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Google Nest Doorbell vs. Ring Video Doorbell (2nd Gen): which is better for your front door?
- The Google Nest Doorbell and Ring Video Doorbell (2nd Gen) are both popular video doorbells.
- Google Nest Doorbell is available in four colors while Ring Video Doorbell is available in two.
- Google Nest Doorbell offers a slimmer profile than Ring Video Doorbell (2nd Gen).
- Google Nest Doorbell and Ring Video Doorbell (2nd Gen) both provide wired connection options.
- Google Nest Doorbell offers a 960-by-1280 resolution, films in black and white at night and has 145-degree viewing angle.
- Ring Video Doorbell (2nd Gen) has a 1080p resolution, offers black-and-white night vision and a 160-degree viewing angle.
- The Nest Doorbell costs $180, while the Ring Video Doorbell (2nd Gen) is $100.
- Ring Video Doorbell (2nd Gen) is the wiser choice because of its lower price and subscription plan.
- Google Nest Doorbell is better suited for users who don't want to deal with pesky wiring.
- Google also offers professional installation, while Ring Video Doorbell (2nd Gen) requires a bit more effort.
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After Stack Overflow, Reddit Succumbs to OpenAI
- OpenAI has partnered with Reddit to integrate community content into ChatGPT and other products.
- This partnership allows OpenAI to access a diverse range of human conversations from Reddit, improving AI understanding and user interaction.
- Reddit will also benefit from OpenAI products to introduce new features and enhance engagement and community functionality.
- OpenAI plans to build a 'Google Search Alternative' and has hired a Google veteran to lead this effort.
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After Stack Overflow, OpenAI Partners with Reddit
- OpenAI has partnered with Reddit to integrate community content into ChatGPT and other products.
- OpenAI will gain access to Reddit's vast repository of discussions, enhancing AI understanding and user interaction.
- Reddit will leverage OpenAI products to introduce new features, expanding engagement and community functionality.
- OpenAI also becomes a Reddit advertising partner.
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This Week in B2B Innovation: Globalization, Digitization and Better Payments
- U.S. corporate bankruptcies have reached their highest level since April 2023, inspiring innovation in the B2B landscape to revolutionize commercial customer expectations in the digital age.
- New solutions are being developed to solve ongoing challenges and capture growth in a cost-effective manner.
- The digitalization in the B2B space shows an increase in the use of instant payment options, including digital wallets, in various verticals. APAC is leading the way, making working capital innovation globally a priority.
- Google's product announcements at the I/O conference shed light on increasing enterprise-focused products utilizing AI.
- Self-driving vehicles continue to be another game-changer in the B2B space, with trucking and warehouse management being the initial candidate for these tools.
- The globalization of the B2B landscape has highlighted the need for streamlined cross-border payments with services like TransNetwork and Tassat Group partnering with other organizations to provide secure, immediate, and cost-effective solutions for cross-border transactions.
- The upcoming migration to ISO 20022 messaging standards will have a significant impact on enhancing data quality, fraud detection, cash flow management, and more using machine learning and AI innovations.
- Virtual credit cards are fast becoming a preferred option in B2B transactions, with Worldline and Expensify launching new virtual card issuing solutions. The rise of virtual cards can be attributed to its security and quality assurance.
- Home Depot - the world's largest home improvement retailer - looks to build its business with professionals.
- Fifth Third Bank is partnering with Bottomline to enhance payment processes and streamline B2B cash flow for all of its customers.
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Wear OS 5 Developer Preview has two new features Google didn’t tell us about
- Wear OS 5 Developer Preview brings a grid-based app launcher to the Pixel Watch and Pixel Watch 2.
- The grid view for the app launcher can be enabled in Settings > General > App view or by scrolling to the bottom of the app list.
- Wear OS 5 also includes the privacy dashboard feature from Android 12.
- These new features were discovered in the first Wear OS 5 Developer Preview build.
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Heads-up, Apple and the rest of Big Tech: Disney wants better app store deals.
- Disney CEO Bob Iger wants a better deal from tech companies distributing Disney-owned streaming services.
- Iger mentioned the disadvantage of distributing through third-party app stores and the costs associated with it.
- Apple charges 15% of revenue for signups made within Apple-distributed apps, while Roku charges fees for signing up customers on its devices.
