Google’s ad revenue Since 2001, the year Google wasn’t part of the alphabet yet but started making considerable money, almost $800 billion has been generated this way. YouTube only contributed to its ad revenue figure since 2006, when it was acquired for $1.65 billion. In retrospect, that’s a fairly humble price as today YouTube is responsible for approximately 10 percent of Alphabet’s total revenue. If you split Google’s ad revenue out per year, you get the following result:...

Every day, we present deals on cool tech apps and services to bolster your hardware arsenal; or major learning opportunities to beef up your career skill sets. Don’t get us wrong, they’re great. But we like to think we’re well rounded folks, so we thought today we’d stretch a bit and serve up an offer especially tailored to improving an area even more vital: your mental health. Before you start envisioning drum circles and prayer crystals, know this…Aura Health isn’t metaphysical mumbo-jumbo....

This rumor comes from a Kotaku report, which cites anonymous sources familiar with the plans. Granted, it is just a rumor at this point, but given that we’ve already seen Death Stranding coming to PC, it sounds at least somewhat plausible. Sony is also supposed to be putting on a show sometime in February (supposedly to reveal the PlayStation 5, but let’s not get ahead of ourselves), it wouldn’t surprise me if it had just such a reveal up its sleeve....

The human mind has all kinds of mechanisms to create new concepts by combining abstract and concrete knowledge it has of the real world. We can imagine existing things that we might have never seen (a horse with a long neck — a giraffe), as well as things that do not exist in real life (a winged serpent that breathes fire — a dragon). This cognitive flexibility allows us to learn new things with few and sometimes no new examples....

Between 2017 and 2018, Google produced a series of 24 short videos that saw digital designer Mustafa Kurtuldu interview a host of designers and developers about the various quirks of their profession, from “Becoming a Creative Coder” to “UX Research and Usability Testing.” Despite the tongue-in-cheek title of the series, Designer vs. Developer, it was intended to offer insight into the multiplicity of outputs each field could produce and encourage more collaborative working practices between the two disciplines....

So I decided to develop a mobile game. My goal was to validate the hypothesis that in the super-competitive mobile gaming market, you can launch a product that will grow into something large solely through organic traffic. Let me say right away that I validated this hypothesis: a mobile game we created over the weekend ended up amassing over 2 million downloads, and received over 30,000 new users per day at its peak, all through organic traffic....

The battle between public and private escooters has meant that their low carbon footprint in the micromobility space has been obscured mainly by police intervention and what some call over-policing. I wanted to understand the situation more. So I reached out to Dott, who is participating in Transport for London’s (TfL) escooter hire scheme, and also a private escooter retailer, Escootered. But first, let’s take a walk through the legalities of escooters in the UK:...

Admittedly, I am not a CEO. However, I have served in the past as CEO, not to mention just about every other “Chief” role imaginable, for a variety of companies ranging in size, focus, industry, and success. My personal leadership journey has had its ups and downs and fair share of the bad and the ugly — but truly transformed after I implemented Objectives and Key Results, or in short OKRs....

However, at Slack, people know when to log off. According to a 2015 article in Inc. magazine that named Slack its Company of the Year, the slogan is more than just talk. By 6:30 p.m., “Slack’s offices have pretty much cleared out.” And according to the article, “that’s how [Slack CEO] Butterfield wants it.” Slack’s corporate culture is an example of a work environment that hasn’t succumbed to the maddening cycle of responsiveness endemic to so many organizations today....

Leaving a sock on the ground is a manifestation of a concept from physics you may have heard of: entropy. Entropy is a measure of how much energy is lost in a system. If a system loses too much energy, it will disintegrate into chaos. It takes only a little bit of energy to pick up one sock. But if you don’t take care of your yard, let pipes stay clogged, and never fix electrical problems, it all adds up to a chaotic home that would take a lot of energy to fix....

Twitter lists are a useful, if little-discussed feature that allow you to group your many different follows into coherent categories. If you’re like me and follow people from a wide swathe of society, you might find it helpful to break them down into lists. That way you can check those lists when you’re interested in seeing updates from, for example, personal friends or news sites. But if you’re like me in another way, you’re kind of a hypocrite and get a little annoyed when you get a random notification that you’ve been added to a list....

In my first startup, we were building a platform to buy and sell solar renewable energy credits. It was a nascent market driven by new laws requiring the adoption of solar energy. Our first thought was to build an online auction for buyers and sellers, like eBay, but for solar energy. Simple. If you build it, they will come, right? Cultivating a relationship with your customers can be incredibly difficult....

We’ve all been there, especially during the age of coronavirus. We think we have our computers perfectly set up for a video call, only to find out we’re using the wrong microphone, our network connection is shoddy, or our video is lousy. To help avoid such surprises, Google Meet is rolling out a new feature that makes it easy to accurately preview how you will appear to other call participants and adjust settings on the fly....

So you want to delete yourself from LinkedIn? No worries — we’ll tell you how to do it. Maybe you want to start fresh with a new account, or maybe you just don’t want to exist in the surreal buzzword-scape that is LinkedIn. We don’t judge here. Whatever you’re reasons are, if you want to delete your LinkedIn account, we’re here to help. Go to your Settings, by clicking or tapping on your profile icon....

I love YouTube. I use it to watch videos, play tracks, and listen to podcasts. It has easily become my main source of entertainment. But there is one thing that rubs me the wrong way: YouTube doesn’t let you play videos on your phone in the background (or in lock screen). Fortunately, there is a pretty neat workaround you can use to bypass this restriction – and all you need is Telegram....

So what does this mean for you as a consumer? Well, there’s more info here, but if you already have a Huawei device, it’s not going to receive the latest version of Android. You can keep on using the device (the Google Play store will still work, as will app updates), but the OS itself is going to stay the same. Basically, as long as the company provides the security updates it promised, you’ll be fine for a year or so....

This comes on the heels of last week’s controversy wherein Crist appeared ready to die on a hill defending his decision to continue doing business with the government agencies. Now he’s done a complete 180. In a company blog post entitled “An Important Update From Chef,” the CEO writes: In explaining how Chef came to support the government agencies responsible for a litany of human rights violations including detaining children, separating breast-feeding babies from their mothers, and at least 24 deaths, he points out that those policies weren’t in place when Chef began work with DHS under the Obama administration....

This AWS database instance contained an API key that was stolen to access the data in the test snapshot, the company said. Imperva, however, didn’t provide exact dates for when these events happened. So, it’s hard to ascertain for how long the hacker had access to this database server. “We have not found any malicious behavior targeting our customers (logins, rule changes, etc.) and have implemented procedures to continue monitoring for such activity,” the company’s CTO Kunal Anand said....

According to a report by Economic Times, an unnamed government official told the publication that the content takedown rules will only apply to major firms. However, the report doesn’t specify what’s the definition of a ‘major firm,’ in the context of the upcoming rules. India’s current IT Act 2000 exempts any online entity from liability for content posted by users on their platforms. This sub-section in existing rules has allowed companies like Google and Facebook to grow exponentially in the country and enjoy “safe harbor....

According to Dutch bank ING’s financial and banking experts, a “fully-fledged central bank digital currency is coming.” In an article published today on THINK, the bank’s economic and financial analysis platform, ING’s chief economist Mark Cliffe and its lead economist for digital finance Teunis Brosens said we “might well see a central bank digital currency emerge within the next five years.” Not everyone is so sure, though. In a video accompanying the article, Priscilla Toffano an economist from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) believes central bank digital currencies will be realized much further in the future....