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Google app beta loses built-in browser and regains Chrome Custom Tabs [Update: Again]

Google has been working on an in-app browser for Search on Android for quite sometime now. After being widely rolled out to the beta channel for the past few months, it has disappeared and reverted to Chrome Custom Tabs. Update 7/19: Over the weekend, a server-side update on Google app 12.27 curiously restored Chrome Custom Tabs and that change has persisted with the latest 12.28 beta. Update…
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Scaling AI and data science – 10 smart ways to move from pilot to production

“Fantastic! How fast can we scale?” Perhaps you’ve been fortunate enough to hear or ask that question about a new AI project in your organization. Or maybe an initial AI initiative has already reached production, but others are needed — quickly. At this key early stage of AI growth, enterprises and the industry face a bigger, related question:   Business and technology leaders must ask…
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Canon to Have Olympic Gear Rentals Despite Contact Tracing Concerns

Canon has announced that it has established a full professional photo service center inside the Tokyo 2020 main press center to support Olympics photographers despite the complications with how this would affect contact tracing. Last week, photographer Jeff Cable explained that he was told that photographers would need to supply their own camera equipment to cover the Olympics, breaking from the…
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Tested: Looking Glass Portrait turns iPhone Portrait photos into holograms

We tend to be wary about crowdfunding campaigns, as not all deliver, but the Looking Glass Portrait was too interesting to pass up as a way to turn iPhone Portrait mode photos into three-dimensional holograms. It won’t be available until (at the latest estimate) October, but I got a chance to try a pre-production model which I’m told is very close to the final version, and there’s a mix of…
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