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Level Up Your App: Why Android Widgets are a Game-Changer
- Adding widgets to your Android app can significantly boost its visibility and engagement.
- Widgets act as windows to your app content, providing quick access to core features.
- Widgets offer more visibility, better user engagement, increased conversions, and contribute to user retention.
- Key considerations for designing successful widgets include customization, efficiency, and providing quick information.
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Google Play enhances widget discovery to drive engagement with your app
- Google Play now offers significant enhancements to widget discovery, creating a prime opportunity to re-engage with your users.
- The enhancements include a dedicated search filter for apps with widgets, new widget badges on app detail pages, and a curated widgets editorial page.
- These improvements aim to increase user engagement and provide new opportunities for user interaction on home screens.
- The enhanced discoverability features make widget development a more viable and rewarding investment.
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Google upgrades Colab with an AI agent tool
- Google Colab, a cloud-based notebook tool, is gaining an "AI agent" tool called Data Science Agent.
- Data Science Agent is integrated into Colab, providing users with data cleaning, visualization, and data analysis capabilities.
- The tool uses Google's AI model family, Gemini 2.0, for feature engineering and data cleaning tasks.
- Data Science Agent currently supports CSV, JSON, or .txt files under 1GB in size and may expand to other Google apps and services.
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Google brings Gemini widgets to iPhone as it looks to seize on Siri’s weaknesses
- Google's Gemini app for iOS and iPadOS introduces lockscreen widgets to improve access to AI assistant features.
- This move is seen as an effort by Google to attract iPhone and iPad users away from Siri.
- Apple's progress in developing a smarter Siri is reportedly slow, making Gemini a favorable alternative for now.
- The Gemini widgets provide different functions like typing prompts, live talk, open mic, camera usage, image sharing, and file sharing.
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Gemini Live will learn to peer through your camera lens in a few weeks
- Google's conversational AI feature, Gemini Live, will soon be able to view live video and screen sharing, allowing users to show the robot something instead of telling it.
- Gemini's video capabilities will be added to the Gemini app on Android in a major update in March.
- The added functionality will allow users to provide Gemini Live with a video stream from their camera or share their screen as a live video.
- Gemini Live was previously demonstrated as Project Astra, showcasing its ability to answer real-time questions by interacting with the AI.
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Use Gemini 2.0 to speed up document extraction and lower costs
- Gemini 2.0 has been released by Google DeepMind, offering models like Gemini 2.0 Flash and Gemini 2.0 Pro.
- Gemini 2.0 supports up to 1 million input tokens, aiding tasks like image generation and creative writing.
- It revolutionizes document processing by chunking pdfs for RAG systems and extracting insights from pdfs.
- A multi-step approach using generative AI with Gemini 2.0 enhances document extraction by combining LLMs with structured rules.
- Modular extraction in the multi-step architecture improves accuracy and reduces cognitive load on the LLM.
- Externalized rule management in a multi-step approach enhances maintainability and version control.
- The hybrid approach combines LLM-powered extraction with a rules engine for better understanding and processing of data.
- Step 1 involves data extraction using Gemini based on a sample prompt and controlled generation.
- Step 2 focuses on feeding the extracted data into a rules engine for validation and rule enforcement.
- Step 3 integrates insights generated by the rules engine into existing data pipelines for automation and workflow enhancements.
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Best practices for achieving high availability and scalability in Cloud SQL
- Cloud SQL offers high availability SLAs and scalability features crucial for maintaining business continuity.
- Challenges like downtime during maintenance and time-consuming scaling can be addressed using Cloud SQL.
- Implementing read replicas alongside high availability aids in database robustness and workload management.
- Cloud SQL Enterprise Plus enhances performance with features like enhanced hardware and data caching.
- Enterprise Plus also offers near-zero downtime operations and advanced disaster recovery capabilities.
- Best practices include testing in staging environments, read-replica maintenance, and scheduling maintenance windows.
- Rescheduling maintenance and utilizing deny maintenance period features help in managing critical business periods.
- By following these strategies, businesses can build highly available and scalable database solutions in Cloud SQL.
- Cloud SQL Enterprise Plus provides benefits such as improved performance, faster reads, and easy scaling.
- Automatic IP address re-pointing and reduced maintenance downtime are additional advantages of Enterprise Plus edition.
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How to calculate your AI costs on Google Cloud
- Understanding the costs of enterprise AI on Google Cloud is crucial for sustainable AI adoption and maximizing value from investments.
