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Additional data protection in Gemini (gemini.google.com) when using a school account is now available

What’s changing Earlier this year, we brought Gemini for Google Workspace to education communities with two new paid add-ons. At that time, we announced that educators and students 18 years and older who did not have a Gemini Education license wou...

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30 Aug 2024

Preparing for the U.S. elections in November

As Election Day nears, here’s an update on our latest initiatives, tools and safeguards, building on our existing efforts in the U.S.

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30 Aug 2024

Supporting AVIF in Google Search

Over the recent years, AVIF has become one of the most commonly used image formats on the web.
We're happy to announce that AVIF is now a supported file type
in Google Search, for Google Images as well as any place that ...

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30 Aug 2024

Android Studio Koala Feature Drop is Stable!

Posted by Sandhya Mohan, Product Manager, Android Studio

Today, we are thrilled to announce the stable release of Android Studio Koala Feature Drop (2024.1.2)!🐨

Earlier this year, we announced that every Android Studio animal version will have ...

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29 Aug 2024

A new data center in Latin America

We’re announcing the construction of our new data center in Canelones, Uruguay — our second data center in Latin America.

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29 Aug 2024

Gmail Q&A: A new way of searching your inbox with Gemini on Android devices

What’s changingA few months ago, we announced the general availability of Gemini in the side panel of Gmail, which not only allows users to summarize and suggest responses to email threads, but also includes using Gemini in Gmail on web to ask question...

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29 Aug 2024

State-backed attackers and commercial surveillance vendors repeatedly use the same exploits

We’re sharing an update on suspected state-backed attacker APT29 and the use of exploits identical to those used by Intellexa and NSO.

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29 Aug 2024

18 NGOs tackling sustainability challenges in Asia-Pacific

The APAC Sustainability Seed Fund 2.0, supported by Google.org and the Asian Development Bank (ADB), received $5 million USD in funding for 18 local sustainability-focus…

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29 Aug 2024

5 ways Gemini can help students study smarter

These new Gemini features help students learn new material and study smarter.

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29 Aug 2024

Customize Gemini (gemini.google.com) for your specific needs with Gems

What’s changing At Google I/O 2024, we pre-announced Gems, custom AI experts that you can build across a variety of topics. In a few easy steps, you can describe what you want your Gem to do and how you’d like it to respond — Gems will help ...

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28 Aug 2024

5 AI tools to explore and enjoy your vacation

Learn more about AI tools from Google for exploring while you travel.

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28 Aug 2024

New in Gemini: Custom Gems and improved image generation with Imagen 3

New updates for Gemini include custom Gems and improved image generation with Imagen 3.

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28 Aug 2024

Google Meet provides consolidated email for all meeting artifacts

What’s changingCurrently, Google Meet sends an email for each type of meeting artifact initiated in a meeting, including meeting recordings, meeting transcripts, Gemini notes with “take notes for me,” live streams and more. Going forward, you’ll receiv...

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28 Aug 2024

7 ways to keep up with the Paralympic Games Paris 2024 on Google and YouTube

Keep up with the 2024 Paralympics across Search, Maps, YouTube, Google TV and more.

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28 Aug 2024

Instagram’s early adoption of Ultra HDR transforms user experience in only 3 months

Posted by Mayuri Khinvasara Khabya – Developer Relations Engineer, Google; in partnership with Bismark Ito - Android Developer, Rex Jin - Android Developer and Bei Yi - Partner Engineering

Meta’s Instagram is one of the world's most popular soc...

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27 Aug 2024

The Recorder app on Pixel sees a 24% boost in engagement with Gemini Nano-powered feature

Posted by Terence Zhang – Developer Relations Engineer and Kristi Bradford - Product Manager

Google Pixel’s Recorder app allows people to record, transcribe, save, and share audio. To make it easier for users to manage and revisit their recordin...

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27 Aug 2024

#TheAndroidShow: diving into the latest from Made by Google, including wearables, Foldable, Gemini and more!

Posted by Anirudh Dewani, Director – Android Developer Relations

We just dropped our summer episode of #TheAndroidShow, on YouTube and on developer.android.com, where we unpacked all of the goodies coming out of this month’s Made by Google event ...

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27 Aug 2024

“Take notes for me” in Google Meet is now available

What’s changingToday, we’re pleased to announce that “take notes for me” will begin rolling out to Google Meet for select Google Workspace customers. “Take notes for me” is an AI-powered feature in Google Meet that automatically takes notes, allowing y...

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27 Aug 2024

Upload additional types of documents to Gemini (gemini.google.com) for insights and analysis

What’s changing Beginning today, Google Workspace users with a Gemini Business, Enterprise, Education or Education Premium license can now upload a variety of files from Google Drive or locally from your device into Gemini (gemini.google.com):&nbs...

