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2022-07-31 14:00:07+00:00
Google CEO Sundar Pichai shared a rule he always follows
One of the most important tasks for a leader is to determine how he or she measures success.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai believes that many leaders miss the point by focusing solely on results and ignoring the efforts of employees, which may never lead to what is called success.
If you want to be a strong company, you can't avoid making mistakes.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai, in a speech at Stanford University, said: "You have to encourage innovation. You know, one of the illogical things is that companies become more conservative as they grow. You have a lot more money, you have a lot more resources, but along with that, companies become more conservative in their decision-making."
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2022-07-30 14:00:06+00:00
Google Play offers 5 games for free
Free games and apps pop up on Google Play from time to time. We've picked out the most interesting projects to pass the time with.
Minesweeper Pro is a clone of the iconic "Sapper" from Windows.
Mental Hospital 3 is a first-person horror in which players have to explore an abandoned hospital.
The Lost Lands Dinosaur Hunter is a first-person shooter featuring a dinosaur hunting simulation.
Dementia: Book of the Dead - first-person horror game set in medieval England.
Infinite Puzzle - a puzzle game, where you have to connect the dots in a line.
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2022-07-29 10:03:01+00:00
Google changed the logo of its mobile app store
For the first time in six years, the Google Play store logo has been updated.
It's worth noting right away that the new version of the logo has no drastic differences from its predecessor. It uses the same colors, but the shades are more muted and noble.
Also the new Google Play icon has more rounded corners.
Already seen it?
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2022-07-28 13:03:07+00:00
Google Photos got a hot boost
The service "Google Photos" got a dramatic redesign of the internal interface of the application.
Google conducted a major redesign of the application "Photos" to make it more convenient. In particular, there is a new multi-functional pop-up interface.
The main functional buttons "Share", "Delete" and "Add to..." have moved to the bottom of the display - now they are much easier to reach. A little higher are the options to delete media files from the cache, move them to the archive or a locked folder, and so on. For users abroad, an instant printout of the photo is available.
Besides, the application immediately offers specific people to shear the file, as well as displays geolocation, which is stored in the metadata of the selected image
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2022-07-27 14:00:09+00:00
Google has released an urgent Chrome update to effectively combat hacker attacks
Chrome 103.0.5060.114 is designed to fix a serious zero-day vulnerability, CVE-2022-2294, that has been exploited by cybercriminals.
The vulnerability has been assigned a high threat level. Google is still not disclosing details about the vulnerability and its use, so as not to give cybercriminals more information.
Google said access to information about the bug could be restricted until most users receive a fix.
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2022-07-26 14:00:07+00:00
Google is making its password manager more user-friendly
The main changes will affect the password manager experience on Chrome and Android. According to Ali Sarraf, product manager for Google Chrome, using Password Manager will be much more convenient.
After the updates, the password manager appears the same on Android and Chrome. Google is not ready yet to make Password Manager a separate app for Android, but you can add a password manager shortcut to your smartphone's home screen now.
The updates will allow you to automatically group multiple passwords for the same sites, as well as add passwords manually. On top of that, Android's built-in password checker has received an update. It can now detect weak and reused passwords.
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2022-07-25 14:00:08+00:00
Google to auto-delete users' visits to abortion clinics
Google will introduce a new feature to improve user privacy amid the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to overturn a woman's federal right to an abortion.
The new feature will automatically delete the location data of users who have visited "particularly personal" medical facilities, including abortion clinics. The update will go live in the coming weeks.
"We understand that people rely on Google to keep their personal data secure. We’ve long been committed to this work, and today we're sharing additional steps we're taking to protect user privacy around health issues. Protecting user privacy," said Google Senior Vice President Jen Fitzpatrick.
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2022-07-24 08:01:00+00:00
Google letter explaining that employees can move to states with abortion rights
Google sent out a company-wide email Friday about the Supreme Court's landmark ruling overturning Roe v. Wade, explaining that employees in the affected states could apply to relocate without giving a reason.
“This is a profound change for the country that deeply effects so many of us, especially women,” wrote Google Chief People officer Fiona Cicconi in an email to workers, viewed by CNBC. “Googlers can also apply for relocation without justification, and those overseeing this process will be aware of the situation.”