- Regulatory pressure and potential changes in app store policies may lead to better deals for Disney and other video companies.
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Google I/O and OpenAI updates you should know!
- Google and OpenAI are in talks with Apple to add their AI model either Gemini Pro or OpenAI GPT to Apple devices.
- Several technology releases were made in the last 24 hours, and now the focus is on utilizing them to build SaaS.
- The author has written a book titled 'Cheat Code for Building AI-Driven SaaS' that provides extensive guidance on running a successful AI-based SaaS business.
- The author has also written a book on marketing titled 'Marketing Strategies to Grow Your SaaS' that covers steps and strategies for acquiring long-term paying customers.
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Android 15’s private space is something Apple should steal immediately
- Google announced the release of Android 15 beta 2 and unveiled a feature called private space.
- Private space is a protected area on the phone that allows users to hide content to prevent others from seeing it.
- Users can even install two versions of the same app, including Google's software, to protect sensitive data.
- The article suggests that Apple should consider implementing a similar feature for the iPhone.
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To tune or not to tune? A guide to leveraging your data with LLMs
- Large language models are increasingly being used to improve customer experiences and automate internal processes.
- There are several methods to bring your data to foundation models, including prompt engineering, retrieval augmented generation (RAG), supervised fine-tuning (SFT), reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF), and distillation.
- Prompt engineering involves including the data in the instructions sent to the model, while RAG ensures model outputs are grounded on your data.
- SFT is well-suited for tasks like classification or creating structured outputs from free text, while RLHF is useful for goals that are not well-described into categories or are difficult to quantify.
- Distillation combines creating a smaller model that is faster to process data with making that model more specific to your tasks.
- The decision of which method to use depends on whether the model needs to always give a citation of a source grounded in your data and how specific and difficult to quantify the desired model’s behavior is.
- The methods can also be combined as per the convenience of the user.
- Google Cloud offers various capabilities to try out these methods, including Prompt Engineering, RAG, SFT, RLHF, and Distillation, using APIs and code samples.
- To get started, it is recommended to start simple and experiment to find out the best approach for your application.
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Rivian’s Google Cast support might beat out Tesla’s built-in apps as the future of car entertainment
- Rivian has announced support for Google Cast and a native YouTube app as part of Google I/O.
- This move suggests that Rivian's entertainment offerings might outperform Tesla's built-in apps.
- Tesla has been known for its in-car entertainment with popular built-in apps like YouTube and Netflix.
- Rivian's focus on Google Cast and native YouTube app may be a game-changer in car entertainment.
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Elevate your FinOps strategy: Optimize with FinOps hub, now GA
- FinOps hub is now generally available and offers comprehensive cloud optimization solutions for FinOps teams.
- Key features of FinOps hub include quantifying savings opportunities, top cost-saving recommendations, and support for multiple products and recommender engines.
- It aims to improve FinOps practices through in-depth analysis of Google Cloud usage patterns and offers CUD optimization indicators.
- Getting started with FinOps hub is quick and easy, providing an intuitive interface and powerful features for optimization efforts.
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Cloud CISO Perspectives: What you missed at Phil and Kevin’s RSA Conference fireside chat
- Phil Venables, VP, TI Security & CISO, Google Cloud, shares the key takeaways from his RSA Conference fireside chat with Mandiant CEO Kevin Mandia.
- They discussed a range of security challenges, including AI, nation-state attacks, government regulations, and the role of CISOs in securing their organisations.
- AI has the potential to revolutionize cybersecurity and can help with threat intelligence, report generation, investigation acceleration, identity and access management, privileged reviews and anomaly detection.
- Google has unveiled Google Threat Intelligence and Google Security Operations, offering actionable threat intelligence at Google scale and enhancing the productivity of security operations centers.
- CISOs can help drive the use of AI, and the ability of AI to assess and mitigate risks could help facilitate a move from maturity-based security programs to risk-based models.
- Google is named a Visionary in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for SIEM.
- Mandiant has updated its Ransomware Protection and Containment Strategies report, and experts explore APT42, an Iranian state-sponsored cyber espionage actor who uses enhanced social engineering schemes to gain access to victim networks, including cloud environments.
