- www.zdnet.com Vids, Google's AI video creation tool, is now available to test. Here's how to try it out
Need to create videos for work? Google Vids can do the job in a few clicks.
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Google lens search history
So apparently Google finally provides this functionality as an opt in privacy option in your Google account. The thing is though.. the check box and line "Include visual search history" isn't there in my account settings. It's supposed to be under Data & Privacy => Web & App Activity. Is this still in AB testing or being rolled out per region or...??
Thanks for anyone who can help me find an answer. I've been wanting this feature for a long time and google can't provide me with an answer to this question.
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How to delete places I've saved in Google maps? there is no delete button.
I'm tired of these places coming up in all my searches because I will never go back to these places again.
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Does Google know that Starpage gives better results and doesn’t track users?
How are they not trying to fix their search?
- nymag.com Why AI Search Blew Up in Google’s Face
The search giant advised us to eat glue and rocks and maybe even try walking off a cliff. The gaffes are part of a much bigger story.
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Google Photo/Drive Storage
I've been cleaning out my drive and photos lately because I've been on the edge of having no storage for a year. I removed A LOT of photos yesterday and now I am again out of storage.
Upon investigation, 'Device Backup' is now taking up a third of my storage space. Delving into that further, MMS messages backup is taking up 6 gb total.
I do not have Google One.
I don't see any way to remove the MMS without deleting the entire backup.
Anyone have experience with this?
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Vim-keybindings will be removed from Google Drive starting August 2024 😭
Full list of coming changes: https://support.google.com/drive/answer/2563044
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Google and Harvard unveil most detailed ever map of human brain
www.cnn.com Google and Harvard unveil most detailed ever map of human brain | CNNWorking from a sliver of tissue no bigger than a grain of rice, researchers have built an astoundingly complex map of the human brain. The tiny fragment contains 57,000 cells, 230 millimeters of blood vessels and 150 million synapses.
- 9to5google.com Google One VPN shuts down on June 20, Pixel updates coming
The Google One VPN will officially shut down on June 20, a few weeks after the VPN support on Pixel is updated.
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Project Astra: Our vision for the future of AI assistants
YouTube Video
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Google One Premium offers Gemini to family members
www.samnews24.com Google One Premium offers Gemini to family members too - SamNews 24The family group members of AI Premium subscribers can enjoy Gemini Advanced features until September 30, 2024.
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Google lays off staff from Flutter, Dart and Python teams weeks before its developer conference
techcrunch.com Google lays off staff from Flutter, Dart and Python teams weeks before its developer conference | TechCrunchGoogle told TechCrunch that Flutter will have new updates to share at I/O this year.
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Many users are questioning their Google One subscriptions. Subscribers want more bang for their buck.
www.androidauthority.com Many of you are questioning your Google One subscriptionsThere seems to be a growing discontent amongst Google One subscribers. Users want more features and more bang for their buck.
- www.theverge.com Google is officially a $2 trillion company
Technically Alphabet, but we all know it’s GOOG.
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Google lays off workers as part of 'pretty large-scale' restructuring
nypost.com Google lays off workers as part of ‘pretty large-scale’ restructuringThe unspecified number of layoffs will affect teams in the company’s finance department, including its treasury and business services.
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Google Lays off more staff. Moving roles to India, Mexico and Ireland
www.businessinsider.com Google lays off more employees and moves some roles to other countriesGoogle is cutting more staff, this time teams working in finance and real estate.
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Google Vids is the latest AI-powered app in Workspace - The Verge
www.theverge.com With Vids, Google thinks it has the next big productivity tool for workSpreadsheets, slide decks, documents... and now videos?
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Somewhere to ask and answer Google Workspace questions on Lemmy?
I have no particular love for Google as a company in its current form, but I've got to admit that as an ecosystem of tools (particularly for work) they get a lot right. I'm new to the fediverse, but one thing I liked about the forum-that-should-not-be-named were the strong communities around sharing knowledge relating to Google Workspace. Does such a community, even a small one, exist anywhere out here?
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New ways we’re tackling spammy, low-quality content on Search - Google
blog.google New ways we’re tackling spammy, low-quality content on SearchWe’re making updates to show less unoriginal, low\u002Dquality content on Search.
