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WordPress Proposes Blocking Google’s FLoC

WordPress discussed a proposal to block Google’s new user tracking scheme called FLoC. While most expressed support others raised valid concerns. No decision has been made to block FLoC. Discussions will continue in the official WordPress Slack channel. Google FLoC Being able to track what people are interested in by using third party cookies is lucrative for Google. Ads targeted by user interest are said to convert at a higher rate are are thus more valuable to both advertisers and Google… Source link

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Google translation AI botches legal terms ‘enjoin,’ ‘garnish’ -research

A 3D printed Google logo is seen in this illustration taken April 12, 2020. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo Translation tools from Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google and other companies could be contributing to significant misunderstanding of legal terms with conflicting meanings such as “enjoin,” according to research due to be presented at an academic workshop on Monday. Google’s translation software turns an English sentence about a court enjoining violence, or banning it, into one… Source link

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Siemens and Google Cloud to Cooperate on AI-based Solutions in Manufacturing

SUNNYVALE, Calif. and MUNICH, April 19, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Google Cloud and Siemens, an innovation and technology leader in industrial automation and software, today announced a new cooperation to optimize factory processes and improve productivity on the shop floor. Siemens intends to integrate Google Cloud’s leading data cloud and artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) technologies with its factory automation solutions to help manufacturers innovate for the future. Data… Source link

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Google’s new feature will let you share highlighted text on webpage

Google is planning to roll out a new feature for its extension- Chrome 90 that will allow users to create a link to a section of a website that they have highlighted earlier. This feature is, however, rolling out to some users as an experiment. Google said the “copy link to highlight” feature is already available on desktop and Android devices for some users. The feature is “coming soon” to iOS, the company added. Google’s product manager Kayce… Source link

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What do we do when Google does evil things?

And the thing about Faustian bargains is, there is always a devil on one side of the transaction. There is a devil, even when that side of the transaction has a corporate motto of “Don’t be evil”. Or, rather, Google had the motto “Don’t be evil” right up until April or May 2018, the very time the company started engaging in the misleading and deceptive conduct it’s just been found guilty of. That may well be a mere coincidence, but even if it is, it’s one that Google’s lawyers… Source link

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New Google Earth time-lapse feature shows effect of climate change

by: via Nexstar Media Wire, The Associated Press Posted: Apr 18, 2021 / 08:42 PM CDT / Updated: Apr 18, 2021 / 08:42 PM CDT A person looks at a Google Earth map of Paris, France on a screen as Google Earth unveils the revamped version of the application April 18, 2017 at a event at New York’s Whitney Museum of Art.(Credit: TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty Images) SAN RAMON, Calif. (AP) — The Google Earth app is adding a new video… Source link

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Google Earth’s New Timelapse Feature Lets You See How Our Planet Has Changed In Four Decades

A timelapse look at the changing Aral Sea, Kazakhstan. The lake was once the world’s fourth largest … [+] body of inland water, but has been shrinking since the 1960s after the rivers that fed it were diverted by irrigation projects. Google Earth Google Earth newest Timelapse feature lets users look back from the current day all the way to 1984 and see how both human activity as natural forces have changed the face of Earth over the last 40 years, writes Rebecca Moore,… Source link

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Google introducing a feature in Chrome 90 to create links to highlighted text on a webpage

An upcoming feature in Chrome 90 will allow users to create a link to a section of a website that they’ve highlighted. First launched as a browser extension called Link to Text Fragment last year, Google has now added the feature within Chrome itself. The new feature is still rolling out to users; I wasn’t able to get it to work even after I updated to Chrome 90. But the feature works just like the browser extension did, according to a blog post from Google product manager Kayce… Source link

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