As largely peaceful protests against police brutality and racial bias continue across the United States, Apple and Google have updated some of their key services to support the Black Lives Matter movement, most notably tweaking their maps and AI assistants. The tweaks offer users up-to-date information on any protest-related road changes, as well as retorts […]
How Google is using emerging AI techniques to improve language translation quality
Google says it’s made progress toward improving translation quality for languages that don’t have a copious amount of written text. In a forthcoming blog post, the company details new innovations that have enhanced the user experience in the 108 languages (particularly in data-poor languages Yoruba and Malayalam) supported by Google Translate, its service that translates […]
Google will rank webpages based on Web Vitals, but not in 2020
Google today announced that a webpage’s experience will eventually be a ranking factor in Google Search overall and in the Top Stories feature on mobile. Earlier this month, Google unveiled Web Vitals, an initiative to provide web developers and website owners with a unified set of metrics for building websites with user experience and performance […]
Why Sharing Your Google Contacts Is Absolutely Necessary
If you are the owner of an organization than you should know that knowledge and information are the most significant aspect that you should work on. Because this is the age of technology and for your employees to work the most effectively, they should have access to the most recent and the most up to […]
Google Play launches Change the Game Design Challenge for students
Google Play has announced its Change the Game Design Challenge for students to submit ideas for original mobile games. Aude Gandon, global brand director at Google Play, said in a blog post, “Starting today, we’re accepting applications for our 2020 Change the Game Design Challenge. And with schools closed for the year and many of […]
Google announces Web Vitals, user experience and performance metrics for websites
Google today announced Web Vitals, an initiative to provide web developers and website owners with a unified set of metrics for building websites with user experience and performance in mind. Web Vitals is the set of quality signals that Google believes are “essential to delivering a great user experience on the web.” Over the years, […]
PUBG free on Google Stadia Pro now – FIFA coming this autumn
The new Stadia Connect has revealed a host of new games for Google’s streaming service and the promise of EA titles in the future. Although it’s still far from being the industry-altering service that was initially advertised, Stadia has slowly been getting better over the last few months, with improved streaming quality and a free […]
Google Stadia Connect Event Will Show Off "A Few New Games" Next Week
Google has announced that it will broadcast a Stadia Connect event on Tuesday, April 28 at 9 AM PT / 12 PM ET / 4 PM GMT to highlight “a few new games” coming to the cloud gaming platform. The latest Stadia Connect event can be watched on the platform’s official YouTube channel. Google did […]
Google claims its AI can design computer chips in under 6 hours
In a preprint paper coauthored by Google AI lead Jeff Dean, scientists at Google Research and the Google chip implementation and infrastructure team describe a learning-based approach to chip design that can learn from past experience and improve over time, becoming better at generating architectures for unseen components. They claim it completes designs in under […]
Google says 500,000 developers use Flutter monthly, outlines release process and versioning changes
Google today revealed that “nearly half a million developers” now use its open source UI framework Flutter each month. And 2 million developers have used Flutter since version 1.0 was released in December 2018. This is the first time the company has shared user milestones for the SDK. Adoption isn’t slowing down: Flutter saw 10% […]