TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2023

Google will soon allow users to store their location data on their devices rather than on Google’s servers, effectively ending a long-running surveillance practice that allowed police and law enforcement to tap Google’s vast banks of location data to identify potential criminals.

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Xebia

APRIL 9, 2024

Most users of Google Docs are already familiar with the smart chip functionality where it is possible to use the @-sign to edit function fields such as: add date, people, files, places, polls, etc. With Google’s new addition, it becomes possible to add a replaceable chip in a document. Contact us !

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Google launched its hand gesture detection feature on Google Meet that recognizes when your physical hand is raised and triggers the hand raise icon to notify participants in the video call that you have a question. Google Meet only detects your hand when it is visible […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Google announced today that it will pay $700 million as a part of a settlement with the U.S. attorney general for a lawsuit over Google Play Store. Along with that, the company has also agreed to take certain measures related to Google Play billing, sideloading and how sideloaded apps are updated. All rights reserved.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

TikTok is testing a new feature that integrates Google Search into its own in-app search results. The test, spotted by app researcher Radu Oncescu, shows a small box midway down TikTok’s search page that invites users to search for the same terms on Google.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2023

On Monday, a jury sided with Epic Games over Google in an antitrust case that could reshape how app marketplaces like Google Play are allowed to operate. Epic, creator of the popular online multiplayer game Fortnite, first filed its lawsuit against Google in […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2023

In September, Google announced it would shut down its standalone podcasts app, Google Podcasts, sometime next year. users to shift their existing podcast subscriptions over to YouTube Music, which will be Google’s new home for […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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Xebia

APRIL 15, 2024

Until now, chat messages in the Google Meet chat panel were only visible for those actually joining at the moment the chat message was sent. The post Pin Chat Messages in Google Meet appeared first on Xebia. From now on, you can pin messages to the top of the meeting chat. Have you already tried to pin a message?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Google’s making the second generation of Imagen, its AI model that can create and edit images given a text prompt, more widely available — at least to Google Cloud customers using Vertex AI who’ve been approved for access.

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Xebia

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

If you’re working on a file that you’ll need to share later during a meeting, you used to have to add it through Google Calendar, right? That is the option to share any file with all meeting participants on a Google Calendar invite via the sharing dialog within a file. What do you need to do to be able to use this?

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Xebia

APRIL 11, 2024

Since last year, Google Workspace enables you to create a booking page with appointment units in your Google Calendar. Google has now further expanded this functionality. The post Google Calendar Improves Appointment Slots and Booking Calendars appeared first on Xebia.

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Xebia

APRIL 5, 2024

Deploying Google Cloud (GCP) resources via Azure Pipelines used to require service account keys. Today, however, Azure DevOps OIDC tokens can be exchanged to Google credentials using Google Cloud Workload Identity Federation. Federate Google credentials based on Azure DevOps OIDC tokens representing Service Connections.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

As Google ramps up its security measures, the company is deleting inactive accounts that haven’t been touched for two years as a way of protecting users from security threats, such as identity theft, unwanted spam and scams.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2024

Google’s trying to make waves with Gemini, a new generative AI platform that recently made its big debut. But while Gemini appears to be promising in a few aspects, it’s falling short in others. So what is Gemini? How can you use it? And how does it stack up to the competition? To make it […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Google is launching updates to Chrome on desktop this week to make your browsing experience safer and give you more control over your browser's memory usage. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Google thinks that there’s an opportunity to offload more healthcare tasks to generative AI models — or at least, an opportunity to recruit those models to aid healthcare workers in completing their tasks. Today, the company announced MedLM, a family of models fine-tuned for the medical industries. …

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Xebia

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Google Chat is increasingly used in various organizations to get quick and easy answers to questions. And Google wouldn’t be Google if they did not keep on making it better and better for their users. The post Google Chat Keeps Getting Better appeared first on Xebia.

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Xebia

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

As a non-Google user, until now you were able to join video calls in Google Meet on your desktop. Not anymore, because Google now made it possible for anyone to join Google Meet video meetings on a smartphone, even without a Google account. Need help with Google Meet or other Google Workspace applications?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Google and Match announced today they’ve reached a settlement in the antitrust battle Match waged against the tech giant, even as the court case continues with Fortnite maker Epic Games.

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CIO

AUGUST 23, 2023

Google has opened a second cloud region in Germany as part of its plan to invest $1.85 Other Google Cloud regions in Europe include locations such as Milan, Paris, Zurich, Warsaw, Madrid, Turin, Belgium, Finland, The Netherlands, and London. In March, Google launched a second region in the Middle East.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Google’s Cloud Spanner is now half the cost of Amazon’s DynamoDB “for most workloads,” Google says. And Google doesn’t want you to forget it.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Google Tuesday introduced a range of new features and updates for its mapping service in India as it wraps up for the year and sets the base for the coming year. One of the latest in the series of new additions is Lens in Maps, which will be launching in 15 cities across India by […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved.

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OCTOBER 27, 2023

With a massive $2 billion reported investment from Google, Anthropic joins OpenAI in reaping the benefits of leadership in the artificial intelligence space, receiving immense sums from the tech giants that couldn’t move fast enough themselves. A byword for the age: Those who can, build; those who can’t, invest.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2023

senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) has warned in a letter to the Justice Department that unidentified governments are spying on Apple and Google phone users through their push notifications.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

A lawsuit filed against Google by California’s Attorney General over the company’s deceptive and misleading options for managing location data has resulted in a $93 million settlement — and new protections for consumers in the state.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Google’s defeat in its antitrust battle with Epic Games was a sweeping victory for the Fortnite maker and a significant upset to the business model underpinning the mobile app ecosystem, where platforms host app stores and then take a cut of developer revenues.

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Xebia

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Take advantage of these three time-saving updates in Google Drive and Google Sheets. New Menu Layout in Google Drive This year, we already got a fresh look for Google Drive, Docs, Sheets, and Slides. Learn more about creating dropdown menus in Google Sheets here. We wish you a good start of the new season.

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Xebia

JANUARY 11, 2024

Don’t wait to develop your documents until you have all the details: with the help of placeholder chips in Google Docs you can get started and simply fill in the rest later. Google continues to develop their smart canvas options in Docs by helping you simplify workflows and complete common tasks with easy-to-use prompts in Google Docs.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Google is challenging proposed laws that would require online services to implement age checks in a new framework that theorizes how technology companies should approach children’s safety online.

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Xebia

OCTOBER 12, 2023

During Google Cloud Next ’23 , all attention was focused on the launch of Duet AI. But that does not alter the fact that many other novelties were also announced, including for Google Chat. Evolving collaboration in Google Chat with smart chips By now, everyone knows the smart chips in Google Docs and Sheets.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Though Match settled its antitrust case with Google over Play Store fees for north of $300 million, Fortnite maker Epic Games proceeded to take its case to trial this week.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 9, 2024

Google announced Tuesday at CES 2024 a new feature for EV drivers that will track and display real-time battery information in Google Maps.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Following competition objections raised on Google in Germany this summer over bundling of services including Google Maps via its Android-based in-car infotainment system software, known as Google Automotive Services (GAS), the tech giant has made an offer of some service unbundling and the removal of contractual restrictions it applies to vehicle makers (..)

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CIO

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Google on Tuesday said it was updating its AI agent-based technology to add an enterprise-scale translation service, and to further automate document processing. . To translate documents, the service uses a combination of Google technologies such as neural machine translation and AutoML , the company said.

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