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Google is adding some new features to the Google Play Games Beta on PC, its service that lets you play Android games on a PC, including support for 4K screen resolution on “supported monitors” and for popular console gaming controllers. Google detailed the updates in a blog post from Arjun Dayal, Google Play Games’ director of product.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/23/23928877/google-play-games-pc-4k-game-controllers-clash-of-clans-royale
"We believe there is a possibility that federal courts rule against Google and force it to terminate its search deal with Apple," said Bernstein in the report sent to The Register. "We estimate that the ISA is worth $18B-20B in annual payments from Google to Apple, accounting for 14-16 percent of Apple's annual operating profits."
https://www.theregister.com/2023/10/10/google_pays_apple_18_20_claims_bernstein/?td=rt-3a
Adobe is entering a partnership with Google and offering a free three-month trial to both Photoshop on the web and an Express Premium plan to those who purchase one of the new Chromebook Plus devices. Up until recently, it wasn’t possible to run Photoshop on ChromeOS because important executable files couldn’t be installed.
https://www.techradar.com/computing/chromebooks/chromebook-plus-buyers-will-get-a-free-trial-of-the-new-web-based-photoshop
Google is sending Jamboard on its way to the company's ever-growing graveyard full of products and services that didn't quite work out. To continue giving teams that use its tools access to a collaborative digital whiteboard, Google is integrating FigJam, Lucidspark and Miro across its Workspace.
https://www.engadget.com/google-is-sunsetting-its-collaborative-jamboard-app-101658315.html
Video calling was originally pitched as a key feature of the Nest Hub Max, but Google Meet and Zoom are dropping support at the end of September. It feels way too soon to be removing key functionality from the Max.
https://9to5google.com/2023/09/18/nest-hub-max-google-meet-zoom/
Google is now rolling out Privacy Sandbox — its tech to replace third-party cookies — to all Chrome users. The company is touting this as a more privacy-forward feature, which tracks topics of interest based on your browsing habits. Advertisers can then use this data to show you relevant ads. The company has been showing a new popup about Privacy Sandbox to users over the last few days. Users have complained about the pop-up not providing enough information about the cookie replacement tech and how the company will generate topics of interest based on browsing data if you click on “Got it.” Investor Paul Graham even labeled this pop-up as “spyware.”
https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/08/google-flips-the-switch-on-interest-based-ads-with-privacy-sandbox-rollout/
Google is trialling a digital watermark to spot images made by artificial intelligence (AI) in a bid to fight disinformation. It works by embedding changes to individual pixels in images so watermarks are invisible to the human eye, but detectable by computers.
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-66618852