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Google I/O: New Ways to Put Customers at the Center of Your Apps and Payments

by | May 17, 2017 | Digital Pulse | 0 comments

I/O is a magical time at Google. Every year, thousands of developers gather in Google’s backyard to share new product ideas and learn about our latest innovations in computing.

We’re meeting at an exciting time for the developer community. It’s a time when consumers have more choices than ever before—like where to shop, what to watch, which games to play and how to communicate with friends and family. Your product needs to stand out. You need tools to help your business grow. And you need to make sure your users are happy.

We think we can help.
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Keeping you safe with Google Play Protect

by | May 17, 2017 | Digital Pulse | 0 comments

Whether you’re checking email for work, playing Pokémon Go with your kids or watching your favorite movie, confidence in the security of your device and data is important. And since day one, Android has been built with security in mind. As we’ve grown, so have our security services, which constantly protect the 2 billion active Android devices globally.

We know you want to be confident that your Android devices are safe and secure, which is why we are doubling down on our commitment to security. Today we introduced Google Play Protect—Google’s comprehensive security services for Android, providing powerful …Read More

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Android: celebrating a big milestone together with you

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When I started working at Google in early 2007, it was before Android, before iOS. Mobile was still niche. And while many of us had a sense that mobile was going to be big, I’m not sure we really realized just how big it was going to get. Fast forward to today, and there are now 2 billion monthly active Android devices globally. This is an extraordinarily humbling milestone—and it’s the largest reach of any computing platform of its kind. Today at Google I/O, we celebrated that milestone and showcased a number of ways we’re working to make …Read More

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The TensorFlow Research Cloud offers researchers the following benefits:

  • Access to Google’s all-new Cloud TPUs that accelerate both training and inference
  • Up to 180 teraflops of floating-point performance per Cloud TPU
  • 64 GB of ultra-high-bandwidth memory per Cloud TPU
  • Familiar TensorFlow programming interfaces

You can sign up here to request to be notified when the TensorFlow Research Cloud application process opens, and you can optionally share more information about your computational needs. We plan …Read More

Source:: Introducing the TensorFlow Research Cloud

News Feed FYI: New Updates to Reduce Clickbait Headlines

by | May 17, 2017 | Digital Pulse | 0 comments

By Arun Babu, Engineer, Annie Liu, Engineer, and Jordan Zhang, Engineer

People tell us they don’t like stories that are misleading, sensational or spammy. That includes clickbait headlines that are designed to get attention and lure visitors into clicking on a link. In an effort to support an informed community, we’re always working to determine what stories might have clickbait headlines so we can show them less often.

Last year we made an update to News Feed to reduce stories from sources that consistently post clickbait headlines that withhold and exaggerate information. Today, we are making three updates that build …Read More

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