Google’s pioneering camera tech redefined our expectations of smartphone photography, but not all users have seen the full benefit. Google has upgrading its image-processing software to take more accurate pictures of people of … [+] color. GOOGLE Google has been busy re-designing its Android camera software to address a long-standing problem, one that has resulted in significantly less accurate and less flattering photos for people of color. Starting with the new… Source link

For more business and finance explainers, check out our Yahoo U page. AT&T’s blockbuster deal to merge its content subsidiary WarnerMedia to Discovery Inc. made waves in the media industry. But the deal required a bit of financial acrobatics to pull off, involving a merger strategy known as a Reverse Morris Trust. In a standard merger, a large company buys a small company. But the Reverse Morris Trust deal allows Discovery (the smaller company) to absorb a major asset from AT&T (the larger… Source link

With the unanimous approval of the San Jose Planning Commission last month, Google’s Downtown West development took a major step forward. This week, with the signing of Senate Bill 7, helping to speed along projects like this, Gov. Gavin Newsom moved the project’s prospects along — both further and faster. Now, this Tuesday, at the vote by the City Council, we stand at the precipice of possibility and potential. Ahmad Thomas is CEO of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group. (Dai… Source link

They sit parked in megalots all across North America — next to a big stone quarry in Troy, Missouri, by an auto assembly plant in Silao, Mexico, and filling the vast parking areas outside the Kentucky Motor Speedway near Owensboro. Tens of thousands of bright, shiny, never-been-driven Ford (F) and GM (GM) trucks and SUVs. They appear to be ride ready, but they aren’t. Buyers are lined up to buy them, but they can’t. The problem, as you might have guessed, is the vehicles have no… Source link

Google is adding more information to your search so you can better understand the sites results are coming from. Bloomberg/Getty Images … Source link

Google Photos now has a way to filter its story-like Memories feature for reliving older events.  Sarah Tew/CNET If… Source link

The Telegraph Exclusive: Charity conducting ‘campaign of harassment’ against sites that raise money for hunts An anti-hunting charity has been accused of bullying in a “campaign of harassment” against auction sites used to raise money for hunts and hounds. The League Against Cruel Sports has been reported to the Charity Commission for “demanding with menaces” that a fundraising platform cut ties with legally registered hunts. The regulator was assessing the complaint, a spokesman… Source link

James Martin/CNET Google had big ambitions with its wearable software, Wear OS. But for the past few years, it’s… Source link

Bloomberg Tencent Joins Alibaba in Spending Spree as Competition Grows (Bloomberg) — Tencent Holdings Ltd. pledged to sharply increase investments this year after posting a 25% gain in quarterly revenue, joining its biggest rivals in a spending binge that will jack up competition in China’s post-pandemic internet arena.China’s largest tech corporations are vying to entice users in the fast-growing arenas of online commerce and video. Tencent plans to plow a larger portion of its… Source link

Google recently released a new algorithm update that aims to promote high-quality product reviews. Dubbed the “product reviews update,” Google announced that the update will promote… Source link