to stop inflation

Billionaire investor Bill Ackman says markets are imploding because investors don’t have confidence in the Fed’s ability to stop inflation

Bill Ackman is a billionaire investor and hedge fund manager.Elsa/Getty Images Markets aren’t confident that the Federal Reserve can tame record inflation, Bill Ackman tweeted Tuesday. He predicts that inflation can only come down if the Fed aggressively raises rates, or if stocks crash. “It ends when the Fed puts a line in the sand on inflation and says it will do ‘whatever it takes,'” Ackman said. Bill Ackman, the CEO and founder of Pershing Square Capital Management, said markets are facing a… Source link

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Demand destruction is the only way to stop increases, says trader

Demand destruction is the only way to stop increases, says trader

Gasoline prices will stop rising once consumer demand destruction kicks in, according to one energy trader. “It’s become really evident that the only thing that is going to alleviate these price rises is demand destruction,” CIBC Private Wealth U.S senior energy trader Rebecca Babin told Yahoo Finance Live. Gasoline keeps hitting record highs as the national average now sits at $4.59 per gallon. Some states are seeing even higher numbers at the pump — $5 or even $6 per… Source link

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How can I stop the pain and make money in this nightmarish market? BofA says this is the ‘best hope’ for bulls in 2022

How can I stop the pain and make money in this nightmarish market? BofA says this is the ‘best hope’ for bulls in 2022

The market is in full panic mode. The S&P 500 is down 18% year to date. The Nasdaq is down a staggering 27%. And even the Dow Jones — made up of the 30 most prominent publicly-traded companies — is in correction territory. According to Bank of America, there’s one thing that might save the stock market in 2022: money that corporations can return to shareholders. “The best hope for 2022 bulls lies in the ability of investors to dislodge the $7.1 trillion in idle U.S. corporate cash,”… Source link

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Delaware State bus stop spotlights racial profiling issue

Delaware State bus stop spotlights racial profiling issue

Even for someone who has designs on a career in filmmaking, Gwenna Gentle couldn’t believe it. After sitting on the side of the highway for several minutes during what she thought was a routine traffic stop, Gentle said a sheriff’s deputy in Liberty County, Georgia, got on the charter bus she and her Delaware State lacrosse teammates were riding in and started rambling about human trafficking and drugs. “When he said, ‘What we’re looking for is lost children that are returned to families and… Source link

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Epic is asking a court to stop Google from yanking Bandcamp off the Play Store

Epic is asking a court to stop Google from yanking Bandcamp off the Play Store

Epic Games has filed a motion for a preliminary injunction to stop Google from removing independent music storefront Bandcamp from the Android app store — which Google has apparently threatened to do because Bandcamp is using its own billing system instead of paying Google an app store fee. Bandcamp, which Epic acquired in March, has used its own billing system on Android since 2015, and was able to do so because of rules exempting digital music from having to use Google’s billing… Source link

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Stop and appreciate baseball’s changes in 2022

Stop and appreciate baseball’s changes in 2022

One way of discussing MLB’s 21st-century aesthetic evolution goes like this: Say a baseball-loving Rip Van Winkle who fell asleep in the 1990s emerged from their slumber and started watching games again. How long would it take them to identify what’s changed? What would they spot first? Would it be the strikeouts? The homers? The lack of stolen bases and complete games? Would they instantly lament the waning number of balls in play? Or would they exult in the superior athleticism and the… Source link

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Spam texts plaguing your phone? Here’s how to stop them

My phone has been blowing up lately. Yes, I have dozens of fans — I call them Howley’s Wolf Pack — but that’s not who texts me at all hours of the day and night. No, I’ve been getting texts from numbers telling me a delivery I never ordered has been lost. Or for products that will, confusingly, “enhance our sluggishness.” Yep, I’m talking about spam texts. And lately my phone has been inundated by them. And chances are yours has too. It’s not just an annoyance either. Spam… Source link

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Moscow wants Google to stop spreading ‘threats’ against Russians | Russia-Ukraine war News

Russia state regulator says YouTube activities are ‘terrorist in nature’ and threaten life and health of Russian citizens. Russia has demanded that Alphabet Inc’s Google stop spreading what Moscow labelled as threats against Russian citizens on YouTube amid the war in Ukraine. Roskomnadzor, the regulator in Russia, said adverts on YouTube were calling for Russia’s communications systems and Belarus’s railway networks to be suspended and that their dissemination was evidence of the… Source link

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Russia tells Google to stop spreading threats against Russians on YouTube

Youtube logo is placed on a Russian flag in this illustration picture taken February 26, 2022. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register Russia demands YouTube stop spreading threats to Russians Google offers no immediate comment Facebook, Instagram blocked in Russia; Google under pressure Russia says it has tools to develop its own social media March 18 (Reuters) – Russia on Friday demanded that Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google stop spreading what… Source link

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