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| Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google: |
Google announces the Pixel 7a with a 6.1-inch 90Hz screen, a fingerprint sensor, Face Unlock, wireless charging, and a 64MP camera, available on May 11 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.| Scott Stein / CNET: |
Google unveils the $499 Pixel Tablet with a Tensor G2, an 11-inch display, and an 8MP front-facing camera, available for preorder now and arriving in June 2023 — 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 unveils the $1,799 Pixel Fold with a 120Hz 7.6" main screen, a 5.8" exterior screen, a Tensor G2, 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 … | Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Google unveils generative AI wallpapers, coming exclusively to Pixels in June, and Magic Compose, a feature in Messages for Android that auto-suggests responses — Generative AI is all the rage — and Google has found two new ways to put the tech in the palm of your hand.
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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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| 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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| Google on YouTube: |
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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| Brady Snyder / XDA Developers: |
Google launches a dedicated Labs page, where users can sign up to test Google's early ideas for features and products, including Search and Workspace AI tools — Google is using artificial intelligence to improve its existing products, and you can sign up to try them in Labs now. Here's how to get started.
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
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| Jennifer Maas / Variety: |
Disney Q2: Disney+ subscribers down 2% QoQ to 157.8M, vs. 163.17M est., its second consecutive quarterly drop, ESPN+ up 2% QoQ to 25.3M, and Hulu flat at 48.2M — On the bright side, the Mouse House also managed to narrow its streaming business losses by $400 million, down 26% year over year.
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| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Google Cloud announces a new A3 GPU supercomputer VM powered by Nvidia's H100 GPUs, built to deliver “the highest-performance training for today's ML workloads” — As we've seen LLMs and generative AI come screaming into our consciousness in recent months, it's clear that these models …
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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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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
YouTube is running a “small experiment” globally that shows a pop-up urging users with ad blockers to allow ads on YouTube or consider subscribing to Premium — 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.| 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 … | Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
Twitter rolls out encrypted DMs, but both sender and recipient must be verified users, no support for group messages, and message metadata is not encrypted — There are still some major limitations to the feature. — Twitter is beginning to roll out its long-promised encrypted direct messaging feature.
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| Scott Stein / CNET: |
Google says its Project Starline team shrunk the 3D video chat tech from the size of a booth to a large TV, which Salesforce, T-Mobile, and WeWork are testing — Exclusive: Google's vision of 3D conversational chats is going from booth to flat screen. — While most people have chosen … | 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 …
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