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[ad_1] Just a day after Google announced mass layoffs that affect “hundreds” of employees across the Bay area, the tech giant has now revealed that it is removing 17 features from Google Assistant. In a bid to lower costs and increase focus on artificial intelligence (AI), the Mountain View-based company is eliminating employees including those working on its voice assistant, and its result is evident from day one with the removal of multiple features from Google Assistant. Check details. Google Assistant features removedIn a blog post, Google announced that it is making changes to Assistant, and that involves the removal of 17 features. The company said that it will be investing in Google Assistant features that are popular, and it will stop supporting some features that are underutili...

[ad_1] Apple Inc.'s services chief, set to testify in Washington Tuesday, plans to defend the lucrative deal that made Google's search engine the default option on the iPhone, saying it was the best choice for consumers.Eddy Cue, Apple's senior vice president of services and the architect of the agreement, is taking the stand at a Department of Justice trial against Google, which the government says used its dominance in search to hinder competition. Cue plans to say he has always believed that Google makes the best search engine — and that's why Apple uses it as the go-to option across its major devices — according to a person familiar with his expected testimony. Google pays Apple billions of dollars for this prominent position on products like the iPhone, making the agreement of part...

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