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If you’re waiting for search ad spending to slow down any time soon, you’ll be waiting a while. A new report shows that CTV, linear TV, and video are the most vulnerable when it comes to cutting ad budgets. In the US, Google dominates the search ad market, holding steady at about 56.1% of the total ad revenue share amongst platforms like Amazon, Microsoft, and Yelp. But even as the market shifts to other platforms, Google’s growth outpaces all other traditional formats. If we’re…

By Lydia DePillis, The New York Times Company American workers are experiencing, by many measures, one of the best job markets ever. The unemployment rate has matched a 53-year low. Job listings per available worker are at historic highs. Wages, although not quite keeping up with inflation, are rising at their fastest pace in decades. So why would people keep doing gig work, a notoriously difficult and insecure way to make a living? Online platforms such as Uber and Lyft say the number of people providing services on…

There’s a moment early in Let the Little Light Shine, a riveting documentary on one community’s fight to preserve their grade school, when it becomes clear that Chicago’s National Teachers Academy is no ordinary place.It’s a school assembly, and the students – overwhelmingly Black and brown children from the city’s South Side, kindergarten through eighth grade – pack benches in the cafeteria. Two of the older students perform a welcome march; the trombonist plays fine, but the clarinetist is wildly squeaky, every note…

Of the events studied, Hurricane Harvey and Winter Storm Uri caused the most property damage reported by survey participants. Uri’s below-freezing temperatures in February 2021 caused trouble for the most survey households, with half reporting challenges from its days of frigid cold. Issues from Harvey’s winds and flooding in 2017 are lasting longer, with issues still troubling 40% of respondents. Credit: Pexels The chances…

Flooded with fake and misleading reviews on many of its products, Amazon is going on the offensive, filing suit against the administrators of what it says are over 10,000 Facebook groups that are used to manage those reviews and incentivize people to post them.In a suit filed Monday, the retailer said it hopes to “identify bad actors” and remove any fake reviews that its own technology and monitoring haven’t yet caught.“Our teams stop millions of suspicious reviews before they’re ever seen by customers, and this lawsuit…

Apple, looking to address criticism of its competitive practices by the European Union, developers and US lawmakers, pointed to a report showing that third-party apps are thriving on the iPhone and other devices.In a study published by Analysis Group and touted by the iPhone maker, analysts said that Apple's own apps are infrequently the dominant option and only account for a small share of app usage.“We found that Apple's own apps, while used by many, are rarely the most popular of a given type and are eclipsed in…

Scientists have managed to find signs of microbial life in one of the harshest spots on Earth, giving further hope that life may also be found in some of the unknown environments of space. In the depths of the Canadian Arctic, scientists managed to identify signs of life in the low-oxygen, super-salty waters of the Lost Hammer Spring. The water in the spring rises through 1,970 ft of permafrost in one of the coldest places on the Earth. The discovery raises hopes of many that microbial life (if it exists), may also be…

A decade ago, Microsoft was overwhelmingly considered by most as a software company. The Redmond-based tech giant had dabbled in hardware before with two Xbox consoles, but Windows was still its most recognisable product by far.  In June 2012, Microsoft set its sights on changing that. 37 years after it was founded, then-CEO Steve Ballmer announced the company’s first ever PC. Known simply as ‘Surface’, it shunned traditional laptop design in favour of a tablet (running Windows, of course) with a detachable keyboard.…

GreenGrowth develops real-time yield-mapping technology for farmers. Image: Bojan Stojkovski/ZDNet"There is a lot of potential here in the Baltics and Latvia since there a lot of small and medium, and big agribusinesses that are in need of this technology."A motivated, multilingual workforceAccording to ecosystem experts, Latvia's competitive IT workforceis what makes the country's startup ecosystem tick.Alina Silina, from the Latvian Startup Association, puts this down to Latvian workers' combination of solid work…