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Image: MS_studio/Shutterstock Google has shed more light on how it’s using private data from sensors on your Android phone to update its machine-learning features, such as Live Translate, without sending private data to its cloud servers.  Google last September introduced Live Caption, Now Playing and Smart Reply as features within Android’s Private Compute Core (PCC), which lives in an isolated virtual sandbox within Android 12 and onwards, shielding PCC and its features from the OS and… Source link

Image: MS_studio/Shutterstock Google has shed more light on how it’s using private data from sensors on your Android phone to update its machine-learning features, such as Live Translate, without sending private data to its cloud servers.  Google last September introduced Live Caption, Now Playing and Smart Reply as features within Android’s Private Compute Core (PCC), which lives in an isolated virtual sandbox within Android 12 and onwards, shielding PCC and its features from the OS and… Source link

SAO PAULO, June 14 (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google Cloud announced on Tuesday it has invested 1.6 billion reais ($312.65 million) in technical infrastructure since 2017 in Brazil, as well as the opening of a new office and engineering center in the country. Google Cloud investments have been aimed at “helping the company’s customers diversify their service portfolios, extend their digital capabilities, and drive new business,” the company said at the Google for Brazil event in Sao… Source link

Democrats are promising to keep tabs during the 2022 campaign on Republican lawmakers praising projects funded by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law even though they voted against it. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office blasted out a compilation of the growing list — and journalists have also been taking note. Lawmakers like Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA), Clay Higgins (R-LA), Rep. Kay Granger (R-TX), Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-IA), Rep. Michelle Steel (R-CA) and Rep. Andy Harris (R-MD) have all touted… Source link

Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg oversees a giant chunk of the new $1 trillion infrastructure bill: Roads, bridges, ports, airports, railways, and more fall under his purview. It’s around half of the $550 billion in new spending, including $110 billion toward surface transportation, another $105 billion for rail, and $42 billion for seaports and airports. During a conversation with Yahoo Finance Live on Monday, Buttigieg laid out next steps once the “ink is dry” on the bill to get… Source link

Congress passed the bipartisan infrastructure bill late on Friday night and before it has even been signed into law, the White House is trying to sell the public on it. The first stop coming on Wednesday: a port. “There’s a reason President Biden chose the Port of Baltimore to give his major speech celebrating passage of what, to date, is his signature legislative accomplishment,” says Aaron Klein, an infrastructure expert at the Brookings Institution. The 2,702-page bill includes about… Source link

GLASGOW, Scotland — When the House of Representatives passed the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill late Friday night, it took the largest congressional action to confront climate change in U.S. history. The bill contains $150 billion for clean energy advancement and adaptation to the effects of climate change, surpassing the 2009 economic stimulus package, which spent $90 billion on clean energy development and deployment. The new package also includes $73 billion for modernizing the U.S…. Source link

(Bloomberg) — The House on Friday passed the biggest U.S. infrastructure package in decades, marking a victory for President Joe Biden and unleashing $550 billion of fresh spending on roads, bridges, public transit and other projects in coming years. Most Read from Bloomberg The vote was 228-206 and sends the legislation to Biden for his signature. Thirteen Republicans supported the bill and six Democrats voted against it, a sign of the intra-party strains that nearly derailed the… Source link