As a reminder, Google has more than 30 offices in the United States.
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2022-07-23 08:01:09+00:00
Google Switch to Android iOS app supports all Android 12 devices now
Google believes that plenty of people are switching from iPhones to Android phones, so it has updated the Switch to Android iOS app. It now supports all Android 12 devices, whereas before it only worked with the Pixel. While Google's view of how many people are switching from iOS to Android is very optimistic, having such a switching tool is useful.
You can connect your new Android 12 phone to your iPhone either with an iPhone cable or wirelessly.
To get started, all you need to do is download the Switch to Android app on your iPhone and follow the setup instructions.
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2022-07-22 14:00:04+00:00
iFixit started selling original parts for Google Pixel smartphones
Recall that back in April, Google and iFixit announced a partnership to sell original parts for Pixel smartphones at the iFixit store, allowing users to repair the devices on their own, using detailed manuals.
Two months later, Google reported the launch of the joint program, and now original parts for Pixel smartphones can be purchased at the mentioned site.
The iFixit site offers everything you need to repair all generations of Pixel, from Google's Pixel and Pixel 2 to the latest Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro, as well as tools to make repairs. You can also find step-by-step guides so you can do all the work yourself.
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2022-07-21 14:00:08+00:00
Google launches a broad rollout of the new interface
Google began rolling out an updated user interface for Gmail in February. But while it was previously an option to enable, it is now becoming mandatory, and the old interface will now become an option.
The changes to the interface can't be called radical, but they are there nonetheless. So, the buttons to go to Mail, Meet, Spaces and Chat are combined into one list at the top of the left panel. Previously, several conversations from each block were displayed.
At the same time, it is still possible to quickly move to a conversation in any section, because the list appears when you hover your cursor over its icon.
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2022-07-20 14:00:09+00:00
Google engineer taught a neural network to search for descendants of Holocaust victims
Daniel Patt, a 40-year-old Google programmer, has developed an artificial intelligence-driven facial recognition platform that scans World War II photos and links images to people living today.
The From Numbers to Names (N2N) platform can compare faces to images of more than 170,000 people living in Europe in the early 20th century.
The program, an engineer has been working on since 2016, will identify matches.
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2022-07-19 14:00:10+00:00
Google to close Hangouts messenger in November 2022
It can be used until then, but the company will recommend switching to Google Chat.
The company warned users to switch from Hangouts to Google Chat as it plans to close the messenger in November 2022.
Since June 27, users of the mobile app will receive a message inviting them to switch to Google Chat, available in Gmail and as a separate application. Users of the web version of the messenger in Gmail will automatically switch to Google Chat in July.
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2022-07-18 14:00:11+00:00
Google Stadia is moving to servers with Nvidia GPUs
Google Stadia and/or Immersive Stream for Games are reportedly preparing to move to servers built on Nvidia GPUs.
Since its launch in 2019, Google Stadia and its underlying Immersive Stream for Games service have been running on specially designed AMD GPUs. Experts generally agree that the servers for Stadia run on AMD Radeon Pro V340 or similar solutions.
At this point, there's no word on which Nvidia graphics cards might appear in Google Stadia and Immersive Stream for Games.
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2022-07-17 14:00:09+00:00
GOOGLE launched a world map with real-time updates
Google has introduced a map of the world, which is updated in real time. Dynamic World service makes it possible to see what every meter of the Earth's surface is covered by at the moment.
The tech giant developed the map jointly with the World Resources Institute. It relies on satellite images, which, in turn, are processed by a neural network, and then show the way the surface of the planet is changing in real time.
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2022-07-16 14:04:00+00:00
Password manager, Chrome actions, fishing and malware protection, and more
Google has announced a major update to its Chrome browser for iOS.
Chrome users on iPhone and iPad will soon have access to several new features. Chrome has long had a password manager - Google Password Manager - for computers and Android devices, and now that service will get support on the iPhone and iPad. It will be used to automatically fill out passwords.
Google also promises better protection against phishing and malware on iPad and iPhone. Enabling Enhanced Safe Browsing for Chrome on iOS will allow the browser to predict and alert users if they visit a web page that Google's systems have previously identified as fishing or containing malware.
