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Google Fi survey wants feedback from international travelers

February 7, 2023
One of Google Fi’s original appeals was to frequent international travelers, and it’s now running a feedback survey geared at those users. As a Google Fi customer, we’d love to hear about your experience using Google Fi internationally. Your opinions and feedback are very much appreciated, as involvement in service feedback and improvements is key to better understanding your needs. Google…
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Google begins effort to run Chrome’s Blink engine on iOS in place of Apple’s WebKit

February 7, 2023
A new experimental effort in Chrome aims to run the proper Blink engine on iOS instead of Apple’s required WebKit engine. On iOS, all web browsers, including third-party ones like Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox, are required to build upon the same WebKit browser engine as Apple’s Safari browser. By comparison, Android (among many other platforms) allows any and all alternative browser…
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Google Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL get final update with February security patch

February 7, 2023
Google has updated the Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL for the final time, bringing the two phones up to the February 2023 security patch. First released in 2019, the Google Pixel 4 series received three years of monthly Android security updates and Pixel-specific improvements, including the full update to Android 13 last August. Traditionally, for flagship Pixel phones, Google releases one final update…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Google and Microsoft prepare dueling generative AI debuts

February 7, 2023
Check out all the on-demand sessions from the Intelligent Security Summit here. Google and Microsoft, in separate surprise announcements, confirmed they plan to offer dueling generative AI debuts over the next two days. Today, Google unveiled a new ChatGPT-like chatbot named Bard, as it races to catch up in the wake of ChatGPT’s massive viral success (growing faster than TikTok, apparently).
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