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Love to hum tunes? Do you fail to easily identify the songs linked to those tunes? Well, YouTube Music is rolling out a feature to do just that. Yes, there is good news coming your way as the app is expected to include the “hum to search” feature. This feature enables users to find music just by humming the song. This feature has already been made available to the YouTube app since October 2023 and the Google search. Now, the feature is set to make its way to the YouTube Music app. The app is reported to have similar…

Google says it will begin cracking down on AI-generated content created solely for the purpose of gaming its systems and ranking high in Google Search—a change that could potentially have a ripple effect on the quality of what we see online.Google’s Antitrust Case Is the Best Thing That Ever Happened to AIThe God of Search made the announcement in a blog post on Tuesday. According to Google, this change involves algorithmic enhancements to its core ranking systems and is more complex than its usual updates. The changes…

Amid complaints that its search results have declined in quality, Google is tweaking its algorithms to do a better job of weeding out spammy or automated content. The company says the ranking updates, arriving in May, will “keep the lowest-quality content out of search.” Of particular note, Google says its engine will be better at eradicating today’s automated (read: AI-generated) content that’s harder to spot.Google says it’s taking what it learned from a 2022 algorithmic tuneup to “reduce unhelpful, unoriginal content”…

If you haven’t spent a lot of time inside Google Maps—besides getting from A to B and finding the nearest restaurant or bar—then you might not know about all the various features stuffed into the app since it first launched in 2005.No Google AI Search, I Don’t Need to Learn About the “Benefits of Slavery” One of those features is lists: They’re not hugely prominent inside the app, but they let you gather together curated lists of places on the map, giving you a way to plan our a road trip, shortlist a selection of…

Graphic: GizmodoWelcome to day 3 of Gizmodo’s March Madness bracket challenge to name the greatest app of all time! WhatsApp barely beat out Dark Sky in our second round of the tournament, garnering 53 percent of the overall vote. RIP Dark Sky. And today we have an epic grudge match between Google Maps and Yelp. Do Not Steal Our Robot Dog!If you’re just tuning in, you can read all about our selection criteria for this historic contest right here. And always, if you think we missed your personal favorite app of all time,…

Elon Musk's social media platform X could face a raft of new European Union rules that place curbs on the behavior of some of the world's largest technology firms, after the company told regulators it may meet criteria to fall under the scope of the bloc's Digital Markets Act. The DMA, set to take effect on Thursday, lays out a series of dos and don'ts for the likes of Alphabet Inc.'s Google Search, Apple's Safari, Amazon.com Inc. and Meta Platforms Inc.'s Facebook among others. It could also be applied to Musk's X, as…

Google launched a new AI image generator earlier this month that, for all intents and purposes, was incapable of generating consistent images of white people. As you might expect, rightwing influencers wasted no time in noticing this issue and promptly accused the tech giant of reverse racism. After temporarily disabling the image generator’s capabilities last week, Google now says that it will take another stab at launching the app soon. No Google AI Search, I Don’t Need to Learn About the “Benefits of Slavery” “We have…

A court filing in the U.S. Department of Justice’s case against Google over its alleged monopoly in the search market has revealed a few notable tidbits about the state of the search market competition, including the inner workings, revenue, and, in some cases, exit prices of would-be Google competitors, like DuckDuckGo and Neeva, the latter of which sold to Snowflake last year after pivoting to enterprise. Google’s proposed “Findings of Fact” filing documents the history of search competition, including Google’s own…

Google apologized on Friday saying its team “got it wrong” with a new image generation feature for its Gemini AI chatbot after various images it created that were devoid of white people went viral. A company exec firmly denied that it purposefully wanted Gemini to refuse to create images of any particular group of people.No Google AI Search, I Don’t Need to Learn About the “Benefits of Slavery” “This wasn’t what we intended. We did not want Gemini to refuse to create images of any particular group. And we did not want it…

The “News” tab has been a staple of Google Search for over 20 years, so when it disappeared on Wednesday, you can imagine how confused some users were. It turns out, Google is testing a new version of Search, and it does not include a “News” filter. The unannounced test caught many by surprise.No Google AI Search, I Don’t Need to Learn About the “Benefits of Slavery” “We’re testing different ways to show filters on Search and as a result, a small subset of users were temporarily unable to access some of them,” a Google…