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Google Meet, the premium video-conferencing solution available to G Suite subscribers, will soon be made free for all users. Starting early May, free access will be rolled out progressively over the next few weeks. Anyone with a Google account and email address will then be able to join and create …

As part of an ongoing effort to reduce the environmental impact of cloud computing, Google announced it has developed a platform that maximizes the use of alternative energy sources at its sprawling network of datacenters. In a blog post, Google officials described the system as a “carbon-intelligent computing platform.” It …

(Reuters) — Google will allow business and education users on Gmail.com to directly take calls on its video conferencing tool Meet starting Thursday, a new feature being offered as the Alphabet unit seeks to capitalize on security and other concerns with rival services. The integration of Meet with e-mail is …

A team of Google researchers recently detailed a framework called SimCLR, which improves previous approaches to self-supervised learning, a family of techniques for converting an unsupervised learning problem (i.e., a problem in which AI models train on unlabeled data) into a supervised one by creating labels from unlabeled data sets. …

Google today open-sourced Pigweed, a collection of microcontroller modules designed for developers using 32-bit devices. They’re intended to enable faster and more reliable development on microcontrollers — i.e., the small computers embedded within single circuit chips. Assuming it works as advertised, Pigweed could accelerate the development of hardware in a …

Members of the Google Brain team and Google AI this week open-sourced EfficientDet, an AI tool that achieves state-of-the-art object detection while using less compute. Creators of the system say it also achieves faster performance when used with CPUs or GPUs than other popular objection detection models like YOLO or …

Google has announced a handful of Android-related security features today as the company looks to plug any critical gaps in its operating system, which is used by billions of smartphone users around the world. More specifically, the internet giant is looking to better safeguard the Google Accounts most “at risk” …

Google today announced machine images, a new type of Compute Engine resource in Google Cloud that contains all the information required to create, back up, or restore a virtual machine. The company claims it’ll reduce the time network admins and data scientists spend managing their cloud environments by eliminating extra …

Google Glass might not have made the best impression when it first came out years ago, but the concept of a glasses-sized computer with a small screen, camera, and speaker had promise, particularly for specific applications. Today, Envision is debuting Envision Glasses, an AI-powered augmentation of Google Glass that can …