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The latest Gemini Extensions are ready to search Spotify lyrics, make calls for you, and much more
- Google formally welcomes Gemini Extensions for Spotify, Utilities, Messages, and Phone.
- The big news is Spotify getting its own Gemini Extension, allowing users to search for lyrics, find playlists, and play specific songs or artists.
- Google also introduces Extensions for Utilities, Messages, and Phone, offering a range of features including controlling timers and alarms, sending texts, and making conversational calls.
- Google hints that the Home Extension for Gemini could soon leave preview and provides more information about places when using Gemini with Maps.
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December Pixel Feature Drop is Here: 20+ New Features and Changes Included
- Google released December Pixel update as December Pixel Feature Drop, it includes at least 25 changes on Pixel 6 and new Pixel 9 & 9 Pro series.
- Expressive Captions is a Pixel 6+ feature that adds intensity and emotion to captions while watching videos.
- Gemini AI has access to more apps including Spotify and Messages; its saves user preference to provide better and tailored responses.
- Google Recorder introduces Clear Voice Mode for Pixel 9 series to reduce noise and focus on speakers.
- Pixel Screenshots app on Pixel 9 series adopts new features like automatic categories and search filters for easier organization.
- Gboard will feature Pixel Studio stickers to share in Pixel 9 conversations on social media.
- Quick Share feature adds an easier process to share via QR codes, and Now Playing feature shows album art for each song in the Pixel 6+.
- Pixel Tablet gets a built-in Google VPN feature and Lockscreen widgets, while Pixel Watch gets expansion and few new features.
- Identity Check requires face or fingerprint authentication before changing sensitive settings in case the device is stolen or forcefully moved.
- Simple View is a new feature that aims to navigate the device in an easier way, increasing font size and touch sensitivity.
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Call Screen on Pixel devices gets Gemini-powered contextual replies
- Call Screen on Pixel devices is getting an upgrade with the December 2024 Pixel Drop.
- The feature will now suggest better contextual replies using Gemini Nano.
- This AI-powered feature allows users to answer or ask follow-up questions without answering the call.
- The update also brings improvements like Expressive Captions and Automatic Call Screening view.
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Google’s latest feature drop includes new Gemini extensions and accessibility features
- Google has introduced new updates for Pixel and Android devices as part of the December feature drop.
- New Gemini extensions have been added, allowing users to explore songs, send messages, make calls, and control smart home devices through Gemini.
- Accessibility enhancements include image Q&As for visually impaired users, expressive captions to reflect emotions on the screen, and better auto-enhancements in Google Drive.
- Pixel devices receive updates such as an easy-to-operate mode, theft protection-related updates, improved call screening, and enhancements to the Pixel Screenshots app.
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How Current leveraged Spanner to build a resilient platform for banking services
- Current, a fintech start-up, utilized Spanner, Google’s globally distributed database, to create a scalable and robust technological foundation for its financial services.
- Central to the fintech’s success was a cloud-native infrastructure built on Google Cloud although its previous self-hosted graph database lacked cloud-native capabilities and horizontal scalability.
- The cloud-native platform required a database solution with consistent writes, horizontal scalability, low read latency under load, and multi-region failover.
- Spanner emerged as the ideal solution for the fintech start-up, fulfilling all its requirements.
- Current previously faced a challenge of making financial services available to low-income Americans without a bank account, solving which they developed a modern core banking system to power its platform.
- Their Spanner-powered user graph service delivered the consistency, reliability, and scalability essential for their financial platform.
- It dramatically improved resilience, reduced RTO and RPO by more than 10x, and cut times to just one hour implementing streamlined data restoration process.
- The company has reduced its availability-related incidents to zero since migrating to Spanner, eliminated any potential disruption in customer satisfaction and potential churn.
- Current’s Spanner-powered infrastructure empowers it to deliver reliable and efficient financial services, critical for building and maintaining member trust.
- Their strategic migration process to Spanner resulted in a zero-downtime, zero-loss cutover, minimizing risks and maximizing efficiency.
