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Higher risk of low performance ratings in 2023

Higher risk of low performance ratings in 2023

CEO of Alphabet and Google Sundar Pichai during press conference at the Chancellery in Warsaw, Poland on March 29, 2022. Mateusz Wlodarczyk | Nurphoto | Getty Images More Google employees will be at risk for low performance ratings and fewer are expected to reach high marks under a new performance review system that starts next year, according to internal communications obtained by CNBC. In a recent Google all-hands meeting and in a separate presentation last week, executives presented more… Source link

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Google Opens Up Tool to Make Your Privates Private

Google Opens Up Tool to Make Your Privates Private

Google’s new open source tool Magritte can automatically identify objects in videos to add blur to them.Photo: DANIEL CONSTANTE (Shutterstock) On Friday, Google announced its machine learning tool called Magritte was going open source. According to information sent to Gizmodo, the tool detects objects inside images or video and automatically applies blur when they appear on screen. Google mentioned the object does not matter, and blur can be applied to, for example, license plates or… Source link

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Google’s Working To Protect Search From ChatGPT

Google’s Working To Protect Search From ChatGPT

Photo: Scott Barbour (Getty Images) Google is reportedly ramping up work behind the scenes to close the technological gap with OpenAI’s ChatGPT model, an advanced chatbot capable of churning out conversational answers which some critics warn could pose the most significant threat to Google’s treasured search dominance in years. Though Google executives publicly express a tone of caution when it comes to rolling out new AI features to the public, recent reporting from The New York Times… Source link

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These 3 free Google Chrome extensions can save you time in 2023

These 3 free Google Chrome extensions can save you time in 2023

NurPhoto/Getty Browsers are great. Over the past decade, I’ve seen a whole swathe of applications replaced by services that run in the browser, so much so that nowadays, most of my working day is spent in front of my browser of choice — Google Chrome. Also: How I revived three ancient computers with ChromeOS Flex Problem is, the browser is a window to, well, the whole of the internet. And I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but there are a lot of distractions on the internet. I’ve concluded that… Source link

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Source: Sunday Ticket, Google/YouTube deal runs for seven years

Source: Sunday Ticket, Google/YouTube deal runs for seven years

Getty Images On Thursday, the NFL announced an agreement with Google that will make Sunday Ticket exclusively available on YouTube TV and YouTube Primetime Channels starting in 2023. In the announcement, the league said only that it was a multi-year agreement. PFT has learned, via a source, that the deal runs for seven years. Google is reportedly paying $2.5 billion per year for the rights to Sunday Ticket, which will now be available… Source link

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Google is making its internal video-blurring privacy tool open source

Google is making its internal video-blurring privacy tool open source

Google has announced that two of its latest privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs), including one that blurs objects in a video, will be provided to anyone for free via open source. The new tools are part of Google’s Protected Computing initiative designed to transform “how, when and where data is processed to technically ensure its privacy and safety,” the company said. The first is an internal project called Magritte, now out on Github, which uses machine learning to detect objects and… Source link

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Google is making its internal video-blurring privacy tool open source

Google is making its internal video-blurring privacy tool open source

Google has announced that two of its latest privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs), including one that blurs objects in a video, will be provided to anyone for free via open source. The new tools are part of Google’s Protected Computing initiative designed to transform “how, when and where data is processed to technically ensure its privacy and safety,” the company said. The first is an internal project called Magritte, now out on Github, which uses machine learning to detect objects and… Source link

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