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Google Assistant has scrapped more than a dozen of its more “underutilized” features in the new year, and the culling’s latest victim appears to be the best Samsung TVs. Samsung confirmed this week that it’s winding down support for the search giant’s virtual assistant, and Google Assistant will soon no longer be available on its line of smart TVs, including existing models. On a Samsung support page, the company said that, as of March 1, Google Assistant functionality will be removed from… Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Goodbye, Chandler Bing  Vogue Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Goodbye passwords! Google just made a huge security change – will it stick?  Fox News Source link

Many Google employees were having a normal day on Jan. 20 before their lives were turned upside-down. Some workers had gotten their jobs at the tech giant after years of dreaming about it, and others had been there for over a decade. Then suddenly that morning Google’s parent, Alphabet, announced that it was cutting 12,000 jobs. In doing so, it joined a long list of tech companies that have eliminated scores of employees in recent months. An outpouring followed on social media, including… Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Gamers say goodbye to Google’s Stadia as platform shuts  BBC Source link

Google is officially rebranding the Webmaster Guidelines as “Search Essentials,” which comes with a simplified refresh consisting of only three sections. In addition to making the former Google Webmaster Guidelines easier to understand, Google’s motivation behind the refresh is to move away from the term “webmaster.” Google has gradually removed “webmaster” from its branding over the past few years. For example, “Google Webmaster Central” was rebranded as “Google Search… Source link

Three days after news of the death of Vin Scully was reported, Dodger Stadium finally got its chance to say goodbye to the titan of baseball broadcasting that spent so many decades in its broadcasting booth. Ahead of Friday’s showdown with the San Diego Padres, the Dodgers held a ceremony celebrating Scully’s life and career, starting with a moment of silence before airing a video obituary looking back on some of the broadcaster’s finest moments. After a montage featuring “Somewhere Over The… Source link

Is this truly the end of last-click attribution? Google will no longer use last-click attribution as the default conversion model in Google Ads, its buy-side ad network, the company announced in a blog post on Monday. The change will mean that, going forward, the default conversion method for any attribution touchpoint – a new product purchase page, app install campaign, display ad landing page  – will fall into what Google calls “data-driven attribution,” its algorithmic… Source link

‘The legacy Yahoo Answers left was one of chaos and confusion, but I lived for the incredibly specific kind of help that can be difficult to find elsewhere’ Photo by Kyra Saley | The State Press “The often… Source link

Yahoo Answers, the pioneering online question-and-answer platform, will shut down permanently this May, forever erasing from the internet one of the original places for people to solicit unverified information from strangers. What was once an actually useful and occasionally thoughtful place for users to ask questions ultimately became yet another internet punchline, with greatest hits including “How is babby formed? How girl get pregant?” I took a spin through some of Yahoo Answers’… Source link