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We haven’t heard of the Apple TV 4K rival, but it might be the case with theGoogle TV streamer
Google on Wednesday released the latest version of Google TV streaming device, Chromecast TV Streamer, and announced that it would launch a new model this year. It is designed to be hidden under the TV without being noticed. The Chromecast TV Streamer features a new remote, a customizable button which can open the app or…
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There is no price for Apple to use Bing, the spiciest parts of the ruling
Google pays Apple $20 billion a year for being Safari’s default search engine and user-downloaded Chrome and Safari default bookmarks respectively, an Apple analysis revealed. It would cost $6 billion a year to run a search engine on top of what it already spends developing search capabilities, Apple said. Apple would have to spend $20…
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There is no price for Bing: the spiciest parts of the antitrust ruling against Microsoft
Google has unlawfully maintained its dominance in search by using anticompetitive deals to keep rivals from gaining traction, a US judge ruled. Apple had sued Google in 2018, alleging that Google abused its dominance in search by “favouring its own services over rivals'”. The judge found that Google paid Apple a percentage of its ad…
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A US judge ruled that a search engine was an illegal Monopoly game
An expert witness in a search case revealed Google paid Apple $20 billion to secure the default search engine spot on iPhone browsers, The Verge reported. The judge ruled Google has monopoly power in both general search and general search text ads. In response to the ruling, a Google spokesperson said, “We’re going to appeal…
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With the help of a new form of intelligence, Google Home will be able to answer more questions
Google has announced a new voice-enabled feature called ‘Help me create’ on the Google Home app to let users create automatic routines like turning off lights at bedtime. The feature will be available in the App Store later this month for Android users and Apple users. It will let users describe what they want to…
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The judge in the US antitrust case decided that the company was a monopolist
US District Judge Amit Mehta ruled that Google has “unjustifiably maintained its dominance” in search by using anticompetitive deals to keep rivals from gaining traction. He found that Google hasn’t shown that its deals with partners harm competition and that Google hadn’t shown otherwise. He said Google’s deals with partners harm competition and that Google…
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Best headphones and earbuds deals on Prime Day
Amazon has started its Prime Day sale, with a number of electronics and othergadgets being sold for up to 50% cheaper than previous prices. The headphones included in the sale are Jabra Go Air Pop with 32 hours batterylife and HyperX Cloud III Wireless with 120 hours battery life. Google’s new midranger, Google Pixelbook, was…
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Climate change is a major contributor to the greenhouse gas emissions of Microsoft and Google
Google, in its annual sustainability report, said that starting in 2023, it will no longer “maintain operational carbon neutrality”. In its sustainability report, Google said that it was no longer “maintaining operational carbon neutrality”. It said it expects to spend the same amount throughout the year and is also pushing for a net-zero goal.
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After security backlash, Microsoft will switch off recall
A researcher, James Forshaw, with Google’s Project Zero has found methods for accessing Recall data without administrator privileges. One of the methods uses the access control lists used by Windows to determine which elements required which privileges to read and alter. The hacker would rewrite the access control lists on the target machine to grant…
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The results of the search are Copied my original work
A report by US-based search engine Bright Edge revealed that Google’s AI answers appeared on the majority of health care keyword searches, including ‘foot infection’, ‘bleeding bowel’, and ‘telehealth urgent care’. The report also said that in comparison, queries about ecommerce return AI overviews at around 23%, while restaurants or travel very rarely trigger AI…
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The search feature was damaged by the artificial intelligence
Google has clarified that its AI Overviews feature never suggested people should jump off the Golden Gate Bridge if they are experiencing depression. “We saw AI Overviews that featured sarcastic or trolly content from discussion forums. They didn’t appear,” Google said. The feature uses a citation mechanism to explain when sources are conflicting and selects…
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The search documents are real, according to the company
Google should apologize to me and the public for releasing the documents that have been released by Google about Google’s discovery of the algorithm and how it affects the search engine, tech journalist Adam Fishkin wrote. “Google’s public representatives…take issue with their efforts to actively discredit people in the marketing, tech, and journalism worlds who…
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There are strange answers in the search
