A Play Store listing spotted by 9to5Google said “Look up” allows you to “highlight a concept you want to explore, a new word, a trip destination, and more.” Screenshots captured by the outlet show the app pulling up a definition for a highlighted word, as well as showing tracking information for a highlighted flight number.
The app description and images have since been pulled from the listing.
The layoffs, which affect around 3,300 employees, comes as part of efforts to “make Uber simpler and faster,” according to a memo published by CEO Dana Khosrowshahi.
Khosrowshahi adds that Uber is removing management layers, with “the number of employees who sit 7+ layers from the CEO” reduced by 20 percent. Uber laid off 10 percent of its customer service workers in July.
The feature, which is rolling out to Perplexity Computer on Mac, uses a “privacy gate” to control which information leaves the device. While cloud-based AI models will handle reasoning, web search, and planning, an on-device model will work with tasks involving sensitive information and private files.
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If you subscribe to YouTube TV’s main $82.99 / month plan or standalone Sports package, you can now access live sports and other content from ESPN Unlimited directly within the YouTube TV app.
YouTube TV started allowing users to connect ESPN Unlimited to their accounts in July, as part of a carriage agreement reached by Google and Disney last year.
Cook’s 15-year tenure as Apple CEO was filled with ups and downs.
