Russian Voice Assistant Alice Can Teach You How to Bet on Sports

on July 13, 2020 at 1:30 pm People in Russia can now ask the Alice voice assistant for the odds before making a bet through the online gambling platform Fonbet. Alice, created by Russian tech giant Yandex, can answer questions about sports betting, including making predictions that the company claims are 90% accurate thanks to its use of Fonbet’s database. Alice Bets Alice relies on information provided by Fonbet to answer thousands of different… Source link

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Google’s Pixel Buds now available in more countries, including Australia, Canada, and the UK

Google announced on Monday that its second-generation Pixel Buds are now available in more countries, including Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Singapore, Spain, and the UK. The true wireless headphones have only been available in the US since their April 27th release date. Google also said it will offer Pixel Buds in more colors starting next month. Currently, you can only buy them in “clearly white,” but Google said the Pixel Buds would come in “oh so… Source link

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Tesla stock is now pricier than shares of Google’s Alphabet

Tesla Inc. TSLA, -3.08% shares on Monday rose more than 14%, headed for a record high and trading above shares of Google’s parent Alphabet Inc. GOOG, -1.97% GOOGL, -1.74% and Priceline.com’s Booking Holdings Inc. BKNG, -1.20%. The stock’s one-day gain is its best since a 16% jump in March. The rally has pushed the Silicon Valley car maker’s market value to around $321 billion, the most valued… Source link

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Redskins’ nickname options have been trademarked by Virginia man

The NFL’s Washington franchise announced on Monday that it is officially retiring the “Redskins” part of its name. What will they go by now? We have no idea. It’s a weird move to announce a name change without a new name, and a theory is emerging that would explain why the club decided to do it that way. According to several Washington Post reporters, the preferred pick for the team’s new name is already trademarked by someone else, and the two parties are now fighting over it. As… Source link

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Trump identifies another hoax: The coronavirus

President Trump has called many things hoaxes over the years — the investigation into his 2016 campaign’s dealings with Russia, his impeachment, global warming — but on Monday he called into question the existence of an epidemic that has killed more than 135,000 Americans. During a flurry of activity on his Twitter account, Trump retweeted a message from game show host Chuck Woolery that claimed “everyone is lying” about the coronavirus as part of a plot to sabotage the economy and… Source link

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Washington officially getting a new nickname

Washington’s NFL franchise released a statement on Monday confirming news Yahoo Sports reported over the weekend that the team will officially change its name. The league had asked teams to begin scrubbing “Redskins” from their platforms over the weekend in anticipation of the change that ultimately came on Monday. No new name has been announced yet, as the team is trying to settle a trademark dispute. The move completes a swift about-face from Washington owner Dan Snyder, who previously… Source link

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Google Reclaims The DSP Crown In Latest Advertiser Perceptions Report

After slipping in the DSP rankings to Amazon over the past year, Google has reasserted its no. 1 status for self-serve, managed service and as advertisers’ preferred platform, according to the Q1 2020 Advertiser Perceptions DSP report released on Monday. The data is based on a survey of 347 brand marketers and agency buyers, split about evenly between the two. The interviews were conducted through the first half of March, so any DSP market fallout since the pandemic doesn’t… Source link

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Google will invest $10 billion in India over the next few years

CEO Sundar Pichai announced the investment via livestream on Monday at the annual Google (GOOGL) for India event. “This is a reflection of our confidence in the future of India and its digital economy,” he said in a statement. “India’s own digital journey is far from complete. There’s still more work to do in order to make the internet affordable and useful for a billion Indians … from improving voice input and computing for all of India’s languages, to inspiring and supporting a whole new… Source link

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Google makes education push in India – TechCrunch

Google said on Monday that it has partnered with CBSE, an Indian government body that oversees education in private and public schools in the country, to deliver by the end of this year a “blended learning experience” across 22,000 schools in the world’s second largest internet market. The Search giant, which today also announced plans to invest $10 billion in India over the course of five to seven years, said it will train more than 1 million teachers in… Source link

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Alphabet’s Google to commit $10 billion to India

Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google Anindito Mukherjee | Bloomberg | Getty Images Alphabet Inc’s Google on Monday said it will spend around $10 billion in India over the next five to seven years through equity investments and tie-ups, marking its biggest commitment to a key growth market. The investments will be done through a so-called digitization fund, highlighting Google’s focus on the rapid pace of growth of apps and software platforms in India, one of the world’s biggest internet services… Source link

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