We’re quickly approaching the advent of Google’s annual spring developer conference, and as a result, rumors of the company’s next mid-range smartphone are loudly percolating. What will the Pixel 8a look like? Will it arrive soon? Will it offer more RAM at its supposedly slightly … | Continue reading
Google fired at least 20 more employees on Monday evening related to the April 16 sit-in protests of the company’s cloud computing contracts with Israel, No Tech For Apartheid organizers tell Gizmodo. Google confirmed the additional firings in a statement, noting the company has … | Continue reading
Gemini, Google’s answer to ChatGPT, is set to get an update to its app that enables real-time responses, bringing it… Continue reading Google AI Gemini to receive real-time responses in app The post Google AI Gemini to receive real-time responses in app appeared first on ReadWrit … | Continue reading
I use Obsidian on a daily basis for my office work and frequently for personal notes. Recently, my brother discovered Obsidian and we started talking about setup and usage. So here’s my Obsidian setup, for his reference and mine – My office Obsidian syncs with Google Drive. This … | Continue reading
Web excursions brought to you in partnership with NordVPN. Secure your internet browsing effectively and affordably. Google Graveyard - Killed by Google Killed by Google is the Google Graveyard. A full list of dead products killed by Google in the Google Cemetery. Up-to-date and … | Continue reading
My love of Android waxes and wanes according to how much the software feels like it is fighting me. On a good day, I can flash the OS and install whatever apps I want. On a bad day, I can't remove bloatware and I'm forbidden from changing the internals. I started using the latest … | Continue reading
Zoho has positioned itself as a cheaper alternative to Google and Microsoft, attracting the attention of African startup founders. | Continue reading
A new system uses generative AI to predict weather faster and more cheaply than ever — while detecting difficult-to-spot extreme weather events — beating the world's major weather agencies. | Continue reading
A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. 1️⃣ This roundup of 20 years of Google searches really brought me back. [🔗 Carmen Ang // visualcapitalist.com] 2️⃣ You’ve probably heard about MKBHD’s review of th … | Continue reading
I entered the title of this post as a search phrase in Google, and here are some of the top results: Indivisible.org: Defeat Trump Toolkit – This resource was created in January 2023, has suggestions for organizing events, recruiting group members, and links to other content at I … | Continue reading
The blog post announcing the shutdown was done one day early. The idea was to take the opportunity of the new Pope being announced and Andy Rubin being replaced as head of Android, so that the [Google] Reader news may be drowned out. PR didn't apparently realize that the kinds of … | Continue reading
If you drive an electric vehicle that’s not a Tesla, then you have experienced the tension that comes with leaving home for trips and wondering if there will be a charger on your route. We know that there is no retail category where a driver can be confident that an ... [continue … | Continue reading
Cybercriminals are exploiting Google’s advertising platform to target users of the decentralized OTC trading platform Whales Market, according to a… Continue reading Google Ads exploited to target Whales Market users The post Google Ads exploited to target Whales Market users app … | Continue reading
Solidarity with the 28 Google workers who were fired for protesting Project Nimbus this week. Anonymous Google and Amazon workers described the project as follows a couple of years ago: Project Nimbus is a $1.2bn contract to provide cloud services for the Israeli military and gov … | Continue reading
Google remembers it's a workplace. NPR CEO is the gift that keeps on giving. Why does Kari Lake sound reasonable on abortion? And much more. | Continue reading
Table Of Contents Free Speech and Political Correctness Political Correctness in Business Coinbase Basecamp Google Changes Course Elon Musk and AI Conclusion Free Speech and Political Correctness The USA is the land of free speech. I think that’s amazing. And think that people sh … | Continue reading
Google says the new “Platform and Devices” team will let it move faster. | Continue reading
A legitimate-looking Google Search advertisement for the crypto trading platform 'Whales Market' redirects visitors to a wallet-draining phishing site that steals all of your assets. [...] | Continue reading
The development of a Smart City in Toronto, in partnership with Google, should be the realization of the tech utopia we’d been imagining. Complete with robots, autonomous cars, and the latest tech integrated into the city itself, it seems as if the residents are the lucky benefic … | Continue reading
Scrypted 📌 “Scrypted can bridge most cameras to the three major home hubs: HomeKit (including HomeKit Secure Video), Google Home, and Alexa. Scrypted streams are fast, low latency, and have rock solid reliability.” A simple search bar 📌 “It just redirects to a Duc … | Continue reading
Despite their ever-present controversy, trackers, particularly Apple’s AirTags, have proved helpful over the past three years since their first release. We now see Google entering the fray with its own Find My Device network, and it seems only a matter of time before it makes its … | Continue reading
Google says it terminated 28 employees associated with protests of the company’s $1.2 billion cloud computing contracts with the Israeli government on Wednesday. The firings follow the arrests of nine Google employees for trespassing in the company’s New York and California offic … | Continue reading
llm-reka My new plugin for running LLM prompts against the Reka family of API hosted LLM models: reka-core ($10 per million input), reka-flash (80c per million) and reka-edge (40c per million). All three of those models are trained from scratch by a team that includes several Goo … | Continue reading
