Google Goes More Vertical, Adds Security And Trust Tools To Its Digital Transformation Toolbox

CEO of Google Cloud, Thomas Kurian Google A lot has changed since last year’s in-person Google Cloud Next. For the first time, Google Cloud Next is “in the cloud” on recorded video led by Google and Alphabet Inc CEO Sundar Pichai and Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian. Right off the bat, Sundar pointed out three trends we will see regarding the cloud: the future will be more digital, collaborative, and more flexible. I don’t think anybody can disagree… Source link

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Barr blasts Apple and Google as ‘all too willing’ to cooperate with China

Attorney General William Barr on Thursday said U.S. technology companies including Apple and Google have been “all too willing” to collaborate with China’s Communist Party, as he tore into that country’s leaders in a fiery speech. Speaking at the Gerald Ford Presidential Museum in Grand Rapids, Mich., Barr said that “over the years, corporations such as Google GOOG, -0.66% GOOGL, -0.91%, Microsoft MSFT,

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Google’s latest R&D project is Shoploop, a mobile video shopping platform – TechCrunch

Google’s latest experiment is a video shopping platform designed to introduce consumers to new products in under 90 seconds. The company today is launching Shoploop, a project from Google’s internal R&D division, Area 120, where it tests out new ideas with a public user base. Shoploop’s founder, Lax Poojary, had previously worked on online trip planner, Touring Bird, also at Area 120. Last year, that effort became one of a small number of R&D projects to graduate and become a part… Source link

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Google SEO 101: Website Crawl Budget Explained

Google goes in depth on crawl budget, answering some of the most common SEO-related questions in the latest episode of SEO Mythbusting. Joined by Merkle’s Alexis Sanders, Google’s Martin Splitt answers over a dozen questions that SEOs frequently ask about crawl budget. Here’s a quick recap of each question and answer, along with its corresponding time stamp in the video. What is crawl budget? (1:15)Crawl budget is the balance between crawling as much content on a site as quickly as… Source link

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Want to Try Your Hand at Hieroglyphs? Google Just Created a Translator!

Want to Try Your Hand at Hieroglyphs? Google Just Created a Translator! Fabricius in-app feature. Courtesy of Google. Despite the fact that ancient Egypt is almost automatically linked to the ancient writing system of ancient Egyptian, which is mostly made of ideograms and hieroglyphs, the language itself remains a mystery to those who have not studied it. However, in a bid to render the cryptic language more accessible, Google has… Source link

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First robo-taxis allowed in Moscow from 2024

Driverless taxis should be able to be deployed in the Russian capital Moscow in four years’ time, according to the country’s deputy transport minister Alexei Semyonov. Russia-based multinational Yandex is trialling 100 units on Moscow’s streets at the moment. Russian news agency Tass reported Semyonov’s announcement: “If we efficiently start implementing the plan we are developing on the basis of our stakeholder authorities and key companies – these are the Transport Ministry, the Interior… Source link

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Translate Ancient Hieroglyphs With Google’s New AI-Powered Tool

New Arts & Culture tool Fabricius uses machine learning to translate 4,000-year-old symbols. Grow Your Business, Not Your Inbox Stay informed and join our daily newsletter now! July 16, 2020 2 min read This story originally appeared on PC Mag It’s been 221 years since the discovery of the Rosetta Stone, a key tool for deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphs. To… Source link

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Florida Posts Record Deaths; GOP Convention Curbed; Virus Update

(Bloomberg) — Florida posted a record number of 156 virus deaths. The Republican presidential convention in Florida will be scaled back as cases in the state continue to spike. Maryland’s Republican governor criticized the Trump administration’s handling of the virus, saying it “bungled” testing. The U.K. accused Russian state intelligence of trying to steal vaccine research. Hong Kong reported a record number of cases, the third time in about a week that its new outbreak breached… Source link

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Californians turn against each other amid 2nd coronavirus shutdown

Dee Lescault, owner of Muti Hair Design Studio in Costa Mesa, is having to close her studio again, which she reopened for only 13 days. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) Dee Lescault got the bad news from her landlord. Her Costa Mesa hair salon had reopened on June 1 after being dark for months because of the COVID-19 pandemic, dealing a painful economic blow to the 66-year-old stylist. And now, Coronavirus Shutdown 2.0. “Is it asking too much to wear a mask?” Lescault tweeted in a rush… Source link

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