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Meta and Google Are Betting on AI Voice Assistants. Will They Take Off?
Meta, Google and others are driving a renaissance for voice assistants, but people have found the technology uncool for more than a decade.
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Atlassian Rovo brings AI smarts to enterprise search
Atlassian has developed a new search tool — Atlassian Rovo — that can surface data from a variety of third-party apps. Rovo, currently in preview, provides a chatbot interface to help workers access information across their organization,and even decipher workplace jargon. “Atlassian Rovo is designed to unlock knowledge discovery and accelerate action across the organization,” said Jamil Valliani,…
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Fed Holds Rates Steady, Noting Lack of Progress on Inflation
The Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged for a sixth straight meeting and suggested that rates would stay high for longer.
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Greene Says She Will Demand Vote Next Week on Removing Johnson
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, the right-wing Republican from Georgia, excoriated the House speaker for working with Democrats to push through major bills. She said she would move ahead despite all but certain defeat.
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Giuliani’s Spending: $43,000 a Month and a Lot of Credit Card Bills
Rudy Giuliani promised a bankruptcy court that he would limit his spending, but it didn’t take long before he broke that pledge, and by a lot.
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U.S. Imposes Sanctions on Chinese Companies for Aiding Russia’s War Effort
The penalties came after top Biden administration officials warned China not to help Moscow restock its arsenal to attack Ukraine.
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Biden to Address Holocaust Remembrance While Still Quiet on Campus Unrest
The president has largely left it to aides to respond to anti-Israel protests at colleges across the country, but he is planning a speech next week at an event sponsored by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
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Trump Acknowledges He Wanted to Go to the Capitol on Jan. 6
The former president recalled a key detail central to testimony before the Jan. 6 committee during a campaign event in Wisconsin.
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Glamping Beneath the Stars in Utah
Would cloudy weather ruin a visit to the first-ever resort to receive certification from DarkSky International? A stargazer in Utah holds on to her optimism.
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New Photo of Australia’s Sand-Swimming Northern Marsupial Mole
Indigenous rangers in Australia’s Western Desert got a rare close-up with the northern marsupial mole, which is tiny, light-colored and blind, and almost never comes to the surface.