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Aujourd’hui — 18 mai 2024Flux principal

Le Google Pixel 7a baisse de prix et s’accompagne d’un chargeur

18 mai 2024 à 08:23

[Deal du jour] Si vous comptiez changer de smartphone pour un modèle performant à un prix doux, le Pixel 7a est le bon choix. Il s’accompagne de plus d'un chargeur 30 W.

Hier — 17 mai 2024Flux principal

Pourquoi Android n’est plus la priorité de Google

17 mai 2024 à 13:49

Pour la première fois en 15 ans, la nouvelle version d’Android n’a pas été mise en avant pendant la keynote inaugurale de la Google I/O. Le géant du web a préféré une annonce plus sobre, le lendemain, avec une liste de nouveautés extrêmement réduite.

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Revolutionary New Google Feature Hidden Under 'More' Tab Shows Links To Web Pages

Par : msmash
16 mai 2024 à 18:01
An anonymous reader shares a report: After launching a feature that adds more AI junk than ever to search results, Google is experimenting with a radical new feature that lets users see only the results they were looking for, in the form of normal text links. As in, what most people actually use Google for. "We've launched a new 'Web' filter that shows only text-based links, just like you might filter to show other types of results, such as images or videos," the official Google Search Liaison Twitter account, run by Danny Sullivan, posted on Tuesday. The option will appear at the top of search results, under the "More" option. "We've added this after hearing from some that there are times when they'd prefer to just see links to web pages in their search results, such as if they're looking for longer-form text documents, using a device with limited internet access, or those who just prefer text-based results shown separately from search features," Sullivan wrote. "If you're in that group, enjoy!" Searching Google has become a bloated, confusing experience for users in the last few years, as it's gradually started prioritizing advertisements and sponsored results, spammy affiliate content, and AI-generated web pages over authentic, human-created websites.

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On a essayé Starline, la machine à hologrammes de Google qui téléporte l’interlocuteur en face de nous

16 mai 2024 à 07:21

Dévoilé pour la première fois en 2021, le projet Starline utilise un écran 3D géant, utilisable sans lunettes, pour donner l'impression qu'une personne est en face de soi. Il s'agit de la démonstration holographique la plus impressionnante que nous avons vue.

On a visité le nouveau campus de Google (qui vend des produits dérivés rigolos)

16 mai 2024 à 07:09

En face du Googleplex à Mountain View, un nouveau bâtiment a fait son apparition. Gradient Canopy, comme Google l'appelle, abrite un « Visitor Center » à destination des visiteurs de la Silicon Valley, avec plusieurs espaces communautaires et un magasin de produits dérivés.

Google Opens Up Its Smart Home To Everyone

Par : BeauHD
15 mai 2024 à 22:00
Google is opening up API access to its Google Home smart home platform, allowing app developers to access over 600 million connected devices and tap into the Google Home automation engine. In addition, Google announced that it'll be turning Google TVs into Google Home hubs and Matter controllers. The Verge reports: The Home APIs can access any Matter device or Works with Google Home device, and allows developers to build their own experiences using Google Home devices and automations into their apps on both iOS and Android. This is a significant move for Google in opening up its smart home platform, following shutting down its Works with Nest program back in 2019. [...] The Home APIs are already available to Google's early access partners, and Google is opening up a waitlist for any developer to sign up today. "We are opening up access on a rolling basis so they can begin building and testing within their apps," Anish Kattukaran, head of product at Google Home and Nest, told The Verge. "The first apps using the home APIs will be able to publish to the Play and App stores in the fall." The access is not just limited to smart home developers. In the blog post, Matt Van Der Staay, engineering director at Google Home, said the Home APIs could be used to connect smart home devices to fitness or delivery apps. "You can build a complex app to manage any aspect of a smart home, or simply integrate with a smart device to solve pain points -- like turning on the lights automatically before the food delivery driver arrives." The APIs allow access to most devices connected to Google Home and to the Google Home structure, letting apps control and manage devices such as Matter light bulbs or the Nest Learning Thermostat. They also leverage Google Home's automation signals, such as motion from sensors, an appliance's mode changing, or Google's Home and Away mode, which uses various signals to determine if a home is occupied. [...] What's also interesting here is that developers will be able to use the APIs to access and control any device that works with the new smart home standard Matter and even let people set up Matter devices directly in their app. This should make it easier for them to implement Matter into their apps, as it will add devices to the Google Home fabric, so they won't have to develop their own. In addition, Google announced that it's vastly expanding its Matter infrastructure by turning Google TVs into Google Home hubs and Matter controllers. Any app using the APIs would need a Google hub in a customer's home in order to control Matter devices locally. Later this year, Chromecast with Google TV, select panel TVs with Google TV running Android 14 or higher, and some LG TVs will be upgraded to become Google Home hubs. Additionally, Kattukaran said Google will upgrade all of its existing home hubs -- which include Nest Hub (second-gen), Nest Hub Max, and Google Wifi -- with a new ability called Home runtime. "With this update, all hubs for Google Home will be able to directly route commands from any app built with Home APIs (such as the Google Home app) to a customer's Matter device locally, when the phone is on the same Wi-Fi network as the hub," said Kattukaran. This means you should see "significant latency improvements using local control via a hub for Google Home," he added.

