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Google, Amazon reportedly developing sleep monitoring features for digital assistants

Katie Adams – Friday, January 8th, 2021 Print  | Email Google and Amazon are reportedly furthering their entrance into the health products market by working on projects using radar technology to help monitor users’ sleep. Google is working on a new version of its Nest Hub that will feature sleep monitoring, sources familiar with the project told 9to5Google Jan. 7. They said the sleep tracking feature will be powered by the tech giant’s Soli radar technology, which… Source link

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Don’t expect Google to compete with Amazon in e-commerce anytime soon

Sundar Pichai, chief executive officer of Alphabet Inc., gestures while speaking during a discussion on artificial intelligence at the Bruegel European economic think tank in Brussels, Belgium, on Monday, Jan. 20, 2020. Pichai urged the U.S. and European Union to coordinate regulatory approaches on artificial intelligence, calling their alignment critical. Geert Vanden Wijngaert | Bloomberg | Getty Images For nearly as long as Google‘s been a publicly traded company, it has attempted various… Source link

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Chip Giants Intel and Nvidia Face New Threats From Amazon to Google to Apple

The world’s largest semiconductor companies face a growing competitive threat: their biggest customers making their own chips tailored to the supercharged areas of cloud-computing and artificial intelligence. Chip making has long been ruled by big manufacturers and design houses such as Intel Corp. INTC -6.30% , Advanced Micro Devices Inc. AMD -0.95% and graphics-chip maker … Source link

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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos cashing in on pandemic at workers’ expense is ‘immoral,’ says Rep. Tlaib

While the coronavirus pandemic has plunged the global economy into a crisis, Amazon has been one of its biggest beneficiaries. That success has drawn condemnation by more than 400 politicians from around the world, including France, the UK, and the U.S. World leaders have accused Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, the world’s richest man, of “acting with impunity” by pocketing profits while “dodging and dismissing [his] debts to workers, societies, and the planet” in a recent scathing open… Source link

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Google and Amazon fined €135M over misuse of cookies by French data watchdog

France’s data protection regulator, the Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés or CNIL, has fined Google and Amazon a total of €135 million (around $163 million) between them for violating the country’s data protection laws. Google was fined a total of €100 million (around $121 million), while Amazon was fined €35 million (around $42 million). In both cases, CNIL’s complaints were similar. It said that in the past, when users visited either company’s… Source link

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Google and Amazon fined for cookies breach by French privacy regulator

Getty Images; Chris Ratcliff | Bloomberg | Getty Images LONDON — France’s data protection regulator, the Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés, issued Google and Amazon with substantial fines on Thursday for breaking rules on online advertising trackers, known as cookies. The watchdog ordered Google to pay 100 million euros ($121 million) and Amazon to pay 35 million euros. The CNIL said both companies had breached Article 82 of the French Data Protection Act, with Google… Source link

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France fines Google $120M and Amazon $42M for dropping tracking cookies without consent – TechCrunch

France’s data protection agency, the CNIL, has slapped Google and Amazon with fines for dropping tracking cookies without consent. Google has been hit with a total of €100 million ($120M) for dropping cookies on Google.fr and Amazon €35M (~42M) for doing so on the Amazon .fr domain under the penalty notices issued today. The regulator carried out investigations of the websites over the past year and found tracking cookies were automatically dropped when a user visited the… Source link

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Firebolt raises $37M to take on Snowflake, Amazon and Google with a new approach to data warehousing – TechCrunch

For many organizations, the shift to cloud computing has played out more realistically as a shift to hybrid architectures, where a company’s data is just as likely to reside in one of a number of clouds, as it might in an on-premise deployment, in a data warehouse, or in a data lake. Today, a startup that has built a more comprehensive way to assess, analyse and use that data is announcing funding as it looks to take on Snowflake, Amazon, Google and others in the area of enterprise… Source link

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