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Google Station Wi-Fi comes to Nigeria, Google Go adds TTS, YouTube announces .yt format

The Next Billion Users will come online from developing countries around the world with Google making investments to build out features unique for those areas. Focusing on Nigeria today, Google announced a number of updates to its line of Go applications.


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Gmail for Android’s Google Material Theme will add new features from web, density, more

Gmail for Android

During a session at Cloud Next 2018, Google showed off Gmail for Android’s upcoming Google Material Theme update. To match the recent web revamp, the mobile version of Gmail will gain traditional desktop features like density options and quick attachments in the inbox view.


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Google Drive’s upcoming ‘Priority’ view features ‘Suggested’ files feed, user-made Workspaces w/ Material Theme for Android

As Google moves to an AI First world, all of its products are being infused with machine learning smarts. Nowhere is that more apparent in G Suite as Google tries to differentiate its Cloud offerings. Google Drive is working on a new “Priority” view that features a Feed, as well as user-curated Workspaces.


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Google’s Cloud AutoML enters beta w/ custom translation & natural language neural networks

Earlier this year, Google launched Cloud AutoML Vision in alpha after unveiling at I/O 2017 as a way for neural networks to design better neural nets. At Cloud Next 18, Google is launching AutoML Natural Language and AutoML Translation in beta, along with other updates to core services.


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Google killing ‘Save to Google’ Chrome extension, ‘Saved’ site gains Material Theme

Unbeknownst to most users, Google has long featured native “Save” functionality to bookmark links and images. First built into Image Search and later the Search app on Android, Google also maintained a Chrome extension to save pages. However, Google is set to kill that client next month, thus sending mixed signals on the future of the feature.


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Google, Microsoft, Facebook, & Twitter’s Data Transfer Project simplifies switching services

With “Download Your Data,” Google allows users to get a copy of their data if they ever want to switch to a different service. Google, along with Twitter, Facebook, and Microsoft, is now taking this a step further by directly transferring data between different products to make switching seamless.


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Google Cloud establishes new polices to prevent & delay suspensions, increasing support

Google Cloud improving PyTorch support

Late last month, a company using the Google Cloud Platform had an incident where a critical application was immediately suspended by Google without warning. This was a cause for alarm given how many apps today run in the cloud. Google today announced a series of improvements to prevent any more sudden suspensions.


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