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Grubhub had been using the robots to deliver food on campus at Ohio State since August. The company launched robot delivery at the University of Arizona last November. The company says it was doing 1,000 deliveries a day between the two campuses. Yandex is Russia’s largest internet search and ride-hailing company. Toby Snuggs, head of sales for the Yandex Self-Driving Group, confirmed the split with Grubhub and said the robots will be sent to other locations outside the… Source link

Google, Meta, FIFA, and other private companies rush to cut ties with Russia | Fortune … Source link

Anthony Di Iorio will be severing his major ties to the cryptocurrency industry and selling his current venture Decentral to start a philanthropic foundation in the next year, the Ethereum co-founder told CoinDesk in a phone interview. “I’m a crypto guy and I don’t want to be known as a crypto person,” he said. “I want to be known as a problem solver.” Concerns about his personal security figured “a good 20%” into his decision, he said. Related: Vitalik Buterin Is Involved in a… Source link

Any time you tie a pitching record from Tom Seaver, it was probably a good day. Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Aaron Nola entered the history books on Friday by striking out 10 consecutive batters, tying but not breaking the New York Mets legend’s 51-year-old record. It was the first game of a planned doubleheader. Facing Seaver’s own Mets team, Nola opened the game by hitting Jeff McNeil with a pitch and allowing a double to Francisco Lindor, but then a run of sheer dominance began. Nola… Source link

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Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google on Tuesday launched its Showcase news platform in India with 30 domestic news publishers, at a time when the country is trying to weed out misinformation surrounding a ferocious second COVID-19 wave. Indians have become increasingly reliant on social media platforms like Twitter (TWTR.N), Facebook (FB.O) and Instagram for information related to the crisis amid a shortage of critical medical supplies. Google will pay the partnering publishers for their online… Source link

Bloomberg China Puts Australia on Notice With Push to Diversify Iron Ore (Bloomberg) — Beijing threw the spotlight on trade tensions with its top commodities supplier, Australia, after the government’s economic planning agency said it’s looking to diversify China’s supply of iron ore.Chinese firms should boost domestic exploration for the steel-making input, widen their sources of imports, and explore overseas ore resources, the National Development and Reform Commission said at its… Source link

Bloomberg Central Banks Keep Lid on Rate Bets as Commodity Prices Soar (Bloomberg) — The surge in commodities prices is failing to trigger some of the traditional responses in bonds and currencies.Unlike recent commodities rallies in 2008 and 2011, yields on Treasuries and currencies of major exporters like Australia have barely budged. Likewise, the Federal Reserve’s favored measure of inflation expectations has disconnected from moves in raw materials.The biggest buffer: Central bank… Source link

Photographer: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg Photographer: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg Google and Apple Inc.’s “symbiotic relationship” should get scrutiny from the U.K.’s antitrust regulator, a group of online advertisers said. Marketers for an Open Web said it has asked the Competition and Markets Authority to look at concerns that the… Source link

The main MLB portal at Yahoo Sports is mainly compromised of a feed consisting of stories from national outlets, newspapers, and NBC-affiliated local sites. Incredibly, it’s about to get even less interesting. On Tuesday, Yahoo MLB writers Tim Brown and Mike Oz announced they’d no longer be with the company. So, just got off the phone with the boss. The good news is, my golf game is about to get much better. The better news is, I get to see what else is out there for me. Strange… Source link