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  Capture the night sky this Milky Way season
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  On a clear, dark night, you can see a faint glowing band of billions of distant stars across the sky: the Milky Way. Parts of it are visible on moonless nights throughout the year, but the brightest and most photogenic region, near the constellation Sagittarius, appears above the horizon from spring to early fall.

  
  

  A few weeks ago, Sagittarius returned to the early morning sky, rising in the east just before dawn—and now is the perfect time to photograph it. Thanks to the astrophotography features in Night Sight on Pixel 4, 3a and 3, you can capture it with your phone. 

  
  

  Before you head outside to catch the Milky Way, here are a few tips and tricks for taking breathtaking night time photos of your own.

  
  

  Get out of town, and into the wilderness

  The Milky Way isn’t very bright, so seeing and photographing it requires a dark night. Moonlight and light pollution from nearby cities tend to obscure it. 

  
  

  To observe the brightest part of the Milky Way during spring, try to find a location with no large city to the east, and pick a night where the moon isn’t visible in the early morning hours. The nights between the new moon and about three days before the next full moon are ideal. For early 2020, this includes today (March 4) through March 6, March 24 through April 4 and April 22 through May 4. Look for the Milky Way in the hour before the first light of dawn. Of course you’ll want to check the weather forecast to make sure that the stars won’t be hidden by clouds.

  
  

  Do your research

  You can utilize tools to help track the rise and set of the sun and moon that will help you find the best time for your photo shoot. A light pollution map helps you find places to capture the best shot, and star charts can help you find constellations and other interesting celestial objects (like the Andromeda Galaxy) so you know what you’re shooting.

  
  

  Stay steady and settle in

  Once you’ve found the perfect spot, open the Camera App on Pixel and switch to Night Sight, and either mount the phone on a tripod, or support it on a rock or anything else that won’t move. Whatever you do, don’t try to steady the phone with your hands. Once stable, your phone will display “Astrophotography on” in the viewfinder to confirm it will use long exposures to capture your photo (up to four minutes total on Pixel 4, or one minute on Pixel 3 and 3a, depending on how dark the environment is).

  
  

  Get comfortable with the camera features

  To ensure you get great photos, explore all of the different options available in the Camera App. Say, for example, you are in the middle of taking a picture, and a car’s headlights are about to appear in the frame; you can tap the shutter button to stop the exposure and keep the lights from ruining your shot. You will get a photo even if you stop early, but letting the exposure run to completion will produce a clearer image.

  
  

  The viewfinder in the Google Camera App works at full moon light levels, but in even darker environments the on-screen image may become too dim and grainy to be useful. Try this quick fix: Point the phone in what you think is the right direction, then tap the shutter button. Soon after the exposure begins, the viewfinder will show a much clearer image than before, and that image will be updated every few seconds. This allows you to check and correct which way the phone is pointing. Wait for the next update to see the effect of your corrections. Once you’re satisfied with the composition, tap the shutter button a second time to stop the exposure. Then tap the shutter button once more to start a new exposure, and let it run to completion without touching the phone.

  
  

  The phone will try to focus automatically, but autofocus can fail in extremely dark scenes. For landscape shots you may just want to set focus to “far” by tapping the down arrow next to the viewfinder to access the focus options. This will make sure that anything further away than about 15 feet will be sharp.

  

  Venus above the Pacific Ocean about one hour after sunset at Point Reyes National Seashore in California, captured on Pixel 4.

  
  

  Use moonlight and twilight to your advantage 

  Astrophotography mode isn’t only for taking pictures when it’s completely dark outside. It also takes impressive photos during nights with bright moonlight, or at dusk, when daylight is almost gone and the first stars have become visible.

  
  

  No matter what time of day it is, spend a little extra time experimenting with the Google Camera App to find out what’s possible, and your photos will look great.

  
  

  

  Aurora borealis near Kolari, Finland, on a night in February. Photo by Ingemar Eriksson, captured on Pixel 4.

  
  

  
  
  https://www.blog.google/products/pixel/milky-way-season/
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  Welcome to Google AdSense
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  Creating content your audience loves takes time, but making it profitable shouldn’t. That’s where Google AdSense comes in. 
  
  With AdSense, trusted advertisers show their ads on your site, generating revenue for you to keep creating great content and take your business to the next level. AdSense gets you the best of Google’s automation and is fully customizable. Plus, signing up is free and easy. 
  
  Join more than 2 million publishers who are already earning money from their sites with Google AdSense. Get started today! 

  
  

  
  
  https://www.blog.google/products/adsense/welcome-google-adsense/
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  Everything you need to power your digital advertising business
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  Every publisher has a unique business model, competitive advantage, and value proposition for their users. Because of this, we built Google Ad Manager to be feature-rich and flexible. From live streaming on connected TVs to rewarded ads in your apps, the Ad Manager platform offers all of the functionality and tools you need to power your digital advertising business.

  With Ad Manager, you can manage all of your direct and indirect advertiser demand in one place, deploy a wide variety of engaging ad formats, and access and implement machine learning-generated forecasting, insights, and optimization recommendations. You can even integrate other advertising technology providers in the platform—should you choose to use them. 

  Most importantly, we help you protect the value of your inventory by investing in defenses against ad fraud, developing ad monitoring tools, and supporting industry initiatives that help address bad ads for everyone in the ecosystem.

  Earn more with Ad Manager  

  Over the coming weeks we’ll be publishing a series of blog posts exploring several of Ad Manager’s key features and how they help our publisher partners maximize their ad revenue. Here’s what we’ll cover in the series:

  • Post 1: Earn more from your ads
  • Post 2: Safeguard your advertising business
  • Post 3: Deliver the best ad experience every time
  • Post 4: Use insights to make better business decisions

  We hope this series sparks new ideas for how Ad Manager can help you continue to grow your ads business. In the meantime, visit the resources section of our site to learn more about what Ad Manager can do. 

