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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 not introduce a 60 minute call limit on free Google Meet users at the end of March, the company announced in a tweet. Instead, it will now be begin on June 30th. Until then, anyone using the service’s free version will be able to host calls up to 24 hours in length, which Google refers to as “unlimited.”
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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
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Windstream Enterprise (WE), a managed communications services provider, has enhanced its XCaaS service to include Mitel’s Virtual Agent and Agent Assist solutions powered by Google Cloud Contact Center AI (CCAI) as part of its comprehensive offering. Using this new functionality implements humanlike interactions that rede
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Google Meet has received a small but helpful update. The new update makes it easier for users to start and join a Google Meet call. There are new options to choose from when using Google Meet. The ‘New meeting’ button will now show three options for creating a new meeting. The first one is “create a meeting for lat
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If you make extensive use of Google’s products, you almost certainly noticed the worldwide outage of Google’s services. As details continue to emerge about the outage, it’s increasingly clear that Google has some egg on its face and that the outage was an entirely self-inflicted wound. The failure was ultimately
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The parent of a TikTok copycat from India has raised more than $100 million from investors including Alphabet Inc's Google and Microsoft , months after the Chinese-owned short-video app was banned in the country. The app, Josh, is one of several home-grown short-video platforms that have sprung up since India blocked the
