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Snap Earns $20m Grant to Back California Tech Industry

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California has awarded Snap Inc a massive fund worth $20 million USD. Hailing from Santa Monica and with offices in Paolo Alto, Snap has long been associated with Silicon Valley’s tech hub in California. However, after a year from its departure, the company leased a new office in California’s Bay Area.

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AWE EU 2022 Is Headed for Lisbon

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And, according to the current iteration of the agenda, Inbar’s keynote has the same theme as the one we saw in California in June. Microsoft, Google, the XRA – and That’s Just One Talk. Other big companies include HTC Vive , HaptX , Niantic , and Amazon. AWE EU still kicks off with Ori Inbar’s keynote.

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Which Startups Are Hiring for Augmented Reality Jobs?

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billion in 2019, with many billions more being invested in R&D by the likes of Facebook, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and many more. Since the launch, they’ve created augmented reality experiences for COVID-19 and California wildfire news stories. Guest Post.

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Is Personal Computing’s Next Conquest Your Face?

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Why Facebook and Amazon have joined the race to bring computing to your face. — Facebook and Amazon each discussed computer glasses at launch events this week. — Amazon’s approach is to get a lightweight product out now, while Facebook is promising advanced technology in a few years. Google (search).

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The Future Of Computing: Supercloud And Sky Computing

Bernard Marr

This means that a business might have service agreements in place with, for example, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. This objective is set out in a paper published in 2021 by the University of California, Berkley professors Ion Stoica and Scott Shenker, titled From Cloud Computing to Sky Computing.

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20+ Amazing (And Free) Data Sources Anyone Can Use To Build AIs

Bernard Marr

Data Search Engines and Repositories Google Dataset Search – This is actually a search engine for datasets cataloged by Google; use this to find data on just about anything you could need. AWS Open Data Search – Another dataset search engine, this one, is provided by Amazon's AWS service.

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The Spatial Web: How the Next Generation of the Internet Will Impact Us All

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Currently, when you’re walking around the United States accessing the web, your digital self is likely heading physically to one of four major data centers operated by Amazon Web Services in either California, Oregon, Ohio, or Virginia. You’ve probably already experienced the Spatial Web without knowing its name.