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Discover How Waze Can Transform Your Drive with Real-Time Navigation
- Waze is a free navigation app that uses live updates from its community of users to keep you informed.
- Drivers share real-time updates about traffic conditions, hazards, and more. You’ll even see their driver icons on the map.
- Waze Live Map is at the heart of what makes Waze so powerful. It’s the interactive map you see when you open the app or visit the website.
- The Live Map not only shows you the best route but also gives you a snapshot of what’s happening on the roads around that location.
- Waze usually defaults to the most efficient option, saving you time and hassle.
- Waze isn’t just about navigation; it’s designed to make every aspect of your trip smoother, including parking.
- Waze can help you locate parking options near your destination before you even start driving.
- Waze has hands-free navigation feature, using voice commands, you can make changes to your route without pulling over or taking your hands off the wheel.
- Waze offers the feature of speed alerts, when enabled, it sends you a notification whenever your vehicle exceeds the speed limit.
- With Waze keeping an eye on your speed, you can focus on driving confidently and responsibly.
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Why does the Pixel 9 look so much like an iPhone? You can blame the EU
- The Pixel 9 series from Google has a striking resemblance to the iPhone, leading to criticism from Android fans.
- While the Android vs iPhone rivalry has diminished, Android users value the uniqueness of their phone designs.
- Google's design strategy for the Pixel 9 is seen as lazy and unoriginal, copying from the market leader.
- However, experts suggest that laziness might not be the only reason behind the similarities, but Google is indeed copying the design of the iPhone.
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Samsung is eyeing smart glasses that could shake up the market
- Samsung plans to launch smart glasses in late 2025 or early 2026.
- The smart glasses will have Qualcomm's AR1 Gen 1 wearable silicon and an NXP semiconductor.
- The glasses will feature a 12-megapixel camera with a Sony CMOS sensor for multimedia capture.
- Samsung will use Google's Gemini AI as the software stack for the smart glasses.
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You can now view and add Google Calendar events using Gmail’s Gemini side panel
- Google is rolling out calendar integration for the Gemini side panel in Gmail.
- Users can add new events to their calendar or get information about existing events.
- The feature is currently being rolled out to Google Workspace users.
- Gemini side panel in Gmail allows users to perform various tasks without leaving the email platform.
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Say Goodbye to Spam with Google’s Latest Privacy Tool
- Google is introducing a new feature called “Protected Email” to better protect users’ privacy.
- “Protected Email” feature allows users to create disposable email addresses.
- Disposable addresses forward messages to the user’s main inbox without exposing the real email address.
- Google aims to give users more control over their data and reduce the chances of spam or phishing attacks.
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YouTube Music’s 2024 Recap looks like it’s already hitting some lucky listeners early
- YouTube Music's 2024 Recap offers an end-of-year look back at favorite songs, albums, and artists.
- Limited access to the 2024 Recap has been reported early.
- Google usually releases Recap at the start of December.
- One Reddit user shares news of their early access to the Recap.
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Google Gemini unexpectedly surges to No. 1, over OpenAI, but benchmarks don’t tell the whole story
- Google's experimental model, Gemini-Exp-1114, has surpassed OpenAI's GPT-4o in an AI benchmark.
- Gemini-Exp-1114 demonstrated superior performance in mathematics, creative writing, and visual understanding.
- However, traditional testing methods may not effectively measure true AI capabilities, as benchmark rankings can be misleading.
- The focus on quantitative benchmarks may overshadow important aspects of AI system reliability and real-world safety.
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YouTube’s new AI music remixer could let you swap genres
- YouTube is rolling out an experimental AI tool that allows musicians to remix their songs uploaded on the platform.
- The tool, built on YouTube's Dream Track, generates a 30-second sample based on the input song and text prompts from the user.
- Musicians can reimagine songs in different genres or styles, such as reggaeton or thrash metal.
- All generated tracks will be labeled as AI-created, and there may be future plans to apply watermarking to the outputs.
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Google knows you like AI Overviews so much, it’s putting AI Overviews in your AI Overviews
- Google is working on expanding AI Overviews with additional information.
- Selecting text from one AI Overview can prompt Google to create a new one focused on the selection.
- This feature is specific to AI Overview text and not general search results.