- Google Cloud offers various AI services with different pricing structures, making it essential to manage costs to avoid budget overruns and stalled projects.
- The major cost components of running AI workloads on Google Cloud include model serving, training and tuning, cloud hosting, training data storage, application layer costs, and operational support.
- An example scenario of a retail customer deploying a chatbot illustrates how costs can be estimated for model serving, training, cloud hosting, storage, application layer, and operational support.
- Calculations for model serving, training, storage, application layer, and operational support costs show the breakdown of expenses for a hypothetical AI use case.
- Understanding AI costs helps in developing optimization strategies for infrastructure choices, resource utilization, and monitoring practices to maintain performance while controlling expenses.
- By leveraging Google Cloud's tools and resources, organizations can confidently pursue their AI journey in a financially responsible manner.
- To start understanding AI costs, one can explore the Google Cloud Pricing Calculator and the Vertex AI Pricing Page, attend sessions on AI investment at Google Cloud Next, or seek expert guidance from Google Cloud Consulting or PSO.
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Pixel 9a Snuck Through the FCC
- The Pixel 9a, a highly anticipated device, has emerged through FCC listings.
- The device has been extensively leaked, with details on specs, design, and launch date.
- FCC listings confirm features like NFC, wireless charging, WiFi 6E, and satellite support.
- The Pixel 9a is expected to launch in March, earlier than the usual A-Series phone release.
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I tried Google's new tool that calls businesses for you to get information. Here's how helpful it actually is.
- Google's 'Ask for me' tool uses AI to call businesses on behalf of users to obtain pricing details and availability.
- The tool is currently limited to nail salons and auto shops, and users have to opt in to try it.
- If the tool expands to include medical offices and customer service lines, it could have a significant impact.
- The 'Ask for me' tool is an experimental AI service that aims to make it easier for consumers to obtain information without having to make phone calls.
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Google’s Pixel 7 Pro is on sale for just $199.99 right now
- Google’s Pixel 7 Pro is on sale for just $199.99 at Best Buy.
- The last-gen smartphone offers a spacious 6.7-inch screen, 120Hz refresh rate, and triple camera array.
- It comes with all-day battery life, water and dust resistance, and Pixel-exclusive features.
- However, it lacks some AI camera tricks and may not receive updates after October 2027.
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Google’s Chrome extension cull hits more uBlock Origin users
- Google is disabling the original uBlock Origin ad blocker for more Chrome browser users, alongside other extensions that are no longer supported.
- The new Chrome extension specification, Manifest V3, improves privacy and security but removes a feature relied upon by some ad blocking extensions.
- Affected users are receiving notifications to remove the impacted add-ons, which are no longer supported.
- uBlock Origin users can switch to uBlock Origin Lite, with more limited filtering capabilities due to the ad blocking restrictions of Manifest V3.
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Not Lost in Translation: Rosetta 2 Artifacts in macOS Intrusions
- Rosetta 2 by Apple allows x86-64 binaries to run on ARM64 macOS systems, creating valuable forensic artifacts.
- Mandiant observed sophisticated threat actors using x86-64 macOS malware for broader compatibility and relaxed execution policies.
- Analysis of Rosetta 2 AOT files, FSEvents, and Unified Logs can aid in investigating macOS intrusions.
- The Rosetta 2 cache stores AOT files created when x86-64 binaries are executed, identifiable by UUID and timestamp.
- Sophisticated macOS malware variants compiled for x86-64 architecture have been detected by Mandiant over the past year.
- Unified Logs track AOT file activities in macOS, providing insights into translation and execution.
- FSEvents records historical execution of x86-64 binaries, complementing Rosetta 2 artifact analysis.
- AOT files offer forensic evidence of past execution on macOS, aiding in understanding attacker behavior.
- Attempts to poison AOT files in the Rosetta 2 cache could be a potential attack vector, though no instances have been seen yet.
- Utilizing various forensic artifacts like AOT files, Unified Logs, and FSEvents is crucial in investigating macOS intrusions.
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Google’s Gemini now lets you ask questions using videos or what’s on your screen
- Google is adding new features to its AI assistant, Gemini, that allow users to ask questions using video or content on the screen in real time.
- At the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2025, Google showcased a new 'Screenshare' feature, enabling users to share the phone's screen with Gemini and ask questions about the displayed content.
- The 'Video Search' feature, teased at Google I/O last year, allows users to take a video and ask Gemini questions about it while recording.
- These features will be rolled out to Gemini Advanced users on the Google One AI Premium plan for Android by the end of this month.
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