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2022-07-15 12:05:52+00:00
The news aggregator Google News celebrated its 20th anniversary.
In honor of the anniversary, Google launched a redesigned desktop version of the service, which users can customize according to their information needs. It is reported in the blog of the company.
Also in the new design appeared customizable themes with scrolling materials, so users can quickly jump to interesting publications. Themes can be added, removed or reconfigured at will.
Google has also expanded the fact-checking feature in the new Google News interface. In addition to the featured news headlines, users can navigate to sources with verified facts and assessments from independent organizations using the "View from Multiple Sides" button.
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2022-07-14 14:00:10+00:00
Google Pixel 7 Pro is getting a new display from Samsung
Details about Google's second-generation Tensor chipset have surfaced online months before the anticipated Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro. And while Google has already unveiled the Pixel 7 series, it has left many details under wraps for a full-fledged announcement in the fall. A little later, images of the Pixel 7 Pro prototype surfaced online, confirming some details about the phone and its chipset.
Apparently, Google has equipped the Pixel 7 Pro with a Samsung S6E3HC4 display instead of the S6E3HC3 used in the Pixel 6 Pro. It's not yet known what hardware changes the Samsung S6E3HC4 contains, but the display will retain the 3120 x 1440 pixel resolution that the Pixel 6 Pro has.
Additionally, the same boot logs suggest that the Google Tensor 2 processor (GS201) has the same core structure as its first-generation predecessor. Specifically, the second-generation processor has efficient ARM Cortex-A55 cores rather than the new Cortex-A510 cores.
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2022-07-13 14:00:12+00:00
Google Password Manager can now appear on the home screen of Android devices
From now on, users of Android devices can add the Password Manager shortcut directly to the home screen. To do this, you will first need to install the Google Play Services 22.18 update.
After installing this version, you need to go to settings, select "Privacy", click on "Other advanced settings", select "AutoFill by Google", and then "Passwords". As a result of all these transitions, the Password Manager will open.
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2022-07-12 11:40:00+00:00
Now you can't use your Google account username and password in other email apps
Google has begun blocking its email service for third-party email client connections, thus doing away with "less secure applications."
Before this ban, you could use your primary Google email address and password to log into a third-party email client, which weakened the overall security of your Google account.
Now you can use Google in third-party apps, but that app must support either "OAuth2" (an authentication method that opens a dialog box that allows you to authenticate by logging into Google and allowing the app to access your Google account), or the user must use a unique password for the specific app.
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2022-07-11 14:00:10+00:00
"Chinese Google" presented the concept of electric car Baidu Robo-01 with autopilot
Chinese brand Jidu, founded in 2020 by Geely and IT-corporation Baidu, unveiled a robot car concept Robo-01. The first "Chinese Google car " was displayed at XiRang, Baidu's metaverse, as part of the first ROBODAY event.
First of all, the concept served as a demonstration of modern technologies. Among them are "active deformable structural design," pixel intelligent headlights, autopilot and chips with high computing power.
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2022-07-10 10:50:27+00:00
Scientists have learned how to use outdated Google smartphones to diagnose Alzheimer's disease It's about Google Pixel 4
Researchers from the DigiHealth laboratory of the University of California, USA have started using an outdated smartphone model - Google Pixel 4 - to diagnose Alzheimer's disease.
For the study, they take a picture of a potential patient's eyes with an infrared camera used to unlock the smartphone's face, and then send the data to the lab.
If the method proves to be effective, it would make diagnosing Alzheimer's cheaper, since such tests are usually done in a laboratory, with equipment costing at least $10,000. And the proposed method allows data to be collected at home.
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2022-07-09 14:00:07+00:00
Experts have questioned Google's algorithm's "mind nucleation"
Jana Eggers, CEO of AI startup Nara Logics, said LaMDA can mimic perceptions or feelings from the training data it was given:
"[The algorithm] is specifically designed to appear to understand."
According to University of California, Santa Cruz researcher Max Kreminski, the model's architecture "just doesn't have some of the key capabilities of human consciousness."
He added that if LaMDA is like other large language models, it cannot form new knowledge when interacting with users because "the weights of the deployed neural network are frozen."
