Google’s new AI grammar checker are now live in Google Docs

Google today announced that its new machine learning-powered grammar checker is now live in Google Docs. The company first introduced this new feature at Cloud Next 2018, but it lingered in early access ever since. Grammar checkers are nothing new, of course, and even Docs itself has long had one. What’s new here is that […]

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Google Docs gets an API for task automation

Google today announced the general availability of a new API for Google Docs that will allow developers to automate many of the tasks that users typically do manually in the company’s online office suite. The API has been in developer preview since last April’s Google Cloud Next 2018 and is now available to all developers. […]

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Google Docs, Sheets, Slides and Sites on the web are going Material Design

Google today announced that it has started the long-expected rollout of its Material Design update for Google Docs, Sheets, Slides and Sites, after first testing this update to the G Suite apps with its new design for Google Drive last year. It’s worth noting that there are no new features or other changes here. Everything […]

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Google rolls out ‘.new’ links for instantly creating new Docs, Slides, Sheets and Forms

Google Docs just rolled out a time-saving trick that’s sure to be welcomed by heavy users of Docs, or any of Google’s other productivity tools like Sheets, Slides, Sites or Forms. The company this week introduced its  “.new” domain, which can be used to instantly create a new file across any of these services, it […]

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Google 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 […]

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Google will use AI to fix your grammar mistakes

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Google is putting its AI to work to make you a better writer.

The company is finally adding a grammar check feature to Google Docs — one that will be able to address even complicated grammatical errors. The new feature was announced Tuesday at the Google Cloud Next conference, alongside updates to its automated email-writing features.

With the new feature for Google Docs, which is available to businesses as part of its early adopter program, Google Docs will use the same AI tech that powers its translation features to detect grammatical errors and suggest corrections. Read more…

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Google Docs is down and oh man people are freaked

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A collective scream was heard across the internet Wednesday, as scores of people were faced with the same shocking truth: Google Docs was down. 

Docs, part of a suite of Google products, appeared to experience outages Wednesday afternoon — with Down Detector reporting widespread problems with Google Drive across the U.S.

We reached out to Google for comment, and the company pointed us to a statement on its G Suite page.

“We’re aware of a problem with Google Docs affecting a significant subset of users,” reads the message. “The affected users are unable to access Google Docs. We will provide an update by 11/15/17, 2:30 PM detailing when we expect to resolve the problem. Please note that this resolution time is an estimate and may change.” Read more…

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People are getting locked out of their Google Docs. Here’s why you should be concerned.

It turns out that even your private documents can be censored online. This morning, a ton of users reported being locked out of completely innocuous Google Docs for “inappropriate content.” 
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