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  Forget trying to get your child or grandkid into good art museums--just get them a mobile device. Today Google released the latest iteration of their Arts & Culture app, which uses image recognition and machine learning to find your portrait in thousands of paintings and sculptures from dozens of classic Western art galleries.   The app, which Google says can recognize "over 70 million works of art," has been available in the US for over a year, but the new version adds the ability to search portraits by the person. That means that while you'll still end up with a lot of false positives, it will also guess at more obscure works--and as Google's blog post points out, that might be a fun way to learn about art history. The app will show you similar recognized works of art along with the museum where it found it and a related Wikipedia entry.   From there you can look at derivative works of art and related portraits, and also see more about the history and ...

  Nothing can stand in front of nature. This is what we can learn from the pandemic of the 2019. While it definitely accelerated digital transformation for many companies and industries, it also hurt some technology companies that were in fact disruptors itself. Let’s look at Airbnb for example. We all know how Airbnb disrupted the hoteling industry by proving cheaper alternates for tourists to live in. In January 2020, Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky got to know that his organization's appointments in China had dropped by 80% somewhat recently. That number was past unheard of...until appointments overall followed similar trend in the span of two months. Chesky said the following year of steering Airbnb through a worldwide pandemic resembled working in an emergency circumstance, where the product roadmap changed from one that spanned years, to one focused on getting through the days. "At that point, all of our plans went out the window," Chesky said. "The house was o...