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| Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google: |
Google announces Pixel 7a with a 6.1-inch, 90Hz screen, Face Unlock, wireless charging, and 64MP camera, available tomorrow for $499 — Over the years, Google's Pixel phones have gained a reputation for having an exceptional camera, a clean Android experience, and smarts you won't find on any other phone.
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| Scott Stein / CNET: |
Google announces the $499 Pixel Tablet, with a Tensor G2 processor, 11-inch display, 8MP front-facing camera, available for preorder now and arriving in June — Google's got a tablet, again. The Pixel Tablet, originally teased last year, is finally arriving in June after a detailed reveal …
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| Sam Rutherford / Engadget: |
Google announces $1,799 Pixel Fold, with 120Hz 7.6" main screen, 5.8" exterior screen, Tensor G2 chip, and 12GB of RAM, for preorder now and arriving in June — Google's first foldable phone feels like what I always wanted from the Surface Duo to be. — I've been using some version …
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| Scott Stein / CNET: |
Google says its Project Starline 3D video chat tech has been shrunk from the size of a booth to a large TV and is being tested at Salesforce, WeWork, and others — Exclusive: Google's vision of 3D conversational chats is going from booth to flat screen. — While most people have chosen …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google Photos gets a Magic Editor feature for more complex edits than Magic Eraser can achieve, like repositioning the subject, coming first to select Pixels — Google Photos is expanding its use of AI to help users edit and enhance their photos. While the company has already leveraged AI …
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Google unveils Immersive View for Routes in Google Maps, offering traffic simulations, parking, and more, starting in 15 cities including NYC, London, and Paris — Google Maps is going to introduce a new “Immersive View for Routes” feature in select cities, Google announced at its annual I/O conference today.
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
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A video of the Google I/O 2023 keynote, where the company announced the Pixel 7a, Pixel Fold, Pixel Tablet, its PaLM 2 general-use LLM, Search updates, and more — Tune in to find out how we're furthering our mission to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.
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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Google shows AI features coming to Search, including an AI-powered “snapshot” that summarizes search results with links to sites “corroborating” the information — Google is moving slowly and carefully to make AI happen. Maybe too slowly and too carefully for some people.
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Google makes Bard available in English in 180 countries and territories, promises AI image generation from Adobe and integration with services like Instacart — Google is adding a smorgasbord of new features to its AI chatbot Bard, including support for new languages (Japanese and Korean) …
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google debuts PaLM 2, offering improved multilingual, reasoning, and coding capabilities, available in four sizes and powering 25 Google products and features — Google today announced PaLM 2, with improved multilingual, reasoning, and coding capabilities.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
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| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
Sources: EU regulators are set to approve Microsoft's Activision acquisition next week, most likely on May 15, three weeks after the UK CMA blocked the deal — EU antitrust regulators are set to approve Microsoft Corp's (MSFT.O) $69 billion acquisition of Activision (ATVI.O) next week …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google updates its Find My Device network, including proactive alerts about unknown trackers traveling with users, with support for Apple's AirTags and others — Shortly after last week's joint announcement which saw Apple and Google teaming up on Bluetooth tracker safety measures and a new specification …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google announces a competitor to Microsoft's GitHub Copilot, a chat tool for asking questions about coding, and AI-assisted coding in its no-code AppSheet tool — At its annual I/O developer conference, Google today announced the launch of a number of AI-centric coding tools …
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| Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
Tether reports a $1.5B net profit in Q1, $2.44B in excess reserves, and $81.8B+ in assets as of May 9, including $1.5B+ in bitcoin and $3.3B+ in precious metals — - Tether reported $1.5 billion of net profit for the first quarter — more than double its Q4 2022 net profit.
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| Chavi Mehta / Reuters: |
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says the company won't raise salaries for full-time employees in 2023 and plans to reduce its budget for bonuses and stock awards — Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) will not raise salaries for full-time employees this year and is reducing budget for bonuses and stock awards …
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| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Google announces Project Tailwind, an “AI-first notebook” that pulls information from the documents that users upload or have in Google Drive — Google has launched “Project Tailwind,” a new AI-first tool that is effectively a notebook of the future to help you research information as you write about it.
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
YouTube is running a “small experiment” globally with a pop-up urging users with ad blockers to allow ads on YouTube or try YouTube Premium to watch videos — YouTube is running an experiment asking some users to disable their ad blockers or pay for a premium subscription, or they will not be allowed to watch videos.
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| Randall Chase / Associated Press: |
A US judge dismisses a shareholder lawsuit against Block over its Tidal acquisition in 2021, saying the company is “free to make a terrible business decision” — A Delaware judge has dismissed a shareholder lawsuit against financial technology company Block Inc. over its 2021 acquisition …
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| Bill Peters / MarketWatch: |
Robinhood reports Q1 revenue up 47% YoY to $441M, vs. $425M est., net loss up 30% YoY to $511M, and MAUs up by 400K QoQ to 11.8M, vs. 15.9M in March 2022 — Analysts expected weaker volume heading into the results — Shares of Robinhood Markets Inc. moved higher on Wednesday … | Nadia Nooreyezdan / Rest of World: |
“Religious” chatbots, based on the Bhagavad Gita, emerge in India, with millions using them, some answering ~50K questions per day and others condoning violence — Claiming wisdom based on the Bhagavad Gita, the bots frequently go way off script. — • NEW DELHI, INDIA
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