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Google’s Seattle and Kirkland offices will be the first of the company’s U.S. campuses to reopen, the company said Thursday. A Google spokesperson told the Business Journal some of its offices in South Lake Union and Kirkland will begin opening April 20. As it happens, Google’s Seattle and Kirkland offices were
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Google open-sourced a new audio codec(coder-decoder) named Lyra. Lyra uses machine learning to enable high-quality voice calls with low bandwidth. Lyra can compress audio down to as little as three kbps, ensuring a sound quality compared to other codecs requiring much greater bandwidth. The COVID-19 pandemic has led to i
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Last year, Google integrated Chat messaging and Google Meet to Gmail for enterprise users. Google is now rolling out the integration for personal Gmail users as well. After the rollout, Gmail users will also see four tabs under Gmail -- Chat, Mail, Meet and Rooms. The feature is currently only available on both deskto
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Google will spend billions this year on new offices, doubling down on a return to in-person work as other companies consider a future where working from home is the norm. The tech giant will spend $7 billion on new offices and expanding data centers, including adding offices in Texas, North Carolina and Minnesota. In its
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Tech giant Google (GOOG, GOOGL) on Thursday announced it will spend $7 billion this year on an expansion of its U.S. facility footprint, adding at least 10,000 jobs across a host of cities, among them Atlanta, Washington, D.C., Chicago and New York. The investment defies concerns over a potential tech pullback in 2021 as
