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Former Sen. Rob Portman and former President Donald Trump. (Photo illustration: Yahoo News; photos: Patrick Semansky/AP, Alon Skuy/AFP via Getty Images) When Rob Portman announced he was retiring from the Senate two years ago, it was taken as another sign that Congress was going to the dogs. Portman, an Ohio Republican, knew how Washington worked — or should be working — to address national challenges, and was increasingly exasperated that it wasn’t doing so. Two years later, there is a… Source link

Google is giving Stadia users some consolation prizes before the game streaming service shuts down on January 18th. To start, it’s planning to release a tool that will enable Bluetooth support on the Stadia controller. You’ll have to wait until next week to download it, but this should make the device useful for just about any title that has gamepad support, so long as the platform recognizes the hardware in the first place. The company has also released a Snake clone, Worm Game, as a final… Source link

UFC president Dana White said Wednesday at media day for UFC Vegas 67 that he would not step down from his position or be punished after being caught on video slapping his wife, Anne, at a nightclub during a New Year’s Eve celebration in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. He asked people not to defend him and said his punishment is the stain on his reputation that will follow him for the rest of his life. “I’m sure you guys have seen the TMZ video [of the slap] and have seen my interview,” White said in… Source link

This article was first featured in Yahoo Finance Tech, a weekly newsletter highlighting our original content on the industry. Get it sent directly to your inbox every Wednesday by 4 p.m. ET. Subscribe Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2023 Apple’s mixed-reality headset won’t replace your iPhone Apple (AAPL) is expected to unveil its first mix-reality headset. According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, the Cupertino-based company will unveil the highly anticipated hardware, dubbed the Reality Pro, ahead of its… Source link

The Pixel Fold will reportedly enters mass production in Q3 At this point, it is no secret that Google is working on a foldable device. Thanks to leaks, we already know what the Pixel Fold would look like and its alleged final specs. While its launch timeframe is unclear, a recent massive Pixel roadmap leak revealed Google’s first foldable phone could debut in 2023. A new report based on industry sources claims that Google plans to mass-produce the Pixel Fold’s… Source link

Millions of dollars in political contributions have come under scrutiny after disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) was charged with eight counts of wire fraud, securities fraud, and conspiracy — including conspiracy to violate campaign finance laws. And according to one congressman, there isn’t much that can be been done to prevent a Sam Bankman-Fried-like character from lining the pockets of members of Congress and special interest groups. “Sadly, the answer to that question is we… Source link

Hedge fund manager Bill Ackman believes the Federal Reserve’s 2% inflation target is unattainable without severe pain for the U.S. economy. The Pershing Square Capital founder and CEO said in a tweet Wednesday it would take a “deep, job-destroying recession” for inflation to return to that level, which marks the U.S. central bank’s long-term price stability goal. “Even if it gets back to 2%, it won’t remain stable there for the long term,” Ackman said in a tweet Wednesday after… Source link

The launch of ChatGPT has prompted some to speculate that AI chatbots could soon take over from traditional search engines. But executives at Google say the technology is still too immature to put in front of users, with problems including chatbots’ bias, toxicity, and their propensity for simply making information up. According to a report from CNBC, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai and Google’s head of AI Jeff Dean addressed the rise of ChatGPT in a recent all-hands meeting. One employee… Source link

Google offices may have slides, climbing walls, nap pods, and basketball courts, but they aren’t adult playgrounds, at least not wholly. “I think that the assumptions are very surface level,” Joshua Bridie, Google’s director of global interior design, tells AD. Movies like The Internship and video tours of the tech giant’s workspaces have long offered glimpses into the home bases of Googlers across the globe, prompting common adjectives to surface when discussing the infamous… Source link

Tiger Woods’ playing days are almost done. But his influence on the game will clearly continue long after he’s holed his last putt. Woods spoke Tuesday morning in advance of the Hero World Challenge, his own tiny-field tournament in the Bahamas, and as has become the norm at this event, he was unusually open and forthright, both about his own game and the state of the sport in general. Woods has never fully recovered from the injuries suffered in a catastrophic one-car accident in February… Source link