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Google Store starts selling refurbished Nest products in the US

December 10, 2020
Last September, Made by Google started offering refurbished products at slightly discounted prices. The two initial offerings went out of stock quite a long time ago, and the US Google Store is now expanding the refurbished lineup to include Nest smart home products. In addition to Pixel phones, there is now a “Refurbished Connected Home Devices” section. A used Nest Protect is available for…
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DefenseNews

McCarthy could serve as interim Army secretary in Biden administration

December 10, 2020
WASHINGTON — Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy could stay on as the service’s top civilian for as long as one year under the Biden Administration, several people close to the president-elect’s transition team told Defense News. The move, if it happens, would likely make McCarthy the rare political official from the Trump team expected to be held over in the Biden administration. The decision…
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AI & RoboticsNews

IBM announces new AI language, explainability, and automation services

December 9, 2020
During IBM’s virtual AI Summit this week, the company announced updates across its Watson family of products in the areas of language, explainability, and workplace automation. A new feature called Reading Comprehension surfaces answers from databases of enterprise documents in response to natural language questions, assigning a confidence score to each response. A novel module in Watson…
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NewsPhotography

Behind the Scenes of Photoshoot for Navy’s Specialty ‘Army vs Navy’ Uniforms

December 9, 2020
The Army versus Navy college football game has been taking place since 1890 and annually since 1930. Photographer James Quantz Jr. was given the opportunity to capture Navy’s specialty uniform as part of its 175-year celebration of the Naval Academy’s tradition. Army and Navy have faced each other 120 times since 1980, with the series led by Navy with 61 victories to Army’s 52. There have…
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