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Google Cloud Launches New Sustainability Offerings for Climate Resiliency
At the recent Sustainability Summit, Google launched several new sustainability offerings to help public sector agencies and researchers to improve climate resilience. These offerings are Climate Insights for natural resources and Climate Insights for infrastructure.
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Google Expands Its Distributed Cloud Platform with Anthos On-Premises
Recently Google announced the expansion of its Distributed Cloud Platform by bringing in Anthos on-premise (for VMware vSphere and Anthos bare metal services). The offering is called Google Distributed Cloud Virtual — a software-and services-only solution.
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Google's New Imagen AI Outperforms DALL-E on Text-to-Image Generation Benchmarks
Researchers from Google's Brain Team have announced Imagen, a text-to-image AI model that can generate photorealistic images of a scene given a textual description. Imagen outperforms DALL-E 2 on the COCO benchmark, and unlike many similar models, is pre-trained only on text data.
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Google Brings Confidential Computing to Latest C2D and N2D Machine Types
A few months after upgrading its general-purpose (N2D) and compute-optimized (C2D) virtual machines to adopt the latest AMD EPYC technology, Google is now making confidential computing available in preview on those machine types.
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Google Introduces New AI Features in Workspace
Google’s latest AI developments are aimed at assisting employees in focusing on what matters, collaborating securely, and strengthening human relationships across all work modes and locations.
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New GraphWorld Tool Accelerates Graph Neural-Network Benchmarking
Google AI has recently released GraphWorld, a tool to accelerate performance benchmarking in the area of graph neural networks (GNNs). GraphWorld is a configurable framework to generate graphs with a variety of structural properties like different node degree distributions and Gini index.
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Google Jetpack Brings Updated Architectural and UI Components and Improved Performance Tools
At its latest Google I/O conference, Google announced a new Jetpack release, including updated architectural libraries, extended support for app performance optimization, Jetpack Compose 1.2, and more.
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Flutter 3 Now Stable on All Supported Platforms, Extends Material Design 3
At its recent Google I/O conference, Google announced Flutter 3, which stabilizes support for macOS and Linux, thus completing Flutter's cross-platform roadmap. Flutter 3 also brings support for Apple Silicon and a new Casual Game Toolkit.
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Android Studio Chipmunk Brings Animation Preview, CPU Profiler, and More
The latest release of Google's IDE for Android app development, Android Studio Chipmunk, includes a new Compose animation previewer, a CPU profiler, and an extended build analyzer to improve performance.
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Google Announces General Availability of Cloud TPU VMs
Last year Google introduced Cloud TPU Virtual Machines (VMs), which provide direct access to TPU host machines in preview. Today, Cloud TPU VMs are generally available, including the new TPU Embedding API, which can accelerate ML Based ranking and recommendation workloads.
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Google Releases its Distributed Cloud Edge Offering into General Availability
Last month Google announced the general availability of Google Distributed Cloud Edge, including Google Distributed Cloud Edge Appliances. The product is part of the Google Distributed Cloud (GDC), a fully-managed hardware and software portfolio that allows organizations to run workloads at the edge.
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Research Finds over 1.5 Million "Abandoned" Mobile Apps
On the heels of a recent discussion sparked on the Web by Apple's policy aimed to remove outdated apps from the App Store, analytics company Pixalate released a report providing insight into how many iOS and Android apps are outdated and for how long they have not received any update.
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Android 13 Beta 1 Available along with Privacy Sandbox Preview
Google has introduced Android 13 Beta 1, aiming to improve privacy and security, as well as developer productivity. Alongside it, developers can start exploring the Privacy Sandbox Preview, a collection of technologies that improve user privacy while enabling personalized ads, says Google.
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Google Announces AI-Generated Summaries for Google Docs
Google has announced a new feature for their Docs app that will automatically generate a summary of the document content. The summarization is powered by a natural language processing (NLP) AI model based on the Transformer architecture.
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Google Launches a New Cross-Platform Data Storage Engine BigLake in Preview
At the recent Cloud Data Summit, Google recently announced the preview of BigLake, a new data lake storage engine that makes it easier for enterprises to analyze the data in their data warehouses and data lakes.