Formula 1 | Hamilton fastest on disrupted final day of pre-season running in Barcelona

Hamilton lit the sectors purple with a very late effort of 1m 19.138s to put Mercedes at the top on Day 3. Team mate George Russell was fastest in the morning, amid five stoppages. The first red flag was for Alpine’s Fernando Alonso, thick smoke pouring out of his A522. The team soon stated that they would call an early end to their pre-season programme in Spain due to that hydraulic issue.  –read more–

HGTV | 21 Different Ways to Add Color Into Your Kitchen

Paint on the walls? Sure, that’s easy enough. But here are 21 alternatives to pack color and panache into your kitchen design.  —view gallery—  

CNN BUSINESS | Google expands in New York with $2.1 billion office purchase

New York (CNN Business) – Google is dramatically expanding its office presence in New York City with a $2.1 billion purchase on Manhattan’s West Side. 
 
The move comes even as the company embracing a hybrid work model because of the pandemic. 
 
Google said Tuesday that the new office will be an “anchor” of its sprawling city campus that houses much of its 12,000-strong regional workforce. It’s scheduled to open in mid-2023. 
 
The Wall Street Journal, which first reported the news, wrote that the deal is the most expensive sale of a single US office building since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, and ranks as one of the priciest ever in US history.  —read more—  

CNN BUSINESS | These Burger King workers all had it their way, and quit

CNN | Ransomware attacks saddle Biden with grave national security crisis

(CNN) – The Biden administration Sunday confronted the implications of a sudden and grave national security challenge as ransom-demanding cyber hackers target the staples of American life — food,gas, water, hospitals and transport.

The assaults, which have led the FBI director to make comparisons to 9/11, are targeting the country’s vulnerable infrastructure as it struggles back to life after pandemic shutdowns and are putting civilians on the front lines of an invisible conflict likely to defy quick fixes to lessen the threat.

They leave President Joe Biden, who took office amid multiple crises, with thorny dilemmas about how to respond without escalating a full-on international cyber war and expose him to new political vulnerability. Many of the attacks appear to be the work of criminal gangs on Russian soil, heaping more pressure on the President’s already tense, high-stakes summit next week with President Vladimir Putin during his first foreign trip.  —read more—

CNN style Arts | Sony World Photography Award unveils the year’s best photographers

The annual Sony World Photography Awards has announced the winners of its 2021 competition, with two of the top prizes going to photographers who reexamined biases in how culture and history is portrayed.

Zimbabwean photographer Tamary Kudita was named Open Photographer of the Year, a category honoring single images, and awarded $5,000 for her winning portrait, “African Victorian.” British documentarian Craig Easton was named Photographer of the Year and awarded $25,000 for the series “Bank Top,” which comprises black-and-white images and text, capturing a humanistic portrait of a small community in Blackburn, northern England.   —read more— 

CNN BUSINESS | FCC approves $50 monthly internet subsidies for low-income households during pandemic

(CNN) – The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday approved final rules for a new broadband subsidy program that could help struggling families pay for internet service during the pandemic.

The agency’s $3.2 billion Emergency Broadband Benefit Program provides eligible low-income households with up to a $50 per month credit on their internet bills through their provider until the end of the pandemic. In tribal areas, eligible households may receive up to $75 per month. The program also provides eligible households up to $100 off of one computer or tablet.  —read more— 

CNN BUSINESS | Serena Williams: Silicon Valley is wrong about Black women entrepreneurs

My life story is one of breaking barriers and championing inclusion, on and off the court. Coming up in a predominately White male sport, I have been underestimated and underpaid throughout my career. Now, as a venture capitalist investing in early-stage startups, I see myself in the Black female founders who are often counted out right from the start.  —read more—  

CNN Business | What Android gets right that the iPhone gets so wrong

New York (CNN Business)It’s hard to find a better smartphone than the iPhone. It’s beautiful, it’s fast, it’s easy to use and as Steve Jobs would say, “It just works.” But Android is no slouch, and it gets one crucial feature so right — and it’s a feature that Apple keeps screwing up.

Android is just better at notifications.

And this week, Google (GOOGL) widened the gap between Android and iOS when it introduced Android 11. The new smartphone operating system makes the most annoying, intrusive thing about your phone easier to manage.  —more—