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Alphabets Moonshot Factory detailed a project to build Everyday Robots two years ago . Today it gave an update on how it has progressed towards building autonomous machines and real-world office testing. more The post Alphabets X has Everyday Robots test fleet that autonomously performs office maintenance tasks appeared first on 9to5Google .

Image: Google On November 19th, 2019, Google launched its Stadia cloud gaming service as a work in progress , and its arguably still one today. But one thing thats consistently improved is the price of entry, and Googles bringing it down even further to celebrate Stadias second birthday. You should now be able to purchase a Stadia Premiere Edition hardware kit with the Chromecast Ultra and Stadia Controller for just $22.22 or 22.22 in fourteen countries including the US and UK while supplies last. In the US, youll also be able to get one for free when you purchase any game in the Stadia store until November 29th. Google says its launching a wide variety of deals on games there today, too. Google has given away a lot of hardware already Its Continue reading

The Pentagon plans to give cloud contracts to multiple providers, rather than giving out a single contract to Microsoft, a deal that was later scrapped.

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According to MediaTek, the company''s new Dimensity 9000 chip for smartphones will put up a strong show against Qualcomm, Google, and Apple.

Google mobility data show a much fuller recovery in visitors returning to retail and recreation than to the workplace. This supports our view that structural changes will weigh on the office sector more than retail over the next few years, helping to make offices the worst performing sector in this period. Read the publication Structural changes weigh on offices more than retail on the Capital Economics Website.

Alphabet says its Everyday Robot team at X is now testing its prototype machines in Googles offices. The bots are performing light custodial work as Alphabet slowly pursues its goal of building a "general-purpose learning robot."

Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) has been assigned an average recommendation of Buy from the thirty-three brokerages that are presently covering the stock, MarketBeat.com reports. Two equities research analysts have rated the stock with a hold recommendation and thirty-one have given a buy recommendation to the company. The average 12-month target price among brokerages that have issued []

Google says it has signed agreements with several large German publishers to avoid copyright disputes over the use of their material

The Department of Defense has invited four hyperscale cloud providers to bid on its Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability contract. The department announced Friday that it has issued solicitations to Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Microsoft and Oracle to bid for spots on the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability. The JWCC is DODs indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ), enterprise [] The post DOD picks Microsoft, AWS, Google and Oracle to bid on JWCC cloud contract appeared first on FedScoop .

The latest update to Google Messages prepares for a new way to handle the annoying iMessage reaction messages often seen in mixed group chats. About APK Insight: In this APK Insight post, weve decompiled the latest version of an application that Google uploaded to the Play Store. When we decompile these files (called APKs, in [] The post Google Messages to show iMessage reactions as emoji appeared first on TECHTELEGRAPH .

The Nasdaq was set for a record open on Friday as investors sought sectors less exposed to economic ructions ahead of voting on President Joe Biden''s $1.75 trillion spending bill, while rising COVID-19 cases in Europe also dented sentiment. The S&P 500 and Dow Jones were set to fall tracking losses in banks, airlines and other economically sensitive sectors. Uncertainty over rising inflation and the Federal Reserve''s policy tightening also kept demand for cyclical stocks low. The US House of Representatives early on Friday delayed an anticipated vote on passage of Biden''s social programs and climate change investment bill, and reconvened at 8 a.m. EST (1300 GMT) to complete the legislation. In Europe, rising COVID-19 cases saw Austria outline plans for a full lockdown, while Germany could follow suit amid a new wave of infections. "There''s some pandemic risk. However, I don''t believe that the US will head in the direction like Austria headed today. If Germany institutes a full lockdown, that would probably have an impact, again, to the supply chain," said Tom Mantione, managing director, UBS Private Wealth Management in Stamford, Connecticut. "The biggest risk here to the market is not legislative policy or pandemic

MIT researchers working with funding from Google''s Jigsaw group recently conducted a pair of studies to determine what, if any, potential impact deepfake AI technology political ads could have on US voters. In total, more than 7,500 people in the US participated in the paired studies – as far as we''re able to determine, that makes this the largest set of experiments on the subject. Participants were split into three groups; one group watch a deepfake video, the second read a text transcript of the video, and the third acted as a control group so they received no media prompts. . . . This . . .