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Google has announced that it has signed a global commercial partnership with Milan-based startup Energy Dome and has also invested in its long duration energy storage (LDES) tech for renewable energy.
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Smithsonian Magazine on MSNGoogle Just Released an A.I. Tool That Helps Historians Fill in Missing Words in Ancient Roman InscriptionsArtificial intelligence, meet ancient Rome. A new A.I. tool developed by Google DeepMind helps scholars fill in words missing from ancient inscriptions and estimate historical data about the textual artifacts,
AI-generated videos are becoming dangerously convincing and UC Riverside researchers have teamed up with Google to fight back. Their new system, UNITE, can detect deepfakes even when faces aren't visible,
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New York Magazine on MSNThe AI Boom Is Expanding Google’s DominanceAlphabet reported second-quarter results on Wednesday that beat on revenue and earnings, but the company said it would raise its capital investments by $10 billion in 2025. Shares of the company were up as much as 3% in after-hours trading. The company’s overall revenue grew 14% year over year, higher than the 10.9% Wall Street expected.
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Yesterday we learned Google’s new smartwatch might charge on its side, and now Android Headlines has shared official renders of it in various colors, matching almost every hue we’ve seen from the Pixel 10 phones: the vibrant “Indigo” and “Limoncello;
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PCMag on MSNGoogle Maps Is Going to Be Less Social From SeptemberFrom September, Google will be removing a feature where you can follow other contributors on the popular navigation app.
Italian energy storage firm Energy Dome said on Friday it had entered a commercial partnership with Google to supply carbon-free energy to the grids that power the operations of the U.S. tech giant.
Google will officially deprecate links generated with its URL shortening tool next month. On August 25th, 2025, all links in the “https://goo.gl/*” format will no longer work and return a 404 error message.
Currently, Google Meet on Android limits how you can invite people to ongoing calls. The existing method requires you to share a link with the new participant, which they can click and enter the meeting. This is unlike the web interface, where you can simply type their email ID to invite them to the call.