so with pinterest lens, when you point your camera at something in the real world, the computer insidext and then it takes the text and it takes the image and runs a search against 100 billion pins on pinterest to find the ones that seem the most relevant. 0k, it knows it's a lemon, that's definitely a good start. now, if we scroll down. ok, i think you scroll through it and some of the results make sense, which is sort of like when you search with words, because often you search then and a lot of the things don't make sense, and some do. and having come up with those words, i've got a series of recipes that contina lemons. so we've got a lemon drizzle cake, a lemon polenta cake. we've now got some artwork of lemons. it's a lot better than it did on my boots and this's probably because this is a very simple image to recognise and understand. pinterest lens is also powering vision, the image search function in samsung's bixby which is currently only available on s8 phones in the us and korea. and so, today we're announcing a new initiative called google lens. google lens is also due for

this january, they upped their game, though, launching pinterest lens, a way of being able to searcha attached. and from that search term, it aims to come up with similar objects and related ideas. there we go, we've got a picture and something is emerging. it says "shoes." right, those are definitely shoes, but they don't exactly resemble mine. black shoe with blue laces, some men's shoes. so how does it actually do this? so there are two parts to visual search. the first is computer vision, which is a way of translating the information coming in through the camera into words. the second is the data set and the data set is the most important. so with pinterest lens, when you point your camera at something in the real world, the computer inside the phone translates that image into text and then it takes the text and it takes the image and runs a search against 100 billion pins on pinterest to find the ones that seem the most relevant. 0k, it knows it's a lemon, that's definitely a good start. now, if we scroll down. ok, i think you scroll through it and some of the results make sense

visual search, that is very important to us, earlier this year, we launched something called pinterest lenscial networks, visual —based social networks, visual —based social networks, visual —based social networks have been displacing the text—based ones, and i believe firmly that five to ten years from now, visual searches will be much bigger. catching up on the news. —— catching up catching up on the news. —— catching up on the news. —— catching up on other news. microsoft is to cut "thousands" ofjobs around the world as it tries to beef up its presence in the cloud computing sector, where its facing intense competition from the likes of amazon and google. the majority of cuts are expected to be outside the us. an australian state is going to install the world's largest lithium ion, battery. it's part of a major deal with the electric car firm tesla. it's designed to protect south australia from the kind of energy crisis that resulted in a crippling state—wide blackout. the boss of tesla promised to build it within 100 days, or do it for free. the chinese internet company tencent says its