Google on Wednesday announced new safety features for Google Maps and Waze, including a long-awaited change. Google Maps and Waze will both share incident reports, the standout feature that made Waze so popular with drivers. Since Google owns both navigation apps, it makes sense to share certain features, especially something as useful as incident reports.Google…
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Following the arrival of OpenAI’s GPT-4o mini model and Meta’s Llama 3.1 models, Google has debuted its own AI update. On Thursday, Google made the Gemini 1.5 Flash model available to free users. The updated model is a fairly comprehensive upgrade over version 1.0, with faster, smarter responses and the ability to hold longer conversations.According…
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Google has dramatically changed course on its proposals to deprecate third-party cookies in its Chrome web browser in favour of a “new experience” that it claims will enable people to make an “informed choice” about their web privacy. The changes, which mirror those made already in the Firefox and Safari browsers, would have been due…
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OpenAI announced it’s now testing a new SearchGPT. This temporary prototype uses AI search features to give you “fast and timely answers with clear and relevant sources.”The new SearchGPT feature is currently available for 10,000 users. If you’re not part of the program, you can join a waitlist for its possible expansion. OpenAI explains that…
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Google’s August 13th Pixel 9 event can’t come soon enough. That’s because the Pixel 9 phones have appeared in so many leaks that we already know everything there is to know about them. We saw the Pixel 9, Pixel 9 Pro, Pixel 9 Pro XL, and Pixel 9 Pro Fold in so many leaks that…
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We’re still about a month away from the next Made by Google hardware event, but Google has jumped the gun today and shown off two new devices early. On Thursday, Google released two videos on YouTube revealing the Pixel 9 Pro and Pixel 9 Pro Fold — neither of which had been formally announced by…
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At long last, Apple has finally decided to launch a Calculator app for iPad in iPadOS 18. Previously, the company told iPad owners that third-party options were good enough and that it would only release a calculator if it could stand out from the competition.Fourteen years later, Apple discovered what could make its Calculator app…
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The cloud holds a large – and growing – percentage of enterprise data. While much of this growth comes from unstructured information, such as documents and media files, enterprises also still depend on structured data, stored in databases. The global market for databases grew by 12.8% last year, according to analysts at Gartner, and…
Starting August 31, 2024, Google Play Store will make it harder for low-quality apps to become available for Android users. In a new support document, Google wants to ensure a better minimum quality for an application to be available in its store.As noted by AndroidAuthority, Google says, “Apps should provide a stable, responsive, and engaging…
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Microsoft is banning Android phones from its workplace in China for privacy and security reasons. According to Bloomberg News, Microsoft staff will have to ditch their Android-powered devices in favor of iPhones starting in September.Special iPhone apps will be required for China-based employees to verify their identities when logging in to work computers or phones.…
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