Google project Dragonfly officially terminated
Project Dragonfly, the development of a Google search engine that could also be used in China, is not being further developed, ITPro knows. The search engine would censor themes such as democracy, human rights and free demonstrations.
After Google had been criticized for the development of the Drag... Read more
Google makes it harder for websites to detect Incognito Mode
Google has removed a method that allows websites to detect visitors who have used Chrome's Incognito Mode. From the end of July onwards, websites will no longer be able to see whether or not a visitor has this mode enabled.
Detecting the Incognito Mode was possible via the FileSystem API, writes ZDN... Read more
Gartner: Google’s cloud infrastructure is gaining ground
IT research firm Gartner reports that Google's cloud infrastructure services are becoming increasingly complete. As a result, the company is becoming higher and higher in the ranking of the newest Gartner Magic Quadrant.
The 2019 Magic Quadrant for infrastructure-as-a-service, published today, descr... Read more
Google’s new technology accelerates training AI models
Data Echoing, a new technique from Google, would dramatically accelerate the training of AI models in the early stages of the training process, reports VentureBeat. That's what scientists at Google Brain, Google's AI research department, report in a recent paper.
AI accelerators such as Intel's Nerv... Read more
OpenText and Google expand cloud collaboration
OpenText and Google Cloud broaden their collaboration with a new deal. The collaboration should allow the enterprise customers of the two companies to derive more value from their disaggregated data.
OpenText sells software for document management, record management, e-mail management and web conten... Read more
Google Cloud expands file storage service with acquisition Elastifile
Google has taken over storage provider Elastifile. The company provides file storage for enterprise-class applications running on scale in the cloud. According to an anonymous source of CTech, Google would pay 200 million dollars for the acquisition.
With the service of Elastifile it is possible fo... Read more
Chrome OS 75 available again for all Chromebooks
At the end of last week, Google blocked the latest Chrome OS update due to various problems. After a few days of tinkering, the problems should be gone.
Normally, Google launches Chrome first, and then releases Chrome OS two weeks later. This cycle was already interrupted with Chrome OS 75 by a lat... Read more
Google Chrome is going to block demanding ads
Google is working on a functionality for Chrome to block online ads that are too burdensome on the system.
The development of the feature, called Heavy Ad Intervention, started last month. Advertising frames that attract too many system resources are blocked.
With this intervention, advertisements ... Read more
AI predicts before purchase whether a user will return a product
Researchers from Google and Indian e-commerce company Myntra Designs have developed an Artificial Intelligence (AI) that can predict how likely it is that a customer will return a product before the purchase has taken place.
The researchers trained a machine learning model on a dataset of, among ot... Read more
Google wants its decades old Robots Exclusion Protocol to become an internet standard
Google wants its decades old Robots Exclusion Protocol (REP) to be certified as an official internet standard. To make that possible, it has made its robots.txt parser open source.
REP is a protocol that website owners can use to deny web crawlers and other clients access to a website, writes Silico... Read more