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CHICAGO and SUNNYVALE — McDonald’s Corporation, one of the world’s leading fast-food chains, has announced plans for a new multi-year, global partnership to connect Google Cloud technology across thousands of its restaurants worldwide. McDonald’s plans to leverage a wide range of Google Cloud’s hardware, data, and AI technologies to implement innovation faster and create even better experiences […]
Google released its Threat Analysis Bulletin for the month of October. This bulletin includes coordinated influence operation campaigns that were removed from Google’s platforms — primarily YouTube — in the fourth quarter of 2023. The campaigns are mainly from nation states looking to spread propaganda to promote their own governments or against other nations. This […]
Chromebook was first introduced over a decade ago and is now a popular platform of low-priced laptops for schools and other users. Since Chromebooks run on Google’s own operating system, these laptops are much cheaper than those running on Microsoft’s Windows operating system. Now Google has teamed with up its partners Acer, Asus, HP and […]
Location-tracking devices like Apple’s AirTag can help users find personal items like their keys, purse, luggage, and more through crowdsourced finding networks. However, they can also be misused for unwanted tracking of individuals. Apple and Google announced they have jointly submitted a proposed industry specification to help combat the misuse of Bluetooth location-tracking devices for […]
Google’s Pixel Watch has unveiled Fall detection, giving users more ways to keep safe and get help when you need it most. It’s a feature already available in many versions of the Apple Watch. Once activated, fall detection in the Pixel Watch uses motion sensors built in to the watch and on-device machine learning to […]
Silicon Valley will have a big presence in advertising during Sunday’s Super Bowl game between Kansas City and Philadelphia on Fox Network. Apple will be the sponsor of the halftime music show featuring Rihanna, replacing Pepsi, which had been the halftime sponsor for the past decade. Netflix is teaming up with GM in a 60-second […]
If you’re looking for hot holiday gifts this season, Google has compiled a list of 100 gift ideas based on user searches. Google says users shop for gifts using its search engine more than 1 billion times per day so the company compiled the Holiday 100 — 100 gift ideas and insights based on trending searches […]
Chromebooks have always been known for being fast, secure and easy-to-use devices. Since their launch more than a decade ago, Google has improved their capabilities and expanded the variety of devices for people to choose. Last month, Google has introduced the world’s first laptops built for cloud gaming with partners Acer, ASUS and Lenovo. These […]
Vast oak woodlands punctuated with lush willow groves once stretched from Palo Alto to San Jose and beyond, long before the rise of Silicon Valley. “Centuries of agricultural intensification and urbanization have transformed these landscapes,” says Erin Beller, Google’s ecology program lead who studied Silicon Valley’s ecological history and restoration potential for her PhD. “We’ve […]
SUNNYVALE — Google Cloud will accept payment via cryptocurrencies in a new deal with Coinbase. The two companies have announced a new, long-term strategic partnership to better serve the growing Web3 ecosystem and its developers. The collaboration will involve Coinbase selecting Google Cloud as a strategic cloud provider to build advanced exchange and data services. Coinbase will use Google […]
Google has released its annual list of PhD Fellowship recipients for 2022 Since 2009, the Google PhD Fellows have represented some of the best and brightest computer science researchers from around the globe. The Google PhD Fellowship Program was created to recognize outstanding graduate students doing exceptional and innovative research in areas relevant to computer […]
Fitbit, a division of Google, has introduced new versions of its wearable devices that combine Fitbit’s health and wellness tools with the smarts of Google — Inspire 3, Versa 4 and Sense 2. These devices are even thinner and more comfortable, so you can wear them all day and night, and you don’t have to […]