[ad_1] Brands use a mix of tools like influencer marketing, paid partnerships, visually appealing content creation, and giveaways to drive sales and increase brand visibility. Social commerce is poised for dynamic growth, with some estimating a 10-fold rise by 2030, but building digital trust and inspiring consumer confidence around product authenticity is what will … Read more
[ad_1] OpenAI and Google trained their AI models on text transcribed from YouTube videos, potentially violating creators’ copyrights, according to . The report, which describes the lengths OpenAI, Google and Meta have gone to in order to maximize the amount of data they can feed to their AIs, cites numerous people with knowledge of the … Read more
[ad_1] Google has gone from being the go-to search engine to something people are paying to avoid entirely. This week, Cherlynn and Devindra chat with 404 Media co-founder Jason Koebler about his experience moving away from Google and towards Kagi, a $10 a month search engine without ads or data tracking. Funny enough, Kagi is … Read more
[ad_1] Representative image: Google Pixel 8 Finally, Google has confirmed the launch date for “Find My Device” network rollout. According to a report by 9To5Google, the American technology giant has sent an e-mail to select users informing them that the Find My Device network would be launching soon. Google announced Find My Device Android … Read more
[ad_1] Google parent Alphabet has been talking to its advisers about the possibility of making an offer for HubSpot, an online marketing software company with a market value of $35 billion, people familiar with the matter said. If Alphabet moves ahead with a bid, it would be a rare example of a … Read more
[ad_1] YouTube is hyping its exclusive Coachella streaming coverage, which starts next week. The headlining feature is the platform’s multiview experience (already familiar to sports fans) for the two-weekend festival. Our question from this announcement is, who wants to watch several different artists’ sets at the same time — when you can only listen to one? … Read more
[ad_1] OnePlus is the latest company to hop on the AI train. The phone manufacturer is rolling out a new photo editing tool called AI Eraser, which lets users remove extraneous objects from their photos. The new feature will be available on a range of OnePlus smartphones, including the OnePlus 12 and 12R, OnePlus 11 … Read more
[ad_1] The first details emerged Monday from Google’s settlement of a class-action lawsuit over Chrome’s tracking of Incognito users. Filed in 2020, the suit could have required the company to pay $5 billion in damages. Instead, The Wall Street Journal reports that Google will destroy “billions of data points” it improperly collected, update its data … Read more
[ad_1] Google will bring Gemini, the , to Pixel 8 smartphones after all. The phone will incorporate Gemini Nano, a version of the model built to run locally on personal devices. This follows a successful rollout to the and the in January. The Pixel 8 features the same proprietary Tensor G3 chip as the Pro, … Read more
[ad_1] A new report found Meta and Google are restricting reproductive health information in Asia, Africa and Latin America. MSI Reproductive Choices and the Center for Countering Digital Hate, which partnered on the report, claim that the companies have restricted local abortion providers’ ads and allowed misinformation to fester, among other misdoings. Take Mexico, which … Read more