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Moloco: 10x faster model training times with TPUs on Google Kubernetes Engine
- Moloco offers AI-powered advertising solutions that drive user acquisition, retention, and monetization efforts.
- To address the challenges, companies are seeking data-driven approaches to enhance their advertising effectiveness.
- Moloco leverages predictions from a dozen deep neural networks to deliver higher conversion rates and return on investment.
- Moloco's rapid growth required an infrastructure that could handle massive data processing and real-time ML predictions while remaining cost effective.
- Google Cloud, Moloco's infrastructure provider, aligned with its rapidly growing data and machine learning workloads to optimize customer advertising performance.
- Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) was a primary reason for Moloco selecting Google Cloud over other cloud providers.
- Moloco leveraged GKE's AI and ML capabilities to optimize the management of its compute resources, minimizing idle time, generating cost savings while improving performance.
- Training complex ML models with GKE and Google's specialized processing units for machine learning workloads, resulted in significant enhancements in training speed and efficiency.
- In addition to training models on TPUs, Moloco also uses GPUs on GKE to deploy ML models into production.
- By harnessing Google Cloud's solutions, Moloco was able to scale its infrastructure, accelerate its ML training, and deliver exceptional ad experiences to its customers.
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Registration is open for Google Cloud Next 2025
- Registration is now open for Google Cloud Next 2025 in Las Vegas, which will be held from April 9-11, 2025. The conference is expected to be even bigger and better than previous years, with hands-on experiences, inspiring content, and problem-solving with top partners.
- Attendees will have the opportunity to learn from top experts and peers in the field, gaining new ideas, breakthrough skills, and actionable knowledge exclusive to Google Cloud Next 2025.
- The conference will feature AI-focused experiences, allowing participants to explore the latest technology, build agents, and learn how AI is being used to drive business growth.
- Additionally, Next provides a platform for networking with industry experts, peers, and influential minds in technology, fostering collaborations and shaping the future of various industries.
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How the Air Force Research Laboratory is Advancing Defense Research with AI
- The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) is collaborating with Google Cloud to leverage artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) capabilities to drive innovation and accelerate research in various domains.
- Google Cloud’s technology will propel research and development for the U.S. Air Force and Space Force, aligning with broader Department of Defense (DoD) endeavours to integrate AI into critical operations and bolster national security.
- By harnessing Google Cloud’s scalable infrastructure, the AFRL is driving innovation and ensuring the U.S. Air Force and Space Force remain at the forefront of technological advancement.
- With Google Cloud’s infrastructure, the AFRL's bioinformatics data pipeline automation paved the way for further exploration and expansion on a use case that had never been done before.
- The AFRL built an efficient, custom web application, based on Google App Engine, to ease maintenance for non-programmer researchers and lab staff and capture usage metrics for future hardware investment decisions.
- The FOCUS Mission Readiness App built on Google Cloud utilizes various infrastructure services to collect and analyze real-time data from wearables, providing personalized insights and recommendations for fatigue interventions and predictions.
- The AFRL leveraged Google Cloud’s Vertex AI and Jupyter Notebooks, through Workbench, Compute Engine, Cloud Shell, Cloud Build and more to get a head start in creating a pipeline that could be used for sharing, ingesting, and cleaning their code.
- The AFRL is successfully driving innovation and improving their research capabilities with Google Cloud’s comprehensive generative AI offerings and collaborative environment.
- The AFRL's collaboration with Google Cloud is a great example of how AI and cloud services can be used as a driving force behind innovation, efficiency, and problem-solving across agencies.
- This collaboration will be crucial for unlocking the full potential of AI and cloud computing, ensuring that agencies across the federal landscape can leverage these transformative technologies for improved efficiency, effectiveness, and security.
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Google Unveils PaliGemma 2 Vision-Language Models for Advanced Task Transfer
- Google has introduced PaliGemma 2, a family of vision-language models for advanced task transfer.
- The models come in three sizes and three resolutions, allowing for transfer learning across diverse domains.
