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The Mediterranean’s first offshore wind farm, off Italy, is now up and running [update]

April 23, 2022
All 10 offshore wind turbines have now been installed by Dutch maritime company Van Oord off Italy’s Puglia coast – the heel of Italy’s boot. It’s Italy’s first offshore wind farm, and the first in the Mediterranean Sea. April 22 update: Italy’s first offshore wind farm is now officially online. The Taranto offshore wind farm’s developer, Renexia, and its partners yesterday held a…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Conversational AI tools should unify calling, messaging, analytics and more

April 23, 2022
We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 – 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today! LivePerson, which makes the bots we encounter every day act a lot more like humans and less like soulless droids, has done some research in this area and come up with confirmation of a universal truth…
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MobileNews

Google’s new speech recognition tech boosts voice UIs, already in use by Spotify’s Car Thing

April 23, 2022
Since 2017, Google Cloud has offered a Speech-to-Text (STT) API that third-parties can take advantage of in their own services. The newest models for Google speech recognition improve accuracy due to a “major” technology improvement, and are particularly suited for creating voice UIs. The new neural sequence-to-sequence model for Google’s Speech-to-Text API improves accuracy in 23…
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MobileNews

Android 14 gets official internal codename… Upside Down Cake

April 23, 2022
Google has revealed the official codename for Android 14, internally dubbing the 2023 release “Upside Down Cake.” Every year, Google gives its latest major release of Android a fun codename themed after a dessert, continuing in alphabetical order. It used to be that…
MobileNews

Google files trademark for ‘Pixel Watch’ ahead of device’s launch

April 23, 2022
With the launch of the first Made by Google smartwatch seemingly around the corner, the device now has a more definite name thanks to a new trademark for “Pixel Watch.” There have been rumors of Google intending to launch a first-party Wear OS-powered smartwatch for quite a few years now, with the most recent rumor cycle suggesting that one may finally be on the brink of release. We’ve…
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