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Google Audio Search – Will it Ever Be Possible?

Will it ever be possible for Google to create an index of audio content that users can search through like web pages? Results of early testing, which Google published in a blog article, indicates audio search is harder to accomplish than it might sound. Details of these tests are shared in an article penned by Tim Olson, SVP of digital strategic partnerships at KQED. Google is partnering with KQED in a joint effort to make audio more findable. With the help of KUNGFU.AI, an AI services provider,… Source link

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Google Workspace: A cheat sheet

Formerly known as G Suite and Google Apps, this comprehensive guide outlines the essential features of Google Workspace for organizations. Google Workspace is a set of communication and collaboration apps built for people in organizations. The core Google Workspace communication apps, such as Gmail and Google Meet, are widely used around the… Source link

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Google judge tells lawyers to figure out document dispute

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A federal judge hearing a U.S. government antitrust case against Google on Thursday urged the lawyers to work out a complicated dispute on pre-trial document production among themselves. FILE PHOTO: The Google sign is shown on one of the company’s office buildings in Irvine, California, U.S., October 20, 2020. REUTERS/Mike Blake The Justice Department has been pushing Alphabet’s Google to produce documents on a long list of topics related to its lawsuit, which… Source link

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Google judge tells lawyers to figure out document dispute

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A federal judge hearing a U.S. government antitrust case against Google on Thursday urged the lawyers to work out a complicated dispute on pre-trial document production among themselves. FILE PHOTO: The Google sign is shown on one of the company’s office buildings in Irvine, California, U.S., October 20, 2020. REUTERS/Mike Blake The Justice Department has been pushing Alphabet’s Google to produce documents on a long list of topics related to its lawsuit, which… Source link

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Google judge tells lawyers to figure out document dispute

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A federal judge hearing a U.S. government antitrust case against Google on Thursday urged the lawyers to work out a complicated dispute on pre-trial document production among themselves. The Justice Department has been pushing Alphabet’s Google to produce documents on a long list of topics related to its lawsuit, which accuses the company of breaking antitrust law in its search and search advertising businesses. Google has balked at some of the production, describing… Source link

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Google uses underwater fibre-optic cable to detect earthquakes

By Priti Parikh Underwater cables carry internet traffic around the world Christoph Burgstedt/Getty Images A 10,000-kilometre-long fibre-optic cable owned by Google that is at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean can be used to detect deep-sea seismic activity and ocean waves. Zhongwen Zhan at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California, and his colleagues, including researchers at Google,… Source link

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Google Announces Redesigned TalkBack Screen Reader For Android

Google on Tuesday announced TalkBack 9.1 for Android. Google In a blog post published Tuesday, Google announced what it described as an “all-new” version (officially, 9.1) of its TalkBack screen reader. Android accessibility product manager Brian Kemler wrote in the post the upgraded software includes “some of the most highly requested features from the Blind and low vision community.” Google said the new TalkBack was co-developed with Samsung,… Source link

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Amazon Music lands on Google TV and Android TV devices

is now available on Google TV and devices. Users in the US, UK, Canada, Brazil, Mexico, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, India, Japan and Australia will be able to stream music from the service through TVs, set-top boxes, game consoles and speakers that run on Android TV. If you’re an Amazon Music Unlimited subscriber, you can listen to more than 70 million songs through those devices, as well as thousands of stations and playlists. Amazon Prime members can check out around two million tracks… Source link

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Ascension expands pilot of Google EHR search tool

Dive Brief: St. Louis-based hospital chain Ascension is expanding the pilot of a Google EHR tool allowing clinicians to search for data within patient records, the next step in its partnership with the technology giant. The two linked in 2018 to work on leveraging Ascension’s clinical data to create an integrated, longitudinal record of patient care and develop other health tools. The partnership was made public in late 2019 and immediately stirred controversy,… Source link

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Google’s Wear OS neglect has left voice activation broken for months

Enlarge / A Wear OS watch. Ron Amadeo Poor, dying Wear OS. Apparently, the Google Assistant on Wear OS has been broken for months, and until now, no one at Google has noticed. About four months ago, diehard Wear OS users started a thread on the public Android issue tracker saying that the “OK Google” hotword no longer worked on Wear OS, and several claimed that the feature has been broken for months. Recently, news of the 900-user-strong… Source link

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