4 h. ago TikTok takes on Google Maps by surfacing reviews in the comments tab

As TikTok continues to build out its search experience, the social network is now surfacing reviews for select places right within the comments tab of a video. The new feature, which appears to be a test, eliminates the need to conduct a new search or open up Google when you come across a place on […]

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5 d. ago Google, with potential breakup looming over its search monopoly, backs down from muzzling workers

Google, with key hearings starting this month in a blockbuster anti-monopoly court case that could lead to its breakup, agreed to lift a gag order banning its employees from talking about the lawsuit, a union representing workers said.

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6 d. ago Reddit’s conversational AI search tool leverages Google Gemini

Reddit Answers, the platform’s conversational AI search tool, gets an upgrade through an integration with Google Gemini. This comes over a year after Reddit expanded its partnership with Google Cloud to access its Vertex AI platform to build AI agents. Google and Reddit announced the update on Wednesday, explaining that by incorporating Gemini on Vertex AI, […]

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6 d. ago Grizzlies’ Jaylen Wells stretchered off court after falling on head due to hard foul by Hornets player

Grizzlies guard Jaylen Wells was stretchered off the court against the Hornets after K.J. Simpson swept his legs during a dunk attempt. Simpson was later ejected for a Flagrant 2 foul.

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8 d. ago Google’s AI Mode now lets users ask complex questions about images

Google is bringing multimodal search to AI Mode, its Google Search experiment that lets users ask complex, multi-part questions and follow-ups to dig deeper on a topic. Users who have access to AI Mode can now tap the feature to ask questions about photos they’ve uploaded or taken with their camera. The new image-analyzing functionality […]

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9 d. ago Late foul on Duke's Cooper Flagg sends social media into frenzy as Blue Devils fall in Final Four

Duke Blue Devils star Cooper Flagg was called for a foul late in their loss to the Houston Cougars on Saturday night. But fans contested that it was a ticky-tack call.

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1 week ago DeepSeek: Everything you need to know about the AI chatbot app

DeepSeek has gone viral. Chinese AI lab DeepSeek broke into the mainstream consciousness this week after its chatbot app rose to the top of the Apple App Store charts (and Google Play, as well). DeepSeek’s AI models, which were trained using compute-efficient techniques, have led Wall Street analysts — and technologists — to question whether the U.S. can maintain its […]

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1 week ago Decentralized platform is letting users own a piece of the AI models trained on their data

In February 2024, Reddit struck a $60 million deal with Google to let the search giant use data on the platform to train its artificial intelligence models. Notably absent from the discussions were Reddit users, whose data were being sold.

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1 week ago United States (USA) Digital Signage Market Valued $7.15 Billion by 2029

United States (USA) Digital Signage Market Valued $7.15 Billion by 2029  GlobeNewswire

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2 w. ago Judge Excludes Apple from Google Antitrust Trial with $20 Billion Search Deal at Risk

Apple's attempt to intervene in Google's antitrust trial has been denied by the DC Circuit Court of Appeals, potentially jeopardizing the company's $20 billion search placement deal with Google. The decision was driven in part by Apple dragging its feet in replying to the court, which the judge said "seems difficult to justify." The post Judge Excludes Apple from Google Antitrust Trial with $20 Billion Search Deal at Risk appeared first on Breitbart.

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2 w. ago [Latest] United States Protein Market: The Future of Digital Transformation

[Latest] United States Protein Market: The Future of Digital Transformation  openPR

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3 w. ago Google claims news is worthless to its ad business after test involving 1% of search results in eight EU markets

Google has reported the results of an experiment it ran which removed news from search results for 1% of users for 2.5 months in eight* markets in Europe — claiming the results show that news is essentially worthless to Google’s ad business. The search giant conducted the test because European copyright law requires it to […]

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3 w. ago Google search, Play Store falling foul of Digital Markets Act rules, says EU

Google Search and its Play Store mobile app marketplace are suspected of breaching of the European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), per preliminary findings announced Wednesday by Commission enforcers of the bloc’s flagship market contestability law who have been investigating the company for months. The DMA applies to a handful of tech giants, Alphabet (Google’s […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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3 w. ago EU sends Apple first DMA interoperability instructions for apps and connected devices

The European Union has sent Apple preliminary instructions on how it expects the iPhone maker to comply with interoperability provisions in the bloc’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), its flagship market contestability reform. According to the Commission, device manufacturers and app developers should be able to access nine iOS connectivity features that were restricted to Apple’s […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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