April 3, 2021 – Guardian Talks

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Microsoft will not completely resume its offices until September 7th at the earliest

Business

Microsoft is deferring the full reopening of its offices — the organization's "Stage 6” phase of its hybrid workplace plan — until September seventh at the earliest. This denotes a deferral from its initially planned July window. “Based on our continued consultation with health and data experts, we’ve shifted our earliest date for the full opening of our U.S. worksites to September 7, 2021. We continue to review the situation on a local basis in each region/country/state where we work and will adjust dates by country as needed,” a Microsoft spokesperson confirmed to The Verge. Microsoft executive vice president Kurt DelBene disclosed the choice to postpone the full returning in an email to staff got by Business Insider: “We believe this date will afford additional flexibility for em...

Google Home app inserts settings to control what notifications show up in ‘Feed’ tab

Tech

With the last major overhaul in 2019, Google improved on the Home application to have two primary screens from four. Google Home currently has settings to modify the "Feed" tab to "choose the types of events" that can show up. Broadly moved today, there's another catch in the upper left corner at the highest point of Google Home's subsequent tab. The "Feed customization settings" page starts with “Whole home" where Google records two categories: Household Routines: Home and Away RoutineWi-Fi: Network status, Wi-Fi activity "Cameras" will list what gadgets are accessible in your home, with abilities differing relying upon the model. The Nest Cam on the Hub Max simply shows "Seen occasions," like People and Motion, yet the Hello video doorbell would likewise show Packages. Set Zone...

MLB has delayed rest of the Nationals-Mets series due to Covid-19

Sports

The two remaining games of the Washington Nationals' season-opening series with the New York Mets have been delayed because of Covid-19 worries with the Nationals, Major League Baseball reported Friday. The games, planned for Saturday and Sunday at Nationals Park, have been delayed, MLB said, a day after the deferment of the two teams' season-opening game on Thursday. In least three Nationals' players have tried positive for Covid-19, the group said Thursday. A fourth player is viewed as a "likely" positive, the group said. None of the players were identified. "For the most part, the whole team has been -- we put them in lockdown and they're self quarantining," general manager Mike Rizzo said in a virtual news conference on Thursday. Rizzo said he was sure that no player had b...