- Google is testing this feature in version 15.45.33 beta of the Google app on a Pixel 7a.
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Gmail may add a handy temporary email address feature
- Future Gmail versions could include support for temporary email addresses if Google enables the feature.
- The feature, referred to as 'Shielded Email,' was discovered in the code of a recent Google Play Services APK.
- With this feature, users could generate alternate email addresses to protect their main email from data breaches and spam.
- Similar to Apple's Hide My Email feature, Shielded Email could provide additional security and privacy for Gmail users.
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AI agents are on the march, but will they justify the endless big spending on AI?
- Agentic artificial intelligence, the notion of AI agents that can semiautonomously conduct a series of tasks without much human involvement, is gaining momentum.
- Despite worries that AI and big-data spending is getting out of hand, investments continued this week with xAI seeking to raise $6 billion, CoreWeave landing a big slug from Cisco, and Writer reeling in $200 million more.
- AI and big data were unsurprisingly the big topics at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon conference in Salt Lake City; next week, the earnings kahuna is Nvidia, the most valuable public company in the world.
- This week we saw the deployment of new services from Google and Red Hat, but AI experts are cautioning that agentic AI is still largely in its hype cycle.
- Advanced Micro Devices plans to cut 4% of its staff to double down on AI, while Cisco Systems is still struggling to restore revenue growth despite its early AI progress.
- The FBI has raided the home of the CEO of Polymarket as part of an investigation into allegations that it illegally allowed US citizens to participate in betting.
- The Federal Trade Commission is reportedly looking into potential anticompetitive behavior by Microsoft's cloud practices, although it is unclear how the new presidential administration will handle the case.
- This week, data software companies including Snowflake, NetApp, and Elastic all reported their earnings.
- In terms of personnel announcements, OpenAI's co-founder Greg Brockman returned to the company, while AI developer Francois Chollet left Google to start his own company.
- There's also new industry leadership, as Bill Robbins takes on president of Menlo Security and Tony Alika Owens becomes CEO of lakehouse customer data platform Amperity.
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AI App Race Intensifies as Tech Giants Vie for Consumer Attention
- Google's Gemini iPhone app, a consumer AI app, has been rolled out globally, highlighting the intensified competition among tech giants to capture mainstream users seeking AI tools for everyday tasks on their phones.
- AI-powered mobile apps are reshaping user experiences with advanced features, such as Apple's iOS update introducing 'Apple Intelligence' and TikTok launching Symphony Creative Studios, an AI platform for video creation.
- These AI-powered apps are impacting commerce by automating processes, enabling personalized customer interactions, and providing businesses with targeted marketing tools and streamlined operations.
- The healthcare, media and entertainment, supply chain, legal tech, and finance sectors are benefiting from AI-powered mobile apps, offering personalized experiences, mental health support, inventory tracking, document management, fraud detection, and virtual consultations.
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Google’s latest Doodle celebrates 5,000 years of the kayak
- Google's latest Doodle celebrates 5,000 years of the kayak.
- The kayak was invented in the Arctic and has been in use for over 5,000 years.
- The Doodle coincides with Native American Heritage Month.
- The kayak has played a significant role in Indigenous cultures.
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YouTube has added a 'gifting' feature to its vertical streams, ramping up the competition for livestream e-commerce
- YouTube has launched a 'gifting' feature for its vertical livestreams, similar to TikTok.
- Creators can receive digital gifts that can be redeemed for one cent each.
- Livestream e-commerce is a lucrative market, with total US e-commerce sales exceeding $1 trillion in 2022.
- Google is offering a 50% bonus to eligible creators for received gifts on YouTube for the next three months.
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OpenAI vs Google: The Future of Search Through an AI Lens
- OpenAI has added search capabilities to its ChatGPT, an AI-powered chatbot that was initially known for its proficiency in conversation and language understanding.
- The integration of search capabilities in ChatGPT suggests a potential shift in how we interact with search engines, moving towards a more interactive and personalized search experience.
- By combining language understanding with search capabilities, ChatGPT could enhance user experience, particularly in fields like academic research where context and synthesis of information are crucial.
- While ChatGPT's enhanced capabilities are promising, challenges remain in ensuring reliability, unbiased operation, and addressing regulatory and privacy concerns associated with expanding AI capabilities.
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