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27 Aug 2024

4 ways we’re helping retailers move fast this holiday season

At Google's Think Retail event, we'll share new tools to help retailers make quick decisions during the holiday, from jumping on trends quickly to simplifying their perf…

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27 Aug 2024

Reply to emails in Gmail faster on Android devices

What’s changing We’re making it easier to respond to emails in the Gmail app on your Android device with a new quick reply experience. Previously, there were only options to Reply, Reply all or Forward a message when in the conversation view ...

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26 Aug 2024

Business Starter customers will soon have access to shared drives

What’s changingLast year, we announced that we’re updating the storage model in Business Starter from per-user storage to pooled storage. Today, we’re excited to share that organizations with Business Starter will officially have access to shared drive...

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26 Aug 2024

Picture-in-picture in Google Meet will now open automatically when switching tabs

Update[September 12, 2024]: We have updated the rollout timelines for this feature. See the Rollout section below for more details.What’s changing Have you ever lost your video screen after switching to another tab? Google Meet’s picture-in-p...

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26 Aug 2024

Automate your workflows on Google Chat with IFTTT and UKG Flow integrations

What’s changing Following the announcement at Google Cloud Next 2024, we’re excited to introduce Google Chat integrations with IFTTT and UKG Flow. The IFTTT integration enables users to automate Chat with 1,000+ of today's most popular apps. ...

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26 Aug 2024

Google Workspace Updates Weekly Recap – August 23, 2024

1 New updateUnless otherwise indicated, the features below are available to all Google Workspace customers, and are fully launched or in the process of rolling out. Rollouts should take no more than 15 business days to complete if launching to both&nbs...

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23 Aug 2024

Adding 16 KB Page Size to Android

Posted by Steven Moreland – Staff Software Engineer, Sandeep Patil – Principal Software Engineer

A page is the granularity at which an operating system manages memory. Most CPUs today support a 4 KB page size and so the Android OS and applica...

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23 Aug 2024

New host controls for add-ons in Google Meet

What’s changing We’re giving meeting hosts and co-hosts the ability to control the use of add-ons during meetings* with a new setting. We hope this new setting helps keep meetings on task and productive by allowing hosts to control access to add-o...

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23 Aug 2024

8 things I tried during my first week with the Pixel 9

Google Pixel 9: First impressions of the new Pixel 9, on shelves now.

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22 Aug 2024

Find the best Google services with Google Essentials on Windows PCs

Google Essentials is a new app that makes it easier for you to discover and install Google services when setting up a new PC.

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22 Aug 2024

6 design details in the new Pixel devices

Learn more about the design process behind the new Pixel 9 phones, Pixel Watch 3 and Pixel Buds Pro 2.

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22 Aug 2024

Search Ads 360 adds support for Microsoft automated bidding

Google Search Ads 360 now supports Microsoft automated bidding, which can be included in bid strategies powered by Google AI.

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22 Aug 2024

Third-party smart chip resource creation now available in Google Docs

What’s changing Last year, we introduced the ability to pull rich data from apps directly into Google Docs with third-party smart chips. Today, we’re taking this a step further by enabling third-party partners, such as Lucidspark, Lucidchart, and ...

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22 Aug 2024

Google earns Gold in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme

Google earns Gold in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme

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22 Aug 2024

Google Meet increases ultra-low latency live streaming support to 100,000 viewers in distributed audiences

What’s changingFor select Google Workspace editions*, we’re pleased to announce that the Google Meet ultra-low latency viewing experience for live streamed meetings will now support up to 100,000 viewers. This gives organizations the flexibility to rea...

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21 Aug 2024

Announcing v202408 of the Google Ad Manager API

We're pleased to announce that v202408 of the Google Ad Manager API is available starting today, August 21, 2024. This release brings support for setting contextual targeting with ContentLabelTargeting and VerticalTargeting. It also adds AdsTxtService...

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21 Aug 2024

Refine emails faster with updates to Help me write in Gmail

What’s changing Building upon our popular Help me write feature in Gmail and the recent launch of the summarization feature in the Gmail mobile app, we’re excited to introduce two new Gemini in Gmail updates to help you draft emails even faster:&n...

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20 Aug 2024

Tune in for our summer episode of #TheAndroidShow on August 27!

Posted by Anirudh Dewani – Director, Android Developer Relations

In just a few days, on Tuesday, August 27 at 10AM PT, we’ll be dropping our summer episode of #TheAndroidShow, on YouTube and on developer.android.com. In this quarterly...

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20 Aug 2024

#WeArePlay | Meet the founders turning their passions into thriving businesses

Posted by Robbie McLachlan, Developer Marketing

Our celebration of app and game businesses continues with #WeArePlay stories from founders around the world. Today, we’re spotlighting the people who turned their passions into thriving business...

