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Logseq founder Tienson Qin takes a lot of notes about his work. He also likes to draw together with his six year old daughter on an iPad, and he found that the notes tool he had been using for years doesn’t run on the tablet. So like all enterprising engineers, he decided to build a new tool that does. Being able to share drawings with his child may have been an initial motivation for Qin, but he also wanted to build a tool for connecting his work documents in a… Source link

Alina Vandenberghe and husband Nicolas Vandenberghe founded software firm Chilli Piper in 2016 and soon after created their nonprofit, Citizens of Our Planet Andres Hernandez Studio, Inc. An open access Google Document offers pivotal information to the approximately 2.8 million people displaced by Russia’s ongoing attack on Ukraine. Currently 89 pages in length and updated in real time, the Doc, “Resources for People Fleeing Ukraine,” includes updates on border… Source link

A few days after the Capitol insurrection last January, the FBI got two tips identifying an Ohio man named Walter Messer as a participant, and both cited his social media posts about being there. To verify those tips, the FBI turned to three companies that held a large amount of damning evidence against Messer, simply as a result of his normal use of their services: AT&T, Facebook, and Google. AT&T gave the FBI Messer’s telephone number and a list of cell sites he used, including one… Source link

Spoken across some of the world’s northernmost territories, Yakut is an indigenous language with fewer than half a million people currently using it in their everyday life. Listed as one of the endangered languages, Yakut is risking disappearing off the face of the earth and taking a unique culture and original group identity with it. Thanks to the passion, dedication and enthusiasm of one single individual, as well as support from the Yandex team, two… Source link

The American healthcare system is complex, and it can be challenging to navigate, especially when you’re looking for a new provider. To make the process easier, Google has added filters to its search function to help smartphone users find providers that accept Medicare or particular private insurance plans, or speak different languages. Key Takeaways Google has enhanced its search function to help Americans better navigate the U.S. healthcare system. When searching for healthcare… Source link

Developing economies are once again leapfrogging prior waves of technological innovation with the help of cryptocurrency. Much like the way consumers in India and Indonesia a decade ago skipped landlines for cellphones, institutions in Africa are embracing the advancements in crypto over alternatives offered by the traditional plumbing of the global financial system. As Elizabeth Rossiello, founder of the Africa-focused fintech platform AZA Finance, described at Yahoo Finance’s All Markets… Source link

Google Cloud and PayPal have announced they are expanding their relationship to further accelerate PayPal’s digital transformation and evolving customer needs. Under this partnership, Google Cloud will provide both infrastructure and analytics capabilities to support PayPal’s growth, in an effort to help the company process transactional data on a massive scale. PayPal has seen big growth since it became an independent company in 2015. Now it endeavors to scale its infrastructure globally,… Source link

The U.S. is slowly ramping up its commitments to help India, which has been consistently reporting more than 300,000 new daily coronavirus cases. But as the world’s second most populous country — with more than 1.4 billion people — some experts say the response is too slow. “There is a humanitarian reason to do this, as well as self-interest, to prevent new variants from arriving,” Dr. Leana Wen, former Baltimore health commissioner and a visiting professor at the Milken Institute School… Source link

On Monday, Google Cloud revealed the role it had played in five states’ mass vaccination initiatives and announced that it would be working with more in the months to come.   According to a blog post by Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian, Arizona, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Oregon and Virginia have partnered with the company to support their vaccination efforts at scale. Mike Daniels, VP of global public sector at Google Cloud, told Healthcare IT News the company’s efforts are “designed to… Source link

Dataform, a startup in the U.K. that was building what it dubbed an “operating system” for data warehouses, has been quietly acquired by Google’s Google Cloud division. Terms of the deal aren’t being disclosed, although I understand this is mostly an acqui-hire, albeit one where the founders — both ex-Googlers prior to founding Dataform — have done well out of. However, it isn’t just about talent; Google is said to have been very interested in the company’s product, too… Source link