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How Google’s Pixel 9 Pro Will Change Smartphones Forever – Forbes

How Google’s Pixel 9 Pro Will Change Smartphones Forever  Forbes Google wants us to know that it takes the Pixel Fold seriously this time  PhoneArena Google’s Pixel Fold one year later: I can’t wait for the sequel  The Verge Source link How Google’s Pixel 9 Pro Will Change Smartphones Forever – Forbes #Googles #Pixel #Pro #Change #Smartphones #Forbes …

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It took some serious nerve for Wiz to walk away from Google’s $23B offer

Google had good news and bad news last week. The good news was that the cloud division — including Google Workplace software as a service and Google Cloud infrastructure services — made $10 billion for the quarter for the first time. That had to take the sting out of losing out on its second potential …

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UK regulator looks at Google’s partnership with Anthropic | Google

Google CMA to consider whether deal with AI startup is a potential merger, which could prompt full investigation Tue 30 Jul 2024 15.53 BST The Competition and Markets Authority has begun a preliminary investigation into a partnership between Google and the AI startup Anthropic, marking the latest in a string of investigations into deals between …

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Your Best Look Yet At Google’s New Pixel 9 Pro XL

Google’s Pixel 8 Pro (2023) Ewan Spence Google may have teased the Pixel 9 family of phones, but two weeks before the handset is fully revealed, we have our best look yet at Google’s Pixel 9 Pro XL. The details come in a new video from the team at Andro-news. they display an engineering sample …

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Apple used Google’s chips to train two AI models, research paper shows

By Max A. Cherney SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -Apple relied on chips designed by Google rather than industry leader Nvidia to build two key components of its artificial intelligence software infrastructure for its forthcoming suite of AI tools and features, an Apple research paper published on Monday showed. Apple’s decision to rely on Google’s cloud infrastructure …

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Apple says its AI models were trained on Google’s custom chips

Sundar Pichai and Tim Cook Source: Reuters; Apple Apple said on Monday that the artificial intelligence models underpinning Apple Intelligence, its AI system, were pretrained on processors designed by Google, a sign that Big Tech companies are looking for alternatives to Nvidia when it comes to the training of cutting-edge AI. Apple’s choice of Google’s …

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Apple says its AI models were trained on Google’s custom chips

Sundar Pichai and Tim Cook Source: Reuters; Apple Apple said on Monday that the artificial intelligence models underpinning Apple Intelligence, its AI system, were pretrained on processors designed by Google, a sign that Big Tech companies are looking for alternatives to Nvidia when it comes to the training of cutting-edge AI. Apple’s choice of Google’s …

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Skip up a mountain in powered pants from Google’s X Labs

A new set of ‘powered pants’ can boost your leg strength as much as 40%, or make you feel around 30 lb (14 kg) lighter, according to Google X Labs spinout Skip. This ‘mountain goat’ exoskeleton aims to eliminate physical barriers to outdoor hiking. Skip has just partnered with Arc’teryx, a high-end outdoor clothing company, …

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Review: Google’s Nest Mini Is a Good, Cheap Smart Home Device

If you want to buy one great speaker, Google’s Nest Mini smart speaker is not a good choice. It lacks stereo separation, doesn’t get loud, distorts at higher volumes, has basic equalizer controls, and has no line-out or 3.5mm port for physical connection to other speaker systems. Most importantly, it doesn’t sound great. The second …

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Crooks Bypassed Google’s Email Verification to Create Workspace Accounts, Access 3rd-Party Services – Krebs on Security

Google says it recently fixed an authentication weakness that allowed crooks to circumvent the email verification required to create a Google Workspace account, and leverage that to impersonate a domain holder at third-party services that allow logins through Google’s “Sign in with Google” feature. Last week, KrebsOnSecurity heard from a reader who said they received a …

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