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Bloomberg A Crypto Kid Had a $23,000-a-Month Condo. Then the Feds Came (Bloomberg) — Stefan Qin was just 19 when he claimed to have the secret to cryptocurrency trading.Buoyed with youthful confidence, Qin, a self-proclaimed math prodigy from Australia, dropped out of college in 2016 to start a hedge fund in New York he called Virgil Capital. He told potential clients he had developed an algorithm called Tenjin to monitor cryptocurrency exchanges around the world to seize on price… Source link

(Image: Google) Remote working during the COVID-19 pandemic means we’re all taking more virtual meetings. Like Zoom, Google Meet is a popular platform for virtual huddles. Chromebooks are a popular way to tap into Google’s chat service, but it isn’t uncommon to see performance suffer when using Google Meet with several tabs open. So the latest Chrome OS update changes how Meet streams video to improve performance, TechRadar reports. Chrome OS will now automatically adjust Meet’s resolution… Source link

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(Photo by Thomas Trutschel/Photothek via Getty Images) Google released the latest version of the its Chrome web browser yesterday (88.0.4324.150), and Chrome 88 is a very important update all users should grab immediately. As ZDNet reports, Chrome 88 fixes a zero-day vulnerability known as CVE-2021-21148. It was reported by security researcher Mattias Buelens on Jan. 24, but Google discovered it was being exploited by hackers before the vulnerability could be patched out of the browser. The… Source link

Impact of the December 2020 Core Update Check out this comparison between May 2020 Google Core Update and December 2020 Core Update by Dallas, Jan. 29, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Until now, the SEO community is still speculating about the broad core algorithm update rolled out by Google on the 3rd of December last year. The… Source link

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Bloomberg Reddit Crowd Bludgeons Melvin Capital in Warning to Industry (Bloomberg) — The first sign of trouble for hedge fund wunderkind Gabe Plotkin came in late October: A poster on Reddit’s popular wallstreetbets forum was taking aim at his wildly successful investment firm.“GME Squeeze and the demise of Melvin Capital,” wrote the user, Stonksflyingup, referring to stock ticker of GameStop Corp. and Plotkin’s $12.5 billion firm. Before long, veryforestgreen weighed in: “Melvin… Source link

(Bloomberg) — Governor Andrew Cuomo said more vaccines are on the way for New York, though he said the bigger challenge is getting skeptical Black and Latino residents to take the shot. Fatalities in the U.S. dropped below 4,000 for the first time in three days. A doctors’ group in the U.K. has urged the government to review the 12 weeks allowed for people to receive a second dose of the vaccine produced by Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE. The manufacturer suggests 21 days. Meanwhile,… Source link

Google might soon make its Calendar available to users even when they are offline. However, this new feature of the popular app will only be enabled for a select few users. The new feature will be made available to web-based Google Calendar users. While the app can be used offline, the app might still need some kind of internet connectivity. The Google Calendar doesn’t have to be synced to an app locally on the computer or laptop if the user wants to access it… Source link

Google constantly keeps updating its search engine Chrome to make it further secure. With Chrome’s latest version 88, Google is stepping up the security game with additional features to its password protection that will let users know if they are not applying best security practices. According to a blog post by Google, the Google Chrome password manager can already save a user’s credentials for multiple platforms and prompts if a password is weak. The new update will… Source link