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Android 15 : on connaît enfin les nouveautés de la mise à jour

15 mai 2024 à 17:23

Dossier secret, notifications masquées, nouvelles API… Android 15 introduit quelques nouveautés dans l'univers Google, tout en restant modeste dans ses intentions. La seconde version bêta arrive aujourd'hui.

Petites brèves : UUID, FSF, opendata, JO, linux, grafana, RoR, Docker et d'autres en vrac

Déversons un peu ici la veille du moment pour libérer des onglets ailleurs et partager des liens mais aussi des sources : il s’agit bien évidemment de liens en rapport avec les thématiques du site (en l’occurrence dans cette fournée on trouvera logiciel libre, opendata, développement et vie privée par exemple), et ils sont plutôt variés ; les sources sont des sites web, des lettres d’actus et des réseaux sociaux (dans le cas présent, tous arrivés jusqu’à moi via des flux RSS/Atom), et c’est aussi une manière de les partager et de vous inviter à les suivre aussi. Dans la suite de la dépêche, on parlera donc en vrac UUID, FSF, opendata, JO, linux, grafana, RoR, Docker et bien d’autres choses encore.

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    Google Will Use Gemini To Detect Scams During Calls

    Par : BeauHD
    15 mai 2024 à 10:00
    At Google I/O on Tuesday, Google previewed a feature that will alert users to potential scams during a phone call. TechCrunch reports: The feature, which will be built into a future version of Android, uses Gemini Nano, the smallest version of Google's generative AI offering, which can be run entirely on-device. The system effectively listens for "conversation patterns commonly associated with scams" in real time. Google gives the example of someone pretending to be a "bank representative." Common scammer tactics like password requests and gift cards will also trigger the system. These are all pretty well understood to be ways of extracting your money from you, but plenty of people in the world are still vulnerable to these sorts of scams. Once set off, it will pop up a notification that the user may be falling prey to unsavory characters. No specific release date has been set for the feature. Like many of these things, Google is previewing how much Gemini Nano will be able to do down the road sometime. We do know, however, that the feature will be opt-in.

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    On a essayé le projet Astra : vivement le retour des Google Glass !

    15 mai 2024 à 07:42

    À Mountain View, Numerama a pu obtenir des informations exclusives sur « Project Astra », la nouvelle expérimentation de DeepMind qui offre à l'intelligence artificielle Gemini des yeux et des oreilles. La réponse de Google à ChatGPT Voice est plutôt encourageante.

    L’IA obsède Google : à sa conférence I/O, il en a parlé 121 fois, et d’Android 21 fois

    14 mai 2024 à 20:21

    Google l'admet : l'IA l'obsède. À la fin de sa conférence annuelle I/O, le patron de l'entreprise américaine a fait une plaisanterie en affichant le nombre de fois où l'acronyme IA a été prononcé. La place occupée par l'intelligence artificielle est telle dans la tête de Google que cela a fait une victime : Android. Le système d'exploitation n'a presque pas été évoqué, et son actualité reléguée au second plan.

    Vous n’avez rien suivi à la Google I/O ? Le résumé de toutes les annonces est dans cet article

    14 mai 2024 à 19:52

    Numerama est en direct de Mountain View pour la Google I/O, la grande conférence annuelle de Google. L'édition 2024 a été dédiée à l'intelligence artificielle, avec des mises à jour majeures de Gemini et la transformation du moteur de recherche Google. Vous trouverez dans cet article les grandes annonces de Google.

