87 posts tagged ‘Google’
Google Pixel 7 Review: Still Has the Best Smartphone Camera
Gizmodo,
The world of Android looks different than when I started focusing on this platform over ten years ago. Gone are the days of Google focusing on its developer-centric devices, allowing other manufacturers to compete for the top spot. If you look around the U.S. market, Android seems to have developed a homogeny akin to… Read more...
Apple iPhone 14 Pro Review: Ditching Android More Tempting Than Ever
Before we get into this, you should know that this is my first time reviewing an iPhone. I’ve long established myself as “the Android girl,” because I started my smartphone journey with that mobile platform and eventually grew to prefer it over my initial experience with the iPhone. The last time I wielded one of… Read more...
Where to stream National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
AV Club,
Whether or not you get a holiday bonus this year that you can use to buy a swimming pool for the family, whether or not your weirdo relatives show up in their RV, and whether or not your yuppie neighbors are... not impacting your life whatsoever and just get punished for existing, it’s always nice to watch National… Read more...
Google sues two men who sent out fake copyright takedowns
Boing Boing,
Google claims that two men used fraudulent copyright takedown notices to target 620,000 URLs in its search index, and has filed a lawsuit in California accusing them of sabotaging their competitors and trying to damage the search engine's business. Nguyen Van Duc and Pham Van Thien used 65 Google accounts to send a "barrage" of false DMCA notices about competing T-shirt services, according to the lawsuit, which wants them to pay for the amazing amount of time spent dealing with their lies. — Read the rest
Google's New AI Weatherman Will Leave Forecasters in the Dust
Finally, a robot to tell you which jacket you should wear to the function. Google DeepMind, the search giant’s AI-centric brain trust, just announced a new weather forecasting model that beats traditional systems more than 90% of the time. Named GraphCast, the machine learning model promises 10-day predictions that… Read more...
YouTube Cracks Down on Future 'AI Drakes' With Updated Policies
YouTube released new policy updates on Tuesday to combat AI-generated content that resembles the voice and style of music artists. Earlier this year, “Heart on My Sleeve,” a song that sounds like a track made by Drake and The Weeknd, created with generative AI, garnered over 600,000 plays and was even considered for a … Read more...
Courtroom gaffe reveals Google pays Apple 36%of revenues in search deal
Corporate lawyers insisted that it be kept a secret, but a witness on the stand in the Epic v. Google trial blurted it out anyway: Google pays Apple 36% of search revenues generated in Safari, a spectacularly high cut that makes it look like Google will pay anything to maintain a position of market dominance. — Read the rest
Google Witness Spills How Much Apple Gets From Safari Search Revenue
Google pays Apple 36% of its search advertising revenue from Safari, according to new details brought to light in Google’s search antitrust trial on Monday as reported by Bloomberg. The mere utterance of the number, which Google and Apple have tried to keep sealed, caused Google’s main litigator John Schmidtlein to… Read more...