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US companies will now have to cut and measure emissions. How?

January 29, 2021
US President Joe Biden laid out more details of his climate and clean energy plan yesterday. Now, businesses across the US are anxiously waiting to learn what new requirements they will have to meet, and the steps they will need to take, to successfully report and cut their carbon emissions and other environmental risks. Electrek‘s Michelle Lewis interviewed Tim Mohin, former chief executive…
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MobileNews

Chrome for Android may be gaining more Google Lens shortcuts

January 29, 2021
For a few months now, Chrome for Android has had an easy shortcut to search for an image you find online using Google Lens. Now it seems Chrome for Android may be gaining handy Google Lens shortcuts. In Chrome for Android today, you can long-press on almost any image you…
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Google iOS app updates resume following an unexpectedly long holiday pause

January 29, 2021
It’s standard practice for developers to pause app updates over the December holidays and resume in early January. That was the case for Google this year, but the lack of new iOS releases oddly continued for almost the entire month until app updates resumed yesterday and today.  The lack of updates comes in the context of speculation at the start of the year that Google was not updating its…
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MobileNews

Chrome for Android starts rolling out grid view and Tab Groups

January 29, 2021
Back in September of 2019, Google announced that its browser was adding a convenient way to organize open pages. Tab Groups fully rolled out on desktops a year later, and is now beginning to come to Chrome for Android with a new grid layout. Chrome’s new grid layout…
AI & RoboticsNews

Google’s updated Voice Access leverages AI to detect in-app icons

January 29, 2021
Google today launched an updated version of Voice Access, its service that enables users to control Android devices using voice commands. It leverages a machine learning model to automatically detect icons on the screen based on UI screenshots, enabling it to determine whether elements like images and icons have accessibility labels, or labels provided to Android’s accessibility…
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AI & RoboticsNews

AI holds the key to even better AI

January 29, 2021
For all the talk about how artificial intelligence technology is transforming entire industries, the reality is that most businesses struggle to obtain real value from AI. 65% of organizations that have invested in AI in recent years haven’t yet seen any tangible gains from those investments, according to a 2019 survey conducted by MIT Sloan Management Review and the Boston Consulting Group.
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