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LONDON: Microsoft President and Vice Chairman Brad Smith has hinted that the tech giant is adopting a different approach to tackling disinformation and fake news. While other companies focus their efforts on removing fake content, and telling users what is true and what is not, Microsoft wants to avoid any suggestion that it is trying to censor speech online. “I don’t think that people want governments to tell them what’s true or false. And I don’t think they’re really… Source link

Housing affordability hasn’t been this bad since Ronald Reagan was president. It now takes 35.51% of the median household income to make a principal and interest payment on the median home with 20% down, according to figures mortgage technology and data provider Black Knight shared with Yahoo Money. That’s the highest payment-to-income ratio since October 1985 when it took 36.01% of household income to make that payment. Just in January, that ratio was 24.61%, below the long-term average… Source link

A 25-year-old New Jersey man was sentenced to three years in federal prison for posing as Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady in order to buy and then sell New England Patriots Super Bowl rings. Scott V. Spina Jr., of Roseland, New Jersey, pleaded guilty in February to one count of mail fraud, three counts of wire fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft. He first bought a Super Bowl LI ring in 2017 from a former Patriots player with a bad check and then flipped it to a “broker… Source link

Tom Brady is back for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, but we still don’t quite know what caused him to miss 11 days of training camp (unless you’re still convinced by “The Masked Singer” theory). Brady, for his part, doesn’t seem interested in enlightening the public on what happened, and that continued on Saturday after the Bucs’ preseason finale against the Indianapolis Colts. Asked about the absence during his postgame news conference, Brady’s answer was at least honest in spirit. Brady’s full… Source link

It’s been just over five years since Google first announced that it would make Kotlin, the statically typed language for the Java Virtual Machine first developed by JetBrains, a first-class language for writing Android apps at Google I/O 2017. Since then, Google took this a step further by making Kotlin its preferred language for writing Android apps in 2019 — and while plenty of developers still use Java, Kotlin is quickly becoming the default way to build apps for Google’s… Source link

The Management of the National Youth Sevice Corps, NYSC, has reacted to the conviction of one Christopher Adetuberu, over cybercrime-related issues. In a statement signed by Eddy Megwa, the NYSC Director, Press and Public Relations, Adetuberu’s action is disappointing and antithetical to what the NYSC stands for. The NYSC backed the court ruling, insisting that it would serve as a deterrent to other members of the Scheme and Nigerian youths in general, who may want to engage in such… Source link

Pete Rose returned to the field in Philadelphia on Sunday, and he refused to address the sexual assault allegation made against him that prompted the Phillies to scrap plans to honor him five years ago. The 81-year-old also completely dismissed when she asked him about the message that his presence at the game made to women. “No, I’m not here to talk about that,” Rose replied to Coffey. “Sorry about that. It was 55 years ago, babe.” Rose spoke with Coffey again after the ceremony,… Source link

Russian prosecutors asked a judge during closing arguments on Thursday to sentence Brittney Griner to 9 ½ years in prison, just shy of the maximum 10 years that she is eligible to receive. Both a verdict and potential sentence in the WNBA star’s drug-smuggling trial are expected Thursday, her attorney told reporters. Closing arguments ended with Griner herself having the final word. Standing in the defendant’s cage at the back of the tiny courtroom, Griner took responsibility for her… Source link

Google is relaunching Street View, the Google Maps feature that allows users to explore an area through 360-degree panoramic street-level images, in India roughly six years after the South Asian nation rejected the feature over national security concerns. The company, which has been attempting to launch Street View in the country for over 10 years, said it has partnered with local giants Genesys and Tech Mahindra to relaunch the service, which is now live in 10 Indian cities. The… Source link

(Bloomberg) — AT&T Inc. fell the most in 20 years after saying some customers are starting to put off paying their phone bills, which contributed to the wireless carrier cutting its forecast for free cash flow this year by $2 billion. Most Read from Bloomberg The emerging economic strain on consumers is adding to pressure the company had already been facing from deep discounts on new phones and higher spending on network equipment. AT&T shares fell as much as 11%, their biggest slide since… Source link