Google Assistant: MIA. That's incredibly frustrating considering how good Google Assistant is, and how Samsung's Google Wear OS partnership seemed to be lining up specifically to allow things like Assistant. It's hard to promise what isn't there.

The Amazon founder first became a billionaire in 1998, the year after Amazon went public as an online bookseller and has since increased his fortune by 12,425 percent — now raking in more than $140,000 per minute.

The summer when air travel was supposed to return to normal after a two-year pandemic vacuum is in danger of becoming the summer when the high-volume, low-cost air travel model broke down - at least in Europe's sprawling integrated market.

The Echo Show 5 is now 40 per cent off on Amazon. With a neat and compact 5.5-inch touch screen display, it helps control your smart home devices, plays TV programmes and Novel Books films via Prime Video, Netflix and more, and connects with friends and family.



However, Apple will still take a cut of any money made from sales within the app - so if Netflix offers a way to subscribe in-app, Apple they will pay Apple a cut, but this will offer an alternative, that includes access to existing payment details.

Apple isn't being completely altruistic, as the move is part of a settlement with the Japan Fair Trade Commission (JFTP), applying to apps that 'do not offer in-app digital goods and services for purchase'.

It's not always as lightning-quick as the latest Apple Watch, but it still feels great. Battery life: Two days (or less)
The Galaxy Watch 4 feels very fast, and loads apps faster than any Android watch I can remember. The watch's new chipset seems to be a very good sign of where other Google watches could go as far as feeling more responsive.

Unlike the Apple solution, which is just a simple in-app link to the service providers website, cutting Apple out of the process, Google will still get a cut even if a customer opts to user an alternative billing system.

The developer East Thames Group confirmed it had removed the wording from its website, saying: 'We did this because the copy was categorically incorrect - East Thames does not have a policy of excluding overseas residents from purchasing homes through private sale. Its presence on the website was a mistake and was the result of our creative agency misinterpreting our commitment to the Mayoral Concordat.' 



The annual Social Security and Medicare trustees report released Thursday states that Social Security´s trust fund will be unable to pay full benefits in 2035, instead of last year´s estimation of 2034. The projected depletion date for Medicare´s trust fund for inpatient hospital care moved back two years to 2028 from last year´s forecast of 2026.



And the pay available to them - $15 or $16 an hour for entry-level work - is drawing some back into the job market. Teenage employment has already topped pre-pandemic levels even though the overall job market still hasn´t.

'I'm totally addicted': The Fitbit that has helped thousands... This top-rated slow cooker with 8,000 five-star reviews is... Amazon shoppers are ditching their ironing boards in favour... Amazon shoppers are taking the hard work out of cleaning...

But Google has its own pair of fitness-tracking apps: Google Fit, and the recently acquired Fitbit. Fitbit doesn't have any Wear OS apps yet, but is expected to have some later this year...even so, there won't be a chance of having Fitbit's full tracking capabilities running on this watch anytime soon. Google Fit apps can be loaded onto the Watch 4 for tracking alongside Samsung Health, Kindle but Samsung still expects your data to flow through Samsung Health as well.

Researchers at Drexel University´s Center for Labor Markets and Policy predicted in a report last month that an average of 33% of youths ages 16 to 19 will be employed each month from June through August this year, the highest such rate since 34% in the summer of 2007.

WASHINGTON (AP) - A stronger-than-expected economic recovery from the pandemic has pushed back the go-broke dates for Social Security and Medicare, but officials warn that the current economic turbulence is putting additional pressures on the bedrock retirement programs.

Bezos, who is estimated to be worth $131.9 billion, is the third richest man in the world after Tesla owner Elon Musk, who knocked him off the top spot with a net worth of $213.9 billion and Bernard Arnault, who oversees an empire of 70 brands including Louis Vuitton and Sephora, according to Forbes.



— Scott Stein (@jetscott) August 13, 2021 Google Assistant should be coming sometime, I think, but it's unclear. Hi, Bixby
As I said earlier: Google's excellent voice-based Assistant isn't on the Galaxy Watch 4. Instead, you're stuck with Bixby as the only assistant for now.

A factory near Cleveland will be expanded so it can build an unidentified new electric commercial vehicle, with 1,800 new jobs.
A plant in Claycomo, Missouri, near Kansas City, that makes big electric and combustion-engine vans will get a third shift of 1,100 workers. The company says it will invest $3.7 billion in the three states, and it will convert about 3,000 temporary workers to full-time status with benefits. And in Michigan, the company will add 2,000 jobs at three assembly plants as well as another 1,200 at other facilities.