Algorithm improves fairness of online search rankings

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Algorithm improves fairness of online search rankingsFor much of the world, Google Search is the entrance to the rest of the internet (other search engines are available). With most users clicking the results towards the top of the first page of returned search rankings, rarely venturing beyond that first page, the vast majority of options remain hidden, creating […]

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Gmail, Google Drive, Google Meet hit by outage

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Gmail, Google Drive, Google Meet hit by outageHaving trouble accessing your Gmail, Google Drive, or Google Meet? You’re not alone. Thousands of users, mostly in India, parts of the U.S., Australia, Japan, and Malaysia are reporting that they are unable to access the aforementioned Google services. Third-party web monitoring firm DownDetector has corroborated the reports […]

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Taiwan set to bar Chinese streaming services like iQiyi and Tencent’s WeTV

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Taiwan set to bar Chinese streaming services like iQiyi and Tencent’s WeTViQiyi and Tencent’s WeTV, two of China’s most popular streaming services, may be banned in Taiwan next month as the government prepares to close regulatory loopholes that enabled them to operate through local partnerships. In an announcement posted this week, Taiwan’s Ministry of Economic […]

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Daily Crunch: Apple hits $2 trillion market cap

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Daily Crunch: Apple hits $2 trillion market capApple stock reaches a big milestone, Facebook Portal gets more work-friendly and Twitter reports progress against hate speech. This is your Daily Crunch for August 19, 2020. The big story: Apple hits $2 trillion market cap Apple’s share price is up around 59% since the beginning of the […]

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Airbnb has confidentially filed to go public

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Airbnb has confidentially filed to go publicIn a turn of fortune, Airbnb today announced that it has filed to go public, albeit confidentially. The move puts the home-sharing service on a path to a public offering sooner rather than later, and comes after reports that the company was prepping an IPO filing this month. Those […]

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Just what would an enterprise company like Microsoft or Oracle do with TikTok?

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Just what would an enterprise company like Microsoft or Oracle do with TikTok?By now you’ve probably heard that under pressure from the current administration, TikTok owner ByteDance is putting the viral video service up for sale, and surprisingly a couple of big name enterprise companies are interested. These organizations are better known for the kind […]

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