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A mobile phone shows Huawei app interface. Huawei unveiled HarmonyOS, its own operating system in 2019. In June 2021, the company launched the operating system on a smartphone for the first time. Costfoto | Barcroft Media | Getty Images GUANGZHOU, China — Huawei on Wednesday launched its self-developed operating system across a slew of devices, including smartphones. The move comes as the Chinese tech giant looks to wean itself off its reliance on U.S. technology and could pit it against… Source link

The Conversation Ultra-Orthodox Jewish women are bucking the patriarchal, authoritarian stereotype of their community Ultra-Orthodox women have become the primary breadwinners in their families. Menahem Kahana/AFP via Getty ImagesUltra-Orthodox Jews have been in the news a lot lately, partly due to their reactions to the COVID-19 pandemic. With a few exceptions, the stories present ultra-Orthodox Jews as a patriarchal community that is authoritarian and resistant to public health measures,… Source link

There’s a good chance you’ve been pushing your home WiFi harder than ever over the past year. If you found that you could use an upgrade, you can grab a three-pack of the Google WiFi mesh system for $160 at Adorama when you use the code EXTRAOFF40 at checkout. That’s one of the best prices we’ve seen on this system that Google just updated last fall.  Buy Google WiFi (3-pack) at Adorama – $160 The latest Google WiFi system can cover up to 1,500 square feet with every point and now its more… Source link

The New York Times ‘No Victory Dance’: Veterans of Afghan War Feel Torn Over Pullout Was it worth it? After two decades of midnight watches and gut-twisting patrols down bomb-riddled roads, after all the deaths and bloodshed and lost years, that was the one inescapable question on Wednesday among many of the 800,000 Americans who have served in Afghanistan since 2001. “There’s no easy answer, no victory dance, no ‘we were right and they were wrong,’” said Jason Dempsey, 49, who… Source link

Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) grilled two student loan servicers and hosted experts at a student loan hearing on Tuesday before sitting down with Yahoo Finance to describe her argument for President Biden to unilaterally cancel $50,000 in federally-backed student loans for tens of millions of Americans. “Overall, in this hearing, it was perfectly clear [that] we have a broken student loan system,” Warren, chairwoman of the Subcommittee on Economic Policy at the Senate Committee on Banking,… Source link

Google for years operated a secret program that used data from past bids in the company’s digital advertising exchange to allegedly give its own ad-buying system an advantage over competitors, according to court documents filed in a Texas antitrust lawsuit. The program, known as “Project Bernanke,” wasn’t disclosed to publishers who sold ads through Google’s ad-buying systems. It generated hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue for the company… Source link

Bloomberg Pivotal Week Confronts Emerging Markets at Mercy of U.S. Yields (Bloomberg) — That the immediate fate of emerging markets is likely to be determined by the path of the dollar and Treasury yields is barely in dispute.But what is less clear is which direction the U.S. currency and bond market will take, as investors weigh the competing forces of Covid-19 infections and the prospects of a global economic rebound. Another uncertainty is which developing economies are best-placed to ride… Source link

Major League Baseball (MLB) announced it will host its 2021 All-Star game in Denver this summer, just days after pulling the game out of Atlanta to protest Georgia’s new voting rights bill. “Major League Baseball is grateful to the Rockies, the City of Denver and the State of Colorado for their support of this summer’s All-Star Game,” MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred said in a statement. “We appreciate their flexibility and enthusiasm to deliver a first-class event for our game and the… Source link

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This is how Google’s foray into gaming ends — not with a bang, but with a whimper. Google Stadia — a horrible name, admittedly — was supposed to revolutionize gaming and carve out an entirely new ecosystem within the video game industry. Less focused on expensive hardware under the television and more on fast Internet connections, Stadia was destined to… Source link