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The test of AdNauseam. | MIT Technology Review

Positioned now on both sides of an advertising transaction, we were ready to observe the life cycle of an ad click from end to end. We invited individual volunteers to download AdNauseam and visit our site. Soon we had recorded a few dozen successful AdNauseam clicks—billed to our team’s advertiser account and credited to the publisher account. AdNauseam was working. But this only proved that Google did not discard the very first click on an ad generated by a brand new AdNauseam user… Source link

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2020 in Review: The Year for Google

Google search with magnifying glass concept For Google and its parent company Alphabet, 2020 was a year of ups and downs. The company reached a milestone market value in January but then experienced its first revenue decline ever during the second quarter of the year. Google found its footing once again in the third quarter, leading company shares to rise back up — its overall gains have reached 34% for the year. Growing Businesses: Industries That Made Their Mark in 2020 As this truly… Source link

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Google CEO says company will review AI scholar’s abrupt exit

Google CEO Sundar Pichai has apologized for how a prominent artificial intelligence researcher’s abrupt departure last week has “seeded doubts” in the company. Pichai told Google employees in a Wednesday memo obtained by Axios that the tech company is beginning a review of the circumstances leading up to Black computer scientist Timnit Gebru’s exit and how Google could have “led a more respectful process.” Gebru, a top scholar in the field of AI… Source link

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Google CEO says company will review events leading up to Dr. Timnit Gebru’s departure – TechCrunch

In light of artificial intelligence researcher Dr. Timnit Gebru’s exit from Google last week, Google CEO Sundar Pichai sent a memo to staffers, obtained by Axios, saying the company would investigate “the circumstances that led up to Dr. Gebru’s departure, examining where we could have improved and led a more respectful process.” Last week, Gebru said she was fired from the company after sending an email to her direct reports discussing how she was disappointed in her… Source link

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Google under review for possible British competition inquiry

FILE PHOTO: The Google name is displayed outside the company’s office in London, Britain November 1, 2018. REUTERS/Toby Melville/File Photo LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s competition regulator said on Monday it had received a complaint about Google related to its market study this year on online platforms and digital advertising. The complaint from a coalition of technology and publishing called Marketers for an Open Web (MOW) said they wanted the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to… Source link

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Google Pixel 4a 5G review: cheaper with two-day battery | Google

The new Pixel 4a 5G is Google’s cheaper but larger 5G phone, and might just be the best. It is available in black and costs £499, fitting in between the £599 Pixel 5 and the £349 Pixel 4a. While the Pixel 4a 5G shares most of the same internal components with the Pixel 5, the look, feel and black plastic body matches the smaller Pixel 4a, just made larger. The Pixel 4a 5G has a 6.2in FHD+ OLED screen that is bigger than the other Pixels this year. It looks good but won’t trouble the best… Source link

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Review: Chromecast with Google TV grows up, adds killer voice search

When Google first started selling its Chromecast device for streaming video on your TV, it was inexpensive and simple. Maybe a little too simple. Like other streaming devices, it plugged into an HDMI port on a TV. But this odd-looking dongle – which always reminded me of a flattened marshmallow – was missing something. It lacked an onscreen interface, instead relying on your smartphone to “cast” a video… Source link

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Pixel 5 review: Google gets back to basics | Technology

The Pixel 5 is Google’s top smartphone for 2020. It comes with 5G and a simplified design that’s very similar to the excellent, cheaper Pixel 4a. It’s available in either black or green and costs £599, fitting in above the larger but cheaper £499 Pixel 4a 5G and the smaller £349 Pixel 4a. Google has ditched the hi-tech Soli radar system and face recognition from the Pixel 4 and gone back to basics for a much simpler design. It is all-screen on the front, with an aluminium body… Source link

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Pixel Buds review: Google’s competent AirPods alternative | Technology

Google’s AirPods competitor is finally ready. The Pixel Buds are true wireless earbuds that aim to be all things to all people with a hybrid design that’s neither fully open nor isolating. The £179 earphones are Google’s second attempt at Bluetooth earbuds, the first being not great. The new version dispense with the wire and adopt a tried-and-tested approach: earbuds that slot into a small and pocketable case. The buds are small and low-profile, similar in size to Samsung’s… Source link

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