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Only available for those in Maryland right now In the modern smartphone market, convenience is the name of the game. Our handheld devices now allow contactless payments, switchable reverse wireless charging, and wireless file transfers over NFC. iPhones go a step further, allowing you to add a digital copy of government-issued ID cards to your phone, but Google is catching up with its own implementation that is currently in beta, and this beta gives us a good… 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

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 new My Ad Center lets users disable targeted advertising without giving up helpful features like personalized search results. Previously, disabling targeted ads meant you had to go into your account settings and block Google from collecting Web & App Activity and YouTube History data. Without permission to collect personal data, Google can’t serve personalized results in its main search engine, Google Maps, YouTube, and other platforms. Now, you don’t have to compromise. My Ad… Source link

The standard disclaimer here: look for a full review in the not-too-distant future. But now, let’s get a better look at the Pixel Watch in real life, through some quick photos and a hands-on squeezed in the press scrum at the Williamsburg Google Store, following today’s event. Image Credits: Brian Heater I had a few early thoughts about the device, having spent a small bit of time with it before today’s big Made By Google event. As I mentioned in the early news post, there are two… Source link

Google is rolling out an update to its mobile app that allows people to request the removal of personal information from search results. This update is an expansion of an existing tool designed to make the removal request form easier to access. Google first launched the personal information removal tool in 2020, though you’d have to go out of your way to find it as it’s buried at the bottom of a help page. Now, Google is rolling out the ability to access the form in its mobile app. You… Source link

Best new features of Android 13 Google’s next major update to the Android operating system for smartphones — Android 13 — launched a few weeks ago. Among the biggest features is a function that lets you control your connected smart devices right from your lock screen — without having to unlock your phone. Next time you want to dim your lights, start your washing machine or change your thermostat’s temperature you can do it faster and easier. In this article: Google Pixel 6… Source link

Best new features of Android 13 Google’s next major update to the Android operating system for smartphones — Android 13 — launched a few weeks ago. Among the biggest features is a function that lets you control your connected smart devices right from your lock screen — without having to unlock your phone. Next time you want to dim your lights, start your washing machine or change your thermostat’s temperature you can do it faster and easier. In this article: Google Pixel 6… Source link

Google today launched AI Test Kitchen, an app that lets users try out experimental AI-powered systems from the company’s labs before they make their way into production. Beginning today, folks interested can complete a sign-up form as AI Test Kitchen begins to roll out gradually to small groups in the U.S. As announced at Google’s I/O developer conference earlier this year, AI Test Kitchen will serve rotating demos centered around novel, cutting-edge AI… Source link

As Google continues the great merger between its Duo and Meet video communications apps, the company today announced that it’s introducing new Apple SharePlay-like live-sharing features to Meet, making it easier for call-participants to engage with content together in real time. It’s worth noting that Google already introduced some live-sharing features (e.g. watching YouTube videos together) to Duo back in February, and now it’s bringing them to Meet as the… Source link