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Google recently released a new algorithm update that aims to promote high-quality product reviews. Dubbed the “product reviews update,” Google announced that the update will promote… Source link

Google this week introduced new features for its Chrome and Android operating systems that will change or improve many of the tech gadgets you use every day. At its annual I/O developer’s conference, Google CEO Sundar Pichai introduced several Google employees and developers who discussed changes with Google Photos, Pixel phones, Google Maps, Google Lens, and privacy. Even with all of those products, it was a new virtual video call that stole the show. Source link

Bloomberg ByteDance Founder Steps Down as CEO Ahead of Mega IPO (Bloomberg) — ByteDance Ltd. founder Zhang Yiming will cede the reins of TikTok’s owner to an old college roommate and lieutenant, stepping back from running the world’s most valuable startup ahead of its highly anticipated market debut.Zhang will hand off the chief executive officer role at TikTok’s owner to human resources chief Rubo Liang, he announced in an internal memo posted online Thursday. The billionaire… Source link

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Hi, it’s Nico. Google’s annual I/O conference kicked off on Tuesday and the company showed off all the ways it’s using artificial intelligence to make our family memories more vivid, to make smartphone cameras less racist, and potentially to even save lives. Let’s start with the innovations in cameras. One of the features Google debuted, dubbed “cinematic moments,” will use machine learning to animate groups of two or three similar… Source link

Bloomberg Central Banks Snuff Out Classic Rate Bets as Commodities Surge (Bloomberg) — Sign up for the New Economy Daily newsletter, follow us @economics and subscribe to our podcast.The surge in commodities prices is failing to trigger some of the traditional responses in bonds and currencies.Unlike recent commodities rallies in 2008 and 2011, yields on Treasuries and currencies of major exporters like Australia have barely budged. Likewise, the Federal Reserve’s favored measure of… Source link

Bavor’s latter observation is somewhat subjective and a sample of one. The former is a phenomenon that’s actually being studied, now that office workers have spent the past 14 months taking meetings through screens. We are more distracted during video meetings, according to research from Microsoft, and it’s partly a coping mechanism to protect ourselves from the mental strain of too many video meetings. In this context Google’s Project Starline seems especially over-engineered, an… Source link

Stock futures traded slightly higher Monday evening after falling during the regular session, with technology stocks underperforming and dragging the Nasdaq lower as inflation concerns persisted.  Contracts on the S&P 500 opened a tick above the flat line, after the index posted its first decline in three days during Monday’s regular trading day. Dow and Nasdaq futures also opened in the green.  Technology stocks renewed a run of underperformance after a brief rebound late last week, with… Source link

Yandex has partnered with Amer’s Deli to deliver food with the Rovers, six-wheeled delivery bots that weigh about 150 pounds and are large enough to carry the equivalent of five large pizzas. By fall, the company anticipates adding more restaurants to its delivery offerings here. Ramping up those operations this spring is not as arduous as starting from scratch, Vorobev says, in part because Yandex already has self-driving test vehicles on Ann Arbor roads. The company deployed seven of its… Source link

In a wide-ranging and forthcoming interview, Eric Schmidt, the former Google CEO who helped steer the tech giant’s foray into health care, opened up about a host of issues facing the future of medicine. Among the topics Schmidt touched on in a half-hour conversation at the STAT Health Tech Summit: his upcoming role as the board chair of the powerful Broad Institute, why synthetic biology is a critical field to watch, the fraught debate over patient data privacy and health systems, and why… Source link