Year: 2021

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Straddling several competitor categories, Google’s modular workflow layer provides a fresh take on collaboration and context and might even inspire Microsoft to achieve a long-sought dream.

Some of the world’s largest technology giants have taken the first steps to outline how they plan to help protect Australians from misinformation online.

As with so many things in tech, this new idea has positive uses. But one can also foresee disturbing consequences.

As Google evolves from exposing privacy options to enabling privacy defaults, its Smart Canvas option for Workspace represents its strongest effort to facilitate team workflows.

It will be Google’s first physical retail store ever.

Google released its May 2021 Android patch and has now revealed some of the vulnerabilities were under attack. But few phones beyond Google’s Pixels have received the patch.

At I/O 2021 on Tuesday, Google spent part of the keynote talking about privacy and security. It’s following that up with a prominent “We protect your privacy” message in Gmail and Google Photos. more… The post Google showing ‘we protect …

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These features will be new to Android users, but familiar to people using iOS.

Don’t have a compatible Android phone? No problem!

Google takes the wraps off its Quantum AI campus in California and shows off its plans for an ‘error-corrected’ quantum device.

An AI-powered dermatology assist tool will require users to take photos of their area of concern and have a possible diagnosis returned.

A new video chat booth is in development that can allow a person to appear in 3D.

Shopping Graph brings together information from websites, prices, reviews, videos and retailer product data, and calculates how those attributes relate to one another.

With its new managed machine learning platform, Google promises to make up for the shortcomings of ML tools on the market

Unlike other language models, Google’s LaMDA was trained on dialogue, teaching it how to engage in free-flowing conversations.

Google pledged to make their camera and photography algorithms better able to handle images of people of color.

Google also announced an update to its password manager, including a new tool that imports passwords from third-party password managers.

Google Maps will be offering users AR information about the businesses and landmarks around them.

Google I/O just kicked off and we now know a lot more about Android 12.