25+ Google Docs tricks you're not using enough (no extensions required)

From editable PDFs to automatic translations, Google Docs has a long list of features many people have never used.
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Google Introduces Speech-to-Retrieval (S2R) Approach that Maps a Spoken Query Directly to an Embedding and Retrieves Information without First Converting Speech to Text

In the traditional cascade modeling approach, automatic speech recognition (ASR) first produces a single text string, which is then passed to retrieval. Small transcription errors can change query ...
The New York Times

U.S. v. Google: What Each Side Argued for Fixing Google’s Ad Tech Monopoly

The Justice Department and Google wrapped up a two-week hearing that could have a major effect on online advertising. By David McCabe Megan Mineiro Emmett Lindner and Cecilia Kang David McCabe, Megan ...
Reuters

Google says hackers are sending extortion emails to corporate executives

WASHINGTON, Oct 1 (Reuters) - Alphabet's (GOOGL.O), opens new tab Google said hackers are sending extortion emails to an unspecified number of executives from various companies, claiming to have ...
BGR

AI Mode Knows When You Want Images Instead Of Text, And It Might Be A Game-Changing Google Search Feature

The AI Mode experience is easily one of the best AI products Google rolled out to Google Search. It's like having a chatbot (think ChatGPT or Gemini) in a dedicated tab in Google Search ready to ...
Search Engine Roundtable

Google Large Sponsored Results Grouping Label Rolling Out To More

Back in May, we covered how Google was testing a new sponsored results label that placed a few ads beneath it, as opposed to labeling each and every ad as sponsored. Well, that version seems to be ...
Nature

The Moon is rusting — thanks to ‘wind’ blown all the way from Earth

The Moon is rusting — and it’s Earth’s fault. Scientists have found that oxygen particles blown from Earth to the Moon can turn lunar minerals into haematite, also known as rust 1. The discovery adds ...
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Photoshop: How to Wrap Text Around Any Shape!

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Photoshop Tutorial: How to Make a Presidential Button and wrap TEXT around a Circle.

Photoshop tutorial showing how to make a custom, well-worn, Presidential button including wrapping text around a circular path.
TheWrap

Google Ordered to Share Search Data With ‘Qualified Competitors’ to Remedy Antitrust Ruling, Keep Chrome

A federal judge ordered Google to hand over its search results and data to rival companies in a landmark antitrust case Tuesday, following the court’s ruling that the tech company’s online search ...
Space.com

Watch a burnt and battered Starship splash down in Indian Ocean to wrap up historic Flight 10 (video, photos)

New videos give us multiple angles of Ship's Flight 10 splashdown, and they show us the toll that reentry took on the vehicle. Spectacular new footage gives us great looks at the final moments of the ...
TechCrunch

You can now talk to Google Photos to make your edits

At Wednesday’s Made by Google event, the company announced new features in Google Photos that will allow users to ask the app to edit their pictures for them. The functionality will launch first on ...