    Google Search Will Now Show AI-Generated Answers To Millions By Default

    Par : msmash
    14 mai 2024 à 18:10
    Google is shaking up Search. On Tuesday, the company announced big new AI-powered changes to the world's dominant search engine at I/O, Google's annual conference for developers. From a report: With the new features, Google is positioning Search as more than a way to simply find websites. Instead, the company wants people to use its search engine to directly get answers and help them with planning events and brainstorming ideas. "[With] generative AI, Search can do more than you ever imagined," wrote Liz Reid, vice president and head of Google Search, in a blog post. "So you can ask whatever's on your mind or whatever you need to get done -- from researching to planning to brainstorming -- and Google will take care of the legwork." Google's changes to Search, the primary way that the company makes money, are a response to the explosion of generative AI ever since OpenAI's ChatGPT released at the end of 2022. [...] Starting today, Google will show complete AI-generated answers in response to most search queries at the top of the results page in the US. Google first unveiled the feature a year ago at Google I/O in 2023, but so far, anyone who wanted to use the feature had to sign up for it as part of the company's Search Labs platform that lets people try out upcoming features ahead of their general release. Google is now making AI Overviews available to hundreds of millions of Americans, and says that it expects it to be available in more countries to over a billion people by the end of the year.

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    Tout savoir sur Google One AI Premium, le nouvel abonnement qui arrive en France

    14 mai 2024 à 17:59

    Seulement commercialisé aux États-Unis pour l'instant, l'abonnement Google One AI Premium, qui permet d'essayer les dernières versions de Gemini (avec 2 To de stockage et un accès anticipé aux services), arrive en France. Il est commercialisé au tarif de 21,99 euros par mois, avec un accès au modèle Gemini 1.5 Pro.

    C’est la fin des recherches Google que nous connaissons

    14 mai 2024 à 17:56

    Après un an de test aux États-Unis, Google étend à tous les utilisateurs américains la fonction « AI Overviews », qui résume la première page des résultats de son moteur de recherche avec l'intelligence artificielle. Les sites web, anciennement mis en avant, sont relégués à la seconde place.

    Project Astra : Google répond à ChatGPT-4o avec un assistant capable de parler et de voir

    14 mai 2024 à 17:33

    Développé par Google DeepMind, « Project Astra » est une démonstration du futur des assistants intelligents. L'objectif de Google est de concevoir un outil multimodal capable d'écrire, de parler et de voir. Certaines fonctions seront intégrées à l'app Gemini.

    Google I/O 2024 : on est en direct de l’annonce d’Astra, Gemini 1.5 et Android 15

    14 mai 2024 à 17:04

    Numerama est en direct de Mountain View pour la Google I/O, la grande conférence annuelle de Google. L'édition 2024 devrait être dédiée à l'intelligence artificielle, avec des mises à jour majeures de Gemini et la transformation du moteur de recherche. Dans ce live blog, vous trouverez les annonces commentées en temps réel.

    Apple and Google Introduce Alerts for Unwanted Bluetooth Tracking

    Par : msmash
    13 mai 2024 à 22:00
    Apple and Google have launched a new industry standard called "Detecting Unwanted Location Trackers" to combat the misuse of Bluetooth trackers for stalking. Starting Monday, iPhone and Android users will receive alerts when an unknown Bluetooth device is detected moving with them. The move comes after numerous cases of trackers like Apple's AirTags being used for malicious purposes. Several Bluetooth tag companies have committed to making their future products compatible with the new standard. Apple and Google said they will continue collaborating with the Internet Engineering Task Force to further develop this technology and address the issue of unwanted tracking.

    Read more of this story at Slashdot.

    Google Bringing Project Starline's 'Magic Window' Experience To Real Video Calls

    Par : msmash
    13 mai 2024 à 15:24
    Google announced on Monday that it is preparing to bring its experimental Project Starline videoconferencing technology to the market. The company is collaborating with HP to integrate the system, which creates 3D projections of participants, into existing platforms like Google Meet and Zoom. The move aims to make the technology more accessible for offices and conference rooms, potentially transforming the way people communicate and collaborate remotely.

    Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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