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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Google offers glimpse of ultra-realistic chat tech  BBC Source link

Fifteen years after its launch, a Google Maps feature that lets people explore faraway places as though standing right there is providing a glimpse of the metaverse being heralded as the future of the internet. There was not yet talk of online life moving to virtual worlds when a “far-fetched” musing by Google co-founder Larry Page prompted Street View, which lets users of the company’s free navigation service see imagery of map locations from the perspective of being there. Now the… Source link

While the company isn’t revealing everything about it just yet, this morning Google gave the world its first official peek at its next flagship phone: the Pixel 6. Here’s what we know so far: It’ll come in two forms: Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro. The base 6 will have a matte aluminum finish with a 6.4″ display, while the Pro has a shinier polished aluminum finish with a 6.7″ display. Pixel 6 has two cameras (wide and ultrawide), while the 6 Pro adds a telephoto zoom lens. If you… Source link

Bloomberg This Time Is Different: Outside OPEC+, Oil Growth Stalls (Bloomberg) — “This time is different” may be the most dangerous words in business: billions of dollars have been lost betting that history won’t repeat itself. And yet now, in the oil world, it looks like this time really will be.For the first time in decades, oil companies aren’t rushing to increase production to chase rising oil prices as Brent crude approaches $70. Even in the Permian, the prolific shale basin at… Source link

Baseball crowned a champion on Tuesday night. It also created a confusing and reckless set of circumstances. The league ordered the Dodgers to remove third baseman Justin Turner from the Game Six of the World Series in the eighth inning, after receiving confirmation that he had tested positive for COVID-19. Setting aside the question of how he got it in the postseason bubble created in Arlington, and whether others in the L.A. organization are squarely in the incubation period, the far bigger… Source link