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Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center joins Ascension to pilot Google’s EHR search tool

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center is the second major health system to sign on with Google to pilot its controversial clinical search tool. The technology is designed to offer clinicians a longitudinal view of patient records and the ability to quickly search through those records through a single secure tool, the health system said in a press release. The tech giant and its first health system partner, Ascension, faced widespread criticism more than a year ago after news broke about a… Source link

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Google’s AI reservation service Duplex is now available in 49 states

More than two years after it initially began trials, Google’s AI-powered reservation service Duplex is now available in 49 US states. This looks like it’ll be the limit of Duplex’s coverage in the US for the time being, as Google tells The Verge it has no timeline to launch the service in the last hold-out state — Louisiana — due to unspecified local laws. Adapting to local legislation is one of the reasons Duplex has taken so long to roll out across the US. Google tells The… Source link

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Google’s ‘Teacher approved’ apps mislead on kids’ privacy, activists tell FTC

FILE PHOTO: The Google sign is shown on one of the company’s office buildings in Irvine, California, U.S., October 20, 2020. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo (Reuters) – Two advocacy groups on Wednesday called on the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate whether apps that Google’s Play Store labels as “Teacher approved” are unlawfully collecting personal data without parental consent to target ads at children. The Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood (CCFC) and the Center… Source link

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Google’s ‘Teacher approved’ apps mislead on kids’ privacy, activists tell FTC

FILE PHOTO: The Google name is displayed outside the company’s office in London, Britain, November 1, 2018. REUTERS/Toby Melville/File Photo (Reuters) – Two advocacy groups on Wednesday called on the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate whether apps that Google’s Play Store labels as “Teacher approved” are unlawfully collecting personal data without parental consent to target ads at children. The Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood (CCFC) and the Center for Digital… Source link

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Google’s Area 120 launches Stack, an app that digitizes personal docs and extracts key information – TechCrunch

Google’s in-house incubator, Area 120, is today releasing its latest project called Stack, an app that will help you digitize your documents, receipts and other papers you have lying around the house, and then automatically save them to Google Drive. The app will also helpfully suggest a name for your scans and the right category — or “stack,” as it’s called. At launch, Stack can handle scanning a range of differently sized documents — like bills, shopping receipts or even… Source link

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Google’s Area 120 incubator releases a powerful AI document scanner for Android

Google’s Area 120, an internal incubator program for experimental projects, is releasing a new app today called Stack that borrows the technology underlying the search giant’s powerful DocAI enterprise tool for document analysis. The end result is a consumer document scanner app for Android that Google says vastly improves over your average mobile scanner by auto-categorizing documents into the titular stacks and enabling full text search through the contents of the documents and not… Source link

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T-Mobile is betting big on Google’s Android services: RCS, YouTube TV, Pixel, and more

Google and T-Mobile are announcing a huge partnership today, with the carrier agreeing to showcase a suite of Google’s services on Android phones sold on the carrier’s network. The list includes officially supporting Google’s Android Messages (with RCS) app on all of T-Mobile’s Android phones, dropping T-Mobile’s own TV services for Google’s YouTube TV, showcasing Google One as the default backup service, and expanding support and sales of Google hardware like the Pixel.

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Google’s John Mueller Stresses Importance of E-A-T For YMYL Websites

Search Advocate John Mueller stresses that Google is most concerned with expertise, authoritativeness, and trustworthiness (E-A-T) when ranking content that deals with health & finance. This topic is discussed at length during the Google Search Central SEO hangout recorded on March 26. Ritu Nagarkoti, who does SEO for a medical ecommerce site, asks Mueller for advice on tactics that can be used to increase traffic and visibility. Mueller says a medical ecommerce store likely falls into the… Source link

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Google’s Ex-Policy Lead Founds Tech-Friendly Progressive Group

Adam Kovacevich Source: AdamKovacevich.com Source: AdamKovacevich.com A new technology industry group led by the former head of U.S. public policy at Alphabet Inc.’s Google is looking to remind Democrats that technology companies are on their side when it comes to progressive priorities like voting rights, fighting climate change and reducing income… Source link

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