Tag Archives: Tool

Google’s clever Magic Eraser tool debuted on the Pixel 6 and 6 Pro. It’s an editing feature that’s designed to remove people or objects you don’t want in the background of your photos. Considering that it’s dead simple to use, the results are okay, but it’s definitely not putting Adobe out of business anytime soon. But with the Pixel 6A — and coming soon to the 6 and 6 Pro — Google has added a new Magic Eraser function that I like a lot more than the standard erase tool:… Source link

The European Central Bank raised rates for the first time in more than a decade on Thursday, boosting its benchmark interest rate by a half-percentage point. At the same time, the central bank rolled out a new flexible bond-buying program it’s dubbing the Transmission Protection Instrument, or TPI. The latter is an effort to smooth out the volatility triggered by the central bank’s shifting rate policy. And this rollout caused a bit of confusion in markets, with the euro spiking as high as… Source link

Figures from Google, one of the most prolific collectors of location data, show that the company received 5,764 “geofence” warrants between 2018 and 2020 from police in the 10 states that have banned abortion as of July 5. These warrants demand GPS data showing which mobile devices were present in a specified area during a particular time period, and can help investigate individuals who were present at crime scenes or other locations of interest. Google doesn’t specify what alleged… Source link

A new dataset from Google shows the features on the surface of the Earth in near real time, the company announced Thursday. The tool, called Dynamic World, uses deep learning and satellite imagery to develop a high-resolution land cover map that shows which bits of land have features like trees, crops, or water. Land cover maps usually take a long time to produce, and there are big gaps between the time images are taken and when the data is published. They also often don’t have a… Source link

Logseq founder Tienson Qin takes a lot of notes about his work. He also likes to draw together with his six year old daughter on an iPad, and he found that the notes tool he had been using for years doesn’t run on the tablet. So like all enterprising engineers, he decided to build a new tool that does. Being able to share drawings with his child may have been an initial motivation for Qin, but he also wanted to build a tool for connecting his work documents in a… Source link

As regulators in the U.S. and abroad consider ramping up oversight of digital assets, Congressman Ro Khanna, who represents Silicon Valley, pointed out the benefits of cryptocurrency in a recent interview with Yahoo Finance (video above). “It’s a huge tool,” he said. “I mean, what is cryptocurrency? At its core, it’s a technology that allows decentralization, it takes away a need for a third-party. You have a ledger, basically an accounting book that’s public, so you don’t need… Source link

Google is now rolling out a conversion migration tool for you to important your existing goals from Universal Analytics to Google Analytics 4. You can access this under your GA4 settings screen, in the Setup Assistant tab, under the Conversions section. How it works. The goals migration tool allows you to quickly recreate eligible goals from your connected Universal Analytics property as conversion events in your Google Analytics 4 property. I personally do not see it yet, but I suspect I… Source link

Inevitably, large businesses will collect all kinds of sensitive data. Often, that’s personal identifiable data (PII) of their customers and employees, or other information that only a select number of users should get access to. But as the amount of data that large businesses collect increases, manual data discovery and classification can’t scale anymore. With Automatic DLP [Data Loss Prevention], Google recently launched a tool that helps its BigQuery users discover and classify… Source link

Google is sunsetting the URL Parameters tool in Search Console next month, the company confirms in an announcement today. There’s no action required for current users of the tool, Google states. That means you no longer need to do anything to specify the function of URL parameters on your site. The URL Parameters tool gave people the ability to specify how certain parameters affect the content on their site. Now, Google’s crawlers will learn how to deal with URL parameters… Source link

How we got here: Google is focusing on what it knows best following a reshuffle of its Health organization: Search. For example, last December, the tech giant unveiled a new Google Search feature that makes it easier for patients to find doctors that accept Medicare. Many Medicare Advantage (MA) patients are willing to see doctors they haven’t had a visit with yet. Only 29% of MA members knew their home health clinician prior to the visit, per an October 2021 OIG analysis of 26 million… Source link