Keeping you safe with Google Play Protect
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
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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Introducing the TensorFlow Research Cloud
Researchers require enormous computational resources to train the machine learning (ML) models that have delivered recent breakthroughs in
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
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News Feed FYI: New Updates to Reduce Clickbait Headlines
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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Using Machine Learning to Explore Neural Network Architecture
At Google, we have successfully applied deep learning models to many applications, from
To make this process of designing machine learning models much more accessible, we’ve been exploring ways to automate the design of machine learning models. Among many algorithms we’ve studied, evolutionary algorithms [1] and reinforcement learning algorithms [2] have shown great promise. But in this blog post, …Read More
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Efficient Smart Reply, now for Gmail
Last year we launched Smart Reply, a feature for
Each module processes inputs and provides transformed representations of those inputs on its outputs (which are, in turn, available for the next level). In the Smart Reply system, and the figure above, the repeated structure has two layers of hierarchy. The first makes each feature useful as a predictor of the final result, and the second combines these features. By definition, the second works at a more abstract representation and considers a wider timescale.
By …Read More
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The latest Twitter data for the UK #GE2017
On June 8th the UK will head to the polls for #GE2017. On a weekly basis we here at Twitter UK will be ploughing through the millions of related Tweets, looking at the main topics of debate, and seeing which MPs and parties are setting Twitter alight
8 Things to Do During Your First Week as a Social Media Manager
It’s your first day as a social media manager for a new company. Where do you even start?
This question is a common one, but one that often goes unasked as people are worried about seeming inexperienced or making a bad impression when they start a new job. Really, it’s a very reasonable question. Making a critical error would be far more costly than asking colleagues for help.
You can’t just jump in and start tweeting on behalf of a business you’re unfamiliar with. Every company has a different audience, different needs, and different goals for their social media presence. But you …Read More
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CSquared gets new investors to expand internet access in Africa
Three billion people around the world are now online, but access remains critically low in Africa, where only 10 percent of households can connect to the internet.
In 2011, a team of Googlers identified a major barrier to affordable, reliable broadband in Africa: the lack of fiber optic networks in large cities. This led to Project Link, an initiative to build world-class, high-speed urban fiber networks in Africa’s metropolises. In 2013 we folded these efforts under a new Google brand called CSquared with the aim of bringing other companies into the market, expanding access and lowering costs. …Read More
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WordPress 4.7.5 Security and Maintenance Release
WordPress 4.7.5 is now available. This is a security release for all previous versions and we strongly encourage you to update your sites immediately.
WordPress versions 4.7.4 and earlier are affected by six security issues:
- Insufficient redirect validation in the HTTP class. Reported by Ronni Skansing.
- Improper handling of post meta data values in the XML-RPC API. Reported by Sam Thomas.
- Lack of capability checks for post meta data in the XML-RPC API. Reported by Ben Bidner of the WordPress Security Team.
- A Cross Site Request Forgery (CRSF) vulnerability was discovered in the filesystem credentials dialog. Reported by Yorick Koster.
- A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability …Read More