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20 Aug 2024

Introducing Student Groups in Google Classroom

What’s changing We’re excited to introduce a new feature in Google Classroom that enables teachers to create groups of students to make assigning differentiated content easier. This update will allow them to quickly assign classwork to pre-defined...

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20 Aug 2024

New ways we’re advancing our clean energy commitments in the U.S.

We’re announcing new collaborations with Energix Renewables and Swift Current Energy to support our clean energy commitments in the U.S.

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20 Aug 2024

How we made our hardware packaging 100% plastic-free

Our packaging for Pixel, Fitbit and Nest devices is 100% plastic free. Here’s how we made beautiful packaging that’s easy to recycle.

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20 Aug 2024

9 new things about the Nest Learning Thermostat

The new Nest Learning Thermostat is on shelves today.

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20 Aug 2024

Authorized Buyers OpenRTB migration reminder, and updates to blocked categories

The Google Real-time Bidding protocol is deprecated and will sunset on February 15th, 2025. As previously announced, Google plans to no longer send bid requests to endpoints configured to use that protocol after it is sunset.

Additionally, starting ...

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19 Aug 2024

This AI model is helping researchers detect disease based on coughs

Here's how our bioacoustic foundation model, Health Acoustic Representations (HeAR), may help improve health outcomes for people across India.

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19 Aug 2024

Expanding multi-party-approvals to domain-wide-delegation actions

What’s changingEarlier this year, we announced multi-party approvals for sensitive actions taken in the admin console, specifically requiring one admin to approve actions taken by another. At launch, these protections applied to several settings, inclu...

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19 Aug 2024

Google Workspace Updates Weekly Recap – August 16, 2024

2 New updatesUnless otherwise indicated, the features below are available to all Google Workspace customers, and are fully launched or in the process of rolling out. Rollouts should take no more than 15 business days to complete if launching to both&nb...

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16 Aug 2024

SOC compliance for Gemini

What’s changing In the era of generative AI, building helpful, secure products that give users choice and control over their data remains Google’s core principle. When commercial customers adopt Gemini for Google Workspace they get the same robust...

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16 Aug 2024

Save time managing your Meet Hardware fleet with new device filters

What’s changing As we continue to make improvements for managing Meet Hardware fleets, we’re pleased to announce eighteen additional filters in the Admin console, which include:
Alert silence expiration timeBoot modeCameraChrome versionContent ca...

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15 Aug 2024

View and structure Google Form data as a table in Google Sheets

What’s changingWe're introducing a new feature that enables users to more easily view and structure their Google Form data in Sheets. Starting today, when a user initiates the creation of a new sheet using their Forms data, Sheets will automatical...

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15 Aug 2024

New ways to connect to the web with AI Overviews

We’re bringing AI Overviews to six new countries, sharing more on our work to connect people to the web, and introducing updates for AI Overviews in Search Labs.

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15 Aug 2024

Google Ads API v15 sunset reminder

Google Ads API v15 will sunset on September 25, 2024. After this date, all v15 API requests will begin to fail. Migrate to a newer version prior to September 25, 2024 to ensure your API access is unaffected.

Here are some resources to help you with th...

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15 Aug 2024

4 ways to shop for back to school on Google

Google Shopping offers new tips for back to school shopping.

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15 Aug 2024

How we’re strengthening online safety in Singapore

At our second Safer with Google event, we touched on several of our security initiatives to keep Singaporeans safe in an AI-driven future.

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15 Aug 2024

What to know about our August 2024 core update

This post announces the August 2024 core update to Google Search.
This update is designed to continue our work to improve the quality of our search results by
showing more content that people find genuinely useful and less content th...

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15 Aug 2024

Iranian backed group steps up phishing campaigns against Israel, U.S.

Google’s Threat Analysis Group shares insights on APT42, an Iranian government-backed threat actor.

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14 Aug 2024

New video calling features coming to Google Meet

An updated calling experience and new features in Google Meet make connecting with friends and family more fun.

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14 Aug 2024

Indie Games Fund: Google Play’s $2m fund in Latin America is back

Posted by Daniel Trócoli – Google Play Partnerships

Back again for 2024, we’re opening up applications for Google Play’s Indie Games Fund in Latin America - as part of our commitment to helping developers of all sizes grow on Google Play. Check o...

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14 Aug 2024

3 Trending Now updates to help you keep up with the latest trends

We've rolled out a new Trending Now experience with more local and up-to-date trends, and expanding it to over 100 countries.

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14 Aug 2024

10 years of Classroom: What we’ve learned, and what’s to come

Google Classroom celebrates its 10th anniversary with new features and tools for teachers.

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14 Aug 2024

Use intelligent suggestions for table conversion in Google Sheets

Update[August 20, 2024] We have paused rollout for this feature while we evaluate performance and quality. We will provide an update once rollout resumes.What’s changingFollowing the introduction of tables in Google Sheets and the recently announc...

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13 Aug 2024