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Google Meet getting another whiteboarding option with third-party ‘Miro’ tool

In addition to first-party apps, Google Workspace wants to integrate third-party tools into a user’s existing workflow. Google Meet will get another another whiteboarding option with Miro next year. Miro offers a collaborative whiteboard that already integrates with Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides. Shared documents can be embedded into a Miro canvas for quick viewing and editing to…
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Chrome OS to add Google Calendar to quick settings

Chrome OS is preparing to offer access to the calendar from the quick settings area, complete with your Google Calendar events. On Chrome OS today, there’s no easy way to look at a calendar, beyond opening a web app or Android app. Meanwhile, most modern operating…
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Planetarium nabs $2.6M for decentralized RPG Nine Chronicles

All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. Planetarium said its decentralized role-playing game Nine Chronicles, which uses nonfungible tokens (NFTs) so players can own and make their game assets, has raised $2.6 million. NFT gaming unicorn Animoca Brands led the round ahead of the launch of Nine Chronicles’ governance token on the Ethereum cryptocurrency…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Spell unveils deep learning operations platform to cut AI training costs

All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. Spell today unveiled an operations platform that provides the tooling needed to train AI models based on deep learning algorithms. The platforms currently employed to train AI models are optimized for machine learning algorithms. AI models based on deep learning algorithms require their own deep learning operations…
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AI & RoboticsNews

IDC: AI spending will reach $342B in 2021

All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. Companies could spend nearly $342 billion on AI software, hardware, and services in 2021. That’s according to the latest edition of IDC’s Worldwide Semiannual Artificial Intelligence Tracker…
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Sigma Unveils the 150-600mm f/5-6.3 Sport Lens for E and L Mount

Sigma has announced the 150-600mm f/5-6.3 DG DN OS Sport lens for Sony E-mount and Leica L-mount. It is the company’s first ultra-telephoto zoom lens that Sigma says has been developed from the ground up specifically for full-frame mirrorless cameras. Sigma touts the new ultra-telephoto zoom lens as one that is both “uncompromising” in performance both optically as well as in its autofocus…
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