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Google calls DOJ's case deeply flawed: "People use Google because they choose to, not because they're forced to, or because they can't find alternatives"
Google – Hum to Search Song
Google says Chat will be available as a free service next year, both as a standalone app and integrated into Gmail; Google will remove Fi support in Hangouts
Face retouching settings should be off by default
Google Maps' Live View AR feature now includes notable landmarks in ~25 cities around the world, and gets location sharing, improved accuracy, and more
Say Goodbye to Hold Music
Tables: Tracking work for teams
New things in Android 11
Google Maps is prioritizing traffic patterns from the last 2 to 4 weeks to predict traffic amid lockdowns and working with DeepMind to accurately predict ETAs
Google updates its "Why this ad" feature, now "About this ad", to show verified names of advertisers and is testing "trust tokens" to replace 3rd-party cookies
Google updates its Exposure Notification API with interoperability between countries, ability for apps to work without turning on location in Android 11, more
30 years of family videos in an AI archive
Hacker News · 4 months ago
Buy on Google is now open and commission-free
Google announces new Career Certificates and 100k scholarships
Identifying Knowledge Graph Entities in Google Images Results
Google Acquires North
Keeping your private information private
A new licensing program to support the news industry
Google Meet premium video meetings–free for everyone
Google Pixel Buds
Increasing transparency through advertiser identity verification
Our data centers now work harder when the sun shines and wind blows
Google Duo rolls out realtime AV1
Apple and Google partner on Covid-19 contact tracing technology
TalkBack – a braille keyboard for Android, no new hardware required
$800M to support small businesses and crisis response
Google sent users 40K warnings about phishing or malware attempts from nation-states in 2019, a 25% drop YoY; journalist and news outlet impersonations up
YouTube says it will be relying more on automated systems as content moderators stay home, and creators may see fewer strikes against videos but more removals
Google Maps turns 15 and updates its app with five tabs: Explore, Commute, Saved, Contribute, and Updates, new transit features, and more
Discovering Millions of Datasets on the Web
Google offers certificate to help IT career growth
The case for open innovation
Google rolls out Verified SMS, which labels messages from legitimate businesses, on Android in nine countries, expands spam detection in messages to the US
Chrome Warns if Username and Password Are Compromised
Google says it will add new features to Pixels in "feature drops", starting this month with auto call screening on Pixel 4, a post-snap portrait mode, and more
Larry Page steps down as Alphabet CEO, Sundar Pichai to lead both Alphabet and Google
A Letter from Larry and Sergey
Google announces new political ad rules, limits microtargeting to age, gender, and general location categories, will start enforcing them in UK within a week
Upgrading Messaging on Android in the U.S. with RCS
Understanding searches better than ever before
Google says it will invest €3B over the next two years to expand its data centers across Europe, and €600M in 2020 to expand its data center in Hamina, Finland
Google says it changed how it ranks stories and updated guidelines for evaluation of search results to help better identify and surface original news reporting
Building a more private web
Privacy Sandbox – Open standards to enhance privacy on the web
Updates to Android’s brand
Google Assistant now lets users create reminders that can be assigned to friends or family, including scheduled time-based or location-based reminders
Google to Offer a Best Price Guarantee on Certain Flights
Pixel 4 will come with face unlock and radar-powered Motion Sense features, to let you skip songs, snooze alarms, and more by waving your hand over the device
Google launches Gallery Go, a lightweight 10MB photo gallery app for organizing and editing photos, designed to work offline
Techmeme · 1 year ago