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Since the dawn of the iPhone, many of the smarts in smartphones have come from elsewhere: the corporate computers known as the cloud. Mobile apps sent user data cloudward for useful tasks like transcribing speech or suggesting message replies. Now Apple and Google say smartphones are smart enough to do some crucial and sensitive machine learning tasks like those on their own. At Apple’s WWDC event this month, the company said its virtual assistant Siri will transcribe speech without… Source link

Watch: Bitcoin falls again as China reiterates crackdown Bitcoin (BTC-USD), ethereum (ETH-USD) and other cryptocurrencies crashed on Friday after China announced a harsh clamp down on the market.  The top crypto, bitcoin, plummeted over 11% to $37,429 (£26,428), while etherreum — the world’s second largest crypto — plunged 13% to $2,552.  Dogecoin (DOGE-USD) fell as much as 15% to $0.34 during the session. Chart: Yahoo Finance The crash was triggered by Chinese vice-premier Liu Hu saying… Source link

Google Meet is getting video backgrounds Google Google has announced a series of new features for Google Meet, including an option that automatically brightens faces in video meetings. Several of the new features are designed to make you look better. Automatic light adjustment – which is already enabled in the Google Meet mobile app – is now coming to the web app. That means if your face appears underexposed, perhaps because you’re sitting in front of a bright window, the… Source link

Google is just starting to test its replacement for third-party cookies, but DuckDuckGo is already announcing that it wants to block that tech with its Chrome extension. Google’s FLoC, or Federated Learning of Cohorts, technology is designed to be a more privacy-centered way to track users and serve ads to them, but some privacy advocates, like the Electronic Frontier Foundation, have claimed that it could be harmful to consumers. We have a great explainer on what FLoC is for those who… Source link

Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Google promised not to silence workers who talk about their pay, part of a settlement resolving one of the first legal complaints filed by a new union representing hundreds of employees and contract workers at the internet giant. “WE WILL NOT tell… Source link

Google is announcing a handful of major updates to Google Maps today that range from bringing its Live View AR directions indoors to adding weather data to its maps, but the most tantalizing news — which in typical Google fashion doesn’t have an ETA just yet — is that Google plans to bring a vastly improved 3D layer to Google maps. Using photogrammetry, the same technology that also allows Microsoft’s Flight Simulator to render large swaths of the world in detail, Google is also… Source link

Bloomberg Big Oil’s Secret World of Trading (Bloomberg Markets) — It was a bleak moment for the oil industry. U.S. shale companies were failing by the dozen. Petrostates were on the brink of bankruptcy. Texas roughnecks and Kuwaiti princes alike had watched helplessly for months as the commodity that was their lifeblood tumbled to prices that had until recently seemed unthinkable. Below $50 a barrel, then below $40, then below $30.But inside the central London headquarters of one of the… Source link

Sundar Pichai of Google testifies before the House Judiciary Committee as seen via YouTube on a laptop in Washington, DC on July 29, 2020. Carolyn Van Houten | The Washington Post | Getty Images Google is set to face a new antitrust lawsuit from a group of state attorneys general led by Texas, this time targeting its advertising technology services. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said in a video announcing the lawsuit that Google has used its alleged monopoly power to control pricing and… Source link