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Microsoft will improve text rendering in Chrome on Windows PCs

After several years of complaints, Microsoft has finally made changes to Chromium that should improve text rendering in Google's browser on Windows computers. By default, Chrome uses Skia text rendering with hard-coded values for contrast and gamma, ...

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Opera records a 164% increase in iOS users (spoiler: DMA helped)

The Digital Markets Act (DMA), which came into force on March 7, among other things provides users from the EU with the freedom to choose their default browser. To comply with the new European legislation, Apple has added a new default browser selec...

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Apple, Meta and Google are under EU investigation. The tech giants are "suspected" of violating the new Digital Markets Act

If suspicions are confirmed, companies face fines of up to 10% of global annual revenue, or up to 20% in case of repeated violations. As reported by The Verge, the European Commission has initiated five investigations into Apple, Google, and Meta's c...

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U.S. authorities demand Google reveal the identities of viewers of certain YouTube videos

The US federal authorities have requested Google to provide names, addresses, phone numbers, and actions of users of accounts who viewed specific videos on YouTube from January 1 to January 8, 2023. People who watched these videos without logging int...

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Google Pixel 8A is likely to get a brighter 120Hz display

The insider Camilla Wojciechowska shared new details about the future Google Pixel 8A smartphone. It is expected that this device will receive a display with a refresh rate of 120 Hz (compared to 90 Hz on the Pixel 7A) and increased brightness. Wojc...

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Google Deepmind and Liverpool FC have created an artificial intelligence-powered soccer coach

Google DeepMind and the Premier League club Liverpool have developed a prototype of the artificial intelligence model TacticAI for football training. The DeepMind laboratory, which previously used AI for complex board games like Go, notes that AI can...

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Google's search direction has been led by Liz Reid - she previously led artificial intelligence search products

Google Search has a new leader. This business is headed by Liz Reid, who has been working at Google for over 20 years. Recently, she led the search direction based on artificial intelligence, known as Search Generative Experience (SGE). Reid's promo...

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OpenAI boss Sam Altman says the world "doesn't need another copy of Google" because it's "boring"

Instead, developers should focus on creating new ways to search and analyze information for people. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says he is not interested in beating Google in the search business. "I think it's boring. I mean, if the question is whether we ...

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Mark Gurman: Apple is in talks with Google to integrate Gemini's AI model into the iPhone

Apple recently discussed the prospects of collaboration with ChatGPT OpenAI developer. Mark Gurman from Bloomberg, citing his own sources at Apple, writes that the company is in talks with Google about integrating the Gemini artificial intelligence m...

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Google DeepMind has created SIMA, an AI model that plays games. Why - they don't know yet.

Google DeepMind Laboratory presented SIMA - an artificial intelligence model that will play games for you. It is designed to play more like a human, rather than a superhuman artificial intelligence. SIMA, which stands for Scalable Instructable Multiw...

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Google, Apple and Mozilla released Speedometer 3.0 - a benchmark for browsers

The Speedometer has long been a favorite benchmark of Google because it "best reflects the real world" by comparing JavaScript performance. Now, the Speedometer 3.0 version is available. Speedometer 3.0 is the result of collaboration (a joint manage...

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"Actually beat out the Ukrainian interface" - ex-director of Google Ukraine about localization of services

Dmytro Sholomko, who headed Google's office in Ukraine for 17 years (and resigned in October of last year), gave an interview to DOU publication and, among other things, touched on the topic of Ukrainian localization of the company's services. Googl...

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YouTube stopped showing recommendations after logging out of your Google account and in incognito mode

Instead, users are shown a home page without videos and viewing recommendations. Previously, recommendations on YouTube were shown even in anonymous mode or after signing out of Google account, but now users are simply shown the platform's home page ...

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Following Apple's example: Google introduces new fees for app developers in the EU

Google has already allowed users to download programs outside of the Play Store in accordance with the requirements of the EU Digital Markets Act, but is now introducing two new commissions for this purpose. The initial commission for purchases in ...

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Google co-founder Sergey Brin has been sued by the widow of a pilot who died in a crash while flying his plane

According to the lawsuit, Brin allegedly tried to "destroy evidence of the crime." An aviation disaster occurred in May 2023 off the coast of California, when pilots Lance MacLean and Dean Rashfeld were delivering Brin's seaplane to Fiji. To transpo...

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