Google is getting serious about making the internet a safer, friendlier place. Their new tech, called Perspective, takes aim at nothing less than the nastiest of online nasties: the comments section. Recognising that trolls are a mainstream problem The comments section of websites, in particular those of online news outlets, often showcase the very worst …
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Beam me up, Google. Whilst it's not quite ready to handle galactic transportation, Google Home can now purchase items at your command. Buy in Using Google Assistant (a feature of Google Home), you're now able to issue voice commands to buy things from retailers signed up with Google Express. These include Costco, Bed Bath and …
Google has released two new communication tools for business users: Hangouts Meet and Hangouts Chat. Chatbots Hangouts Meet lets you video conference with colleagues around the globe. Meet is integrated with G Suite, so participants can join the call directly from a Calendar or Gmail invite. While G Suite Enterprise customers get a dedicated dial-in …
No episode of Law & Order (and its many offshoots) is complete without a scene where a tech-savvy detective uses the trusty "enhance" button to unmask this week's perp. Now Google is giving you superhero powers (kind of), in the form of its own Enhance function. Look sharp The entity behind the breakthrough is none …
Google has launched Cloud Search, making it easier for G Suite customers to locate content across platforms. Cloud Talk G Suite includes Google's star properties Gmail, Docs, Drive, and Calendar. With Cloud Search, G Suite users can cast a wider net searching across email, documents, spreadsheets, slides, forms, and internal sites (to name a few). Besides …
Google has released a heap of interesting facts about how we're consuming online video – here's the pick of the digital bunch. Mobile movies According to Google, one in three adults aged between 18 and 54 years now say their smartphone is their primary device for watching online video. This is changing how we're watching …
They say late is better than never. And so it seems with the latest Google Voice update, a mere five years after the last one. You're the voice Google Voice has been gifted with a bunch of new apps across iOS, Android, and the web. These apps support a new layout and functions including group …
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Hold on to your seats. Google's Instant Apps are ready to be released into the wild. App-etite for Construction Last year Google announced Instant Apps for Android at its annual I/O developer conference. They're essentially a new kind of app designed to fill in the blanks between web and native apps. Google says Instant Apps …
Off the back of an update to its targeting capabilities, Google says its Play store ads have generated over three billion app installs. Now the tech Giant wants to make it easier for marketers to promote their apps. Now, Google has unveiled three new features for to promote apps with its Universal App Campaigns service. …
Google Search remains, even more than Facebook, a constant in our digital lives. Aside from ramping up security and adding functionality for things like flight bookings, in 2016 Google Search made no bones about the fact that it was evolving for mobile. And woe betide anyone who stubbornly clings to the desktop. Count down Google …