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Google Messages Screen Effects are slowly rolling out

Google Messages Screen Effects are slowly rolling out

Screen Effects that briefly take over the Google Messages app are slowly rolling out with only a subset of triggers available. This expressive feature shows a fullscreen animation for a few seconds when you send or receive certain phrases: “I love you” and “Happy Valentine’s Day”: An outpouring of hearts and a dove(?) flying across your screen for good measure “Sounds good”: Various thumb ups from the left and right edges of the screen Google… Source link

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Google VP: Here’s How AI Will Slowly But Surely Take Over Your Smartphone

Google VP: Here’s How AI Will Slowly But Surely Take Over Your Smartphone

Artificial intelligence is everywhere at CES 2024, from laptops and robots to baby cry translators and steak toasters, but the biggest immediate impact of generative AI (the type of AI that powers ChatGPT) might be on our phones. I had the opportunity this week in Las Vegas to chat with a Google expert about how AI could shape the future of mobile phones. Google’s Sameer Samat, general manager and vice president of Android, Google Play and Wear OS, sees advancements in AI as a big part of… Source link

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Chet Holmgren slowly finding his role on young Thunder team

Chet Holmgren slowly finding his role on young Thunder team

LAS VEGAS — Oklahoma City Thunder center and No. 2 draft pick Chet Holmgren played his third NBA Summer League game Saturday night and was relatively quiet compared to his debut in Salt Lake City where he put up a stacked stat line of 23 points, seven rebounds, six blocks and four assists. Going against the Houston Rockets, who also have a ton of youth, and the No. 3 pick, Jabari Smith Jr., the game went back and forth throughout the second half. The two top-five picks both started off… Source link

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Congress is ‘moving too slowly’ on semiconductor supply crunch, Commerce Secretary says

Congress is ‘moving too slowly’ on semiconductor supply crunch, Commerce Secretary says

When Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo appeared on Yahoo Finance in January, she said movement was afoot on one of her signature issues: a bill to spend over $50 billion on semiconductor manufacturing. “There is urgency,” she said at the time, adding that “the fundamentals of this bill have broad bipartisan support.” But over 3 months later — and without much progress on the issue from Capitol Hill — her patience was running thin in a follow-up appearance. “I think they’re moving… Source link

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Google’s former HR chief says your boss wants to boil you slowly like a frog to get you back in the office, and it will be terrible for morale and productivity

Google’s former HR chief says your boss wants to boil you slowly like a frog to get you back in the office, and it will be terrible for morale and productivity

Beating the Monday blues will be especially trying for Google employees this week. Starting today, workers are required to come into company headquarters three times a week. But according to Laszlo Bock, former chief of Google human resources and current CEO of Humu, this hybrid model won’t be around much longer. Bock says that after three to five years of flexible work models and hybrid plans, the normal in-office schedule will prevail at Google—and beyond. He predicts this transition… Source link

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‘Unvaccinated folks’ are driving coronavirus surges as American society slowly reopens

‘Unvaccinated folks’ are driving coronavirus surges as American society slowly reopens

The U.S. coronavirus vaccine rollout is an ongoing success story. Nevertheless, the number of daily confirmed cases remains over 50,000 and is rising again. “We’re definitely in a different spot than we were a few months ago,” Dr. Payal Patel, an infectious diseases physician based out of Ann Arbor, Mich., said on Yahoo Finance Live (video above). “But the thing is, we’re beginning to see this big surge. And who are the people that are coming into the hospital? It’s unvaccinated… Source link

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slowly coming back online) – TechCrunch

slowly coming back online) – TechCrunch

Update: It looks like various services are starting to come back again, but with some glitches (such as the address bar in Gmail not working correctly). We’ve contacted Google for a statement about what happened. In all, it looks like a huge range of Google services were down for about an hour today. That hour that crossed into business operation times in multiple markets, leading to a slight drop in pre-market trading for parent company Alphabet. It’s also an alarming reminder of… Source link

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