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How does Google Maps know when a particular business is open? It turns out that AI plays a pretty important part in making sure Google can provide accurate information to its users. In response to the constantly fluctuating hours of operation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the company says it developed a machine learning model “that automatically identifies if business hours are likely wrong, then instantly updates them with AI-generated prediction.” This model relies on the Popular Times… Source link

Welcome back to our Workplace newsletter. Today: an interview with Google’s head of Workspace, why it’s a good time to be an executive recruiter and how inflation is impacting the talent market. — Michelle Ma, reporter (email | twitter) Google is heading back to the office Monday was a big day for Google: the start of its three-days-in-office policy. The road back to the office has not been easy, with numerous pandemic-induced delays. The… Source link

Kamila Valieva’s defense for testing positive for the banned substance trimetazidine, which is usually used to treat heart patients, was that it somehow came from medication that her grandfather was taking. That’s what lawyers for the Russian figure skater argued to the Court of Arbitration for Sport on Sunday, according to IOC member Denis Oswald. Oswald, speaking after a press conference Tuesday morning, just hours before Valieva was to controversially compete in the women’s individual… Source link

The Omicron variant has pushed the U.S. to exceed 65 million total cases of coronavirus. Though symptoms of the strain have been described as “mild” in comparison to previous variants, that mainly applies to those who are fully vaccinated and boosted. For those who are still unvaccinated or immunocompromised, it’s a different story at a population level. “We have to remember: We’re a country that has over 35% of individuals who are not vaccinated,” Dr. Stella Safo, an NYC-based HIV… Source link

Some people did not react well to the San Francisco 49ers‘ frustrating loss to the Tennessee Titans on Thursday. For a second, that group seemed to include Niners general manager John Lynch, whose Twitter account appeared to have liked a tweet calling for the team to leave starting quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo, who made some critical mistakes during the game, in Nashville. The tweet has since been unliked, but Lynch really did appear to have hit that button at some point between Thursday night… Source link

Baltimore Ravens coach John Harbaugh didn’t care if you criticized him for his decision to go for two on Sunday. He knows it was the right call, and he’ll try to explain it to you.  For most of NFL history, the common approach for coaches was to keep a game alive. You’d see plenty of suboptimal decisions made in the name of not practically ending the game, but staying within a possession or two. There are many field goals that have been kicked to pull a game within 14 points in the fourth… Source link

This article first appeared in the Morning Brief. Get the Morning Brief sent directly to your inbox every Monday to Friday by 6:30 a.m. ET. Subscribe Monday, December 13, 2021 And the verdict is: Interest rate hikes from the Federal Reserve in 2022 are OK, says Mr. Market.  Dare I say this week’s Fed decision on Wednesday may be a non-event for the markets? (Our Fed correspondent Brian Cheung shudders at this mere suggestion.) How else should one assess the landscape going into the meeting —… Source link

Sunday was not Baker Mayfield‘s best day.  The Cleveland Browns picked up a win. But just barely against the league’s only winless team starting Tim Boyle at quarterback. Mayfield struggled — again — in a two-interception effort against the Detroit Lions that triggered boos from the home fans and frustrated the Browns quarterback to the point of skipping his postgame media session. Then his wife Emily shared an Instagram post questioning the toughness of Mayfield’s teammates. “No one… Source link

If the coronavirus pandemic has shown public health professionals anything, it’s that no one can predict what’s to come next. “You learn really quickly that none of us are soothsayers,” Dr. James Simmons, a Los Angeles-based hospitalist nurse practitioner, said on Yahoo Finance Live (video above). “You don’t want to be a future teller. Who knows what the future is going to happen? I really point to the Delta variant as a big example of how a lot of places thought we were done with… Source link

Google has responded to allegations that the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro don’t charge as fast as some have expected, confirming that their charging speeds are a deliberate tradeoff for better battery life. It follows a report from Android Authority which found that the phones’ maximum power draw was around 22W, well short of the 30W that Google’s latest USB-C charging brick is technically capable of. Writing in a community support post, a spokesperson for Google confirmed that the… Source link