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YouTube is testing out two generative AI features for Premium users that will answer user questions about the video they’re watching and summarize a video’s comment section, Google

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Google users can now make plans through a new Maps update that will generate events and activities by typing “things to do” into the search bar.

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Google offers a few new ways to figure out where the hell that photo of Pope Francis in Balenciaga actually came from.

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Google says it will defend users in a legal setting if copyright issues arise with their generative artificial intelligence. It joins the ranks of other big tech players who have done the same.

“Put simply: if customers are challenged on copyright grounds, we will assume responsibility for the potential legal risks…

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Zoom is setting out to compete with Google and Microsoft by introducing Zoom Docs at its annual Zoomtopia 2023 event on Tuesday. Zoom Docs is the company’s own version of an AI-powered workspace that will provide users with AI capabilities to draft, edit, summarize, and include information from meeting discussions.

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A new investigation shows that YouTube has a bug that allows users to upload hardcore pornography to its platform. To make matters funnier, it isn’t exactly clear that YouTube knows how to fix the bug or that it is capable of taking down all the explicit material that has been uploaded.

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How many times have you watched a TikTok or YouTube short and thought “This is fun, but what if there were some strange pandas desperately trying to shove coffee from a morphing teacup into their nose or maw?” Great news.

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A North Carolina man’s family filed a lawsuit against Google on Tuesday, claiming the company was grossly negligent in allowing its Maps application to direct the man to drive off a collapsed bridge where he plunged to his death. Philip Paxson, a 47-year-old father of two was driving home from his daughter’s ninth…

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Google quietly removed the suggestion that the text of a website should be “written by people” from its guidance for site owners who want to do better in search results, a change first spotted by Search Engine Land.