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Angle down icon An icon in the shape of an angle pointing down. Sahil Gaba interviewed at Google three times before landing his current software engineering role. Sahil Gaba Sahil Gaba, a software engineer, landed a job at Google after two prior rejections. Gaba felt less stressed the third time because he had more interview and coding experience. He also felt that having a good current job helped take away some of the pressure of his interview. Sahil Gaba was four years out… Source link

Google’s latest AI agent is learning how to navigate a familiar space: gaming. The tech giant released new research on its Scalable Instructable Multiworld Agent, or SIMA, on Wednesday. This agent can follow instructions to carry out tasks in video games — and play games it has never seen before. But, like Genie, which DeepMind, Google’s AI research arm, discussed in a research paper published Feb. 23, SIMA is a research project. “We could in the future have agents like SIMA playing alongside… Source link

400tmax We have seen the market turn against certain tech stocks (and many other companies) in the recent past and beyond. History has so many examples whereby buying a “legendary” or “superstar” tech company that has stumbled can be incredibly profitable. Let’s review a few examples where there was a loss of faith in some tech giants. In 2017, Microsoft (MSFT) was trading in the $50 range and was considered as a “has been” tech company by many investors who felt this company missed some… Source link

(Reuters) – Data center operator Equinix on Tuesday named Alphabet’s Google Cloud executive Adaire Fox-Martin as its CEO, with the appointment effective late next quarter. Fox-Martin, who has been on Equinix’s board since 2020, will succeed the company’s current Chief Executive Officer Charles Meyers. Martin has been at Google Cloud for three years and has also held global positions at software companies such as SAP and Oracle. Meyers will transition to the role of executive chair after six… Source link

Google has updated its page experience help documentation to clarify how core web vitals metrics are used as a ranking signal, in a light manner. Google also clarified that other page experience signals are not directly used for ranking purposes in Google Search. What Google wrote. The updated documentation is in the ranking section of the document and it now reads: Core Web Vitals are used by our ranking systems. We recommend site owners achieve good Core Web Vitals for success with… Source link

Google recently fired an engineer after the employee expressed anti-Israel sentiments during the Israeli tech industry conference, Mind The Tech, in New York. During a speech by Barak Regev, Google’s CEO in Israel, the employee publicly protested against Google’s collaboration in Project Nimbus, the Israeli military’s cloud computing project.  “I’m a Google software engineer, and I refuse to build technology that powers genocide, apartheid, or surveillance,” he shouted before being… Source link

If you want to ask Google’s AI chatbot a question about an upcoming election, you will have to do it from a country where there are no elections taking place. TechCrunch has learned that the search giant has started to restrict queries made Gemini when they relate to elections, in any market globally where elections are taking place. The search giant confirmed to TechCrunch that it started rolling out the restrictions on Gemini to limit surfacing answers about… Source link

least for Gen Z NurPhoto via Getty Images Gen X and millennials might have made “google” a verb, but Instagram and TikTok are now the preferred search engines for Gen Z when seeking local results. According to a new study of 1,002 U.S. consumers, Google is now in third place for 18 to 24-year-0lds. “Google is in for an intense fight to retain its relevance in search with younger users,” says Damian Rollison, director of market insights at SOCI, a marketing technology vendor that… Source link

Google Google’s Gemini AI chatbot has quickly become one of the major players in the generative AI space. Despite its rocky start, Gemini is one of the only true competitors to ChatGPT. Here’s everything you need to know about it. What is Google Gemini? Google first introduced its AI endeavor as Bard in March 2023 in a free and experimental capacity. The chatbot was originally run on the LaMDA large language model (LLM). In August 2023, it introduced Google Duet as an enterprise… Source link

Google has introduced a feature that automatically displays social media posts from platforms like Instagram and Facebook directly on Google Business Profiles (GBP). This update aims to give customers a more comprehensive view of a business’s online activity and engagement. According to a Google help page, businesses that have associated their social media links with their GBP may now find their social media posts automatically surface on their profiles. This feature is currently available… Source link