Even allergy recommendations are getting souped up with algorithms powered by brands. Earlier this month, Johnson & Johnson’s Zyrtec rolled out a Google Assistant skill that cranks out daily allergy and weather information as part of a bigger data initiative… Read More ›
CHAT IS GOOGLE’S NEXT BIG FIX FOR ANDROID’S MESSAGING MESS
A top-tier Android phone can cost upwards of a thousand dollars, and for that money, you’ll get some amazing features. It will have a stellar screen, top-flight camera, gobs of storage, and an absolutely atrocious texting experience. Read more at… Read More ›
Facebook, Google duopoly under pressure as ad sales jump for Amazon, Snapchat
Facebook and Google will receive a combined 56.8% of U.S. digital ad investment in 2018, a decrease from 58.5% last year, as Amazon and Snapchat experience growth. Read more at MarketingDIVE.
Facebook, Google duopoly under pressure as ad sales jump for Amazon, Snapchat
Facebook and Google will receive a combined 56.8% of U.S. digital ad investment in 2018, a decrease from 58.5% last year, as Amazon and Snapchat experience growth. Read more at MarketingDIVE.
Google killed 3.2 billion ‘bad ads’ in 2017, up 88% from 2016
Google shared that the company’s ads team killed 3.2 billion “bad ads” in 2017, an increase of 88 percent from the previous year, when it removed 1.7 billion bad ads. The company removed 320,000 publishers from its ad network for… Read More ›
DITCH YOUR SMARTPHONE KEYBOARD FOR GBOARD
WHETHER ON ANDROID or iOS, you likely already use Google Maps for navigation. You use Gmail for email. You use YouTube to watch videos. And you’re right to do so. You’d be even more right to ditch whatever junk keyboard your smartphone shipped… Read More ›
Ditch Your Smartphone Keyboard For GBoard
Whether on Android or iOS, you likely already use Google Maps for navigation. You use Gmail for email. You use YouTube to watch videos. And you’re right to do so. You’d be even more right to ditch whatever junk keyboard your smartphone shipped… Read More ›
Google Is Testing a New App That Would Let Anyone Publish a Local News Story
Google is testing a new tool for people to report and publish local news stories, called Bulletin. The app is in a “limited pilot” in just two cities: Nashville and Oakland. Read more at Slate.
A Google app that matches your face to artwork is wildly popular. It’s also raising privacy concerns
A Google app that matches people’s selfies to famous works of art and encourages users to share the side-by-sides on social media leaped to the top spot on the iTunes App Store charts this weekend, ahead of YouTube, Instagram and… Read More ›
Google’s voice-generating AI is now indistinguishable from humans
Humans have officially given their voice to machines. A research paper published by Google this month—which has not been peer reviewed—details a text-to-speech system called Tacotron 2, which claims near-human accuracy at imitating audio of a person speaking from text…. Read More ›
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