Google today said it will be rolling out an enterprise version of its Google Voice service for G Suite users, potentially tapping a new demand source for Google that could help attract a whole host of new users. Google voice has been a long-enjoyed service for everyday consumers, and offers a lot of benefits beyond […]
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Google wants Go to become the go-to language for writing cloud apps
The Google -incubated Go language is one of the fastest growing programming languages today, with about one million active developers using it worldwide. But the company believes it can still accelerate its growth, especially when it comes to its role in writing cloud applications. And to do this, the company today announced Go Cloud, a […]
View More Google wants Go to become the go-to language for writing cloud appsFigure Eight partners with Google to give AutoML developers better training data
Figure Eight, a platform that helps developers train, test and fine-tune their machine learning models, today announced a major new collaboration with Google that essentially turns Figure Eight into the de facto standard for creating and annotating machine learning data for Google Cloud’s AutoML service. As Figure Eight’s CEO Robin Bordoli told me, Google had […]
View More Figure Eight partners with Google to give AutoML developers better training dataGoogle is bringing voice commands to Hangouts Meet hardware
Today at the Google Next conference in San Francisco, the company announced it would soon be enhancing Google meeting hardware to allow voice commands. For many people setting up meetings remains a major problem and pain point. The company wants to bring the same voice-enabled artificial intelligence it uses for tools like Google Assistant to […]
View More Google is bringing voice commands to Hangouts Meet hardwareGoogle’s Cloud Functions serverless platform is now generally available
Cloud Functions, Google’s serverless platform that competes directly with tools like AWS Lambda and Azure Functions from Microsoft, is now generally available, the company announced at its Cloud Next conference in San Francisco today. Google first announced Cloud Functions back in 2016, so this has been a long beta. Overall, it also always seemed as […]
View More Google’s Cloud Functions serverless platform is now generally availableGoogle announces Cloud Build, its new continuous integration/continuous delivery platform
It used to be that developers built applications with long lead times and development cycles. There was always plenty of time to prepare, but in today’s continuous delivery/continuous deployment (CI/CD) world, new versions could be going out every day. That requires a CI/CD framework, and today at Google Next in San Francisco, the company announced […]
View More Google announces Cloud Build, its new continuous integration/continuous delivery platformGoogle announces a suite of updates to its contact center tools
As Google pushes further and further into enterprise services, it’s looking to leverage what it’s known for — a strong expertise in machine learning — to power some of the most common enterprise functions, including contact centers. Now Google is applying a lot of those learnings in a bunch of new updates for its contact […]
View More Google announces a suite of updates to its contact center toolsGoogle brings support for custom translations and text categorization to AutoML
Pre-trained machine learning models are good enough for many use cases, but to get the most out of this technology, you need custom models. Given that it’s not exactly easy to get started with machine learning, Google (and others) have opted for a hybrid approach that allows users to upload their own data to customize […]
View More Google brings support for custom translations and text categorization to AutoMLGoogle makes it easier for G Suite admins to investigate security breaches
Google is announcing a fair number of updates to G Suite at its Next conference today, most of which focus on the user experience. In addition to those, though, the company also launched a new security investigation tool for admins that augments the existing tools for preventing and detecting potential security issues. The new tool […]
View More Google makes it easier for G Suite admins to investigate security breachesGoogle Docs gets an AI grammar checker
You probably don’t want to make grammar errors in your emails (or blog posts), but every now and then, they do slip in. Your standard spell-checking tool won’t catch them unless you use an extension like Grammarly. Well, Grammarly is getting some competition today in the form of a new machine learning-based grammar checker from […]
View More Google Docs gets an AI grammar checkerGoogle’s Smart Compose is now ready to write emails for G Suite users
At its Cloud Next conference, Google today announced that Smart Compose, a new feature in Gmail that essentially autocompletes sentences for you, will become available to all G Suite users in the coming weeks. Smart Compose is part of the new Gmail, where it has been available for the last few months as an experimental feature […]
View More Google’s Smart Compose is now ready to write emails for G Suite usersWatch the Google Cloud Next day one keynote live right here
Google is hosting its big cloud conference, Google Cloud Next, this morning over at the Moscone center in San Francisco. Obviously it’s not quite as large as its flagship event I/O earlier this year, but Google’s cloud efforts have become one of its brightest points over the past several quarters. With heavy investments in Google […]
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