Tag Archives: Updates

Here’s what you need to know: Margaret Mitchell, who was one of the leaders of Google’s Ethical A.I. team, sent a tweet on Friday afternoon saying merely: “I’m fired.”Credit…Cody O’Loughlin for The New York Times Two months after the jarring departure of a well-known artificial intelligence researcher at Google, a second A.I. researcher at the company said she was fired after criticizing the way it has treated employees who were working on ways to address bias and toxicity in its… Source link

Google is releasing a developer preview for the next version of Android, Android 12, for Pixel devices today. As is the norm for Google, the very first previews of Android are full of a lot of developer-facing changes. Android 12 has updates to how the OS handles images, video, and future security updates. It’s also the norm for Google to hold some of the major UI changes in reserve for its Google I/O conference, typically held in May. Although this developer preview does include some… Source link

Google today introduced a suite of updates for its online education tools whose adoption and further development have been accelerated by the pandemic, including Google Classroom, Google Meet and the next generation of G Suite for Education, now rebranded as Google Workspace for Education. In total, Google is promising more than 50 new features across its education products, with a focus on meeting educators’ and admins’ needs, in particular, in addition to those of the… Source link

Google has provided a bug fix to its iOS YouTube app, the first update to a major Google iOS app since December, 9to5Google reports. Although there’s been speculation that the reason for the lack of updates to iOS versions of Gmail, Docs, Search, and Photos is an attempt to avoid Apple’s new privacy labels, Google has explicitly denied that was the case. The company said in a January 12th blog post it would add the labels to its apps when updates were available: As Google’s iOS apps… Source link

Every Friday, The Verge publishes our flagship podcast The Vergecast to discuss this week in Verge headlines. Here’s what The Verge’s Nilay Patel, Dieter Bohn, and Adi Robertson focus the episode on this week: Google’s mysterious lack of iOS app updates, the rumors around an Apple-made VR / AR headset, and the gadget headlines you may have missed. This week, users of the iOS versions of Google’s apps were shown a prompt claiming the software was “out of date” and suggesting… Source link

Some of Google’s apps were prompting updates, when updates haven’t been available for two months. James Martin/CNET … Source link

Google hasn’t updated many of its iOS apps in weeks, perhaps to avoid potential criticism from what might be revealed from Apple’s new mandatory App Store privacy labels. But for a little while on Wednesday, some of Google’s own iOS apps seemed to be complaining about the wait: we were seeing confusing notices inside Gmail, Google Maps and Google Photos saying that the apps were out of date — even though there aren’t newer versions of the apps available (via Techmeme editor… Source link

Google has long prioritized user experience, whether in its core algorithmic updates, new features, products, or SERP format changes. While some of these Google changes have involved updates to target low-quality content, links, and spam, other updates aim to understand consumer behavior and intent. Considering the massive competition for SERP real estate from brands, even slight drops in position will have critical impacts on traffic, revenue, and conversions. In this article, I examine a… Source link

Google is beginning Black History Month with an update to shopping search results that makes it easier to find and support Black-owned businesses. Search interest in Black-owned businesses is reaching record highs, having increasing 600% in the past 12 months. Interest in related search terms such as “black owned restaurants,” “black owned bookstores,” and “black owned beauty supply” is increasing as well. Now Google is helping searchers find these businesses with a… Source link

Google is updating the Discover report in Search Console to include data from the Chrome mobile browser. Previously, Search Console’s Discover report was limited to data from the Google app on Android and iOS. Another place people routinely access Google Discover is when they open a new tab in Chrome. Until now that data hasn’t been included in Search Console. Google says Discover data from Chrome will be added to Search Console over the course of the next few months. Look for the data to… Source link