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| Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google: |
Google announces Pixel 7a with a 6.1-inch, 90Hz screen, Face Unlock, wireless charging, and 64MP camera, available tomorrow for $499 — Over the years, Google's Pixel phones have gained a reputation for having an exceptional camera, a clean Android experience, and smarts you won't find on any other phone.
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| Scott Stein / CNET: |
Google announces the $499 Pixel Tablet, with a Tensor G2 processor, 11-inch display, 8MP front-facing camera, available for preorder now and arriving in June — Google's got a tablet, again. The Pixel Tablet, originally teased last year, is finally arriving in June after a detailed reveal …
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| Sam Rutherford / Engadget: |
Google announces $1,799 Pixel Fold, with 120Hz 7.6" main screen, 5.8" exterior screen, Tensor G2 chip, and 12GB of RAM, for preorder now and arriving in June — Google's first foldable phone feels like what I always wanted from the Surface Duo to be. — I've been using some version …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google Photos gets a Magic Editor feature for more complex edits than Magic Eraser can achieve, like repositioning the subject, coming first to select Pixels — Google Photos is expanding its use of AI to help users edit and enhance their photos. While the company has already leveraged AI …
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Google rebrands its AI tools for its productivity apps as Duet AI and teases Sidekick, a feature that can read, summarize, and answer questions about documents — In March, Google announced a bunch of AI features for its Workspace suite of apps in an effort to keep pace with Microsoft's rapid integration of similar tools.
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
| Google on YouTube: |
A video of the Google I/O 2023 keynote, where the company announced the Pixel 7a, Pixel Fold, Pixel Tablet, its PaLM 2 general-use LLM, Search updates, and more — Tune in to find out how we're furthering our mission to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Google makes Bard available in English in 180 countries and territories, promises AI image generation from Adobe and integration with services like Instacart — Google is adding a smorgasbord of new features to its AI chatbot Bard, including support for new languages (Japanese and Korean) …
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google debuts PaLM 2, offering improved multilingual, reasoning, and coding capabilities, available in four sizes and powering 25 Google products and features — Google today announced PaLM 2, with improved multilingual, reasoning, and coding capabilities.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Google shows AI features coming to Search, including an AI-powered “snapshot” that summarizes search results with links to sites “corroborating” the information — Google is moving slowly and carefully to make AI happen. Maybe too slowly and too carefully for some people.
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Maria Renz and Lilian Rincon
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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Google plans to add a section called Perspectives to search results, featuring information from individuals posted on YouTube, Reddit, Stack Overflow, and more — You know the Reddit trick, right? The one where, when you're searching Google and you want an actual human perspective … | Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
Sources: EU regulators are set to approve Microsoft's Activision acquisition next week, most likely on May 15, three weeks after the UK CMA blocked the deal — EU antitrust regulators are set to approve Microsoft Corp's (MSFT.O) $69 billion acquisition of Activision (ATVI.O) next week …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google announces a competitor to Microsoft's GitHub Copilot, a chat tool for asking questions about coding, and AI-assisted coding in its no-code AppSheet tool — At its annual I/O developer conference, Google today announced the launch of a number of AI-centric coding tools …
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google updates its Find My Device network, including proactive alerts about unknown trackers traveling with users, with support for Apple's AirTags and others — Shortly after last week's joint announcement which saw Apple and Google teaming up on Bluetooth tracker safety measures and a new specification …
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| Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
Tether reports a $1.5B net profit in Q1, $2.44B in excess reserves, and $81.8B+ in assets as of May 9, including $1.5B+ in bitcoin and $3.3B+ in precious metals — - Tether reported $1.5 billion of net profit for the first quarter — more than double its Q4 2022 net profit.
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| Chavi Mehta / Reuters: |
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says the company won't raise salaries for full-time employees in 2023 and plans to reduce its budget for bonuses and stock awards — Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) will not raise salaries for full-time employees this year and is reducing budget for bonuses and stock awards …
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| Randall Chase / Associated Press: |
A US judge dismisses a shareholder lawsuit against Block over its Tidal acquisition in 2021, saying the company is “free to make a terrible business decision” — A Delaware judge has dismissed a shareholder lawsuit against financial technology company Block Inc. over its 2021 acquisition …
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| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Google announces Project Tailwind, an “AI-first notebook” that pulls information from the documents that users upload or have in Google Drive — Google has launched “Project Tailwind,” a new AI-first tool that is effectively a notebook of the future to help you research information as you write about it.
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| Andrew Hutchinson / Social Media Today: |
Twitter now lets users reply directly to any DM with a threaded message and react to messages with a wider range of emojis using the new emoji picker — Twitter has released two new updates for DMs, which have been in the works for a few months, but are now getting a full launch in the app.
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| Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: |
The American Psychological Association issues its first health advisory about social media: its use is “not inherently beneficial or harmful to young people” — One of the most prominent mental health organizations in the U.S. is out with a set guidelines designed to protect children …
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