Google parent-company Alphabet beat expectations for its second quarter earnings Thursday, marking its first revenue decline in the company’s history. CNBC reports: Here’s how it did against Refinitiv consensus estimates: EPS: $10.13 (non-GAAP), vs. $8.21 estimated.
Revenue: $38.30 billion vs. $37.37 billion estimated. Although the company reported its first annual revenue decline in history (a drop of 2%), the stock rose slightly…
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Quantum machines learn ‘quantum data’
Skoltech scientists have shown that quantum enhanced machine learning can be used on quantum (as opposed to classical) data, overcoming a significant slowdown common to these applications and opening a “fertile ground to develop computational insights into quantum systems.” The paper was published in the journal Physical Review A. …
Coursera is Among the Top 10 on Fast Company’s Best Workplaces for Innovators List
By Jenny Talwar, Director of Talent at Coursera Innovators wanted: join our team at a pivotal moment Today, Fast Company ranked Coursera ninth on its Best Workplaces for Innovators list. The 2020 ranking features 100 companies that demonstrate a deep commitment to nurturing innovation at all levels. “As much of the world recovers from health, […]
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Google Will Disable Microsoft’s RAM-Saving Feature for Chrome in Windows 10
“Google has decided to disable a feature in Windows 10 version 2004 that allowed Chrome and Microsoft Edge browsers to use a lot less RAM,” reports ZDNet:
Windows 10 gave Win32 apps including Chrome access to a ‘segment heap’ API to allow apps to reduce memory usage, but as Techdows spotted, Chromium engineers have decided for now to turn off the feature…
Microsoft, LinkedIn To Retrain Unemployed Workers for In-Demand Jobs
Microsoft and its LinkedIn unit will provide free job training to help unemployed workers prepare for in-demand jobs as the global pandemic pushes U.S. joblessness to levels as bad as those during the Great Depression. From a report: The program uses LinkedIn data to find the jobs that employers most want to fill, and offers free access to content that helps…
Disney Research Creates Face-Swapping Technique For High-Res Video
shirappu writes: A new paper by Disney Research shows off a newly developed neural network that can swap faces in photos and videos at high-resolution. The idea behind this technology is to replace an actor’s performance with a different actor’s face, or for roles that require de-aging or increasing age, or for portraying actors who have passed away. Current face-swapping technology…
Rise of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere continues unabated
NOAA reports that atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) measured at Hawaii’s Mauna Loa Observatory for May 2020 was the highest monthly reading ever recorded. Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/rising-carbon-dioxide-co2-record-high-june2020…
Helping governments respond to the unemployment crisis caused by the coronavirus
By Leah Belsky, Chief Enterprise Officer and Kevin Mills, Head of Government Partnerships As businesses across sectors lay off workers due to an abrupt economic slowdown, the world faces the biggest unemployment crisis in the modern era. The pandemic has affected the livelihoods of 2.7 billion workers globally. In the U.S. alone, jobless claims have […]
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Cash App Scammers Are Using Coronavirus To Exploit People
An anonymous reader shares a report: Reyna is a teenager in Florida whose family is strapped for cash amid the economic slowdown caused by the coronavirus. When the uber-popular beauty influencer Jeffree Star tweeted that he’d be giving out $30,000 via payment service Cash App to a random person who retweeted him, she did just that. Star’s offer seems to have…
Uber and Lyft Are Creating Traffic, Not Reducing It
The Wall Street Journal remembers how five years ago, Uber’s co-founder “was so confident that Uber’s rides would prompt people to leave their cars at home that he told a tech conference: ‘If every car in San Francisco was Ubered there would be no traffic.'” He was wrong.
Rather than the apps becoming a model of algorithm-driven efficiency, drivers in major cities…