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Wednesday October 5, 2022 7:08 am PDT by Sami Fathi New images of Google’s upcoming “Pixel Watch” have been leaked online ahead of when the company is expected to provide more information on its first in-house smartwatch during an event on Thursday, October 6. Google initially offered a preview of the Pixel Watch during its Google I/O conference over the summer. The Pixel Watch is the first smartwatch directly from Google and an answer to the Apple Watch, which has dominated the smartwatch… Source link

Today, Google announced its new cloud region in South Africa, the African nation which is now home to the major global cloud providers on the continent. For Google, this move is part of its broader commitment to invest $1 billion to support “digital transformation” across Africa over the next five years. The commitment, when dissected, includes projections of Google landing a subsea cable, providing low-interest loans to small businesses and equity investments to African growth… Source link

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While the broader virtual reality industry earnestly waits for Meta’s next announcements around new VR products at its Connect event next week, Google’s venture arm GV is placing an interesting bet in a startup building up an ecosystem around some of Meta’s hardware. GV has led a $12 million Series A investment in SideQuest, the makers of an alternative app store for the Meta Quest VR headset, which allows developers to ship and market experimental games that may not initially… Source link

Google is increasingly looking like a giant that has a hard time innovating. Driving the news: Google’s decision to shut down Stadia, its three-year-old cloud-based gaming service, marks the company’s latest failure to turn a technical breakthrough into a growing business. Why it matters: Google faces a long-term fight with the rest of Big Tech’s giants — Amazon, Apple, Microsoft and Meta — for talent and revenue. The big picture: From its earliest days Google built a culture that embraced… Source link

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At Google I/O 2021, Google announced a new technology called MUM (Multitask Unified Model) that it will use internally to help its ranking systems better understand language. Since the announcement, there has been much discussion about if or when MUM would become a ranking factor. What Is MUM? Dubbed “a new AI milestone for understanding information,” MUM is designed to make it easier for Google to answer complex needs in search. Google promises MUM will be 1,000 times more powerful than… Source link

Grab your tiniest violin: Google, once known for its lavish work perks, is slashing its fun budget. Employees can no longer jet off on as many jollies as they used to and are going to have to dramatically scale back their Christmas parties. The cost-cutting hasn’t gone down well with Google staff, who confronted the CEO, Sundar Pichai, at a recent company-wide meeting. Why was Google “nickel-and-diming” them, Pichai was asked, when the company “had record profits and huge cash… Source link

A year ago, Tony Rizzo worked for Uber Freight, enjoying a Silicon Valley salary alongside perks such as free meals, phenomenal health care and, of course, Uber credits. Then last October, the suburban LaGrange resident took a business development job at Isometric Technologies, an early stage transportation-tech startup based in Northern… Source link