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Fossil collaborates with Google to make its new companion app compatible

Fossil collaborates with Google to make its new companion app compatible

It has been intriguing to track the shift to Wear OS 3 for smart wearables, and with each fresh piece of information, we can slowly see how Wear OS will develop in the long run. The most recent data is provided by Fossil, a well-known Wear OS wearable OEM. According to a Reddit post, a Fossil representative gave an update on the condition of the company’s… Source link

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Fossil fuel firms among biggest spenders on Google ads that look like search results | Google

Fossil fuel companies and firms that work closely with them are among the biggest spenders on ads designed to look like Google search results, in what campaigners say is an example of “endemic greenwashing”. The Guardian analysed ads served on Google search results for 78 climate-related terms, in collaboration with InfluenceMap, a thinktank that tracks the lobbying efforts of polluting industries. The results show that over one in five ads seen in the study – more than 1,600 in total… Source link

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Amateur Fossil Hunters Make Rare Find in U.K. Using Google Earth

LONDON — Millions of years before the Cotswolds, in western England, became a popular vacation destination, romanticized for its ancient woodlands, honey-colored stone villages and medieval abbeys, it was a shallow, warm sea, home to a Jurassic marine ecosystem. Over 167 million years later, two amateur paleontologists, Neville and Sally Hollingworth, uncovered fossils in a limestone quarry there, the largest find of Jurassic starfish and their relatives ever to be made in Britain. More than… Source link

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Google is Giving People Bad, Fossil Fuel-Funded Info on the Green New Deal

For the past two years, people who Google the term “cost of Green New Deal” have seen at the top of their results a price tag of $93 trillion.  This figure comes from something called the American Action Forum (AAF), which is described by sites like Wikipedia and FactCheck as “center-right” or “conservative.” In Google search results, the “featured snippet” up top about the Green New Deal references Wikipedia and says AAF estimates the cost at $600,000 per household…. Source link

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