- 9to5google.com Google Fi increasing the price of Simply Unlimited plans with 3+ lines
Google Fi introduced "Simply Unlimited" in 2021 and the plan is now seeing a price increase if you have three or more members.
- gizmodo.com Google CEO Sundar Pichai Says Its Malfunctioning Gemini AI Is ‘Unacceptable’
The Gemini team is “working around the clock” to address the issues and has already seen improvements, according to Pichai.
Funny how it is the worker bees that have to pull the over time to fix issues that are probably the result of demands from some management stooge that didn’t appreciate the outcomes of their demands.
- android-developers.googleblog.com The First Developer Preview of Android 15
The first developer preview of Android 15 is here! New capabilities include thermal headroom thresholds, advanced flash strength adjustments and more.
- blog.google Our next-generation model: Gemini 1.5
Gemini 1.5 delivers dramatically enhanced performance, with a breakthrough in long\u002Dcontext understanding across modalities.
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I tried looking for a really old file but it seems like I've lost alot of things.
I was gonna share this report I wrote for school with a friend. I remember throughout college I kept my school files organized on Drive, but when I went to look for it nothing seemed right. The rule is that I have a folder for every class I had organized by semester and year and alot of them are gone. Classes I know I took I have no record of anything I did there.
It's kind of a bummer. I found some record of me writing this report, I wrote it in December 2020.. Has there been some files loss in Google Drive that I didn't know about? It's kind of a bummer that I can't look at these old things I did but, I'm just hoping for the best.
- www.neowin.net Google wants unsupported Windows 11 PC owners to ditch 10 and move to ChromeOS Flex
Many out there are running Windows 10 on hardware that is incapable of upgrading to 11 due to system requirements ineligibility. Google wants them to ditch Windows and move to ChromeOS Flex.
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Google Maps redesigning directions search, drops fullscreen UIs, more
Google Maps redesigning directions search, drops fullscreen UIs, more
https://9to5google.com/2024/02/07/google-maps-directions-search-redesign/
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samsung TVs losing access to Google assistant
mobilesyrup.com Google Assistant to stop working on Samsung TVs due to a policy changeSamsung is reportedly ending support for the Google Assistant on its smart TVs. According to the tech giant, it will stop supporting Google Assistant on its TVs from March 1st, 2024, due to a policy change from Google.
Gotta love how companies can remove features after you've bought them. Should be grounds for being eligible return imo
- blog.google What’s new with Android for cars at CES
The latest navigation, apps and entertainment updates for Android Auto and cars with Google built-in announced at CES 2024.
The latest navigation, apps and entertainment updates for Android Auto and cars with Google built-in announced at CES 2024.
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What Google announced at CES 2024
blog.google What we announced at CES 2024Do more with Google on your Android devices with new ways to help your devices work better together.
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When small businesses show up on your Google map when you are navigating somewhere else...?
How do they do it and how much does someone pay to get their name/business to show up on Google maps when a random googler is navigating to an entirely unrelated destination?
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Google voice really needs to increase their gif size limit
It’s currently limited to 2M which is really tough. I know I’m lucky that they haven’t outright killed google voice but I still think it would be reasonable to keep up with the times.
Maybe one day we’ll get proper support for video
- arstechnica.com Google announces April 2024 shutdown date for Google Podcasts
Does this mean YouTube Podcasts is ready for prime time?
Time to get out of Google Podcasts for anyone that is still using it.
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Cannot open a drive document from a person outside my organization because Workspace trial ended
I don't think I've ever had Workspace and yet when I try to open a drive document that was emailed to me, I get this: >We are sorry, but your 14-day trial for Google Workspace has ended. Please subscribe in order to continue using Google Workspace.
I just tried to open Drive from the same email account and I get the same message. This is a business account. Is there any resolution to this?
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2FA's "recovery" AI has my non-locked-out accounts inaccessible. I need anti-Google Google employees who will work with me to regain access with other substantial verification methods.
