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Google threatens to pull out of Australia over controversial news law
Google said that it could pull its search services from Australia if the country passes its debatable law that requires big tech companies to pay media organizations for listing their content. In a Senate hearing, and later in a video, Google Australia's Managing Director, Mel ...
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Google removes shady loan apps from its India Play Store — but the damage is done
After the loss of several lives and millions of rupees, Google India has finally removed hundreds of shady loan apps from Play Store in the country. These loan apps, the majority of them with Chinese connections, gave out small to mid-sized loans to people, and then used harassment ...
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Google's new trillion-parameter AI language model is almost 6 times bigger than GPT-3
A trio of researchers from the Google Brain team recently unveiled the next big thing in AI language models: a massive one trillion-parameter transformer system. The next biggest model out there, as far as we're aware, is OpenAI's GPT-3, which uses a measly 175 billion parameters. Background: ...
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Here are TNW’s favorite phones of 2020
Want to know what TNW's favorite phones of 2020 are? Well, look no further: this article is literally telling you what TNW's ...
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Texas sues Google for its unlawful monopoly in the ad business
Texas state's attorney general, Ken Paxton, has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google, accusing the company of malpractice to create a monopoly in the digital ad business. The case also alleges that the search company co-conspired with Facebook to rig ad auctions and fix prices. This ...
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Former Salesforce science boss founds You.com to take on Google Search
A new challenger enters the arena! Richard Socher, the former Chief Scientist at Salesforce, today dropped the figurative bomb when he announced the launch of You.com, a site he says will compete directly with Google Search. https://twitter.com/RichardSocher/status/1336379196306718720 Heads ...
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YouTube is now streaming James Bond movies for FREE (in the US)
Looking for something to do for the rest of December? Well, how about watching a load of James Bond movies YouTube is streaming ...
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Google Chrome gets a new icon in Big Sur — and it wants your help choosing the next
Google Chrome has a new icon in Big Sur! Along with an update that supports M1 chips, the search giant has also changed up ...
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Chrome's latest update adds tab throttling for a major performance boost
A few months ago, we wrote about an update to Google Chrome's beta channel that added tab throttling in order to minimize ...
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Google Drive might soon allow you to open encrypted files
In a time of utter chaos around the world, hackers are constantly trying to create more by trying to access your data. While ...
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Google's new AI automatically turns webpages into videos
If you have a product webpage, you'd wish that you could create a handy video to show to clients with all the info. However, ...
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Google launches VPN service so Google One users can browse more privately
Google has launches a VPN services for Google One subscribers to browser the web while keeping their connection encrypted ...