The Conversation Ultra-Orthodox Jewish women are bucking the patriarchal, authoritarian stereotype of their community Ultra-Orthodox women have become the primary breadwinners in their families. Menahem Kahana/AFP via Getty ImagesUltra-Orthodox Jews have been in the news a lot lately, partly due to their reactions to the COVID-19 pandemic. With a few exceptions, the stories present ultra-Orthodox Jews as a patriarchal community that is authoritarian and resistant to public health measures,… Source link
Read More »Google I/O 2021: the biggest announcements
Google just finished its live Google I/O 2021 keynote, where the company unveiled a huge number of announcements, including a new look coming to Android, a bunch of features coming to its Google Workspace productivity suite, and even a new AI that talked as if it were Pluto. Nilay Patel and Dieter Bohn followed the whole thing in real time right here on our live blog. But if you just want to get caught up on the biggest news from the show, read on for our recap. … Source link
Read More »Google IO 2021, Everything That Was Announced: Android, AI, Privacy, Wear, Project Starline
Importantly, Photos users can control which photos show up in these collections. You can remove specific photos from memories, rename the memories, or prevent specific photos from ever showing up. This is a boon for anyone who’s lived through a heavily photographed life experience they’d rather forget. On the creepier end of things, the company showed a new tool that can turn two static images into one animated image. It looks at the objects in the two images, then inserts interpolated… Source link
Read More »Shopify stock pops after Google announces online shopping expansion
Google CEO Sundar Pichai Google Google is deepening its partnership with Shopify by making it easier for the company’s 1.7 million merchants to reach shoppers in Google Search and across some of its other properties. The move comes as Google and Shopify are ramping up their efforts to compete against Amazon in e-commerce. Amazon is also increasingly competing with Google on search ads for commercial queries, which typically mean a consumer is actively considering a purchase, and is expected to… Source link
Read More »Google is teaming up with Samsung to take on the Apple Watch
Google CEO Sundar Pichai at the I/O conference on May 18, 2021. Google (GOOG, GOOGL) on Tuesday revealed it is teaming up with Samsung to release a new smartwatch operating system. The OS, which will still be called WearOS, combines Google’s OS with Samsung’s Tizen OS to improve battery life and performance on the companies’ smartwatches. The new OS, announced at Google’s I/O developer conference, will feature an updated look and capabilities including turn-by-turn directions from Google Maps,… Source link
Read More »Google I/O 2021: Everything Google is announcing at this year’s virtual keynote right now
At the first-ever virtual Google I/O, Alphabet Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai talked about news on Workspace, quantum computing and privacy needs. Google announced new video collaboration features as part of Smart Canvas, a new set of capabilities that is part of Workspace. Must-read developer content The keynote for Google I/O was live streamed from Google’s… Source link
Read More »Google AI tool can help patients identify skin conditions
It has taken three years to develop, and has been trained on a dataset of 65,000 images of diagnosed conditions, as well as millions of images showing marks people were concerned about, and thousands of pictures of healthy skin, in all shades and tones. Source link
Read More »Google’s Project Starline Videoconference Tech Wants to Turn You Into a Hologram
Bavor’s latter observation is somewhat subjective and a sample of one. The former is a phenomenon that’s actually being studied, now that office workers have spent the past 14 months taking meetings through screens. We are more distracted during video meetings, according to research from Microsoft, and it’s partly a coping mechanism to protect ourselves from the mental strain of too many video meetings. In this context Google’s Project Starline seems especially over-engineered, an… Source link
Read More »Google will now help you identify that suspicious mole or rash
Google We’ve all done it. Something with your body doesn’t look or feel right, you grab your phone, Google your… Source link
Read More »After closing Fitbit acquisition, Google is going big with Wear OS – TechCrunch
For years, Wear OS has been, at best, something of a dark horse among Google operating systems. It’s certainly not for lack of partnership or investment, but for whatever reason, the company has never really stuck the landing with its wearable operating system. It’s a category in which Apple has been utterly dominant for some time. Google has largely failed to chip away at that market, in spite of enlisting some of the biggest names in consumer electronics as partners. Figures from… Source link
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