Long story short about how I naively and foolishly set up 2FA using that account's GVoice number for verifications and also knew nothing about needing to save GAuthenticator tokens externally, and later on, that device went permanently MIA:
With correct passwords and confirmation of the 2FA phone number (but no access to that 2FA phone), without any lockout imposed, and even though the 2FA account recovery security AI is devastatingly limited in its verification options, I verify the correct contact number and it forwards the SMS over, but I can't access the text until I use the back email — I can and therefore should be able to verify with other legitimate means one-on-one with live homeland (Palo Alto) personnel who understand the injustice of it and are willing to manually assist in the recovery process, even if perhaps off the radar.
The third-party overseas Google One paid subscription-based tech "support" personnel I've thoroughly exhausted are entirely unequipped to correct anything, they're totally incompetent, apathetic, and dismissive very slyly, barely within the parameters of their employee tech "support" scripted responses (pretty much the same shady behavior as most cellular company's overseas tech "support"). They aren't real tech support, nor even Google employees, and have no backend access like Google's unavailable homeland security team does. They even lie about scheduling a follow-up with a supervisor because there is no hierarchy of managerial phone support personnel. The important details are that they work for a third-party subcontractor that imposes a different employee policy in a country far from Palo Alto, California. The whole organization is a skeleton in a closet.There's just nothing there for customer support. Paid subscriptions to One are worse than worthless because those Filipinos can't afford to be moral in that role in that country.
I know this is possible because articles have been published, specifically by Ron Miller at Tech Crunch (see link below) stating privileged connection for members of the media who use their publicity to leverage justice — which has been evident for him in the form of relayed access to informal backend tech support personnel — through someone who knows someone at Google.
https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/22/that-time-i-got-locked-out-of-my-google-account-for-a-month/
>"On December 5th, I sent a note to a PR contact who I work with on Google-related news and I told him about my problem. He said he had gotten my case escalated and I should hear within 24 hours."
> "The Reset command never came."
>"On December 18th I contacted the poor beleaguered PR contact yet again and he wrote back. They wanted me to go through the process again except using my TechCrunch email instead of my other alternative. I pushed back that I already had an open case, but he suggested I do it and see it what happens."
>"Reunited and it feels so good I started the process entered my Techcrunch email and was simply asked to enter a new password and I was back in. After all that, that was all it took. I was ecstatic to have my digital life back, but I’m still shocked at a) how easy it was to lose access and b) how little recourse there was to get it back."
So this is possible, and given the multitudes of dissatisfied Google employees and ex-Google employees, especially in this dawn of the degoogled Fediverse, I envision real possibilities.
TL/DR So I'm here to request connection with anyone and everyone who can connect me to some real backend support before my account becomes scrubbed from the server.
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Verification I can provide: • Access to the GVoice number with its voicemail password. With that, it should be made possible to confirm an audio verification code sent as a voice message instead of the default SMS I cannot access — if an audio verification message could be generated by Google support personnel. Good idea really. • Password histories • Temporary security Codes which the recovery process was supposed to prompt but did not • Email addresses of incoming and outgoing emails ° Screenshots of Drive filesystem and filenames • Screenshot of IP address of connected Chromebook • Chromebook browser bookmarks
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Recordings and Documentation onhand:
• Emails and chats with Drive personnel
• Emails and chats with Google One's Philippines subcontractor which includes attachments proving the Chromebook that was connected to the account is still in my possession connected to an alternative Google account, and those emails include screenshots of the IP address of the Chromebook with the Google Play Services Security Codes, which collectively prove my ownership of the limbo account. They ignored it. The emails also include attachments of my photo ID. Bad idea, but I'd probably be fortunate if they abused that or jeopardized it anyway.
• Phone conversations with dozens of fully incompetent subcontracted, third-party Google One personnel based exclusively in the Philippines The recorded calls exhibit their discriminatory call center tactics and complete lack of any corrective resources are all whatsoever (not an embellishment).
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I want to know exactly who will present real password reset options because this is extremely important. I can't contact twenty years of contacts anymore or ever again until Google just grants a password reset to me.
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"Hey google, set the living room to 30%"
Only controls one of two blinds and doesn't change the lights at all.
Any way to make it control the lights by default? This command used to work until i installed smart blinds so it's deep in my family's muscle memory.
- gizmodo.com New Google Trial Docs May Explain Why Search Sucks So Bad Now
New documents in the Google antitrust trial show how tension between product and advertising teams could lead to degraded experiences for consumers.