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Sundar Pichai lays out Google 2024 goals: Building helpful Pixel

Sundar Pichai lays out Google 2024 goals: Building helpful Pixel

Earlier this week, Sundar Pichai said that Google has “ambitious goals and will be investing in [its] big priorities” in 2024. This includes AI and spans Google’s consumer to enterprise platforms.  In that company-wide memo (via The Verge), the CEO laid out seven goals for Google in 2024: Deliver the world’s most advanced, safe, and responsible Al. Improve knowledge, learning, creativity, and productivity. Build the most helpful personal computing… Source link

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Democrats want $273 billion in tax credits to achieve Biden’s climate goals

In recent weeks Democratic lawmakers have formalized just how much they want climate change to be at the center of the forthcoming multitrillion-dollar budget reconciliation package. They have formally unveiled a proposal with measures that include taxes on some imported fuels, a new federal aid program for clean-energy developers, investments in electric vehicles, and more. The key driver on the supply side – i.e., insuring there are enough solar panels and wind turbines in operation to… Source link

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Google sets new water goals as droughts worsen

With drought sucking the Western US dry, Google announced new plans to protect vital water resources. Google guzzles up water to cool its data centers, three of which are in the drought-stricken West. To offset its thirst, the company said that by 2030, it wants to replenish 120 percent of the water it consumes. Google guzzles up water to cool its data centers, three of which are in the drought-stricken West Google laid out three strategies to accomplish that goal: using water more… Source link

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Meeting Google’s climate change goals ‘stresses out’ CEO Sundar Pichai

CEO Sundar Pichai is stressed about Google’s plan to become carbon free over the next decade. That means the company aims to use no carbon-based energy whatsoever by 2030. “It’s a long shot, it stresses me out in terms of how to get there,” Pichai said at a virtual climate change event hosted by earth-imaging platform Planet in July. But “you bet on technology and innovation,” he said. Google has been carbon neutral since 2007, Pichai said. That means that though Google’s operations still… Source link

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Google expands health goals with new wellness features for Pixel phones

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