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Largest-ever Google Doodle game celebrates 2020 Tokyo Olympics w/ seven minigames [U: Day 4]

July 26, 2021
The Tokyo Olympics are set to begin on Friday, and keeping in that friendly competitive spirit, Google is launching “Champion Island,” their largest-ever Doodle game, letting you compete for one of four teams across seven different minigames and explore a fantastic world. Created in partnership with STUDIO4°C, a respected Japanese animation studio, this latest Google Doodle lets you take on…
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Ex-Googler explains why Chrome abandoned a redesign similar to iOS 15 Safari years ago

July 26, 2021
Apple’s mobile web browser is the main lightning rod of this year’s iOS 15 beta period and it remains to be seen whether it will actually launch in the fall. Chrome for Android tried a similar Safari on iOS 15 redesign years ago, and a designer on that project provided some interesting insight into why Google abandoned it. Safari on iOS 15 has what Apple calls a “new tab bar design”…
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With post-pandemic AI, we’ve now stepped into the Age of Acceleration

July 25, 2021
All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. As the IBM Watson experience shows, the path to AI success is fraught with challenges. Yet overall, it has been a very good year for AI and the companies developing it. So much so that Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, in a recent podcast recorded by BBC, says: “I view [AI] as a very profound enabling technology. If you…
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DefenseNews

Premier: Iraq Doesn't Need US Combat Troops

July 25, 2021
Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi poses in his office during an interview with The Associated Press in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, July 23, 2021. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed) BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s prime minister says his country no longer requires American combat troops…
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Gurman: iPhone 13 event likely to be virtual as Apple delays return to in-person work

July 25, 2021
Last week, it was reported that Apple would be delaying its return to mandatory in-person work by at least one month due to rising COVID-19 cases. As expected, this is also likely to have an impact on Apple’s plans for the iPhone 13 unveiling this fall, and Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman now reports that the iPhone 13 event is likely to be virtual rather than in-person… Apple had originally said…
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