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A year ago, Tony Rizzo worked for Uber Freight, enjoying a Silicon Valley salary alongside perks such as free meals, phenomenal health care and, of course, Uber credits. Then last October, the suburban LaGrange resident took a business development job at Isometric Technologies, an early stage transportation-tech startup based in Northern… Source link

Texas Tech beat No. 22 Texas 37-34 in overtime after star Texas running back Bijan Robinson fumbled on the first play of overtime. Texas (2-2) forced overtime as time expired in regulation on a field goal by Bert Auburn. But any hope the Longhorns had of coming back to win the game was dashed when Robinson was hit at the line of scrimmage after a handoff and the ball popped free. The Red Raiders (3-1) got inside the Texas 10 on the first play of their possession and Trey Wolff kicked the… Source link

It’s Week 4 in college football, which means conference play begins for most teams throughout the country. There are three ranked vs. ranked matchups on tap as well as five different ranked teams going on the road to face unranked conference opponents. Here are the key games we’re keeping an eye on Saturday. (Note: All times ET, odds from BetMGM) No. 20 Florida at No. 11 Tennessee Time: 3:30 p.m. | TV: CBS | Line: UT -10.5 | Total: 62.5 Florida started off the Billy Napier on a high note by… Source link

AppleInsider is supported by its audience and may earn commission as an Amazon Associate and affiliate partner on qualifying purchases. These affiliate partnerships do not influence our editorial content. Google has announced the date for its Pixel-centric “Made by Google” event, joining Microsoft and presumably also Apple with fall product releases. The live event will be held on October 6 at 10:00 AM ET, and Google is expected to announce its… Source link

LONDON: Microsoft President and Vice Chairman Brad Smith has hinted that the tech giant is adopting a different approach to tackling disinformation and fake news. While other companies focus their efforts on removing fake content, and telling users what is true and what is not, Microsoft wants to avoid any suggestion that it is trying to censor speech online. “I don’t think that people want governments to tell them what’s true or false. And I don’t think they’re really… Source link

Five years ago, following the death of a friend and bandmate, David Barberá decided to pay for a Google Drive cloud account. He wanted to store music files so that his friend’s children would one day hear how their father played. “So I signed up for the Google Drive service,” he says. “It was the safest thing that occurred to me so that Javi’s music would not be lost, as the children were very young then.” Barberá, a 46-year-old high school teacher from Valencia, in eastern… Source link

The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has signed a cooperative research and development agreement with Google to develop and produce chips that researchers can use to develop new nanotechnology and semiconductor devices. The chips will be manufactured by SkyWater Technology at its Bloomington, Minnesota, semiconductor foundry. Google will pay the initial cost of setting up production and will subsidize the first production run. NIST,… Source link

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 Friday, September 16, 2022 Today’s newsletter is by Julie Hyman, anchor and correspondent at Yahoo Finance. Follow Julie on Twitter @juleshyman. Another day, another tumble in tech stocks. The disproportionate shellacking the sector has suffered recently has raised questions about why, exactly, technology is seemingly so vulnerable to rising… Source link

A 3D medical illustration of femur bones in the leg.Getty/yodiyim Workers from Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta are paying $75,000 to be taller, a surgeon told GQ. The Las Vegas surgeon can lengthen patients’ legs via a painful months-long process. He breaks the thigh bones and inserts nails that are extended every day for three months. A Las Vegas cosmetic surgeon specializes in leg-lengthening procedures that can grow people’s height by 3 to 6 inches, as a new GQ profile said. Many of his… Source link

Hundreds of Google and Amazon employees protested Thursday outside of company offices in San Francisco, New York, Seattle and Durham, N.C., demanding that the tech giants end their $1.2 billion Project Nimbus contract to supply Israel and its military with artificial intelligence and cloud computing technology. Some Google and Amazon workers believe that the contract will aid Israel’s surveillance efforts of Palestinians, Josh Marxen, a Google Cloud engineer based in Sunnyvale, told The… Source link