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“Chromebooks aren’t built to last”: Average device has 4 years of updates left
Design quirks, limited parts, and other ways Chromebooks frustrate repairs.
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Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai earned $226 million last year, making him one of the world's best-paid bosses
The Google owner's CEO is only paid an annual salary of $2 million, but has also been given shares every three years worth more than $200 million.
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Google to launch its first foldable phone, the 'Pixel Fold,' in June
Google will launch its first foldable smartphone sometime in June, challenging Samsung’s market-leading foldable phone business, according to internal communications viewed by CNBC. It plans to announce the device at its annual developer conference, Google I/O, on May 10.
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Panic at Google: Samsung considers dumping search for Bing and ChatGPT
The New York Times details Google's "shock" and "panic" at having a search rival.
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai warns society to brace for impact of A.I. acceleration, says ‘it’s not for a company to decide'
Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said “every product of every company” will be impacted by the quick development of AI, warning that society needs to prepare for technologies like the ones it’s already launched.
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Google says its AI developed unexpected skills
Concerns about AI developing skills independently of its programmers’ wishes have long absorbed scientists, ethicists, and science fiction writers. A recent interview with Google’s executives may be adding to those worries.
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Report: Samsung is considering dropping Google for Bing search on Galaxy Android phones
The AI wars are heating up. Smelling blood in the water, Microsoft has been working tirelessly to bake ChatGPT AI models into virtually all of its products. So far, the most prolific example of that has been Bing Chat. Bing Chat is a new section on Microsoft's oft-derided number 2 search engine that allows users to search with natural human language, and receive natural human language results in return. Powered by OpenAI's ChatGPT-4, Bing has exclusive rights to commercial use of the machine learning models from the firm, prompting a furor of panic at search leader Google.
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Google planning new search engine while working on new search features under Project Magi
Project Magi will help searchers complete transactions while incorporating search ads on the page.
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Google’s Bard chatbot launches in US and UK
Google’s Bard chatbot is launching on Tuesday in the UK and US, as the company completes its dash to release a competitor to Bing Chat and ChatGPT. It is seen as a do-or-die moment for the company, whose profitable web search service risks being outcompeted by artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots – even if those chatbots currently have problems in consistently returning accurate and useful results.
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Google Tells AI Agents to Behave Like 'Believable Humans' to Create 'Artificial Society'
The characters have developed specific routines, such as waking up, taking a shower, cooking breakfast, interacting with their families, then going to work every day.
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Google Bard's new 'experiment updates' page lets you know what's new
The 'experiment updates' page explains the what and why for each announced improvement..
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Google Pixel 7a leak reveals a new light blue color option
The latest Google Pixel 7a leak reveals a new sky blue color option for the unannounced budget phone launching later this year.
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South Korea fines Google $32M for blocking developers from releasing games on rival’s platform
South Korea’s watchdog has fined Google 42.1 billion won (~ $32 million) for blocking the release of mobile video games on its local peer.
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Google to prohibit personal loan apps from accessing user photos, contacts
Google plans to restrict apps that offer loan to individuals from accessing sensitive user data such as photos, videos and contacts.
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Discover the Past With This Hidden Google Maps Feature
You can travel back in time and take a look at your home as far back as 15 years ago.
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Google Drive does a surprise rollout of file limits, locking out some users
The new file limit means you can't actually use the storage you buy from Google.
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Google denies Bard was trained with ChatGPT data
There were reportedly concerns about breaking OpenAI’s terms of service.
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A top AI researcher reportedly left Google for OpenAI after sharing concerns the company was training Bard on ChatGPT data
A Google spokesperson told The Verge that Bard is not trained on any data from ShareGPT or ChatGPT.
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Exclusive: Google says Microsoft cloud practices are anti-competitive
Alphabet's Google Cloud has accused Microsoft of anti-competitive cloud computing practices and criticised imminent deals with several European cloud vendors, saying these do not solve broader concerns about its licensing terms.
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Google’s Ads Transparency hub finally lets you see more about who is behind an ad
Google’s providing more information about ads.
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