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NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover Reaches Long-Awaited Salty Region

October 20, 2022
The rover has arrived at a special region believed to have formed as Mars’ climate was drying. After journeying this summer through a narrow, sand-lined pass, NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover recently arrived in the “sulfate-bearing unit,” a long-sought region of Mount Sharp enriched with salty minerals. Scientists hypothesize that billions of years ago, streams, and ponds left behind the…
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Google Home app starts rolling out device triggers for Assistant routines [Gallery]

October 20, 2022
The Google Home app is set to see a major redesign in the coming months but, ahead of that, Google is opening up a whole new world of automation. This week, some Google Home app users are noticing support for device triggers on Assistant routines. Google Assistant routines in the Home app have been available for quite some time at this point, but they’ve primarily been focused at using voice…
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MobileNews

Area 120’s Threadit shutting down; video message team joining Google Workspace

October 20, 2022
Amid the work-from-home era, Google’s Area 120 incubator released Threadit to boost team collaboration with video messages that could be replied to at any time. This project is shutting down soon, but the Threadit team is joining Google Workspace. Threadit wanted to do video without the “live” nature given that some teams do work in different time zones. It starts by recording your…
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GamingNews

Microsoft wants to build an Xbox-branded mobile game store

October 20, 2022
Microsoft wants to bring a taste of Xbox game shopping to your phone. As The Verge explains, a company filing with the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has revealed plans to build a “next generation” Xbox store that’s available on mobile…
AI & RoboticsNews

Meta's AI translator can interpret unwritten languages

October 20, 2022
Nearly half of the world’s roughly 7,000 known languages four in ten of them exist without an accompanying written component. These unwritten languages pose a unique problem for modern machine learning translation systems, as they typically need to convert verbal speech to written words before translating to the new language and reverting the text back to speech, but one that Meta has reportedly…
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