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Mahjong is having a moment, with the popularity of the tile game surging this year. Generally, people play at each other’s homes or in libraries, but this summer, there has been a growing demand for floating mahjong tables. The Mahjong Line sells one for $245 that currently has a waiting list.
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New York Magazine on MSNThe AI Boom Is Expanding Google’s DominanceAlphabet reported second-quarter results on Wednesday that beat on revenue and earnings, but the company said it would raise its capital investments by $10 billion in 2025. Shares of the company were up as much as 3% in after-hours trading. The company’s overall revenue grew 14% year over year, higher than the 10.9% Wall Street expected.
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Smithsonian Magazine on MSNGoogle Just Released an A.I. Tool That Helps Historians Fill in Missing Words in Ancient Roman InscriptionsArtificial intelligence, meet ancient Rome. A new A.I. tool developed by Google DeepMind helps scholars fill in words missing from ancient inscriptions and estimate historical data about the textual artifacts,
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PCMag on MSNGoogle Maps Is Going to Be Less Social From SeptemberFrom September, Google will be removing a feature where you can follow other contributors on the popular navigation app.
Currently, Google Meet on Android limits how you can invite people to ongoing calls. The existing method requires you to share a link with the new participant, which they can click and enter the meeting. This is unlike the web interface, where you can simply type their email ID to invite them to the call.
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Italian energy storage firm Energy Dome said on Friday it had entered a commercial partnership with Google to supply carbon-free energy to the grids that power the operations of the U.S. tech giant.
Yesterday we learned Google’s new smartwatch might charge on its side, and now Android Headlines has shared official renders of it in various colors, matching almost every hue we’ve seen from the Pixel 10 phones: the vibrant “Indigo” and “Limoncello;
AI-generated videos are becoming dangerously convincing and UC Riverside researchers have teamed up with Google to fight back. Their new system, UNITE, can detect deepfakes even when faces aren't visible,
An Argentine captured naked in his yard by a Google Street View camera has been awarded compensation by a court after his bare behind was splashed over the internet for all to see.