Tag Archives: Googles

Photo: NOAH BERGER / AFP (Getty Images) Google’s new Bay View building, the first campus built by the search giant, was touted as a green, technologically advanced “canvas of creating new ways to be together” when it opened in 2022. However, employees working in the Mountain View, California building wish one of those “ways to be together” was a decent Wi-Fi connection. No Google AI Search, I Don’t Need to Learn About the “Benefits of Slavery” Google employees say the new… Source link

The bungled rollout of Google’s new artificial intelligence tool Gemini could end up being either a curse or a blessing for the Alphabet-owned tech giant, according to an analyst who owns the stock. Seeking Alpha analyst Steven Fiorillo wrote in an assessment published Wednesday that Gemini will either be Google’s “destruction or its resurrection” after a series of public failures by the model led the company to pull the plug on some features and vow to fix it. Google’s reputation is at stake… Source link

Google logos. Photo credit: LOIC VENANCE/AFP AFP via Getty Images South Africa’s Fourth Estate “is on its knees” as Google and Meta’s dominance has captured 97% of all digital advertising in the country, creating an “extinction crisis” for the media. This is the view of Ishmet Davidson, the chief executive officer of News24, South Africa’s largest digital news publisher, which is owned by internet firm Naspers. He was testifying at the country’s Competition Commission inquiry… Source link

In what can surely be termed as strange or odd service disruption, users of two of the biggest technology companies faced outage almost at the same time on March 5. Many users of Google-owned apps like Gmail and YouTube as well as Meta-owned social networks Facebook, Instagram and Threads faced outage in services. Late evening, some users reported issues with Facebook, Instagram, Facebook Messenger, and other Meta services. While Facebook users were greeted with error messages or their… Source link

Google is rolling out a few new changes to its ranking systems in search, which are designed to help surface good content in your results and hide some of the worst and most cynical stuff on the web. The company says that it is doing a better job of downranking content that exists only to summarize other content — which can sometimes be normal SEO stuff but is also increasingly a job for generative AI tools — and in combatting some of the tricks people use to trick its ranking systems.

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Google’s Gemini diversity errors and lower employee raises hurts morale  The Verge Source link

If you buy a high-end Samsung or iPhone device, there’s little to choose between them. It’s the Android OS that has always been the catch. But now Google is slowly changing that as well—and it’s causing serious anger amongst users… Google’s latest update is very “iPhone” getty 3/3 update below; article originally published 3/1. Android is changing—this year we have seen an exciting focus on AI upgrades to existing apps, as well as security crackdowns on dangerous apps and… Source link

If you buy a high-end Samsung or iPhone device, there’s little to choose between them. It’s the Android OS that has always been the catch. But now Google is slowly changing that as well—and it’s causing serious anger amongst users… Google’s latest update is very “iPhone” getty 3/3 update below; article originally published 3/1. Android is changing—this year we have seen an exciting focus on AI upgrades to existing apps, as well as security crackdowns on dangerous apps and… Source link

For those already using Google’s ecosystem that are searching for a solid tablet, the clear pick is the Google Pixel Tablet. While there are cheaper Android tablets out there, this tablet is one of the best you can get your hands on, especially when you consider that it comes with a charging stand that doubles as a speaker. And if you act fast, you can pick up the upgraded 256GB model for less than you’d normally pay for the base model with just 128GB of storage. The sale is available for… Source link

Updated Feb 26, 2024, 04:14pm EST Topline Google parent Alphabet lost some $90 billion in market value Monday as controversy over the Silicon Valley giant’s generative artificial intelligence product made its way to Wall Street. significant headaches from his company’s generative AI chatbot. AFP via Getty Images Key Facts Shares of Alphabet fell 4.5% to $138.75 Monday, closing at its lowest price since Jan. 5 and registering its second-steepest daily loss of the last year. … Source link