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Putin’s 6G Plan is a Candidate for Russia’s Tech Graveyard

Putin’s 6G Plan is a Candidate for Russia’s Tech Graveyard

Russia aims to develop super-fast 6G technology, skipping the deployment of 5G networks altogether, hoping to achieve a generational leap. The Russian government is going to invest more than 30 billion rubles ($501m) in research, supervised by Oleg Ivanov, a former deputy minister of the Ministry of Digital Development, now the head of the Radio Research and Development Institute (NII Radio). This is, to put it mildly, ambitious. Russia failed to build 5G networks,… Source link

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Google Sends Assistant’s ‘Your News Update’ to the Graveyard

Google Sends Assistant’s ‘Your News Update’ to the Graveyard

Photo: Kirill Kudryavtsev / AFP (Getty Images) In case you were fond of “Your News Update,” the feature on Google Assistant that created a personalized audio news stream based on the data the company has on you, it’s time to bid it adieu. Google unexpectedly killed it in recent days, so it is no more. The company launched Your News Update in 2019 as an algorithmic audio feed designed to provide each user with short news updates. Google’s updates were similar to those from NPR, which… Source link

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Aerial photos show shocking ‘graveyard’ after city overwhelmed

Aerial photos show shocking ‘graveyard’ after city overwhelmed

Handlebars tight in snaking rows of colour, thousands of abandoned bicycles line an open field outside the city of Shenyang, relics of a shared bike mania that has overwhelmed China’s cities. The turquoise, blue and yellow bicycles, arranged in long lines, some piled on top of each other, bear the logos of the companies that dominate China’s bike-sharing sector — Hellobike, Didi and Meituan. Low cost-shared bikes, which users can unlock using apps and park virtually anywhere, burst onto… Source link

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