Category: Google

Google Play is letting gamers earn in-app items if they watch ads

[ad_1] This practice is already a common way for developers to profit when gamers don’t want to pay real cash, but as an official Google Play offering, Rewarded Products should make life easier for developers. It’s also a way for Google to compete with similar third-party tools. It’s available now in beta, and it can […]

Google’s Duplex AI now makes reservations in 43 states

[ad_1] If a restaurant you’d like to dine at uses an online booking service that’s partnered with Google, the AI will try to book a table for you that way. Otherwise, it’ll call the restaurant to see if the maître d’ can fit in your party. Assistant will then send you a phone notification, email […]

Google tests shoppable ads in image searches

[ad_1] The test is currently visible only to a “small percentage” of users who search for certain broader topics, such as home offices and abstract art. Whether or not it expands will likely depend on early results. With that said, it’s hard to see Google turning down shoppable images. If you’re already using a general […]

Google Podcasts is finally sifting through individual episodes

[ad_1] Reneau-Wedeen also vowed that other discovery features would come to Podcasts. Google had previously talked about using episode transcriptions to find keywords within episodes, and populating general Google search results with podcasts in the same way that you’d see video features. Although there’s no guarantee you’ll see those features soon, you may have more […]

Second-generation Glass Enterprise Edition will use USB-C

[ad_1] As 9to5Google reported in November, the new Glass contains Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 710 and runs Android Oreo. The new generation will be be 5G-capable, in addition to using LTE and Bluetooth 5.0 for connectivity — this should make it the first version with a cellular chip on board The camera on the new generation of […]

Google says it was paying men less than women in some jobs

[ad_1] Following the results of its annual pay equity study, Google has given 10,677 employees $9.7 million in additional compensation. It’s not clear how many men received pay increases. The figures increased massively from last year, when Google paid $270,000 to narrow the wage gap for 228 workers. As part of the study, Google looked […]