Tag Archives: Googles

Along with its Android update for December, Google has launched a new app called Reading Mode today. It helps people with visual imparities and dyslexia read the content on the screen — especially articles. The newly released app works on any device running Android 9.0 or above. Once you install it on your phone, you will have to turn on the toggle for the app under the Accessibility settings. This allows the app to have a floating button on the screen all the… Source link

Today’s Google Doodle lets you make, play and share your own mini arcade game to honor the memory of videogame pioneer Jerry Lawson. Lawson led the team that developed the first home video gaming system with interchangeable game cartridges. Today would have been his 82nd birthday. The interactive Doodle starts off by taking you through a short experience that introduces you to Lawson and his legacy. The first part of the experience is a tutorial that teaches you… Source link

LANSING, Mich. (WILX) – Tech gadgets and electronics are some of the hottest gifts this holiday season and people are searching for literally thousands of gadgets. So how do you truly know what’s hot this year? There’s no shortage of top gift idea lists on the internet, but to get a true picture of what’s hot is by looking at what gifts people are searching for – or ‘Googling.’ Google has released a Hot Holiday 100 list of trending searches. Google says interest in over-the-ear… Source link

Researchers from Google’s Robotics team have open-sourced Code-as-Policies (CaP), a robot control method that uses a large language model (LLM) to generate robot-control code that achieves a user-specified goal. CaP uses a hierarchical prompting technique for code generation that outperforms previous methods on the HumanEval code-generation benchmark. The technique and experiments were described in a paper published on arXiv. CaP differs from previous attempts to use LLMs to… Source link

Google’s AI algorithm for helping to screen for breast cancer will now be part of commercial mammograms. On November 28, the company announced it licensed its AI technology to iCAD, a medical technology company that provides breast cancer detection services to health care facilities around the world. While iCAD already includes AI-based strategies in its cancer screening services, it will now also incorporate Google’s… Source link

Alphabet has doubled the headcount in its Google Cloud unit since early 2019, according to data obtained by The Information, outstripping Alphabet’s overall hiring growth. The rapid growth helps explain why Google Cloud’s losses continue to widen even as its revenue grows rapidly. Google’s hardware unit and YouTube also each roughly doubled headcount between the first quarter of 2019 and this fall. And the number of employees working in marketing and finance roles across Google… Source link

After several major technology companies announced layoffs due to macroeconomic headwinds in the last few months, Google is now under the spotlight as news reports this week predict that the company will cut at least 10,000 jobs. The forecasts are based on a report from the Information, which said that under the Google Reviews and Development (GRAD) program, launched earlier this year, managers have been told to allocate a low performer rating to at least 6% of… Source link

The U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority launched an investigation into Apple and Google‘s control of the mobile browser market Tuesday. The authority will explore the companies’ “stranglehold” over browsing, as well as Apple’s control over cloud gaming through the App Store, it said in a release. The authority said Google and Apple powered 97% of all web browsing that took place in the U.K. in 2021. Web developers, cloud gaming service providers and browser vendors have offered… Source link

Nov 22 (Reuters) – Britain’s competition watchdog said on Tuesday it had launched an in-depth investigation into the market dominance of Apple (AAPL.O) and Google’s (GOOGL.O) mobile browsers, months after the regulator began considering a probe. Reporting by Pushkala Aripaka in Bengaluru; Editing by Shinjini Ganguli Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles. Source link

MILAN, Nov 18 (Reuters) – An Italian administrative court on Friday rejected an appeal by Alphabet’s Google (GOOGL.O) against a decision by Italy’s antitrust authority to fine the group, but accepted iPhone maker Apple’s (AAPL.O) appeal against the watchdog’s ruling. Last year, Italy’s antitrust regulator fined Google and Apple 10 million euros ($10.36 million) each, claiming that the two tech groups had not provided “clear and immediate information” on how they collect and use the data of… Source link