Google's greenhouse gas emissions increased 13% year-over-year in 2023, and the growth was nearly 50% compared to 2019, amid the skyrocketing energy demand related to artificial intelligence, as per the company's 2024 environmental report. The tech giant, which is aiming to achieve net-zero emissions by 2030, attributed the significant growth in emissions primarily to increased data centre energy consumption and supply chain emissions. According to the firm, the growth in total greenhouse gas emissions highlights the challenge of reducing emissions while compute intensity increases and it grow...
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Google’s greenhouse gas emissions have risen 48% since 2019, according to the firm’s latest environmental report, driven by the increasing power demands of artificial intelligence (AI). The tech giant has set itself the goal of reaching net-zero emissions by 2030, but said the increasing amount of energy needed by its data centres to carry out the more intense levels of compute required to power AI services made reducing emissions challenging. One of the major concerns around AI has been the potential environmental impact of its development, with a recent study by the International Energy Agen...
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Starting a YouTube Premium subscription can be far cheaper if you do it from a foreign country, sometimes even costing just a fraction of the price. In wealthier Western countries like Germany and the US, Google charges €13 or $14 a month for a subscription, while in countries like Ghana, Turkey, Pakistan and Ukraine, Premium can cost less than €2 a month. For this reason, before booking a subscription many people have been switching on a VPN to pretend the computer they're using is in a country where the fees are cheaper. But YouTube owner Google appears to have caught on to this trick and is...
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In an massive update for anyone who struggles with long texts or reading from screens, Google's latest feature in the Chrome browser allows you to have the text from any website read aloud for you. Once you load a webpage, you can find the new "listen to this page" option in Chrome's three-dot menu for Android, between the "translate" and "add to home screen" options. The feature is set to be introduced in version 125 of Google Chrome for Android, tech news website 9to5Google has reported. The voice starts once you click on the "listen to this page" option. A mini-player appears at the bottom ...
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Google has released its AI-supported research and writing assistant NotebookLM for users in around 200 countries outside the US. NotebookLM works in a similar way to ChatGPT from OpenAI or Co-Pilot from Microsoft, but only uses sources specified by the user for its training. Google says NotebookLM works as a closed system, meaning that it only analyses the information contained in the uploaded sources and does not access the internet to evaluate additional data. Users of NotebookLM can upload various file formats as sources, including text files, PDF documents and Google Docs. New additions in...
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If your headphones, keys, luggage and Android phone are constantly going missing, then there's a new Google feature that you may find helpful. Find My Device, a new network for tracking devices similar to Apple's Find My network, lets you track down compatible devices without an active internet connection. After launching in the US and Canada in April, it's now rolling out in European countries, among others. Here's how it works, what it can do and what it can't. How do I start using this network? If the Find My Device is available in your country, you'll likely already have received an email ...
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Since Google added AI "overviews" to its search engine in the US, social media has slowly begun to fill with examples of hilarious - and sometimes disturbing - examples of mistakes that the software has been making. Created with the help of AI, these "AI overviews" are currently only being displayed in the US and are intended to give users a more immediate answer to their questions, rather than giving them links to websites where they might find an answer. Google has been increasingly moving towards using AI in response to several AI start-ups starting to compete against Google's dominance in ...
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Google boss Sundar Pichai has said he believes the tech giant, and wider industry, is well placed to combat AI-generated misinformation around elections. Concerns have been raised about the potential for AI-generated audio and visual content to be used by bad actors to interfere with elections around the world – in a year where billions of people in many of the world’s major democracies are due to go to the polls. Speaking during the technology giant’s annual developer conference, Google I/O, Pichai said he was “cautiously optimistic” about his own company’s ability to handle this threat, as w...
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Google has unveiled a range of new features for its Android operating system designed to combat mobile phone theft and fraud, including a new AI-powered tool that can detect when a phone has been snatched from the owner’s hand. As part of its updates to Android 15, the next version of the tech giant’s mobile operating system coming later this year, Theft Detection Lock will automatically lock a phone’s screen to prevent thieves from getting into the device. Google said its AI will be able to detect “common motion associated with theft” by reading signals from the device, such as the accelerome...
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Human-AI relationships are coming, and even Google boss Sundar Pichai is admitting that people are going to grow profound emotional connections to artificial intelligence software. "Over time, you will have people get into deep relationships with these AI assistants," Pichai said on the sidelines of Google's I/O developer conference in mid-May, warning that society needs to prepare for this and mitigate the technology's possible negative consequences. In recent years, the concept of chatbots designed to simulate a specific real person has also emerged as possible way to help the grieving proce...
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