Google In 2023

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  Epic Games Ramps Up Apple, Google Fight With Third-Party Game Titles

  Epic Games Inc. is adding games from third parties to its new mobile marketplace. The titles represent the first batch of mobile games from outside developers to appear on the Epic Games Store, the company said Thursday.

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  Nothing Said to Raise Funding, Crosses $1 Billion in Lifetime Sales

  Nothing is seeking to raise at least $100 million in funding to expand its operations, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The startup is run by Carl Pei, one of the creators of OnePlus, a popular China-based phone maker.

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  Top AI Highlights of 2024: From OpenAI’s ChatGPT to Google’s Gemini and More

  If 2023 was all about the rise of generative artificial intelligence (AI) and its entry into the mainstream tech conversations, 2024 became the year when AI began displaying its transformative capabilities. What started as a text-based chatbot fad that could respond to users in a human-like fashion, is today powering many major tech products and pl...

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  Google Chrome Doubles Speedometer Benchmark Scores on Android Devices

  Google Chrome runs twice as fast on Android smartphones than it did in April 2023, according to the company. According to Google, Chrome will now run even faster, especially on Android devices, after it recently doubled its score on the popular Speedometer benchmark test. Here's how Google optimised Chrome to run faster on Android phones.

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  Xiaomi 14T Series to Come With AI-Powered Circle to Search and Other Features: Report

  Xiaomi 14T series is scheduled to launch on September 26 in Berlin. Arriving as a successor to the Xiaomi 13T series that debuted in November 2023, the company’s latest smartphones may offer artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities including Circle to Search – Google’s visual lookup tool that it introduced with the Galaxy S24 series in Janua...

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  Google Pixel Phones With Temperature Sensor Get Support for Body Temperature Measurement in Europe

  Google Pixel users in Europe will now be able to measure their body temperature. This feature works by leveraging the Pixel Thermometer app and the temperature sensor that Google introduced with its Pixel 8 Pro last year. The sensor is also available in the new Pixel 9 Pro lineup. While its capabilities were initially limited to measuring the tempe...

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  YouTube Reportedly in Talks With Record Labels for Deal to Train AI Song Generator

  YouTube is reportedly in talks with multiple record labels to strike a deal that will let it use copyrighted songs to train its artificial intelligence (AI) tools. The Google-owned platform is said to be working on several new AI features that it plans to release by the end of this year. Last year, the video streaming platform announced testing an ...

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  YouTube Cracks Down on Third-Party Ad Blockers by Automatically Skipping Videos to the End: Report

  YouTube has initiated another crackdown on third-party ad blockers on its platform in an effort to tackle the prolonged problem, according to a report. Users with ad blockers enabled are reportedly facing a new issue – video automatically skipping to the end, building upon other efforts to tackle ad blockers.

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  Google Pixel 8 to Be Manufactured in India by Dixon Technologies in Q3 2024: Report

  Google Pixel 8 manufacturing will start in India within the next few months, according to a report citing two executives of a local contract manufacturing firm. Google's Pixel 8 series was launched in India and global markets last year, and the flagship phone will be reportedly be manufactured in India by Dixon Technolgies.

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  Huawei Tipped to Roll Out HarmonyOS Next in September 2024 Ditching Support for Android Apps

  Huawei could begin rolling out its in-house operating system HarmonyOS Next in September 2024, as per a new leak. The new OS is said to be built on Hongmeng kernel and system applications, and does not rely on Google's Android Open Source Project (AOSP) code. This shift will result in all Android apps running on Huawei devices being incompatible.

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  Solana Labs, Google Cloud Join Forces to Propel Blockchain into Mainstream Game Development

  Solana Labs has joined forces with Google Cloud to use the capabilities of Google Cloud to offer its own blockchain-based game development suit to developers. GameShift lets developers integrate non-custodial wallets alongside quick and scalable tools to create and distribute in-game assets. All of these processes are backed on the Solana blockchai...

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  Google Play Store Banned 2.28 Mn Policy-Violating Apps in 2023, Sued Developers Behind 2 Fraudulent Apps

  Google Play Store prevented 2.28 million apps from being published in 2023 due to major policy violations. In a new report published by the tech giant, it highlighted the steps it took in the last year to ensure the security and privacy of Play Store users. The company further highlighted that it also banned 333K developer accounts from the platfor...

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  Google Chat Rolls Out Cross-Platform Messaging With Microsoft Teams, Slack: How It Works

  Google Chat will now allow sending messages to Microsoft Teams and Slack with its new interoperability support. The cross-platform messaging feature was first announced by the tech giant at the Google Cloud Next 2023 event, but so far the feature was available only in beta to a limited number of users. With the new update, now all the paid subscrib...

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  Google’s Imagen 2 AI Model Gets Upgraded With Video Generation Capabilities

  Google has upgraded its native artificial intelligence (AI)-powered image generation model Imagen 2 with two new capabilities. These capabilities were announced at its annual Cloud Next conference in Las Vegas. The AI tool is an enterprise-focused product available within the Vertex AI developer platform and can help create logo elements and other ...

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  Google’s Private Space Feature for Android 15 Will Let Users Hide Apps With a Separate Account: Report

  Google has been working on a new feature for Android 15 called Private Space, and a new report now reveals the features it might offer. In December 2023, a report revealed the existence of Private Space for the first time. But back then, its features were not known, and it was believed to just be a tool to securely hide apps and files that users di...