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[unable to retrieve full-text content]How to watch the 2024 U.S. Olympic Swim Trials today  Yahoo Sports Source link

By Rachael Levy (Reuters) – Elon Musk said on Wednesday he expects a wireless brain chip developed by his company Neuralink to begin human clinical trials in six months, after the company missed earlier timelines set by him. The company is developing brain chip interfaces that it says could enable disabled patients to move and communicate again, with Musk adding on Wednesday that it will also target restoring vision. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area and Austin, Texas, Neuralink has in recent… Source link

Google began testing FLEDGE in AdSense in August but after just four months of trials, it seems to have gone stale, with only only RTB House, Criteo and Google itself using it in any meaningful way. Ad tech companies aren’t using it because it’s unknown. It’s an expensive test that could prove catastrophic if it fails. As Digiday reports, “No one can afford to be first, especially when there are so many unresolved issues.”  What is… Source link

Google has quietly launched a pilot for apps to offer new payment options on Android devices in Australia, Europe, India, Indonesia and Japan, following pressure from regulators across the globe to open up alternative payment systems. On Friday, Google opened enrolment to developers of non-gaming apps to allow them to trial user-choice payment options for users in the five locations, with caveats, including that Google will reduce its service fee by 4% for transactions. That brings down the… Source link

Sascha Roth, a runner who helps manage a family furniture store, in Bethesda, Md., on June 3, 2022, learned she had rectal cancer in 2019. A small study on rectal cancer results in remission in every patient. (Shuran Huang/The New York Times) It was a small trial, just 18 rectal cancer patients, every one of whom took the same drug. But the results were astonishing. The cancer vanished in every single patient, undetectable by physical exam; endoscopy; positron emission tomography, or PET… Source link

Google’s Privacy Sandbox aims to create a framework for advertising across the open web that respects the users’ privacy while enabling marketers to continue to provide ad-funded access to digital properties. Criteo participated in Google’s first Origin Trial of its Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC), part of Chrome’s Privacy Sandbox … Source link

EUGENE, OREGON – JUNE 27: Lindsay Flach walks from the track after the Women’s Heptathlon 800 Meters during day ten of the 2020 U.S. Olympic Track & Field Team Trials at Hayward Field on June 27, 2021 in Eugene, Oregon. (Photo by Cliff Hawkins/Getty Images) The most remarkable performance from the final weekend of the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials didn’t demolish a world record or send a teenager to Tokyo. In fact, it came from a competitor who quickly fell hopelessly behind in her… Source link

Olympian Gwen Berry protested during the national anthem during the Olympic trials on Saturday when she turned away from the flag on the medal podium and held a t-shirt over her face. On Monday, the White House took notice. Press secretary Jen Psaki was asked about Berry’s protest on Monday by a reporter, and while she said she hasn’t spoken with President Joe Biden about it specifically, Psaki defended the hammer thrower’s actions. “I know [Biden is] incredibly proud to be an American… Source link

For a few hours Thursday, banned runner Shelby Houlihan still had a shot at making the Olympic team. Despite her ban, Houlihan was initially set to run in both the 1,500 and 5,000 meters events at the Olympics trials Friday. That’s not going to happen anymore. U.S. Olympics stepped in and said it would uphold any ruling upheld by the Court of Arbitration for Sport, according to USA Today. In a statement provided to USA TODAY Sports, USOPC chief executive officer Sarah Hirshland said the USOPC,… Source link

Google has further clarified the timelines concerning testing the wares of its Privacy Sandbox, the online giant’s proposals for ad targeting within its dominant web browser Chrome after it withdraws support for third-party cookies. … Source link