MobileNews

Google Nest and Android devices will support new Matter smart home standard

Just last week, Project Connected Home over IP (CHIP) was rebranded ahead of the first devices launching later this year. Google, at I/O 2021, announced support for Matter on Android and Google Nest devices. Matter provides one standard so that all smart home devices can support assistants from Google, Amazon, and Apple. The protocol runs on Ethernet (802.3), Wi-Fi (802.11), and Thread…
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MobileNews

Google apps are beginning to adopt ‘Google Sans Text’

At the “What’s new in Material Design” session this morning, Google shared that its apps are starting to use Google Sans Text. We’ve seen it pop-up in some products already, but the company at I/O 2021 better detailed the font. As we learned in 2018, Google Sans is a size-optimized version of Product Sans, which is only intended for the company’s official product logos. Since then, the…
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GamingNews

GTA Online’s growth complicates a Grand Theft Auto 6 launch for Rockstar

Did you miss GamesBeat Summit 2021? Watch on-demand here!  Grand Theft Auto V and the connected world of GTA Online continue to drive revenue growth for developer Rockstar Games and parent company Take-Two Interactive. Rockstar has now shipped 145 million copies of GTA V. At the same time, GTA Online surpassed its previous record number of active players during Take-Two’s fiscal fourth…
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AI & RoboticsNews

AI call center automation company Asapp raises $120M

Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. Asapp, an AI research-driven customer experience company, today announced it has raised $120 million at a $1.6 billion valuation, double its previous post-money valuation. Asapp says it plans to use…
AI & RoboticsNews

Walgreens used AI to optimize vaccine outreach emails

Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. As of May 18, nearly 40% of the U.S. population had been fully vaccinated against COVID-19, with close to 50% having received at least one shot. But outreach remains a major challenge. McKinsey estimated in December that vaccine adoption would require “unprecedented” public and private action and incremental investment…
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