- Podcasts reviewed in this article include those exploring the topics of getting real with gen AI, rightsizing SOCs with AI and ransomware protection, as well as a more general discussion of RSA Conference takeaways.
- Google's Insider's Guide can address users' missed conference updates.
- Google Chrome Enterprise is extending its ecosystem of security providers.
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No work items left unturned: How Dataflow mitigates stragglers
- Dataflow has announced three new features for its fully-managed streaming analysis service; i.e., straggler detection, slow worker auto-mitigation, and hot key detection.
- Stragglers, or tasks that significantly take longer to complete, can cause increased latency, higher costs, and reduced throughput in data processing pipelines.
- Dataflow helps users in dealing with stragglers by providing detailed in-context tooling, root-cause analysis, and auto-mitigation through proactive load balancing and fixing unhealthy nodes.
- The new straggler detection feature allows identifying detected stragglers and diagnosing the problem. Dataflow analyzes stragglers to identify the root cause for preventing future stragglers.
- Dataflow now has a new hot key detection feature that identifies the hot key, which is a key representing more elements than other keys in the PCollection).
- Auto-mitigation is the best solution against stragglers, and Dataflow's dynamic work rebalancing system can help prevent them. Its slow worker auto-mitigation feature automatically mitigates stragglers that are caused by slow workers.
- Dataflow's new features enable users to minimize stragglers' impact, maintain precision and completeness, and not leave any shard behind for better-predicted processing pipelines.
- To know more about troubleshooting stragglers in Dataflow, visit the guides published by Google Cloud.
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Game-changing assets: Making concept art with Google Cloud's generative AI
- Game developers can use generative AI services on Google Cloud using Model Garden on Vertex AI (which incorporates partner integrations such as Hugging Face and Civitai) to scale game-asset creation.
- Google’s generative AI models can generate initial designs, 3D models, and textures that reflect the style of the game, streamlining the game-asset creation process.
- In small game teams, the lack of assets can create a bottleneck; therefore, running the Model Garden on Vertex AI tools in the cloud offers a cost-effective solution.
- The tools can create assets, including 2D and 3D models, textures, animations, and sounds and music.
- The first step in game asset creation, generating concept art, can be accomplished using Vertex AI and Model Garden with Stable Diffusion.
- The resulting concept art images from generative AI models will be stored in a Google Cloud Storage bucket for easy access and further refinement by artists.
- The deployment of a LoRA model with stabilityai/stable-diffusion-xl-base-1.0 on a Vertex AI prediction endpoint can be done through Jupyter notebooks.
- The generative AI models offer a way for game developers to quickly provide assets that unlock the rest of the game team in the short term, while allowing them to focus on long term goals like art direction and finalized assets.
- Integration of Stable Diffusion-generated images into a game requires careful planning, including legal rights, customization, optimization, testing, ethics, compliance, documentation, and feedback.
- Google Cloud provides a $300 free credit towards compute/storage costs for game developers.
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What’s New in Android 15 Beta 2: The Fun Stuff!
- Android 15 Beta 2 brings a major wave of new features.
- Predictive Back: When you swipe in from the edge to activate the back gesture on Android device, the active window or app you have open will slightly shrink to show you where you are about to go.
- Private Space: it is in the Security & privacy setting where you can create a new Google account just for this space to access it. Once created, it stays at the bottom of the app drawer and displays the list of apps.
- Volume Controls: New volume controls in Android 15. Big Animated sliders for all volume controls on the device, including media, call, ring, notification, and alarm.
- Bluetooth Automatically Turn Back On - Google has added a new toggle button called “Automatically turn on again tomorrow.” in Bluetooth settings that turns it on automatically the following day.
- Adaptive vibration: This new sound setting adjusts your phone's vibration based on your environment. It uses your phone's microphone and other sensors to determine sound levels and context to crank your vibration.
- Color Contrast in Wallpapers: a new Color Contrast page is added in the wallpaper settings that comes with three options: Default, Medium, and High, as well as a “Maximize text contrast” option.
- Android 15 Beta 2 is stable and has few bugs. However, it doesn't come with a major UI redesign, new launcher or any major front-facing changes that would freshen up Android.
- Google is still bringing out a solid batch of new features that make it worth upgrading.
- Since it’s turned on default going forward, it will hopefully lead to more apps adopting it. Let us know what you are finding.
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