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Benjamin Thompson, Noah Baker, and Amy Maxmen discuss the latest COVID-19 news. Your browser does not support the audio element. Download MP3 To answer the big questions in the pandemic, researchers need access to data. But while a wealth has been collected, much of it isn’t collated or accessible to the people who need it. This week sees the launch of Global.health, a database that aims to… Source link

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Chances are, if you don’t own a smartwatch, you probably rely on your phone to monitor your sleeping habits. While there’s no shortage of apps that claim to do the job, not all of them are up to the task. And Android, in particular, has been caught lagging in the snooze-tracking department. Thankfully, Google is looking to change that by making its low-power Sleep API publicly available, according to Droid Life. That means developers can now (theoretically) use the toolkit to upgrade existing… Source link

Chinese Tech giant Huawei marked a milestone in its ambitions to become the world’s leading smartphone maker this week, launching its first device powered by HarmonyOS, an operating system developed in-house. But Andy Purdy, chief security officer of Huawei USA, said the company is still hoping for a reunion with Google’s (GOOG) Android operating system. “Our commitment is that we want to be able to go back to Google,” Purdy told Yahoo Finance Live. “But we are doubling down to try… Source link

On Thursday, a consumer filed a class-action complaint against Google and its parent company Alphabet, Inc. in the Central District of California for allegedly “refus(ing) to redeem Google Play gift cards in accordance with California law.” According to the complaint, Google Play is “Google’s software application (a/k/a ‘app’) store, which allows users to download applications, electronic books, music, and the like” to their devices. The plaintiff stated that Google… Source link

You should switch to Google Messages if you don’t already use it.  Andrew Hoyle/CNET … Source link

Google announced the availability of Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) Autopilot, a fully-managed and operated Kubernetes environment for Google Cloud customers. The underlying infrastructure is completely hidden from users while exposing the environment needed for running cloud native workloads.  Drone in Autopilot Mode Pixabay Google Kubernetes Engine is one of the first managed container orchestration services available in the public cloud. Since its… Source link

(Bloomberg) — When Google users browse in “Incognito” mode, just how hidden is their activity?The Alphabet Inc. unit says activating the stealth mode in Chrome, or “private browsing” in other browsers, means the company won’t “remember your activity.” But a judge with a history of taking Silicon Valley giants to task about their data collection raised doubts Thursday about whether Google is being as forthright as it needs to be about the personal information it’s collecting… Source link

DUBLIN, IRELAND – NOVEMBER 5: In this handout image provided by Sportsfile, Taking part in The … [+] Guardian Sessions: Who Decides the Right to be Forgotten is Peter Barron, Google, on the library stage. Day 2 of the 2014 Web Summit in the RDS, Dublin, Ireland. (Photo by Diarmuid Greene/Sportsfile via Getty Images) Getty Images Amid an expansion into Europe, Stripe is hiring Peter Barron to serve as its head of communications. First reported by The… Source link

Will it ever be possible for Google to create an index of audio content that users can search through like web pages? Results of early testing, which Google published in a blog article, indicates audio search is harder to accomplish than it might sound. Details of these tests are shared in an article penned by Tim Olson, SVP of digital strategic partnerships at KQED. Google is partnering with KQED in a joint effort to make audio more findable. With the help of KUNGFU.AI, an AI services provider,… Source link