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Google brings Meet to Gmail on mobile Jun 19, 2020

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Google today announced a deeper integration between Gmail on mobile and its Meet video conferencing service. Now, if you use Gmail on Android or iOS and somebody sends you a link to a Meet event, you can join the meeting right from your inbox. That obviously isn’t radically different from how things work today, where […]

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All bets are off as Hertz pulls plan to issue $500 million in new stock Jun 18, 2020

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Hertz, which filed for bankruptcy last month, halted its $500 million stock offering Wednesday after the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission told the rental company it would review its controversial plan to sell shares that could soon be wiped out completely. Hertz disclosed Monday that it would issue a $500 million stock offering following approval […]

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Software will reshape our world in the next decade Jun 18, 2020

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This storm shall pass. However the choices we make now will change our lives forever.

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Drone-deployed sterile mosquitoes could check spread of insect-borne illnesses Jun 17, 2020

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Drone deployment of sterile mosquitoes could accelerate efforts to control their populations and reduce insect-borne disease, according to a proof of concept experiment by an multi-institutional research team. The improved technique could save thousands of lives. Mosquitoes are a public health hazard around the world, spreading infections like malaria to millions and causing countless deaths […]

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Apple adds new MacBook Pro graphics option and Mac Pro SSD upgrade kit Jun 17, 2020

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A week before kicking off WWDC, Apple introduced a pair of upgrades to its pro-level hardware lines. Both the 16-inch MacBook Pro and the Mac Pro desktop are getting select internal upgrades, starting today. One the notebook front, the 16-inch model gets an additional graphics configuration. The addition of the AMD Radeon Pro 5600M GPU […]

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You can set up a Zoom call with Tony Hawk or Sinbad using Cameo’s latest feature Jun 16, 2020

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My birthday was last month (still accepting belated greetings in the comments below). I was sick and sheltering in place, and my sister kindly gifted me a Cameo of Kids in the Hall/Newsradio star Dave Foley. His hair was blue for some reason and I found out he has a dog named Falkor. It was […]

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WarnerMedia tries to simplify HBO branding by sunsetting HBO Go and renaming HBO Now Jun 16, 2020

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WarnerMedia is hoping to make things simpler for anyone wondering whether to get HBO Max, HBO Go or HBO Now. Back in simpler times, there were only two HBO streaming apps — Go for cable subscribers, and Now for viewers who wanted a standalone streaming subscription. Then the company launched launched HBO Max last month. […]

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Forget the casino, bankrupt Hertz can now sell up to $1 billion in stock Jun 15, 2020

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Hertz, the rental car company that is going through Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings, can now sell up to $1 billion in stock as it seeks to tap into one of the hottest tickets in town: traders with an appetite for short-term speculative bets. . The decision Friday by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District […]

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Volkswagen launches home EV charging system sales ahead of ID.3 vehicle deliveries Jun 15, 2020

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Volkswagen has started to sell a home-charging device as the automaker prepares to bring itsÂ new ID. family of electric vehicles to market. The ID.3 is the first electric vehicle under the ID label and will only be sold in Europe. Customers who made reservations for the launch edition, known as ID.3 1st, will be able […]

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OpenAI makes an all-purpose API for its text-based AI capabilities Jun 12, 2020

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If you’ve ever wanted to try out OpenAI’s vaunted machine learning toolset, it just got a lot easier. The company has released an API that lets developers call its AI tools in on “virtually any English language task.” Basically, if you’ve got a task that requires understanding word in English, OpenAI wants to help automate […]

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