Tag Archives: Googles

2023 seems to be the year of AI and automation in content creation. Starting with the ChatGPT, which disrupted the world with its human-dialect-like responses, Google’s latest research on an AI-powered music production tool is here, and it’s called MusicLM. Just like ChatGPT, MusicLM can answer your queries, however, only in the form of music. Google MusicLM can instantly create music based on a text-based query in no time. What’s even more interesting is the AI can even read images… Source link

Rumor has it that Apple is going to debut its own search engine “sooner rather than later.” This is good news for consumers as competition between Apple and Google means more resources would be spent to do search even better, but oddly enough it’s also good news for Google on one front — the battle with regulators. Apple is definitely refining some search products and we know it is because of the companies it has acquired since 2013. Technology from Topsy Labs already powers specific… Source link

Google researchers have made an AI that can generate minutes-long musical pieces from text prompts, and can even transform a whistled or hummed melody into other instruments, similar to how systems like DALL-E generate images from written prompts (via TechCrunch). The model is called MusicLM, and while you can’t play around with it for yourself, the company has uploaded a bunch of samples that it produced using the model. The examples are impressive. There are 30-second snippets of what… Source link

Google is rolling out access to a feature that lets you lock your Chrome Incognito sessions behind biometric authentication, making it so someone using your phone won’t be able to open your browser and see what you were looking at privately, according to a Thursday blog post. The feature has been available in the iOS version of Chrome for a while now, but now it’s becoming more widely available on Android (read: won’t require activating via a flag). The Lock Incognito tabs when you… Source link

Washington CNN  —  For the better part of 15 years, Google has seemed like an unstoppable force, powered by the strength of its online search engine and digital advertising business. But both now look increasingly vulnerable. This week, the Justice Department accused Google of running an illegal monopoly in its online advertising business and called for parts of it to be broken up. The case comes a couple of… Source link

Flutter, Google’s open-source framework for building multi-platform apps for mobile, web and desktop, is hosting its Flutter Forward event in Nairobi, Kenya today. As the name implies, the team is using the event to showcase up-and-coming features of the framework — most of which are still very early in their development cycle. The main highlights here are massively improved graphics performance, the ability to more easily embed Flutter code into existing web and mobile apps, and support… Source link

NEW DELHI, Jan 24 (Reuters) – India’s government on Tuesday tested locally developed mobile operating system BharOS, a move seen as challenging the dominance of Google’s Android just days after the U.S. giant suffered a major antitrust setback in the country. The government endorsement of the operating system comes after Google lost its fight in India’s Supreme Court to block an antitrust order that will force the company to change how it markets its Android operating system. “We have a long… Source link

Released back in the fall of 2021 with a first-of-its-kind Google Tensor processor, exceptional cameras, and an outstanding screen in tow, the 6.7-inch Pixel 6 Pro was predictably discontinued along its little non-Pro brother when the Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro saw daylight a few months ago. Of course, a number of third-party retailers and major carriers continued to sell the Pixel 6 and 6 Pro in the US even after their manufacturer pulled the plug, and the coolest thing… Source link

Google’s decision to let go of 12,000 employees was only just announced on Friday, but it extended the recent trend of the “Big Tech” companies cutting jobs in previously unheard-of numbers, and now we’ve seen more reports about where those cuts happened. The Information reports that at Google, layoffs spread through nearly every group, including projects like Chrome, Search, Android, and Google Cloud. Its sources said they affected people who’d previously received “high… Source link

Area 120, the Google in-house incubator responsible for products such as Checks, Tables, Stack and ThreadBite, has been significantly affected by broader layoffs at Google parent company Alphabet. A spokesperson tells TechCrunch via email that the majority of the Area 120 team has been “winded down,” and that only three projects from the division will graduate later this year into core Google product areas. The spokesperson wouldn’t say which specific… Source link