Google’s artificial intelligence (AI) overview product is a “tiny slice of what the company announced last week”, New York University Professor Gary Marcus said in an interview. He added that the AI Overviews on certain queries where appropriate under the company’s content policies, and the use of those examples to develop broader improvements to its…
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The judge didn’t buy Google’s arguments in the case
Apple, Amazon, and Samsung have filed a lawsuit accusing Google of anti-competitive behaviour in relation to its Play Store. The lawsuit claims Google abused its market power by imposing restrictions on rivals’ App Stores. It further accused Google of using the Play Store as an “anti-competitive chokehold” against competitors. “This case is about the opportunity…
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The smart home will be open to everyone and the hubs will be from Google
Google announced that smart-home startup Eve will be the first company to use Google Home APIs to integrate its app into Android devices. Furthermore, it said that Google Pixel devices will also use the APIs to bridge “the digital and physical worlds so that bedtime mode can…dim screen but can also automatically dim bedroom lights,…
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“Multimodal” is an answer to the new chatgp
Google is working on a AI-powered voice-based chat app for Android, OpenAI’s Co-founder Barret Zoph said at Google I/O. “ChatGPT…is capable of talking to people through cameras, phones, and screens,” he said. He added that the app could also be used to take a picture and talk about what’s seen through a camera or computer…
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Everything was announced at the Google I/O
Google has unveiled a new feature ‘Circle to Search’ which it said will let users search for clues, graphs and physics on their phones. Circle to Search has been built using Google’s AI-powered Gemini AI model and will be available on all Android devices. The feature will enable users to take a video of something…
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You can watch a musician demo an Artificial Intelligence DJ
Google has unveiled its new DJ Mode in MusicFX which lets musicians generate song loops and samples based on prompts. The interface works like this: users are presented with a mixer-style interface, which spits out music based on text prompt and organises them to sync the resulting track. Google also showed off a new scam…
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In the past and future, we points to mobile computing
Google has announced that it’s making its AI assistant ‘Gemini’ available as a paid app for Android users under its ‘Google One AI Premium’ plan. Users can access ‘Gemini Advanced’ for $20 per month. “We now have the technology to build really exciting assistants,” Dave Burke, VP of Engineering on Android, said.
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There will be a focus on artificial intelligence again by the year 2024
Google on Tuesday announced that its AI-based digital assistant ‘Gemini’ is now compatible with Spotify. Earlier, Google said that it has extended support for Spotify’s streaming service to the app on Google Assistant. The technology giant had launched ‘Gemini’ as an alternative to Google Assistant, which had a feature that let users order music directly…
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OpenAI may unveil its search competitor on Monday
Google’s AI division OpenAI is developing an AI-based search engine, which will be powered by Bing, The Information reported. The service will reportedly also include citations of information. Earlier, a report had said that Google could launch its own AI-based ‘virtual assistant’ at its upcoming I/O event on May 14.
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Tech executives have their internal communications released by Republicans
Google has responded after a US congressman accused it of “colluding” with the government to “censor speech”. The lawmaker accused Google of refusing to cooperate in a congressional investigation into its communications with the US government. Google said, “We’ve been working with the Department of Justice (DOJ) for more than a year and have been…
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A group of employees were fired for protesting a cloud deal with Israel
Google fired 28 employees on Wednesday after they participated in protests against a $1.2-billion contract with Israel’s government. The protest was organised by No Tech for Apartheid, an activist group led by ex-YouTube software engineer Zelda Montes, who was among the fired employees. Montes said that she was arrested after occupying Google’s office for more…
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A group of employees were fired for protesting a cloud deal with Israel
Google fired 28 employees on Wednesday after they participated in protests against a $1.2-billion contract with Israel’s government. The protest was organised by No Tech for Apartheid, an activist group led by ex-YouTube software engineer Zelda Montes, who was among the fired employees. Montes said that she was arrested after occupying Google’s office for more…
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The employees were fired because they protested the cloud deal with Israel
Google and Amazon workers protested outside the companies’ headquarters in New York on Tuesday over the company’s $1.2-billion cloud contract with Israel. The protesters were protesting against Project Nimbus, a cloud contract with Israel’s security services. They claimed that the contract could be used by Israel’s security apparatus to harm Palestinians. Google fired 28 employees…