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Google announced today it will be applying A.I. advancements, including a new technology called Multitask Unified Model (MUM) to improve Google Search. At the company’s Search On event, the company demonstrated new features, including those that leverage MUM, to better connect web searchers to the content they’re looking for, while also making web search feel […]

Earlier this year, at Google’s I/O annual developer conference, the company introduced a new A.I. milestone called Multitask Unified Model, or MUM. This technology can simultaneously understand information across a wide range of formats, including text, images, and videos, and draw insights and connections between topics, concepts, and ideas. Today, Google announced one of the […]

September 29, 2021 By Jane Lanhee Lee OAKLAND, Calif (Reuters) – QC Ware, a quantum computer software startup based in Silicon Valley with high profile customers like Goldman Sachs Group, Inc, said on Wednesday it raised $25 million. The funding round was led by Koch Disruptive Technologies, an investment arm of Koch Industries, and Covestro AG, […]

September 29, 2021 By Tim Hepher PARIS (Reuters) -Air France took delivery of its first compact Airbus A220 jetliner on Tuesday, pledging greater comfort and lower emissions on short routes as its Franco-Dutch parent pushes ahead with a broader fleet shake-up to streamline costs. The French airline, part of the Franco-Dutch Air France-KLM group, said […]

September 29, 2021 WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States and Qatar took coordinated action on Wednesday targeting a Hezbollah financial network in the Arabian Peninsula, the U.S. Treasury Department said in a statement. The Treasury said it designated individuals including Ali Reda Hassan al-Banai, Ali Reda al-Qassabi Lari and Abd al-Muayyid al-Banaiare for having provided financial […]

September 29, 2021 MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) said on Wednesday it is in advanced talks with vaccine makers to buy additional COVID shots for its member states to complement bilateral deals, donations, and doses they are receiving via the COVAX mechanism. PAHO has reached an agreement with Chinese vaccine maker […]

September 29, 2021 By Nathan Frandino GUALALA, Calif. (Reuters) – Tranquil images of the Pacific Ocean taken by a drone show that California’s kelp forests may be making a comeback after years of depletion, bringing good news in the fight against climate change.     Kelp, which reduces global warming by soaking up carbon dioxide from […]

September 29, 2021 BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese automaker GAC is exporting China-made sport-utility vehicles to Mexico, in its first massive sales in the North America after years of planning to enter the key market. However, the cars are under Dodge marque. The “Dodge Journey” SUVs are built based on GAC’s vehicle design and made at […]

September 29, 2021 LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s biggest retailer Tesco plans to expand its use of a train service to bring goods from Spain into the country which helped it cut emissions and protect deliveries through a truck drivers’ shortage, its CEO told Reuters. Ken Murphy said in an interview for the upcoming Reuters Impact […]

September 29, 2021 BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro on Wednesday said that a new power transmission line in the northern region has received all required licenses and will be built within three years. This power line connecting the northern cities of Boa Vista and Manaus is 715 km long. For years, its environmental […]

Sudheesh Nair Contributor Share on Twitter Sudheesh Nair is CEO of ThoughtSpot, a business intelligence company that has built an intuitive Google-like interface for data analytics. Before ThoughtSpot, Sudheesh was president at Nutanix. Speaking about the historical trajectory of significant movements, Gandhi once said, “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they […]

September 29, 2021 By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Contracts to buy U.S. previously owned homes rebounded to a seven-month high in August, but higher prices as supply remains tight are slowing the housing market momentum. Other data on Wednesday showed applications for loans to buy a house fell last week as mortgage rates increased after […]

September 29, 2021 By David Lawder and Nandita Bose PITTSBURGH/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. and European Union trade and competition officials launched a new forum on Wednesday joining forces to better compete with China, shield sensitive technologies, boost semiconductor supplies and coordinate regulation of large technology firms. The U.S.-EU Trade and Technology Council opened its first meeting […]

September 29, 2021 (Reuters) – Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Wednesday said it was “frustrating” that supply chain bottlenecks are not improving this deep into the recovery from the recession triggered by the coronavirus, and it appears they will persist into next year. Powell, speaking at a virtual European Central Bank event, also said […]

September 29, 2021 By Phil Stewart and Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican U.S. lawmakers tried on Wednesday to pick apart President Joe Biden’s defense of his withdrawal from Afghanistan as they attacked his judgment and honesty during a second day of contentious Congressional hearings with Pentagon leaders. Biden has faced the biggest crisis of […]

September 29, 2021 ROME (Reuters) – Italian prime minister and current president of the G20 Mario Draghi is expected to meet climate activist Greta Thunberg in Milan on Thursday, two sources close to the matter said. Thunberg is among thousands of young people who have gathered in Italy’s financial capital to protest and meet policymakers, […]

September 29, 2021 By Natalia Zinets and Matthias Williams (Reuters) -Belarusian security forces shot dead a 31-year-old man, identified by the pro-democracy opposition as an IT worker with U.S. company EPAM Systems, during a raid on Tuesday at an apartment block in the capital Minsk. The man had opened fire against the security forces, one […]

September 29, 2021 By Sruthi Shankar and Shreyashi Sanyal (Reuters) -European stocks rose on Wednesday after one of the worst market routs this year as AstraZeneca lifted healthcare stocks on a deal to buy a rare disease drugmaker, while chip equipment producer ASM gained on an upbeat earnings forecast. British drugmaker AstraZeneca jumped 4.2% after […]

September 29, 2021 TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s economy will continue to recover and could reach levels seen before the coronavirus pandemic by the end of 2021 or early in 2022, Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda said on Thursday. “All in all, consumption, which has been quite weak, will gradually step up. On the other […]

September 29, 2021 FRANKFURT (Reuters) – The economic outlook for the euro zone is still fraught with uncertainty, stemming from supply bottlenecks, surging energy prices and new waves of the coronavirus pandemic, European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said on Wednesday. “How long how those bottlenecks will take to be resolved… is one of the […]