YouTube has recently started to experiment with replacing Google+ notifications in the navigation bar with YouTube notifications. You get notifications for recently uploaded videos from your subscribed channels, but only if you’ve enabled notifications for those channels. For example, you can go to the subscription manager and click the bell icon next to a channel […]

It looks like YouTube’s notification experiment is now a regular feature and you can no longer disable it by clearing cookies. When sign in to your Google account, YouTube’s desktop site no longer shows Google+ notifications in the navigation bar: it replaces them with YouTube notifications. « Your notifications live here. Subscribe to your favorite channels

Google Image Search’s mobile interface tests a new feature that starts playing snippets from a YouTube video at the top of the search results page. It’s not disclosed as an ad, there’s no sound and you can’t stop or hide the video, which continues to play on repeat. Right now, the experiment seems to be limited

Google Image Search has a different way to display suggestions: it now shows a long list of colorful boxes with related searches. You can click one or more boxes to dynamically refine search results. For example, when searching for [sportswear], Google shows suggestions like: [women basketball], [tennis], [badminton], [golf], [volleyball], [nike woman], [alexander wang], [adidas],

If you try to send a JavaScript attachment using Gmail or if you want to download a .js attachment, you’ll get a new anti-virus warning: « Blocked for security reasons », « 1 attachment contains a virus or blocked file. Downloading this attachment is disabled ». .JS has been added to the long list of file types that are

April Fools’ Day should probably be called Google Fools’ Day, since there are so many Google hoaxes. Google Japan developed a « bubble wrap » version of the Japanese keyboard. « The Google Japanese input bubble wrap version is a keyboard that realizes ‘I want to press in my mind, I want to keep pressing’, » according to Google Translate.

**Introduction :** YouTube a récemment caché le nombre de « Ne pas aimer » sous ses vidéos. Cette décision a suscité une vague de critiques de la part des utilisateurs, qui estiment que cette statistique est essentielle pour évaluer la qualité des contenus. Cependant, une extension Chrome permet désormais de contourner cette limitation. **Le contexte :** Dans

Posted by Ameya Velingker, Research Scientist, Google Research, and Balaji Venkatachalam, Software Engineer, Google Graphs, in which objects and their relations are represented as nodes (or vertices) and edges (or links) between pairs of nodes, are ubiquitous in computing and machine learning (ML). For example, social networks, road networks, and molecular structure and interactions are

Posted by Manish Gupta, Staff Software Engineer, Google Research AI-driven technologies are weaving themselves into the fabric of our daily routines, with the potential to enhance our access to knowledge and boost our overall productivity. The backbone of these applications lies in large language models (LLMs). LLMs are memory-intensive and typically require specialized hardware accelerators