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Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google Prepare for Their ‘Big Tobacco Moment’
5 min read · Paywall possible · 120 saves · Jul 28th · The tech C.E.O.s will appear together at a congressional hearing on Wednesday to argue that their companies do not stifle competition.
Translate Ancient Hieroglyphs With Google's New AI-Powered Tool
1 min read · 56 saves · Jul 16th · Stephanie Mlot · New Arts & Culture tool Fabricius uses machine learning to translate 4,000-year-old symbols.
Prepare for mobile-first indexing (with a little extra time)
5 min read · 49 saves · Jul 21st · Official news on crawling and indexing sites for the Google index
Google Promises Privacy With Virus App but Can Still Collect Location Data
5 min read · Paywall possible · 48 saves · Jul 20th · Natasha Singer · Some government agencies that use the software said they were surprised that Google may pick up the locations of certain app users. Others said…
Buy on Google is now open and commission-free
2 min read · 43 saves · Jul 23rd · Buy on Google is now zero commission and open to third-party digital commerce providers.
Over 25% of People Click the First Google Search Result
3 min read · 41 saves · Jul 15th · A study of billions of search results finds over a quarter of Google searchers click on the first organic result.
Google Ad Portal Equated “Black Girls” with Porn
5 min read · 38 saves · Jul 23rd · Searching Google’s ad buying portal for “Black girls” returned hundreds of terms leading to “adult content”
Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt is working to launch a university that would rival Stanford and MIT and…
1 min read · 32 saves · Jul 21st · Katie Canales · Dubbed the US Digital Service Academy, it would offer degrees and coursework for digital skills like cybersecurity and artificial intelligence.
Announcing ScaNN: Efficient Vector Similarity Search
5 min read · 23 saves · Jul 28th · Posted by Philip Sun, Software Engineer, Google Research Suppose one wants to search through a large dataset of literary works using que...
How Google is bringing Windows apps to Chromebooks
5 min read · 22 saves · Jul 31st · Tom Warren · Chrome OS will soon run Windows apps alongside Android ones