By siliconindia | Wednesday, 19 May 2021, 04:34 Hrs Google on Tuesday launched nearly a dozen updates to make collaboration more seamless in the remote work and learning era amid the pandemic. You can now present your content to a Google Meet call on the web directly from the Doc, Sheet, or Slide where you re already working with your team. In the fall, we re bringing Meet directly to Docs, Sheets, and Slides on the web, so people can actually see and hear each other while they re collaborating, said Erika Trautman, Director, Google Workspace, on the first day of the virtual Google I/O developer conference.
April 18, 2021
Sipping a strong drink outside with friends, jazz music in the air, you could almost forget the pandemic except for masks dangling around everyone’s chins.
Telegraph street in downtown Oakland, California has been closed to auto traffic through a program called flex streets, allowing watering holes like Bar Shiru to set up their tables in the avenue for socially-distanced service. To limit menus, credit cards, or cash from passing back and forth between customers and servers, ordering and payment is done on customers’ own mobile phones, enabled by QR codes. Even the servers have a different glow: In the Covid era, they are “essential workers,” with early vaccine eligibility. The idea of supporting their places of employment has an added tinge of moral righteousness.