The US Senate is against big tech interfering with the election
Google, Apple, and Meta executives, including its Global Affairs head Kent Walker, testified before the US Senate Intelligence Committee on Wednesday about their ongoing efforts to identify and disrupt foreign influence campaigns ahead of the country’s November elections. Warner said, “We are less safe today because many of those independent academic reviewers have been litigated, bullied or chased out of the marketplace.”
The third time was the charm for the reviewers of the watch
Google’s Pixel Watch 3 was reviewed by The Verge, which called it a “very good smartwatch”. “The watch is designed to be worn in the pocket so that it can be worn with its face closed, or you can wear it as an armband,” The Verge said. It said the Pixel Watch 3 got better battery life than the first two watches.
The next antitrust trial could be a factor in making online ads less annoying
During its trial against Google in the US, the government claimed that publishers are pushed to put more advertising on their websites, “to put more content behind costly paywalls, or to cease business altogether”. It further said publishers were pressured to put more ads on their websites to put more content behind costly paywalls or to cease business altogether.
The foldable is called the Pixel 9 Pro Fold
Google’s Pixel 9 Pro and Pixel 9 Fold are one of the lightest booklike folding phones on the market, with a 2.54mm thickness than the Pixel 9 Pro, making it easier to use when it is folded up, TechCrunch reported. The Pixel 9 Pro Fold is now 60 grams heavier as compared to the Pixel 9 Pro, it added.
We use the ReImagine tool to change wrecks, disasters, and corpses into our photos
Google’s Pixel 9 Magic Editor, which is part of Pixel Studio, was unable to generate images with the artificial intelligence-backed SynthID watermark, as per reports. Google had announced the creation of the SynthID watermark last year, however, it has been stuck in the usual standards. The Pixel 9 Magic Editor took less than 10 seconds to create each image, reports added.
Susan Wojcicki died at the age of 56
Google Co-founder Susan Wojcicki passed away due to lung cancer aged 56 in Santa Clara, California. Wojcicki, who was Google’s Co-founder and CEO of YouTube, founded YouTube in 1998 at the age of 26. She later served as the CEO of YouTube until Google acquired it in 2006. Wojcicki had also served as a board member of Salesforce.com.
Susan Wojcicki was the former CEO and visionary of YouTube
Google CEO Sundar Pichai tweeted, “The world is built by people.” “What Susan Wojcicki built in an incredibly complex environment isvery special and head and shoulders above what others created,” he added. Meanwhile, YouTube CEO Neal Mohan said Wojcicki was one of the first to take maternity leave and she was one of the first to advocate for parental leave.
The decision was made that now was the best time to leave from the device
Google has unveiled its fourth-generation Google TV Streamer at its developers’ event on Wednesday. The device, which is scheduled to launch on September 24, will have a’remote finder’ button on the back, which users can use to access live TV shows, music or apps they want to stream. The company also launched a new version of the Chromecast on the same day.
Microsoft could not pay a price for Apple to use Bing: that is, all of the spiciest parts of the ruling
Google’s VP of Search, Pandu Nayak, said in an interview that it’s vital for Google to continue to ” have an infrastructure that [it] understand[s] search product”, as per The New York Times. He added that if Google made search less attractive, the revenues from it would be fine. Google recently expanded the rule to Chrome browser on Android devices.
Microsoft could not pay apple a price for Bing, the most spiciest parts of the antitrust ruling
A US judge has ruled that Google has “unlawfully” maintained its dominance in search by using anti-competitive deals to keep competitors from gaining traction. He added Apple would have to spend $20 billion in order “to reproduce [Google’s technical] infrastructure dedicated to search”. He further said, “Imagine if Google’s search quality substantially degraded, whether purposely or through neglect.”