Google Cloud has joined the SRT Alliance, a community of over 500 product, service, and solution providers supporting the adoption of the Secure Reliable Transport (SRT) open-source video streaming protocol. This announcement marks a significant milestone for the SRT open-source community and the media and entertainment
Google is postponing a return to the office for most workers until mid-October and rolling out a policy that will eventually require everyone to be vaccinated once its sprawling campuses are fully reopened. The announcement Wednesday came as the more highly contagious delta variant is driving a dramatic spike in COVID-19
Google has rolled out an update for the Meet video calling app that could make personal calls more enjoyable. The Meet app for Android and iOS now has filters and masks you can play with — simply tap the sparkle button at the bottom right corner of your video call to bring up the Effects options. You'll find Blur effects
Google today announced a series of updates that build upon its vision to deliver a single, integrated communication and collaboration solution to everyone via Google Workspace. Now, all of the company's three billion-plus existing users across consumer, enterprise, and education have access to the full Google Workspace expe
Ohio asked a court on Tuesday to declare Alphabet's Google a public utility, a step the state's Republican attorney general said would forbid the search and advertising giant from giving preferential treatment to its own products. "When you own the railroad or the electric company or the cellphone tower, you have to trea
Google's Project Starline 3D videoconferencing system, unveiled last week, is well-timed for a post-pandemic world but still has a long way to go in seamlessly marrying the in-person and the virtual, three people who have used the system say. Google and rivals, including Microsoft, Apple and Facebook, all view "mixed rea
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
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
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
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