- PaliGemma 2 achieved state-of-the-art results in various fields, including molecular structure recognition and table structure analysis.
- The models are designed for accessibility and can operate on low-precision formats for on-device inference.
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The Google Pixel 9 may soon get a powerful phone call feature
- Google Pixel 9 series offers Call Notes feature in Google Phone app.
- An APK teardown suggests a new feature called 'Call To-do List' may be available soon.
- The new feature will use AI to summarize actionable to-dos from phone calls.
- Google is continuously enhancing phone features through AI integration.
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Bitdefender enhances GravityZone XDR with new sensor for SaaS application security
- Bitdefender enhances its GravityZone XDR platform with a new Business Applications sensor.
- The sensor initially supports Atlassian Corp. cloud applications with plans to extend to other SaaS platforms.
- Organizations using cloud-based productivity platforms are at increased risk of cyber attacks.
- The Business Applications sensor allows organizations to monitor and analyze security events and enhance data protection.
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Google Pixel Update Schedule: How Long Will My Phone Get Updates?
- Google Pixel phones are known for quick and exclusive Android updates.
- Pixel phone users tend to receive new updates before any other Android devices.
- Pixel owners can expect to receive up to 7 years of Android updates and security patches.
- The support level of Pixel phones depends on the specific device model.
- Before the Pixel 9 series, the maximum update support was 3 years of Android version updates and 3 years of security updates.
- Pixel Feature Drops provide new features exclusively to Pixel phones.
- Google releases monthly security updates for Pixel phones on the first Monday of each month.
- Pixel Feature Drops happen quarterly, introducing new features and fixing bugs.
- Pixel 6 series, Pixel 7 series, and Pixel Fold will receive a 5 years of OS updates, after the previous announced 3 years.
- Pixel 3a, Pixel 3, Pixel 2, and original Pixel lines are no longer receiving updates.
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Now XLGAMES is sunsetting the Korean version of ArcheAge too
- Kakao announced the closure of ArcheAge's core servers in Korea after 12 years of operation.
- The decision was made due to difficulties in providing future updates and services that would satisfy the players.
- Limited refunds will be offered to affected players.
- XLGAMES has been focusing on the development of ArcheAge Chronicles.
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Bridging the Gap: Elevating Red Team Assessments with Application Security Testing
- Red Team assessments often prioritize attacking network and infrastructure components, often overlooking web applications, which can be a primary entry point into organizations.
- By integrating application security expertise into Red Team assessments organizations can proactively defend against a constantly evolving threat landscape, ensuring a more robust and resilient security posture.
- Application security specialists augment the Red Team's capabilities by identifying vulnerabilities within the various components of web applications and application programming interfaces (APIs) exposed to the internet.
- The strategy employed to breach external perimeter can involve exploiting vulnerabilities across the entire attack surface by chaining together low- and medium-vulnerabilities for achieving significant impact.
- Application security expertise can also be leveraged within the context of focused external perimeter assessments.
- Combining diverse skills can spark creativity and lead to more effective attack simulations.
- The integration of AppSec expertise has resulted in an increase in engagements where Red Teams successfully gained a significant advantage during a customer's external perimeter review.
- Four different case studies demonstrate how integrating AppSec expertise into Red Team assessments significantly enhances the effectiveness of the exercise.
- Including application security experts in Red Team assessments can yield significant benefits in identifying and addressing vulnerabilities across the entire attack surface.
- The integrated approach is useful for organizations with varying maturity levels in understanding and fortifying their security posture.
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Google announces 7 new AI features for Pixel phones and other Androids
- Google announces 7 new AI features for Pixel phones and other Androids
- Android devices get five new Google AI features, including new Gemini extensions, expressive captions, Gemini in Lockout, emoji combo, and share with QR Code
- Exclusive AI functions for Pixel phones include Gemini Saved Info and updates to Pixel Screenshots
- Other improvements for Google Pixel include Ultra HDR Photos on Instagram, Dual-Screen functionality, Clear Voice Mode in Recorder, and more
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