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Google Lens for Android gets built-in gallery to quickly pull up screenshots

The Google Lens app today is geared towards analyzing live images in real-time, but a new gallery view makes it easier to sift through screenshots and other pictures already in your camera roll. Lens on Android, which was last redesigned in September, has long had a button left of the shutter to launch your device’s Files app. A recent beta update introduced a gallery view that shows a…
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Quick Charge Podcast: March 16, 2021

Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. New episodes of Quick Charge are recorded Monday through Thursday and again on Saturday. Subscribe to our podcast in Apple Podcast or your favorite podcast player to guarantee new episodes are delivered as…
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Activision Blizzard lays off about 50 in its esports division

Activision Blizzard has let go of about 50 employees in its esports division, as the Sports Business Journal first reported. The publisher blames the decision on the impact the pandemic has had on live events. Activision Blizzard had invested heavily in on-stage esports…
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Applied Materials brings AI and big data into semiconductor inspection machines

Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. Applied Materials has launched a new generation of optical semiconductor wafer inspection machines that incorporate big data and AI techniques. These multimillion-dollar machines are used in chip factories that can cost $22 billion to build and generate even more revenue than that. Such factories send…
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AI and big data analytics startup Noogata nets $12M

Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. Noogata, a startup developing products for designing, implementing, and deploying big data analytics models at scale, today announced that it raised $12 million. In addition to…
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Hands-on: Sofa is a beautiful iOS app to neatly organize all the media you want to check out

One of our modern challenges is keeping track of the things we actually want to spend our time on with the massive amount of digital content that’s available. Sofa is a sharp iOS app that looks to solve that problem with a simple, yet customizable hub to organize movies, TV, music, books, podcasts, apps, games, and more to check out in the future. Along with a new Sofa update landing today, we…
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