Forgive the somewhat alliterative title there, but today's post covers something that's been on my mind since I started playing with Google Gemini, specifically, how to get the results of your API calls in JSON. To be clear, the REST API returns a result in JSON, but I'm talking … | Continue reading
Got amazing feedback on the first brutally honest BUSINESS advice email… so we’re back with PART 2!! If you’re new, my business (AppSumo.com) is about to do $100M in revenue this year. But before that, I was rejected by Microsoft and Google (twice!). Fired by both Facebook and Mi … | Continue reading
Back in January, researchers showed off the kitchen skills of an open-source Aloha housekeeping robot. Now the Unleashed project gets to grips with knotting shoelaces, hanging shirts and even repairing other robots. Continue Reading Category: Robotics, Technology Tags: Machine Le … | Continue reading
Nine Google workers were arrested for trespassing in New York City and Sunnyvale, California on Tuesday night after an hours-long sit-in protest against their company’s contracts with Israel, a spokesperson from No Tech For Apartheid tells Gizmodo. Google says it has cut the prot … | Continue reading
The update will first roll out to cars with Google Maps built-in. | Continue reading
It’s been a wild ride with Google’s total pivot toward infusing AI into every bit of its products, and I need a break. The company released Gemini for the Pixel phones a few months ago, and it’s already wreaking havoc on my life and the lives of others on Reddit. Gemini doesn’t d … | Continue reading
"It's been 10 years of blood, sweat, and tears." Google co-founder to test massive zeppelin-like airship with electric motors: 'Now we must show that this can reliably fly' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Ben talks with Shane McAllister, lead developer advocate at MongoDB, Stanimira Vlaeva, senior developer advocate at MongoDB, and Miku Jha, director, AI/ML and generative AI at Google Cloud, about the challenges and opportunities of operationalizing and scaling generative AI model … | Continue reading
Google NotebookLM Data Exfiltration NotebookLM is a Google Labs product that lets you store information as sources (mainly text files in PDF) and then ask questions against those sources - effectively an interface for building your own custom RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) … | Continue reading
It's encouraging that these massive global companies are now supporting new ways to produce clean energy. Microsoft and Google team up for massive project to fund 'next-generation' clean energy technology: 'We are eager' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
YouTube announced yesterday that third-party applications that block ads while watching YouTube videos violates its Terms of Service (ToS), and it will soon start taking action against the apps. [...] | Continue reading
Google workers in California and New York are planning a sit-in protest of the company’s ties to Israel on Tuesday, organizers from “No Tech for Apartheid” tell Gizmodo. The protestors demand their company drop Project Nimbus, a $1.2 billion contract held by Google and Amazon to … | Continue reading
Google would really like it if everyone just paid for YouTube Premium instead. | Continue reading
The three Core Web Vitals metrics don’t only tell you how visitors experience your website but also impact your Google search result rankings. In this article, we’ll look at what Core Web Vitals are, how they are measured, and how you can use DebugBear to monitor them continuousl … | Continue reading
FYI. Google and MIT RAISE have partnered to create a free course for teachers and educators, one designed to show teachers how they can use generative AI tools to save “time on everyday tasks, personaliz[e] instruction to meet student needs, and enhanc[e] lessons and activities i … | Continue reading
No one wants to build an Android satellite phone, so Google is going to do it. | Continue reading
ecoevojobs.net is the crowdsourced jobs board for faculty positions (and some other positions, such as postdocs) in ecology and evolution. It’s a Google Sheet with various tabs. It’s nearly comprehensive in its coverage of EEB faculty job listings in the … Continue reading → | Continue reading
The one with the Lead Dev webinar and lots of Renovate: My Google Pixel Watch got stuck on the bootloader after doing an update, so I had to factory reset it. Very annoying that I didn't notice until after a trip to Lidl, so I missed out on some steps 😩 We've noticed that … | Continue reading
Who are you, and what do you do? My name is Jude Doyle ("Jude Ellison S. Doyle" if you publish me, because Google Reader tells me there are a thousand 65-year-old Irish traffic cops named "Jude Doyle" in the world) and I have, at present, two roughly parallel careers. I started a … | Continue reading
If you take the time to create content online, you probably want people to read it. It doesn't have to go viral, but it'd be nice if some folks read it, right? But for people to read your stuff, they must know about it. And for this, Google (or other search engines) must index yo … | Continue reading
This new feature could help promote electrification between drivers and gas stations nationwide. Google Maps quietly made a major change for millions of users — and drivers are torn first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Google should be barred from “treating Epic differently,” Epic Games says. | Continue reading
Google began blocking access to California news outlets for some users in the state, according to an announcement from the tech giant on Friday. And it’s all because Google is upset about proposed legislation that would force the company to pay some publishers for their content, … | Continue reading
Did anyone want a VPN from the Internet's largest data collector? | Continue reading
How we built JSR Really interesting deep dive by Luca Casonato into the engineering behind the new JSR alternative JavaScript package registry launched recently by Deno. The backend uses PostgreSQL and a Rust API server hosted on Google Cloud Run. The frontend uses Fresh, Deno's … | Continue reading