Technology

If you've blinked at any point in the past few months, I hate to tell ya, but you've probably missed something significant with the Google Assistant.

Every few weeks, it seems, Assistant's either showing up on some new sort of device or expanding what it's able to accomplish. And really, it's no surprise: Assistant, as we've discussed approximately 72 gazillion times before, is increasingly the focus of almost everything Google doesthese days — and for good reason.

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This help desk pilot fish works for a service company that handles support for a group of travel agents.

&User calls to report that her terminal screen is blank,& fish reports. &After I run through several procedures for about 45 minutes to no avail, I ask user to look on the back of the monitor for model and serial numbers.

&User tells me that she is unable to see the model or serial numbers. When I ask why, she says her office is dark and she can&t see anything.

&I then learn from her that the electricity is off in the building due to a power failure in the area. She also informs me that shecalling from her cellphone because her office phone is not working.

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While the number of jobs related to blockchain and cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin has skyrocketed in the past four years, the number of searches for those jobs has drastically dropped recently, according to job search site Indeed.

Over the past year, the share of cryptocurrency- and blockchain-related job postings per million has slowed on Indeed, increasing 26%. At the same time, the share of searches per million for jobs in the field has decreased by 53%.

A year ago, Indeed's data similarly showed interest in blockchain development skills, including the creation of cryptocurrencies, had waned as bitcoin's value - and the hype around it - fell off.

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