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Today we’re launching Am I FLoCed, a new site that will tell you whether your Chrome browser has been turned into a guinea pig for Federated Learning of Cohorts or FLoC, Google’s latest targeted advertising experiment. If you are a subject, we will tell you how your browser is describing you to every website you visit. Am I FLoCed is one of an effort to bring to light the invasive practices of the adtech industry—Google included—with the hope we can create a better internet for all,… Source link

It’s Pi Day, the nerdiest of holidays because it’s all about a mathematical constant that represents the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter (yes, sometimes writing majors do pay attention in geometry class). March 14th has become known as Pi Day because it’s written numerically as 3.14 and pi starts at 3.14 … and goes on indefinitely. Irrational number, indeed. In case you’ve forgotten the digits of pi, Google is celebrating (marking? observing? idk, choose the… Source link

A Trump may be on the ballot next year — but not Donald Trump. The former president’s daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, is eyeing the North Carolina Senate seat being vacated by Republican Richard Burr. While many in the state are skeptical she will move forward, an entrance into the race would set up a crucial test of whether Donald Trump’s popularity among Republicans, which remains massive more than a month after leaving office, can translate to others. The answer to that question has… Source link

Bloomberg Senate Nears Saturday Passage After All-Nighter: Stimulus Update (Bloomberg) — The Senate is on track to pass President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion stimulus bill as early as midday Saturday after a compromise reduced added unemployment benefits to $300 a week, one of several ways moderate Democrats shaped the bill to be less generous than the House version.Democrats also fought off a raft of Republican amendments to cut state and local funding, redirect Amtrak funding, end aid to… Source link

Bloomberg Oil Sands Give OPEC a Boost With Half-Million-Barrel Output Cut (Bloomberg) — Major oil sands producers in Western Canada will idle almost half a million barrels a day of production next month, helping tighten global supplies as oil prices surge.Canadian Natural Resources Ltd.’s plans to conduct 30 days of maintenance at its Horizon oil sands upgrader in April will curtail roughly 250,000 barrels a day of light synthetic crude output, company President Tim McKay said in an… Source link

The Telegraph The comeback starts here: Ineos Team UK victory keeps Prada Cup alive It is not over yet. Ineos Team UK still have a mountain to climb if they are to pull back this Prada Cup final and advance to next month’s America’s Cup match against New Zealand. But they are off the mark. Victory in the second of Saturday’s two races means Sir Ben Ainslie’s team have stopped the rot and notched their first win of the series, making it 5-1 to Luna Rossa in the first-to-seven showdown…. Source link

Draganfly CEO Cameron Chell discusses drones delivering packages to homes in the future and the FAA allowing companies to fully operate. Google says it has “no immediate plans” to re-engage on a project that would test drones for fire-fighting and monitoring operations. FAA BRINGS COMMERCIAL DRONE DELIVERIES ONE STEP CLOSER WITH NEW RULES A Wednesday filing from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration showed the tech giant’s Research Climate and Energy Group requested permission… Source link

Positioned now on both sides of an advertising transaction, we were ready to observe the life cycle of an ad click from end to end. We invited individual volunteers to download AdNauseam and visit our site. Soon we had recorded a few dozen successful AdNauseam clicks—billed to our team’s advertiser account and credited to the publisher account. AdNauseam was working. But this only proved that Google did not discard the very first click on an ad generated by a brand new AdNauseam user… Source link

In November 2019, just a few days after Disney+ launched, Netflix (NFLX) content chief (now co-CEO) Ted Sarandos, speaking at a Paley Center for Media event, said that Disney (DIS) is “bound by” its content universes, a reference mostly to Marvel and Star Wars. He continued: “I do think the risk of being bound in a few universes is that there sometimes may be a melting ice cube of interest over time.” That has been the most common knock on Disney for a few years now: that if Disney… Source link

Syracuse has now paused activities for the third time in just six weeks due to the coronavirus. (Fred Kfoury III/Icon Sportswire/Getty Images) For the third time in six weeks, the Syracuse men’s basketball team is on pause. Syracuse announced on Monday that it halted all basketball activities due to an unnamed Buffalo player testing positive for COVID-19. The Orange beat the Bulls, 107-96, at the Carrier Dome on Saturday. Buffalo has halted activities, too, and coach Jim Whitesell is… Source link