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On Wednesday afternoon, Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced that the U.S. had offered Russia a “substantial proposal” aimed at securing the release of WNBA star Brittney Griner and former Marine Paul Whelan. Now the question is whether it will be enough to bring the two jailed Americans home. Will the Russians accept a 2-for-1 trade for a notorious arms trafficker who for years has been atop the Kremlin’s prisoner exchange wish list? Or will they seek to extract more concessions… Source link

(Bloomberg) — Industrial production is one of the dirtiest corners of the corporate world. A startup from former Google engineers thinks it can clean it up with artificial intelligence. Phaidra, a company based in Seattle, sells AI software to automate building controls for power plants and other industrial giants. It’s relying on the same fix as their former company, DeepMind, Google’s research lab. For several years, DeepMind has let its AI… Source link

Google for Education has announced a new partnership with Figma. The companies will bring Figma’s design and prototyping platform as well as its collaborative whiteboarding app FigJam to education Chromebooks. Schools can apply now to the beta program, which will begin over the summer. Verge reporter Dami Lee described Figma as “Google Docs for design.” Like Google’s software, Figma is primarily web-based and is a lighter load for a computer to run than many industry-standard… Source link

A map shows which cities have Google Fiber. Two Vermont communities are hoping to be the next locations on the map. Screenshot from fiber.google.com Two groups of communities in northwest Vermont are close to reaching an agreement with Google Fiber to bring lightning-fast service to some of the state’s most underserved areas. “I live in one of those communities, so I totally understand the frustrations over many years of only having poor or no connectivity,” said Sean Kio of… Source link

Google has announced that it’s bringing back the Wallet app as a place to manage payment cards, gift cards, rewards cards, passes, and more. Wallet used to be a standalone app before it was folded into Google Pay. Now, the company is making it a separate app again, saying that consumers and companies alike are pushing for digital cards. Wallet will be the app you use to store and manage your debit and credit cards on Android. (You’ll be able to use it across Google’s ecosystem in… Source link

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By Kyle Murphy, PhD March 29, 2022 – Google continues its push into healthcare, this time with applications of artificial intelligence to improve cardiovascular and maternal health. Google AI Efforts to Focus on Heart, Maternal Health At a Google Health event called The Check Up, the technology giant shared artificial intelligence-focused research and development updates. Google unveiled new AI efforts, including tools that can help treat cardiovascular conditions and improve maternal… Source link

Google today announced Chrome OS Flex, an early preview of a new initiative that aims to bring Chrome OS to virtually any PC (and older Intel-based Macs). Built on top of CloudReady, which Google acquired in 2020), Chrome OS Flex is aimed at enterprises and educational users who want to prolong the lifetime of their existing devices, but anyone with access to a USB drive can use it to give an older PC — or maybe even a low-powered new one — a new lease on life. There is an obvious… Source link

Google’s Inbox experiment was a glorious thing while it lasted. Launched as an invitation-only service in 2014, it was the company’s next-gen email client. Because it was so good, it’s no surprise Google shut it down in 2019. Thankfully, though, a group of ex-Google/Firebase employees is now resurrecting the Inbox experience — with a bit of the Slack user experience mixed in, too. The team behind Shortwave (CEO Andrew Lee, CPO Jacob Wenger and CTO Jonny Dimond) all previously… Source link

A new form of NFTs is attempting to radically change the way we buy tickets for live events. Josh Katz is the CEO of YellowHeart, a blockchain live event ticketing platform based in New York City. Katz joined Yahoo Finance Live to discuss NFT tickets on Monday. In essence, NFTs (non-fungible tokens) are allowing tickets to now be a direct link between the artists or performers and the fans. Whereas previous online ticket sales usually took place between a third party responsible for… Source link