Jul 23, 2020 CAIRO — In a July 15 press release, Google announced the launch of a new tool that uses artificial intelligence to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphs and translate them into Arabic and English. Google said that the tool, dubbed Fabricius, provides an interactive experience for people from all over the world to learn about hieroglyphics, in addition to supporting and facilitating the efforts of Egyptologists and raising awareness about… Source link

Google announced $875,000 in grants to Nebraska organizations on Thursday, including one in Lincoln. The technology giant gave $175,000 to the New Americans Task Force, a network of public and private organizations and community members that help immigrants who relocate to Lincoln. The money specifically is for the group’s Career Ladder, a program that helps skilled immigrants and refugees find career pathways and professional networks. Other organizations that received $175,000 grants were the… Source link

You may have noticed that Yahoo have suspended all comments on their news articles – and here’s why. Yahoo was one of the few big news sites left that actually allow you to leave comments on articles. Many companies don’t allow this, because comments sections usually result in lots of arguments, hate and online trolling. But not anymore, because it seems that they’ve now got rid of their comments section all together. But don’t worry, it’s only temporary, and… Source link

Slack surprised Microsoft with a competition complaint in Europe yesterday. After arguing for months that Microsoft Teams isn’t a true competitor to Slack and is more akin to Zoom, Slack finally admitted what was clear all along: Microsoft Teams is a competitor, and Slack is finding it hard to compete with Microsoft. It’s not a surprising admission, but if Slack is finding it hard to compete with Microsoft, then it’s going to face even greater headaches once Google finally gets its… Source link

If you’ve followed my ramblings for long, you know how I feel about Inbox — Google’s short-lived experiment with reinventing the way we experience email. Inbox, built atop Gmail’s foundation, was a wildly different approach to managing messages. At its launch in 2014, the service was described as being “years in the making” — a “completely different type of inbox, designed to focus on what really matters.” Google told us Inbox was “designed for the problems… Source link

Google is getting serious about competing with Amazon in online shopping — just like it did in 2013, 2014, 2017 and 2019. But in 2020, as the coronavirus pandemic continues to grip America, the push to create an online shopping marketplace to compete with Amazon has taken on new urgency as consumers are avoiding stores and turning to the internet to fill more of their shopping needs. On Thursday, Google announced that it would take steps to bring more sellers and products onto its shopping… Source link

Google is the undisputed king of the internet. Alphabet‘s (NASDAQ:GOOGL) (NASDAQ:GOOG) breadwinner not only fields 90% of the world’s web searches, according to GlobalStats statcounter, its Android operating system powers about three-fourths of the world’s smartphones. Android can be monetized in multiple ways,… Source link

Apple cofounder and Silicon Valley legend Steve Wozniak is suing YouTube and Google for allowing fraudsters to use his name and likeness in bitcoin giveaway scams. The scams resemble those used by Twitter hackers who last week hijacked some of the social network’s biggest accounts to promote bitcoin giveaways. MORE FROM FORBESExclusive: Twitter Hackers Could Have Stolen A Whole Lot More BitcoinBy Billy Bambrough Steve Wozniak, who cofounded iPhone-maker Apple,… Source link

Under the terms of the deal, Sberbank has bought out a 25%+1 stake in Yandex.Money. Sberbank Rossii PAO (MCX:SBER) today announces the closing of the deal with Yandex for splitting of their assets. Under the terms of the deal, Sberbank has bought out a 25%+1… Source link

Even in the context of all the things that are happening in the country right now, Monday is going to be a pretty big day. The CEOs of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google will testify before the House Judiciary Committee as part of Congress’ antitrust investigation.   It’s the first time all four have appeared together and the first time Jeff Bezos has shown up. All four companies are variously accused of using their size and dominance to kill competition. But like… Source link