Monthly Archives: November 2021

How to Avoid Crowds in Boston around the Holidays, According to Google

News Heed the search engine’s advice this Thanksgiving and beyond. Get a compelling long read and must-have lifestyle tips in your inbox every Sunday morning — great with coffee! Photo by Stan Grossfeld/The Boston Globe via Getty Images Between concerns about inflation and supply chain disruptions, not to mention the lingering possibilities of viral infection, the 2021 holiday season may be stressful enough already. Hoping to… Source link

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Why Semantic Knowledge Graphing Market will be in Trend in Coming Period? Top Key Players- Microsoft, Yandex, LinkedIn – Energy Siren

Semantic knowledge maps include related terms used to discover domains, explaining multiple meanings of similar phrases, facilitating semantic search by extending user queries to relevant keywords/phrases, and identifying trending topics in time series data.It can also build recommendation engines based on content, clean up data by scoring each item according to its relevance, summarize documents by judging the importance of each phrase and entity in the document, and perform predictive… Source link

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Bitcoin, Ether Lose Ground as Twitter CFO Rules Out Crypto Investment, Dollar Index Hits 16-Month High

Bitcoin, ether, and other major coins face selling pressure as anti-crypto comments from Twitter’s chief financial officer soured the market mood. The continued strength in the dollar index likely added to bearish forces. Bitcoin was trading 4.3% lower on the day near $60,800, while ether was nursing a 5.3% loss at $4,320 at press time, according to CoinDesk data. Litecoin, binance coin, Polkadot’s DOT token, and prominent decentralized finance coins flashed bigger losses. The selling… Source link

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Google is making its biggest investment ever in Australia with the Digital Future Initiative

CEO Sundar Pichai announced Monday that the company would devote 1 billion Australian dollars (about $736 million) to the country over the next five years. The funds will go, in part, toward launching the firm’s first research hub in Australia, as well as helping develop the nation’s cloud computing sector. Google (GOOGL) also plans to team up with an Australian government agency on scientific research, which will include projects on clean energy and protection of the Great Barrier Reef…. Source link

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Google commits $740 million to Australia after threatening to pull out

The Google corporate logo hangs outside one of its offices on August 31, 2021. Sean Gallup | Getty Images Google will spend A$1 billion ($736 million) in Australia over five years, the tech giant said on Tuesday, just months after it threatened to pull its services from the country in response to tougher government regulation. The main operating unit of Alphabet said it planned to expand cloud infrastructure, set up a research hub staffed by Australian researchers and engineers and partner… Source link

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Google commits $740 mln to Australia months after threatening pull-out

A smartphone with a Google app icon is seen in front of the displayed Australian flag in this illustration, January 22, 2021. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration SYDNEY, Nov 16 (Reuters) – Google will spend A$1 billion ($736 million) in Australia over five years, the tech giant said on Tuesday, just months after it threatened to pull its services from the country in response to tougher government regulation. The main operating unit of Alphabet Inc (GOOGL.O) said it planned to expand cloud… Source link

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Epic says Google set up a ‘Fortnite task force’ to protect fees

Google created a task force to deter Android users from downloading the popular game Fortnite outside of its Play Store, Epic Games alleged in an unredacted court filing made public on Monday. The move helped Google lock in fees from the game but contradicted the idea of Android being an “open” platform, according to the legal filing from Epic, which makes Fortnite. Epic has sued Google and Apple and accused them of operating monopolies by levying 30 per cent fees on in-app… Source link

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Google Says It Will Invest A$1 Billion in Australia

By Mike Cherney SYDNEY–Alphabet Inc.’s Google said it will invest 1 billion Australian dollars (US$730 million) over five years into Australian infrastructure, research and partnerships, which would be the company’s single-biggest investment in the country. Alphabet and Google Chief Executive Sundar Pichai said the investment will help develop Australia’s digital infrastructure, with a focus on cloud computing. He also said it will include the launch of Google’s first research… Source link

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Google executives tell employees it can compete for Pentagon contracts without violating its principles.

Google executives told employees last week in a companywide meeting that it is interested in a Pentagon contract for cloud computing and that working for the military would not necessarily conflict with principles created by the company for how its artificial intelligence technology would be used. Google is pursuing the contract three years after an employee revolt forced the company to abandon work on a Pentagon program that used artificial intelligence and to establish new guidelines… Source link

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