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How Israel Is Exploiting Google Ads to Discredit a UN Aid Agency
26 Aug

How Israel Is Exploiting Google Ads to Discredit a UN Aid Agency

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What Kronenfeld says truly worries her is that Americans are being exposed to Israel’s propaganda while trying to understand UNRWA’s role in the ongoing crisis. Beside the search ads, Israel has aired video ads in the US through Google that say “UNRWA is inseparable from Hamas” and that it “keeps employing terrorists.” Public misunderstanding could further jeopardize support from the US government, which until the war had been the largest donor to UNRWA.“There is an incredibly powerful campaign to dismantle UNRWA,” Kronenfeld says. “I want the public to know what’s happening and the insidious nature of it, especially at a…
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DeepMind workers urge Google to drop military contracts
24 Aug

DeepMind workers urge Google to drop military contracts

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Google DeepMind workers have signed a letter calling on the company to drop contracts with military organizations, according to a report by Time. The document was drafted on May 16 of this year. Around 200 people signed the document, which amounts to five percent of the total headcount of DeepMind.For the uninitiated, DeepMind is one of Google’s AI divisions and the letter states that adopting military contracts runs afoul of the company’s own AI rules. The letter was sent out as internal concerns began circulating within the AI lab that the tech was allegedly being sold to military organizations via…
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Google Essentials will house all Google services in a single Windows app
22 Aug

Google Essentials will house all Google services in a single Windows app

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If you buy a new Hewlett-Packard laptop in the next few weeks, then you’ll notice a new app on the “Start” menu called Google Essentials. On Thursday, Google that the new app will bundle some of its core services like Google Photos, Google Drive and Google Messages.The Google Essentials app will not only house shortcuts to its most used services but it will also centralize your Google account information and saved materials such as documents, photos and saved games for titles from Google Play Games. Eligible subscribers will also receive a two month trial of Google One cloud storage with…
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Google strikes a deal with California lawmakers to fund local news
22 Aug

Google strikes a deal with California lawmakers to fund local news

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Google has reached with California lawmakers to fund local news in the state after previously protesting a proposed law that would have required it to pay media outlets. Under the terms of the deal, Google will commit tens of millions of dollars to a fund supporting local news as well as an AI “accelerator program” in the state.The agreement ends a months-long dispute between lawmakers and Google over the California Journalism Preservation Act, a bill that would have required Google, Meta and other large platforms to pay California publishers in exchange for linking to their websites. Google strongly opposed the…
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Waymo’s sixth-generation autonomous fleet has fewer sensors ‘without compromising safety’
19 Aug

Waymo’s sixth-generation autonomous fleet has fewer sensors ‘without compromising safety’

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Alphabet-owned Waymo unveiled its sixth-generation Driver system on Monday with a more efficient sensor setup. Despite having a reduced camera and LiDAR sensor count from the current platform, the self-driving ride’s new setup allegedly maintains safety levels. Once it's ready for public rides, it will coexist with the current-gen lineup.CNBC reports that the new system is built into Geely Zeekr electric vehicles. Waymo first said it would work with the Chinese EV maker in late 2021. The new platform’s rides are boxier than the current-gen lineup, built on Jaguar I-PACE SUVs. The Zeekr-built sixth-gen fleet is reportedly better for accessibility,…
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Engadget review recap: Dyson’s non-weird headphones and Lenovo’s ThinkPad X1 Carbon
17 Aug

Engadget review recap: Dyson’s non-weird headphones and Lenovo’s ThinkPad X1 Carbon

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What a week to kick off a new review recap series on Engadget. Google held its Made By Google event on Tuesday, launching the Pixel 9 lineup and the Pixel Watch 3. Since then, though, it's already had to admit to a mistake in one of the forms it had members of Team Pixel sign for access to devices. Coincidentally, that brought up a lot of discourse on social media around what reviewers do, and how they gain access to products.I'll take this opportunity to point you to our document on our reviews process, which details how and what we…
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Engadget Podcast: Pixel 9 Pro Fold hands-on thoughts
17 Aug

Engadget Podcast: Pixel 9 Pro Fold hands-on thoughts

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Is the second time the charm for Google's foldable? In this episode, Devindra chats with Senior Writer Sam Rutherford about his hands-on impressions of the new Pixel 9 Pro Fold. It has bigger screens and a sleeker design than its predecessor, but how does it compare to the other foldables out there? And why isn't it called the Pixel Fold 2?!Listen below or subscribe on your podcast app of choice. If you've got suggestions or topics you'd like covered on the show, be sure to email us or drop a note in the comments! And be sure to check out…
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Google acknowledges it ‘missed the mark’ with onerous demands for Pixel 9 influencers
16 Aug

Google acknowledges it ‘missed the mark’ with onerous demands for Pixel 9 influencers

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If you thought Google might be taking a break after unveiling new Pixel 9 devices at its Made By Google event this week, you would be mistaken. A recent post on Threads appears to show part of the sign-up form to receive Pixel devices, and the language in question mandates that signees feature Google's hardware "in place of any competitor mobile devices" or else "we will need to cease the relationship between the brand and the creator."After some online conversation, it's become clear that this form was sent to members of the Team Pixel program, which is different from the…
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What Is Gemini Live and How Do You Use It?
16 Aug

What Is Gemini Live and How Do You Use It?

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Google launched a barrage of new hardware this week, from the Pixel 9 smartphones to new wireless earbuds. Underpinning all the shiny gadgetry is Google's Gemini artificially intelligent assistant. The chatbot launched earlier this year and is now the default assistant on the Pixel 9 series and is already available on millions of Android phones worldwide. But there's a new way to talk to this chatbot that's now rolling out: Gemini Live.This is Google's response to OpenAI's GPT-4o, a way to talk to the assistant naturally, much like a normal voice conversation between two humans (or at least, that's the…
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Google brings the AI feature that told Americans to eat rocks to six more countries
16 Aug

Google brings the AI feature that told Americans to eat rocks to six more countries

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Google is expanding AI Overviews, the feature that summarizes answers to complex questions from the web and presents them at the top of traditional search results, to six more countries — India, Japan, Mexico, Indonesia, Brazil and the United Kingdom — from Thursday with support for local languages as well as English.That’s less than three months after AI Overviews launched in the United States and promptly told people to eat rocks and put glue on their pizzas. Bringing them to millions more people begs the question: How do you prevent another glue pizza fiasco in a foreign country?“It’s a challenging…
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