Wearable technology once promised to take us away from our phones and to improve our lives in subtle but powerful ways. The reality, however, has been a bit less exciting. More often than not, devices have been hampered by clunky design and bad taste, resulting in products that are expensive, unnecessary, and ugly. Yet it’s...Read More
The Cloud Video Intelligence API is now in a private beta, meaning companies will get their hands on it long before you can use it to hunt down esoterica on YouTube. At this point, it is an enterprise solution, a deep-learning tool built on frameworks like TensorFlow that companies can use to parse through their...Read More
As the debate surrounding the prevalence, scope and impact of fake news continues to rage on unabated, the latest tech company being accused of passively enabling misinformation to spread far and wide is Google. In a fascinating post over at The Outline, Adrianne Jeffries explains how the answer boxes provided by Google Search (also known as Featured...Read More
Saturday, March 4, 2017 GRANITEVILLE, S.C. (WRDW/WAGT) — One local 4th grader’s art may end up on the Google home page. Alex Fernandez is a student at Byrd Elementary School and was one of the thousands of K-12 students who submitted their art to be on the website’s homepage. “Sometimes I just come up with...Read More
This will sound like an odd thing to say about a Google product, but I feel like Google Photos is kind of underrated. For a long time, it was but a shadow of full-fledged photo editor and gallery apps from third parties, but these days it’s actually really rather good, if still incomplete. This week...Read More
Google Inc. is stepping up its march to become a full-service entertainment destination with its YouTube TV service, which will enable subscribers to watch live feeds of top television networks for $35 a month. On Tuesday the company unveiled its long-planned service, which is expected to launch in a few months with more than 40...Read More
Google Google is closing down Spaces, a little-known messaging and content sharing service. Launched back in May last year, Spaces aimed to make sharing content from the Internet within small groups easier. The app, available on iOS, Android and through the web, allowed users to create a “space” for interesting topics, of which other users...Read More
Google is saying goodbye to one of its many messaging apps. The search giant said Friday on a technical support page that it would shut down its Spaces app on Apr.17. Google debuted the app in May and pitched it as an easy way for people to conduct multiple online conversations based on individual topics...Read More
Back Index Forward Weekly News Digest February 23, 2017 — In addition to this week’s NewsBreaks article and the monthly NewsLink Spotlight, Information Today, Inc. (ITI) offers Weekly News Digests that feature recent product news and company announcements. Watch for additional coverage to appear in the next print issue of Information Today. For other up-to-the-minute...Read More
Since Google Preferred launched in 2014, it has become the cornerstone of YouTube’s pitch to advertisers. Now, Google Preferred is upping the ante with new ways of attracting advertisers, which it will reveal at its NewFront presentation on May 4. In order to grow YouTube, its advertising opportunities actually are getting smaller. In addition to...Read More
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