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Google Meet for teachers can automatically transcribe lessons into a Google Doc

Google Meet for teachers can automatically transcribe lessons into a Google Doc

Google Meet is getting an automatic transcription feature for educators signed up to Google’s Workspace for Education Plus and Teaching and Learning Upgrade plans. The text-based documents should take up less space than a full recording for educators looking to store or share their past lessons and may also make it easier to review, search through, and send lessons to students. Google is also bringing polls and Q&A sessions to teachers who use Meet to livestream their lessons,… Source link

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Google is combining Meet and Duo into a single app for voice and video calls

Google is combining Meet and Duo into a single app for voice and video calls

Google announced today that it’s combining two of its video-calling apps, Duo and Meet, into a single platform. Pretty soon, there will be only Google Meet, and Google’s hoping it can be the one calling app users need for just about everything in their lives. By bringing them both together, Google’s hoping it can solve some of what ails modern communication tools. “What’s been really important is understanding how people make the choice as to what tool they’re going to use,… Source link

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Jack Dorsey accused of ‘backstabbing’ his own Twitter board by helping Elon Musk as shareholders meet

Jack Dorsey accused of ‘backstabbing’ his own Twitter board by helping Elon Musk as shareholders meet

Twitter cofounder Jack Dorsey stabbed his company’s board in the back by serving up the social media platform on a platter to Elon Musk, according to a former company veteran and ex-director. As the company prepares to host shareholders for a virtual annual general meeting from 1 p.m. ET on Wednesday, Jason Goldman found clear words for his former colleague during an interview with Bloomberg. The former vice president of Product and member of Twitter’s founding team referenced events that… Source link

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Timberwolves owner to meet with Nuggets’ Tim Connelly

Timberwolves owner to meet with Nuggets’ Tim Connelly

Minnesota Timberwolves team owner Glen Taylor is meeting with Tim Connelly, the Denver Nuggets president of basketball operations, this weekend in the team’s continued quest to bring him into the front office, ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski reported on Saturday. The Timberwolves want to make Connelly one of the league’s highest-paid executives, per the report. Connelly has reportedly already met with Marc Lore and Alex Rodriguez, who became minority owners of the Timberwolves and Minnesota Lynx… Source link

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Deshaun Watson to meet with league; suspension coming?

Deshaun Watson to meet with league; suspension coming?

HOUSTON — Deshaun Watson will meet with NFL investigators this week as the league moves closer to concluding its probe into sexual misconduct and assault allegations against the Cleveland Browns quarterback, two sources confirmed to Yahoo Sports. “It is safe to assume that the NFL will be interviewing Deshaun at great length in the near future,” one source said. The NFL has repeatedly declined comment on its Watson investigation. Both sources said the league still hasn’t indicated a… Source link

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Google is adding tools to make Meet video calls look better

Google is adding tools to make Meet video calls look better

There’s a good chance you’ve spent much of the last two-plus years sitting at home, cycling through endless days of virtual meetings staring into your laptop’s webcam and talking into your built-in mic. This means you’ve spent much of the last two-plus years appearing to everyone else like a mushy pile of poorly lit pixels, sounding like you’re shouting from inside a tin can. It’s not your fault: your laptop’s webcam just sucks. And so does its mic. But Google thinks it can… Source link

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Cowboys, Packers will meet in Week 10

Cowboys, Packers will meet in Week 10

If you’re looking for some NFL drama in the 2022 season, circle Nov. 13 on your calendar. That’s when Mike McCarthy, former Green Bay Packers head coach and current Dallas Cowboys head coach, will face his former quarterback Aaron Rodgers for the first time. Cowboys at Packers in Week 10 is the latest scheduling appetizer released by the NFL, just one day before they’re set to announce the full 2022 schedule. In the ramp up to that announcement, the NFL has released its full international… Source link

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Alibaba’s Freshippo adds more couriers, still unable to meet Shanghai demand

Alibaba’s Freshippo adds more couriers, still unable to meet Shanghai demand

SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Alibaba’s supermarket chain Freshippo said on Sunday it was adding more couriers to meet high demand in Shanghai but this was not yet catching up with the rising needs of locked-down residents as the city battles a surge in COVID-19 cases. Shen Li, a vice president at Alibaba Group’s Freshippo, told reporters on Sunday that while the company’s delivery capacity had recovered to about 60-70% of pre-outbreak levels as more couriers were allowed back on the roads, many… Source link

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Bettors expect Phoenix and Philly to meet in Finals

Bettors expect Phoenix and Philly to meet in Finals

Even Galileo would be shocked at how many bet slips are revolving around the Suns as we begin the NBA playoffs. Nearly 30% of all money wagered on championship futures is on Phoenix, who’s also seeing 55.2% of the Western Conference champs handle on BetMGM. If they rise from the ashes of last year’s Finals defeat to avenge themselves with a title, the sportsbooks are going to get burned by everyone who jumped onboard the Suns bandwagon. The cream of the NBA After Phoenix started this season… Source link

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Etsy strike organizer says she ‘has to leave’ if the company doesn’t meet demands

Etsy strike organizer says she ‘has to leave’ if the company doesn’t meet demands

E-commerce platform Etsy (ETSY) is bracing for impact as more than 12,000 sellers go on “strike.” Sellers are placing their shops on “vacation mode” for up to an entire week to protest new company policies that go into effect today, including an increase in transaction fees from 5% to 6.5%. Etsy strike organizer Kristi Cassidy told Yahoo Finance Live that sellers are “fed up” and hope to gain Etsy’s attention from the movement, which started on Reddit. Demands include cancelling the fee… Source link

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