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Google to soon allow search using images and text simultaneously
"We're taking this capability even further with 'multisearch near me,' enabling you to take a picture of an unfamiliar item, such as a dish or plant, then find it at a local place nearby, like a restaurant or gardening shop," said Prabhakar Raghavan, Senior Vice President, Google Search.
Chinese smartphone players to gain as Modi prepares for 5G launch: Global Times
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to officially announce the 5G launch on October 1 and there will be a new wave of sales in the domestic market, dominated by Chinese manufacturers. "India's 5G network upgrade will mean a range of opportunities for Chinese mobile phone firms, which have two-thirds of the market, leading to an expected sale of 20 million 5G phones before the year end," the report mentioned.
Microsoft rolls out new Outlook for Windows for Office Insiders
The new Outlook for Windows is designed to provide a contemporary yet familiar Outlook experience that helps to improve personal productivity and email organisation for users. Margie Clinton, Group Product Manager for Outlook said that members of the Office Insiders community on Current Channel (Preview) will begin to have access and be able to explore new Outlook for Windows as we roll it out to the community.
Most of today's AI will never lead to true human intelligence: Meta AI chief
Speaking to ZDNet, LeCun noted that fundamental problems elude many strains of deep learning, including the mystery of how to measure information. "I think they're necessary but not sufficient. We tokenize everything, and train gigantic models to make discrete predictions, and somehow AI will emerge out of this," he was quoted as saying.
JioPhone 5G price leak stirs controversy, research firm clarifies
In a clarification posted on Twitter, Counterpoint said that "some comments from our research note dated 26th September 2022 on the JioPhone Next BoM have been taken out of context"."This is leading to misquotes and misrepresentations of our intent. In our research, we speculate about the possible pricing of a 5G phone from Jio
Google will notify you if your personal info appears in Search
The 'Results about you' tool will make it easier to make removal requests of personal information from Google Search, said the company."Early next year, you'll also be able to opt into alerts if new results appear with personally identifying information, so you can quickly request their removal from Google Search.
BMW to use Amazon Alexa tech to make its own virtual assistant
BMW started offering Alexa assistant in select cars in 2018. This time, the company is going to utilise the technology to build its own digital assistant. The automaker announced its plans during Amazon's devices launch event late on Wednesday.
Microsoft to discontinue SwiftKey on iOS devices on Oct 5
"We are ending support for Microsoft SwiftKey iOS. Thank you for being a user of our product. The app will be delisted from the App Store on October 5, 2022," Microsoft said in an update. For those customers who have SwiftKey installed on iOS, it will continue to work until it is manually uninstalled or a user gets a new device, the company added.
Elon Musk extremely worried at child porn proliferation on Twitter
Reacting to a report on how major advertising brands have pulled out from Twitter as their promotion posts appeared alongside child porn tweets, Musk said: "Extremely concerning."Engaged in a fierce legal battle with Parag Agrawal-led micro-blogging platform over his termination of the $44 billion takeover deal, Musk's criticism comes at a time when Delhi Commission for Women chairperson Swati Maliwal said on Tuesday
Google to soon allow people to translate local news directly in Search
Currently, people see Search results about news in their countries in their preferred language. "In early 2023, we'll launch a new feature that will give people a simple way to find translated news coverage using machine translation," said the company.
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