Google has announced features coming to Google Assistant, with the most notable feature for Apple users being the ability to locate a lost iPhone using the digital assistant. Android users have long been able to use the Google Assistant to trigger a sound for their smartphone if it got lost. According to MacRumors, that same […]
Google is reportedly now bringing Lens to the desktop web inside Google Photos for convenient text copying through optical character recognition (OCR). Besides being its own app, Google Lens is also available in Image Search, Photos and integrated across Android. Opening an image with words reveals a “Copy text from image” suggestion chip that features […]
Google has announced to shut down its mobile shopping app for both iOS and Android devices by June this year. The mobile shopping app will, however, be available on the desktop (web) version. It means that the shopping.google.com website will remain active. The company confirmed the decision to 9to5Google on Sunday. “Within the next few […]
Google operated a secret project, known as “Project Bernanke,” that relied on data from past bids in the search engine giant’s digital advertising exchange and allegedly gave its own ad-buying system an edge over competitors, The Wall Street Journal reported. The name of the secret project got revealed in an improperly unredacted document Google had […]
Tech giant Google said it has blocked several terms associated with hate speech from being used as ad keywords on YouTube videos. According to The Verge, the move follows a report by The Markup, which found that advertisers could search for terms like “white lives matter” and “white power” when deciding where to place ads […]
Privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo has slammed the new ad tracking method by Google, saying it is bad for privacy and puts the users in a group based on their browsing history, and any website can get that group ID to target and fingerprint them. Google has announced FLoC (Federated Learning of Cohorts) technology to provide […]
After canceling its developer conference last year, Google has announced that it’s I/O 2021 will be virtual and free to attend and will run from May 18-20. Google I/O 2021 will feature Consumer and Developer Keynotes followed by Technical Sessions for “product announcements and how to adopt new features”. Users will have to register for […]
A Google Fi user residing in Hawaii received several messages over Hangout on 5th April; however, the problem was that the sender sent those texts on Easter Sunday, but the receiver received those messages on Monday, that is to say, there was a significant delay in communication. The tech giant Google has acknowledged the problem […]
Google’s abrupt firing of prominent Artificial Intelligence (AI) ethics researcher Timnit Gebru late last year and reports of the company sacking more employees later has now led an Alphabet shareholder to push for the adoption of policies for better whistleblower protections. Trillium Asset Management has filed a shareholder resolution asking the board of directors for […]
Google may have accidentally revealed an image of its upcoming “Pixel Buds A” in a dark green color variant. In an email sent out to those on the Google Nest mailing list, Google has included a small image of the Pixel Buds A, 9To5Google reported on Tuesday. The email, which highlights new features coming to […]
Google has introduced a new app review process for both developers and advertisers to help them resolve issues upfront and lessen the likelihood of future policy violations. Google said the new process will help enhance the mobile app inventory quality for developers who choose to monetize with either AdMob or Ad Manager platforms. “App review […]
