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While Meta is trying to convince consumers to strap on its VR headsets to enter the metaverse, Google continues to experiment with a different sort of false reality: its holographic video chat project known as Project Starline. Announced last year, Project Starline is a video-calling booth that uses 3D imagery, high-resolution cameras, custom depth sensor sensors, and a breakthrough light field display to create a lifelike experience for callers on both sides of the screen — and all… Source link

Google is giving its translation service an upgrade with a new machine learning-powered addition that will allow users to more easily translate text that appears in the real world, like on storefronts, menus, documents, business cards and other items. Instead of covering up the original text with the translation — the new feature will instead smartly overly the translated text on top of the image, while also rebuilding the pixels underneath with an A.I.-generated background to make… Source link

A steep drop in building permits in August overshadowed the better-than-expected rise in new residential construction and offered fresh evidence of a housing slowdown. “In short, ignore the headline starts numbers,” Ian Shepherdson, chief economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics, wrote. “The collapse in single-family permits is the real story, and it has much further to go.” Residential starts — including both single- and multi-family units — increased 12.2% last month to a 1.575 million… Source link

BELGRADE, Serbia — College basketball doesn’t start for another month, and the blockbuster matchup between top 2023 NBA draft prospects, Victor Wembanyama and Scoot Henderson, is slated for Oct. 4 and 6. For fans and NBA scouts who are eyeing next year’s draft, one of the most talented classes in recent memory, they were able to get an early look at projected lottery picks, 6-foot-7 twins Amen and Ausar Thompson on a 14-day European tour with Overtime Elite, playing in Spain and… Source link

DENVER, September 06, 2022–(BUSINESS WIRE)–UDR, Inc. (the “Company”) (NYSE: UDR), a leading multifamily real estate investment trust, announced today that the Company will participate in the Bank of America Securities 2022 Global Real Estate Conference being held at the Conrad New York Downtown on September 13-14, 2022. The UDR Executive Team will host a roundtable discussion on Tuesday, September 13, 2022, at 12:40 p.m. Eastern Time. The Company’s roundtable discussion will be made… Source link

President Donald Trump will be deposed today as part of the New York attorney general’s civil investigation into his business practices after he spent months trying to delay the questioning, according to multiple news reports. Trump posted about the deposition on his social media site, Truth Social. “Seeing racist N.Y.S. Attorney General tomorrow, for a continuation of the greatest Witch Hunt in U.S. history!” he wrote. That office is looking into whether Trump and his children lied about the… Source link

Commercial real estate is down and hybrid work is a big reason why, according to one real estate executive. According to data from MSCI, commercial real estate transactions fell 22% in the second quarter from a year ago. And while inflation and an economic recession are both weighing heavily on the minds of real estate investors and “creating some hesitation,” Marcus and Millichap CEO Hessam Nadji said that it’s “not really a long-term concern.” “The bigger concern is this hybrid work… Source link

Between slowing revenue growth and an increasingly murky outlook for tech companies in general, Google is tasking its employees to put in harder shifts at work. Amid a larger market downturn over the past few months, the tech sector has arguably fared the worst. Thousands of tech company employees have been laid off, and with chatter growing that an inevitable economic contraction is on the way, more speculative stocks such as tech are bracing for the worst. At Google—one of the… Source link

With inflation hitting a 40-year high and gas breaking $5 a gallon, all eyes are on the Fed ahead of Wednesday’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting. According to Drew Matus, chief market strategist at MetLife Investment Management, the Fed addressing inflation isn’t a matter of “if” but rather to what extent for investors. “The real question right now is: What’s going to be the cost of handling the inflation story?” Matus said on Yahoo Finance Live (video above). “I think… Source link

A new dataset from Google shows the features on the surface of the Earth in near real time, the company announced Thursday. The tool, called Dynamic World, uses deep learning and satellite imagery to develop a high-resolution land cover map that shows which bits of land have features like trees, crops, or water. Land cover maps usually take a long time to produce, and there are big gaps between the time images are taken and when the data is published. They also often don’t have a… Source link