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• 6 more out-of-sight Android features worth finding

  27-04-2023 22:34
  
  Confession time: I write about Android for a living and obsess over my smartphone's software more than most reasonably sane people — and yet, I still find myself stumbling onto features that once seemed incredible and then promptly got forgotten.Android's had so many interesting options come up over the years that lots of stuff has gotten brushed away and buried deep within the operating system's mustiest corners. And unless you take the time to spelunk through those depths with some regu
  
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• Dropbox lays off 16% of staff to refocus on AI, as sales growth slows

  27-04-2023 21:52
  
  Facing a slowdown in revenue growth, cloud storage company Dropbox announced today that it is laying off 500 employees, or 16% of its workforce, mainly in order to be able to hire staff with AI expertise.Although revenue for the fourth quarter last year — the last quarter for which Dropbox reported earnings — was up by 5.8% year over year to $598.8 million, the company has experienced a slowdown in sales recently. Meanwhile, in order to stay competive, the company needs to ramp up i
  
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• UK expected to offer $1.25 billion for nation's semiconductor industry

  27-04-2023 21:41
  
  UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is reportedly about to follow in the footsteps of the US and several European governments by announcing a funding package designed to build up the country’s domestic semiconductor industry, according to a report this week from Politico.While the exact amount of the funding could change, according to Politico’s sources, a topline figure of £1 billion ($1.25 billion) is expected. The UK government’s Department for Science, Innovation and Techn
  
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• Apple's inexorable plan to replace retail banking

  27-04-2023 17:28
  
  At this point, Apple offers its users services to make purchases, transact sales, buy items on credit using a card, save money, a virtual currency, and to make small transactions over time at zero interest rates. It takes a tiny cut of cash from all these transactions. But even now the Apple Pay story is still just beginning.No one likes banks
  Think back to the financial crash, when an out-of-control banking sector set in motion a chain of events that left many  people today poorer than th
  
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• How to pick the best content services platform for your business

  27-04-2023 12:00
  
  Enterprise content management (ECM), an umbrella term for the processes and tools that organizations use to capture, store, secure, retrieve, and manage business data in its many forms, is dead.So declared Gartner in 2017. Companies still needed to manage all that content, of course, but vendors were adopting a new approach that required new terminology, the research firm said.The goal of ECM applications was traditionally to store and manage an organization’s content within a single, cen
  
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• Bosch to acquire TSI Semiconductor, invest $1.5 B post acquisition

  27-04-2023 11:19
  
  The acquisition is part of Bosch’s strategy to tap into the rising demand for chips globally, especially in the automotive and electronics sector.
  
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• Joe Scarborough Loses It After Tucker Carlson's 'Crude' Comments ... - msnNOW

  27-04-2023 09:00 via news.google.com
  Joe Scarborough Loses It After Tucker Carlson's 'Crude' Comments ...  msnNOW
  
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