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Goodbye, Stadia. Photo: Florence Ion / Gizmodo Now is an appropriate time to but out your trumpet for the long-awaited demise of Google’s cloud-gaming service, Stadia. The shuttered service’s website makes it clear: Stadia officially shut down on Jan. 18, 2023. Granted, we all knew it was coming. It’s been about three months since we learned Google was planning to shut things down. Stadia didn’t perform relative to other cloud gaming services, nor did it have the backing of its parent… Source link

Google had previously kept its data centre water usage secret but it has recently revealed how many billions of litres it uses each year 17 January 2023 … Source link

If you’re the least bit familiar with the convenience and ease of use of Tile devices and Apple AirTags, you’ve probably wondered at one point or another why Google never expressed a formal intention or informal interest in joining this market. After all, even Samsung has its own line of Galaxy SmartTags that are, well, extremely similar to the more popular aforementioned trackers. At long last, a (credible) rumor of precisely such a product being in the Mountain View… Source link

Google is finally rolling out emoji reactions to people using Google Meet for video calls starting today. The company said that this feature will be first available on iOS and the web with Android support coming soon. The search giant first announced this feature last year, but it is reaching users just now. Users can click or tap on the smile icon on the bottom pane to post a reaction emoji — with support for different skin tones — on the video call. When… Source link

The emoji don’t stay static like they do on Zoom, though. A line of reactions used during the call will instead float up the left side of the screen and will burst if multiple people use the same ones. Small emoji badges will also appear in the upper-left corner of your video tile, so you’ll get to see who reacted with what. While I haven’t gotten the chance to try it out myself yet, it seems like a fun way to liven up typically routine meetings. Reactions in Google Meet mobileImage:… Source link

Some Google contractors that rate the quality of search results are getting as much as a 45% pay increase. Getty Images The wage increase is welcome, but workers complain they are still making less than Google’s other contractors. Thousands of Google contractors, who rate the quality of search results, have gotten hourly raises for the first time ever, after months of protesting to the tech giant about receiving “poverty wages” for their work in maintaining the company’s most iconic… Source link

Layoffs have slammed Big Tech, as some of the sector’s biggest names, from Amazon (AMZN) to Meta (META) to Stripe, have cut thousands of employees. After at least a decade of expansion, tech companies have been rattled by inflation along with a slowdown in advertiser spending. The ad spending crunch has hit social media companies like Meta and Twitter hard, of course. Even Google parent Alphabet (GOOG, GOOGL) was slammed in its latest earnings cycle, as YouTube missed sales expectations by a… Source link

Unified Payments Interface — commonly known as UPI — has become the most popular mobile payment route for P2P and merchant payments in India, and now Google’s stepping up with an updated UPI functionality to meet demand. Google Play has enabled users in the South Asian country to make subscription-based purchases using UPI. On Tuesday, Google announced that it introduced UPI Autopay as a payment option on the Play Store to allow its users in the country to… Source link

Disney (DIS) stock plummeted on Wednesday after the media giant reported fourth-quarter earnings results that missed expectations across the board, with the exception of subscriber net additions. “A big part of the miss was really on the parks side,” Geetha Ranganathan, senior media analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence, told Yahoo Finance Live (video above), citing the parks’ consistent performance up until this quarter. “We were seeing them report some really, really stupendous numbers in terms… Source link

Just imagine the Google app icon growing teeth, then crawling over to the Hangouts icon while it opens its jaws wide.Photo: BigTunaOnline (Shutterstock) Google is just about ready to let Hangouts die its famously long death, and the company is asking users to not look back as they mosey on over to Google Chat. It’s the end of an era, of sorts, namely the wasted time the tech giant spent trying to make an all-in-one dedicated call and messaging app work within its vast suite of native apps.