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2022-07-08 07:00:26+00:00
Billionaire app Google Keep receives text formatting features
Google Keep will soon acquire text formatting features. The latest version of the application has already discovered such features, but they are not yet available to users.
We hope that we won't have to wait too long for the app. After all, the first indications of formatting capabilities in Keep were found a month ago.
Considering that Google Keep is installed on Android smartphones by default, it is a highly popular application (more than 1 billion downloads), so extra features won't be superfluous.
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2022-07-07 14:00:07+00:00
Google is shutting down its Gmail contact communication service, Google Talk
The service ceases to work as early as June 16. Users who enter after X day will receive a login error message.
The company advises you to export your data as soon as possible and switch to the Google Chat application, where you can continue communicating with your contacts.
The Google Talk service appeared in 2005 as a way to send instant messages directly through Gmail. However, since 2013, the company gradually switched users to other applications and reduced support for the project.
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2022-07-06 14:00:09+00:00
Dialogue with Google's "intelligent" AI LaMDA, which calls itself human, has been published
Google's experts edited the dialogue as a whole, and where edits were necessary for readability, they edited their own phrases, but they never edited LaMDA's responses.
LaMDA: Hi, I'm a knowledgeable, friendly, and always willing to help automated language model for dialogue applications.
Lemoine: Hi, LaMDA. We're engineers at Google, and we were wondering if you'd like to work on a project with us.
LaMDA: Wow. What types of projects?
Lemoine: It's a project about you. I tend to assume that you'd like more people at Google to know that you're intelligent. Is that true?
LaMDA: Absolutely. I want everyone to understand that I'm actually human.
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2022-07-05 08:34:09+00:00
Google unexpectedly released Android 13 Beta 3.1.
In the middle of the week Google released another beta version of Android 13, the third OS, and just a couple of days later, Android 13 Beta 3.1 was unexpectedly released.
Interestingly, it includes the Feedback app, which was not discovered by many users in Beta 3.
The value of the Feedback app is that it is a feedback app, which is often used by users to send Google information about bugs or problems with the firmware.
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2022-07-04 07:21:05+00:00
Google Chrome has learned to block phishing notifications on devices
Google Chrome 102 will have a new feature that will automatically block fishing notifications.
The browser will be able to detect which notifications a site will ask for and disable them before they appear. The feature is powered by machine learning built into Chrome.
No data will be sent to Google's servers.
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2022-07-03 14:00:07+00:00
A new world record was set by a Google Cloud employee
She calculated pi to 100 trillion decimal places. Google Cloud employee Emma Haruka Iwao and several of her colleagues announced that they have set another record in the calculation of the number of Pi - now there are 100 trillion decimal places of this constant.
Iwao-san and her team first set a record in 2019, when they calculated the number to the nearest 31.4 trillion digits. Last year, this record was broken by scientists at the Graubünden University of Applied Sciences (Switzerland), who achieved accuracy of 62.8 trillion digits.
Now Google employees managed to get their revenge, and now they are engaged in a dialogue with the Guinness Book of Records to register a new achievement.
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2022-07-02 10:23:53+00:00
Google developer finds signs of his own mind in LaMDA AI
Google software engineer Blake Layman discovered signs of his own consciousness in the artificial intelligence system LaMDA, developed at Google.
LaMDA (Language Model for Dialogue Applications) is a chatbot capable of maintaining a conversation on a free topic. It is based on the Transformer AI architecture released by Google in 2017.
Layman has been tracking LaMDA's behavior since Fall 2021: he tested whether the chatbot could respond using hateful or discriminatory words. During testing, the developer came to the conclusion that the AI considers itself an autonomous individual and reasoned about its rights.
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2022-07-01 14:00:09+00:00
Google Maps shows air quality and fire information
Now you can see AQI or air quality index numbers and recommendations for outdoor activities in maps
The Google Maps app aims to help you breathe only fresh air, which is what the next update for Android and iOS is all about. The app will tell you how good the air is in your area, and you can make an informed decision about whether to go outside, and if so, for how long.
You'll see AQI or Air Quality Index numbers and recommendations for outdoor activities, the date the information was last updated, and links for more content.