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Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google Bard is now available in most of the world. Bard now supports over 40 languages. Bard is getting a handful of new features to help provide more customized responses and boost productivity. When Google Bard launched earlier this year, it was limited to a small number of markets. However, it eventually expanded to …

Dinesh Nair / Bloomberg: PE firm CapVest agrees to acquire UK-based Kerridge, which provides ERP software to clients globally, from Accel-KKR; sources say the deal is valued at over $1B  —  Private equity firm CapVest Partners has agreed to acquire UK software provider Kerridge Commercial Systems Ltd.

Chemical, or organic, sunscreens, which have been particularly villainized in recent years, are often criticized for their harsh-sounding, impossible-to-pronounce ingredients: words like homosalate, octocrylene, octinoxate, octisalate. Mineral sunscreens, on the other hand—better described as inorganic—only feature two main ingredients: zinc oxide and titanium dioxide. “There are a lot of organizations that are quite pseudoscientific, and they tend to always fear-monger …

Damien Wilde / Android Authority The Nothing Phone 2 is finally out, and with it is the new software Nothing has been building for a while. Nothing OS 2.0 is currently only available on the Phone 2 but will eventually come to the Nothing Phone 1 in August. The latest version of the proprietary Android skin has added several new …

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Apple adds bilingual support to Siri, starting with Indic languages like Hindi and Telugu; Google Assistant got multilingual support in 2018 and Alexa in 2019  —  Apple released its first set of public beta versions of iOS 17, iPadOS 17, and macOS Sonoma on Wednesday.

As the war rolled on, organizations responding to the crisis came to realize that they had to be flexible and think beyond fixed, brick-and-mortar health care infrastructure. They needed to get ART to people—interrupted treatment can contribute to drug resistance—and they needed to continue, and scale up, harm reduction programs. Andriy Klepikov, the executive director of the Alliance for Public …

Robert Triggs / Android Authority TL;DR The Roku Channel is now available on Google TV and Android TV devices. It offers over 80,000 free movies and TV shows. It also offers access to over 350 free linear TV channels for news, sports, entertainment, and more. Owners of Google TV devices or other Android TV OS devices can now watch free …

Financial Times: Sources: Meta is poised to release a commercial version of LLaMA imminently and plans to make the AI model more widely available and customizable by companies  —  Microsoft-backed OpenAI and Google are surging ahead in Silicon Valley development race  —  Meta is poised to release …

Next, they got patients from a hair transplant clinic to donate follicles, then grafted those healthy hairs onto mice. Follicles normally undergo a sort of shock after a transplant, going dormant for a couple months. Plikus suspected that osteopontin could rouse the grafted follicles faster. Thirty days after grafting, some of these mice received osteopontin injections. Twenty days later, only …

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR VPN By Google One is getting a new feature to improve your experience on location-based apps and websites. It will soon set your IP location to a local region instead of a broader region by default. You’ll still have the option to select the latter for more privacy. VPN by Google One is getting …