Washington CNN Business — Apple and Google’s continued hosting of TikTok on their app stores, despite US national security concerns about the short-form video app, reflects the tech giants’ “gatekeeper” power and should be made part of any antitrust reviews the app stores may face, a member of the Federal Communications Commission wrote to the Justice Department last week. The previously unreported… Source link
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Google Search rolls out new search refinements for top bar filters with related topics
Google is now rolling out the new search refinement-related topics feature in the top bar filters under the Google Search bar. Google previewed these search refinements at the Search On event a few months back and even saw Google testing it before that, and now they are rolling out. What do these refinements look like. Here is a GIF of these refinements in action. In short, Google displays this scroll list of related topics alongside these filters at… Source link
Read More »Google kills “Duplex on the Web,” an automated website navigation feature
Enlarge / After you press the “buy tickets” button, the Google Assistant takes over. Google Google kills product View more stories Google is shutting down a rather obscure project: Google Duplex on the Web. “Duplex” is Google’s branding for AI that does “simple but familiar tasks that saves you time.” The branding exists on two products: this “web” feature and Google’s human-impersonating voice AI, the… Source link
Read More »Google’s new Pixel update brings new features like clear calling and Google One VPN • TechCrunch
Google’s latest ‘feature drop’ for Pixel phones and the Pixel Watch brings features like a call quality enhancement function called “Clear Calling,” free access to Google One’s VPN service, a new privacy and security settings hub, and Fitbit sleep profiles for the Pixel Watch. Here’s the summary of all the features included in this announcement. Exclusive Pixel 7 and 7 Pro features During the Pixel 7 series launch, Google said that folks buying the… Source link
Read More »OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbox gives competition to Google Search
Fresh off this fall’s wide release of DALL-E, the brilliant A.I.-powered text-to-image generator, the team at OpenAI has done it again. Six days ago, the A.I. research outfit unveiled ChatGPT, arguably the most advanced, user-friendly chatbot to enter the public domain. As more than 1 million users have already discovered, ChatGPT provides remarkably intelligent, detailed, and conversational text in response to complex user prompts. ChatGPT can write lines of code, pen a… Source link
Read More »Why this Wall Street bear says it’s time to sell stocks again
One of the market’s biggest skeptics is going back to his old ways. Morgan Stanley strategist Mike Wilson cautioned that the rally that has enveloped markets in recent weeks is long in the tooth and overdue for a breather. “As predicted, falling interest rates at the back end have led to modest, further gains for this bear market rally,” Wilson wrote in a new note on Monday. “However, with last week’s price action, the S&P 500 is now right into our original tactical target range of 4000-4150…. Source link
Read More »Why this Wall Street bear says it’s time to sell stocks again
One of the market’s biggest skeptics is going back to his old ways. Morgan Stanley strategist Mike Wilson cautioned that the rally that has enveloped markets in recent weeks is long in the tooth and overdue for a breather. “As predicted, falling interest rates at the back end have led to modest, further gains for this bear market rally,” Wilson wrote in a new note on Monday. “However, with last week’s price action, the S&P 500 is now right into our original tactical target range of 4000-4150…. Source link
Read More »NBA DFS Picks: Yahoo plays and strategy for Dec. 5
Barner says to expect a big night for Ivica Zubac as the Clippers face the Hornets on Monday night. The NBA starts off the week with eight games on the schedule Monday. After a busy Sunday slate, four teams are playing the second game of a back-to-back set. That means we’ll need to monitor potential rest situations. As far as exciting matchups go, one that stands out is the Mavericks hosting the Suns in a rematch of last year’s Western Conference semifinals. Let’s dig into the options… Source link
Read More »Google brings continuous scroll to desktop search results
Google is now rolling out continuous scroll on the desktop search results. Google initially brought continuous scroll to mobile search in October 2021 and now it is here for the desktop search results. Continous scroll is like infinite scroll but it does not go on infinitely, it stops after a few pages or so – which is why Google does not call it infinite scroll but rather continuous scroll. What continuous scroll looks like on desktop. Here is a… Source link
Read More »Yandex signs up Putin ally to help with restructuring • The Register
Ten days after Yandex confirmed a review of its operations that include moving IP out of Russia and selling much of the remainder locals, it has hired an ally of President Vladimir Putin to help out with the restructure. Alexei Kudrin, described as a longtime Putin ally and who resigned as head of Russia’s Audit Chamber last week, has confirmed that he will be joining Yandex to advise on corporate development. Kudrin was appointed as finance minister in 2000 when Putin started his first… Source link
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