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Jordan Gloor / How-To Geek We know them today as smart TV dongles that allow you to stream your favorite shows and movies through Google TV, but Chromecasts had a much simpler beginning. The device that started it all, launched in 2013, is quietly being killed off after a long…

Source: interestingengineering.com Not content with recent advancements in chat AI, tech giant Google is also making waves with the release to developers of the technology behind Google Maps’ immersive view. Blending established map data and real-time conditions, this immersive view is looking to bring a new generation to mapping, with…

Game Hollywood has just announced the release of their latest title, League of Angels: Pact on Google Play. The iconic browser MMORPG is finally available to download alongside lots of events to celebrate the launch. Pre-registrations made it pretty clear that fans were eagerly waiting for its release as Pact…

The team at MY.GAMES, together with Google and Amazon Web Services, have just revealed the third season of its Game Drive program, specifically for mobile developers. For those who haven’t heard of it, Game Drive is a business accelerator program aimed at creating more opportunities for the growth and development…

In a few short months, the idea of convincing news articles written entirely by computers have evolved from perceived absurdity into a reality that’s already confusing some readers. Now, writers, editors, and policymakers are scrambling to develop standards to maintain trust in a world where AI-generated text will increasingly appear…

Google Photos has a long-standing history with “Gorillas”. Despite all the developments in the AI industry, it still can’t recognize Gorillas or any other primates. It might be the after-effect of an unfortunate 8-year-old incident when Google Photos wrongly labeled black people as Gorillas. The launch of Google Photos in…

AI in brief AI may be progressing rapidly, but it appears Google still hasn't quite fixed an eight-year problem with its image recognition system: identifying pictures of gorillas accurately. The company was criticized when a software developer, Jacky Alciné, found the image recognition system deployed in its Photos app in…

Google has announced an expansion of its digital coaches program for SMBs, which provides online marketing advice and assistance, for free, to diverse small businesses across the US. The program aims to connect SMBs with approved digital coaches from their area, in order to help them navigate the various aspects…

The jury verdict marks a major development in a years-long legal battle between the two tech companies. Sonos Phil Barker/Future Publishing via GI Google has been ordered to pay Sonos $32.5 million for infringing one of its smart speaker patents, marking a significant development in a long-fought legal war between…

NFL Sunday Ticket is seeing its first-ever shake-up this season with the popular sports package moving over to YouTube TV and YouTube after over a decade attached to DirecTV. However, Google’s big deal won’t apply to businesses showing those games, as DirecTV will still be the distributor. As reported by…