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Trullion tackles applying AI to accounting workflows
Trullion thinks AI may be used to unify the “unstructured and structured worlds of accounting by translating them into financial workflows.”Read More
Report: 70% of U.S. consumers want to use AI for their jobs
While workers are interested in AI, they still want to maintain control over their solutions, rather than have AI run tasks automatically.Read More
AEW: Fight Forever trademark shows wrestling game’s likely name
Files acquires ExaVault to provide automated, secure cloud platform
Files’ acquisition is projected to produce the industry’s largest cloud-native files platform, with more than 6,500 active B2B customers.Read More
Kaser Focus: I’m your GamesBeat+
New Witcher, new Ghostbusters, Suicide Squad delay, and Activision Blizzard updates this week. We also got Ghostwire Tokyo this week.Read More
It will take daily effort by all to narrow tech’s C-Suite gender gap
Without the presence of women C-suite leaders, homogenous companies don’t only miss exciting opportunities but put their performance at risk.Read More
Google’s next smart display rumored to be a detachable tablet
Enlarge / The 2nd Gen Nest Hub. (credit: Corey Gaskin)
Google’s second-generation Nest Hub smart display is a year old, so it’s time to wonder if a new hardware release is around the corner. 9to5Google has a new rumor to consider: Google is “working on a new Nest Hub for 2022 with a dockable tablet form factor where the screen detaches from a base/speaker.” The site didn’t provide further details, but the idea would fit in Google’s recent product plan.
Since its inception, Google Assistant hardware has essentially copied Amazon’s Echo line. The original Google Home speaker released two years after the Amazon Echo. The Home Mini came out a year and a half after the Echo Dot. The Google Home Hub smart display hit the market a year after the Echo Show. Google Assistant smart clocks launched a year and a half after the Echo Spot. The lack of hardware innovation from Google isn’t a huge deal since Google is generally considered to have a better voice command system, but it’s pretty clear where Google goes shopping for a product roadmap.
And, of course, Amazon has a whole line of tablets that turn into smart displays. In 2018, the company built smart display functionality into Fire OS, Amazon’s fork of Android. Whenever you stick an Amazon tablet into one of the official docks, it automatically transitions into smart display mode. Google experimented with an “ambient mode” for Android phones a year and a half after Amazon’s launch (Google’s timing is remarkably consistent), but the feature was initially only available on specific third-party phones. Ambient mode did not make it to devices like the Pixel 6. The feature also doesn’t make much sense on phones, which generally aren’t readable from across the room. Smart displays typically are. A tablet ambient mode would have been better, but Google’s launch in 2019 was during a dead period for Android tablets.
The only winner in the Okta Lapsus$ breach is Microsoft
Okta’s identity security rival, Microsoft, is arguably the only beneficiary of the Lapsus$ leak revealing the breach of 366 Okta customers.Read More
Gran Turismo 7 will rejigger its game economy after backlash
Enlarge / Don’t let GT7‘s grind rain on your parade, the economy is being fixed. (credit: Sony)
When Gran Turismo 7 launched earlier this month, it was no surprise that the game’s economy was not exactly forgiving. But displeasure among players boiled over a couple of weeks later after a bungled update took down the game servers—and therefore basically the entire game—for more than a day.
Now, the head of Polyphony Digital, Kazunori Yamauchi, has published a post at the PlayStation blog to apologize to players and let them know the studio has been listening:
I would like to apologize for the frustration and confusion caused last week with our patch updates which resulted in not only a server outage but also adjustments to the in-game economy which were made without a clear explanation to our community.
Every player who had a copy of the game by the time the post went live in the early hours of Friday morning will, at some point in the very near future, find an extra million in-game credits in their account as a goodwill gesture.