Monthly Archives: February 2024

Google One hits 100 million subscribers

Google One hits 100 million subscribers

Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced Friday that his company has logged 100 million subscriptions to Google One, its all-in-one subscription service that opens up additional storage for free services like Gmail, Drive, and Photos, as well as access to more features. The company had said it was close to the 100 million mark when it released its fourth-quarter earnings last month and revealed the billions it spent on layoffs and noted that again last week while launching an AI Premium Plan tier.

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‘We are not looking to build the entire healthcare delivery ecosystem’

‘We are not looking to build the entire healthcare delivery ecosystem’

The role of retail players in healthcare, like CVS (CVS), Walmart (WMT) and now Amazon (AMZN), is being closely watched by investors and clinicians alike. In its latest earnings, CVS emphasized a continued strategy in health services, even as competitor Walgreens (WBA) has signaled a pullback. Through its recent acquisitions of home health provider Signify, and primary care provider for seniors Oak Street, CVS is continuing to look for ways to create a closed loop for patients within its own… Source link

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Google Pixel phones may get adaptive display touch sensitivity

Google Pixel phones may get adaptive display touch sensitivity

10 February 2024 Android Police dug out an interesting string of code suggesting a new feature is coming to Google Pixel phones, called Adaptive Touch Sensitivity. Judging by the code itself, it may enable future and current Pixel phones to adjust the display’s touch sensitivity depending on environmental factors, activity or whether or not a screen protector is applied. In fact, the Pixel 8 series can already detect a screen protector and once you apply one, the system… Source link

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Why Apple’s iconic Super Bowl ad still resonates 4 decades later

Why Apple’s iconic Super Bowl ad still resonates 4 decades later

Once upon a time, believe it or not, no one particularly looked forward to Super Bowl ads. That all changed when Washington faced Los Angeles on Jan. 22, 1984, in Tampa, Fla. Those who tuned in to the big game on CBS — and hadn’t fled to the kitchen for snacks — may have been intrigued by something completely different. In between ads for Gillette Foamy Gel and Northwestern Mutual insurance, a dystopian scene appeared on their TV sets: A line of men wearing faded gray apparel marched… Source link

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After YouTube Premium, this Google service crosses 100 million milestone: What company CEO Sundar Pichai has to say

After YouTube Premium, this Google service crosses 100 million milestone: What company CEO Sundar Pichai has to say

Google said last week that YouTube Music and YouTube Premium have reached the 100 million subscriber milestone. Now the company CEO Sundar Pichai has announced that Google One – a subscription service that provides expanded cloud storage – has also crossed 100 million subscribers.“We just crossed 100M Google One subscribers! Looking forward to building on that momentum with our new AI Premium Plan (launched yesterday) offering AI features like Gemini Advanced, plus Gemini in Gmail,… Source link

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Google One Surpasses 100 Million Subscribers

Google One Surpasses 100 Million Subscribers

Google One, the tech giant’s subscription program, has surpassed 100 million subscribers. “We just crossed 100M Google One subscribers! Looking forward to building on that momentum with our new AI Premium Plan (launched yesterday) offering AI features like Gemini Advanced, plus Gemini in Gmail, Docs + more coming soon,” Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet, said in a Friday (Feb. 9) post on X, formerly Twitter.  We just crossed 100M Google One… Source link

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12-year-old died less than 24 hours after he arrived at North Carolina wilderness camp, officials say

12-year-old died less than 24 hours after he arrived at North Carolina wilderness camp, officials say

A 12-year-old boy died less than 24 hours after arriving at a North Carolina wilderness camp for troubled adolescents, according to authorities, who said the child’s death “appeared to not be natural.” The boy, who has not been publicly identified, was found dead at Trails Carolina Camp in Lake Toxaway, North Carolina, on the morning of Feb. 3, the Transylvania County Sheriff’s Office said. The day before, he had been “transported per parents by two men from New York to Trails… Source link

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Parents want answers after freshman son at found dead 500 ft. from where he went missing.

Parents want answers after freshman son at found dead 500 ft. from where he went missing.

Just days after Ish and Ritu Dhawan sent their 18-year-old son, Akul, back to college last month, they received a worrying call. Akul’s friend didn’t know where he was; he’d been missing since going to a party the night before. The Bay Area-based family called the campus police at his school, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, expecting to get more details, they said. They were transferred to the county coroner. “He told me he’s deceased. I could not believe it,” Ish… Source link

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Google Maps is getting an AI-boosted upgrade to be an even better navigation assistant and your personal tour guide

Google Maps is getting an AI-boosted upgrade to be an even better navigation assistant and your personal tour guide

It looks like Google is going all-in on artificial intelligence (AI), and following the rebranding of its generative AI chatbot from Bard to Gemini, it’s now bringing generative AI recommendations to Google Maps. The AI-aided recommendations will help Google Maps perform even better searches for a variety of destinations, and the feature is also supposedly able to function as an advisor that can offer insights and tips about things like location, budgets, and the weather. Once the feature… Source link

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