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Google’s fancy Pixel Tablet becomes a no-brainer with this sweet post-Prime Day discount

Amazon Prime Day 2024 brought a plethora of sweet Prime Day tablet deals on some of the best slates on the market. Google’s awesome Pixel Tablet also received the Prime Day deal treatment and was on sale at a lovely $160 (36%) price cut during the event. Unfortunately, the slate isn’t available at its Prime …

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Cybersecurity: Microsoft’s Azure woes and Google’s acquisition moves

That cybersecurity and its failures can impact large parts of the world was evident on Friday, when Microsoft’s Azure outage—reported to be on account of CrowdStrike, Azure’s first line of cyber defence—left large numbers of computer users staring at blue screens that did not budge, preventing work. That cybersecurity and its failures can impact large …

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Google’s February 2024 Gmail Updates: What You Need to Know

Deb Mukhuty, co-founder and sales director at Isyndicate, delves into the intricacies of Google’s email guidelines and regulation updates. He uncovers actionable strategies to comply and thrive in this dynamic environment. Google plays a key role in shaping the rules that govern email sender reputation and inbox placement. While February 2024 Gmail guidelines aim to …

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How I Use Google’s Custom Language Model to Supercharge My Studies

Key Takeaways Google’s NotebookLM uses personal files to generate summaries for students’ research, providing source links for efficient sourcing. NotebookLM synthesizes notes from various sources, helping students streamline research and discover overlaps or discrepancies. Despite limitations like sourcing restrictions and potential inaccuracies, NotebookLM is a helpful research and note-taking tool for scholars. Google has a …

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Google’s wrong answer to the threat of AI – stop indexing content | Google

Opinion The search engine’s response to ChatGPT and its ilk is to take a highly partial approach to what it considers worthy of attention Sat 20 Jul 2024 16.00 BST Once upon a time, a very long time ago in internet years – 1998 – Google was truly great. A couple of lads at Stanford …

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Google’s shortened links will stop working next year

If you ever used Google’s URL shortening service goo.gl before it was shut down in 2019, be warned — those links will stop working on August 25th, 2025. Google announced in a blog post that “the time has come to turn off the serving portion of Google URL Shortener,” and that any links in the …

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20 years ago, people thought Google’s Gmail launch was an April Fool’s Day joke

Two decades after launching, Gmail now has an estimated 1.8 billion active accounts. Photo illustration by Idrees Abbas/SOPA Images/Sipa USA via Reuters SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin loved pulling pranks, so much so they began rolling outlandish ideas every April Fool’s Day not long after starting their company more …

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Some ad tech vendors are pulling back from Google’s Privacy Sandbox amid uncertainty

Amid delays, regulatory backlash, and even its most ardent supporters turning sour, Google’s alternatives to third-party cookies are now murkier than a London fog. It’s no wonder some ad tech vendors are dialing down investments and playing the waiting game for a sunnier forecast. But unlike those publishers taking more drastic measures, these vendors aren’t …

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Google’s Gemini AI will be all over the Paris Olympics broadcast

The broadcast will include Google Maps’ 3D views of venues like the Versailles, Stade Roland Garros, and the Aquatics Centre, as well as tidbits about what events will occur at each location. The imagery pulls from the Immersive Views added to Maps over the last few years that represent certain landmarks and areas of interest …

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Google’s goo.gl links will stop working in August 2025

After Google stopped generating new goo.gl URLs in March of 2019, those links will stop working on August 25, 2025. Google announced it was shutting down goo.gl for consumers and developers in 2018. New link creation, as well as analytics and management, ended a year later for all users. When https://goo.gl/* stops working, it will …

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