  
  
  https://www.blog.google/products/admanager/everything-you-need-power-your-digital-advertising-business/
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  New music controls, emoji and more features dropping for Pixel
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  A few months ago, Pixel owners got a few new, helpful features in our first feature drop. Beginning today, even more updates and new experiences will begin rolling out to Pixel users. 

  
  

  Help when you need it

  You can already use Motion Sense to skip forward or go back to a previous song. Now, if you have a Pixel 4, you can also pause and resume music with a tapping gesture above the phone. So you can easily pause music when you're having a conversation, without even picking up your phone.

  When you need help the most, your Pixel will be there too. Last October we launched the Personal Safety app on Pixel 4 for US users, which uses the phones’ sensors to quickly detect if you’ve been in a severe car crash¹, and checks with you to see if you need emergency services. For those who need 911, you can request help via a voice command or with a single tap. Now, the feature is rolling out to Pixel users in Australia (000) and the UK (999). If you’re unresponsive, your Pixel will share relevant details, like location info, with emergency responders.

  
  

  

  We’re also rolling out some helpful features to more Pixel devices. Now Live Caption, the technology that automatically captions media playing on your phone, will begin rolling out to Pixel 2 owners. 

  
  

  More fun with photos and video 

  New AR effects you can use live on your Duo video call with friends make chatting more visually stimulating. These effects change based on your facial expressions, and move with you around the screen. Duo calls now come with a whole new layer of fun. 

  
  

  

  Selfies on Pixel 4 are getting better, too. Your front-facing camera can now create images with depth, which improves Portrait Blur and color pop, and lets you create 3D photos for Facebook.

  
  

  Emoji on Pixel will now be a more customizable and inclusive thanks to the emoji 12.1 update, with 169 new emoji to represent a wider variation of gender and skin tones, as well as more couple combinations to better reflect the world around us. 

  
  

  

  A more powerful power button

  Pixel is making it faster to pick the right card when using Google Pay. Just press and hold the power button to swipe through your debit and credit cards, event tickets, boarding passes or access anything else in Google Pay. This feature will be available to users in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Ireland, Taiwan and Singapore. If you have Pixel 4, you can also quickly access emergency contacts and medical information. 

  
  

  
  

  Getting on a flight is also getting easier. Simply take a screenshot of a boarding pass barcode and tap on the notification to add it to Google Pay. You will receive real-time flight updates, and on the day of your flight, you can just press the power button to pull up your boarding pass.  This feature will be rolling out gradually in all countries with Google Pay during March on Pixel 3, 3a and 4.

  
  
  

  Customize your Pixel’s look and feel

  A number of system-level advancements will give Pixel users more control over the look and feel of their devices.

  
  

  You may know that Dark theme looks great and helps save battery power. Starting today, Dark theme gets even more helpful and flexible in switching from light to dark background, with the ability to schedule Dark theme based on local sunrise and sunset times. 

  
  

  

  Have you forgotten to silence your phone when you get to work? Pixel gives you the ability to automatically enable certain rules based on WiFi network or physical location. You can now set up a rule to automatically silence your ringtone when you connect to your office WiFi, or go on Do Not Disturb when you walk in the front door of your house to focus on the people and things that matter most. 

  
  

  Pixel 4 users are also getting some unique updates to the way they engage with the content on their phone. Improved long press options in Pixel’s launcher will get more and faster help from your apps. There’s also an update to Adaptive brightness, which now temporarily increases screen brightness to make reading content easier when in extremely bright ambient lighting, like direct sunlight. Check out more options for customizing your screen options.

  
  

  Here’s to better selfies, more emoji and a quick pause when you need it! Check out our support page for more information on the new features, and look out for more helpful features dropping for Pixel users soo. 

  
  

   ^{1 Not available in all languages or countries. Car crash detection may not detect all accidents. High-impact activities may trigger calls to emergency services. This feature is dependent upon network connectivity and other factors and may not be reliable for emergency communications or available in all areas. For country and language availability and more information see g.co/pixel/carcrashdetection}
  

  
  
  https://www.blog.google/products/pixel/more-pixel-features-dropping/
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  What’s new in Chrome OS: Ambient EQ and a new way to watch Netflix
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  We’re back with our latest highlight reel on new features on Chromebook. Say hello to Ambient EQ and another way to watch Netflix.

  Ambient EQ: easy on your eyes 

  With Ambient EQ, Chromebook screens adapt to any context—whether you’re working outdoors on a sunny day, or if you’re watching a movie while snuggled under a blanket. Ambient EQ naturally adjusts the white balance and color temperature of your Chromebook’s screen based on your surroundings, which makes the content on screen appear more natural. The screen adjusts automatically, making it easier on your eyes. 

  
  With the latest update, the technology for Ambient EQ is ready and will be first available on the Samsung Galaxy Chromebook, which will be available for purchase in the US beginning in April.  Look out for other Chromebooks in the future that will get Ambient EQ.

  Watch Netflix “picture-in-picture”

  Now, you can watch Netflix “picture-in-picture” with the app available from the Google Play Store. While you shop online or browse the web on Chromebook, you can multitask and enjoy your favorite Netflix show playing in the corner of your screen. 

  
  

  The next time you’re watching a show in the Netflix app, just switch to another window to activate “picture-in-picture”—no set-up required. 

  

  Your Netflix window stays in the foreground with "picture-in-picture"

  We’ll be back soon with more new features for Chromebook. 

  
  
  https://www.blog.google/products/chromebooks/whats-new-february2020/
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  Cable TV meets Android TV: a new way to watch
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  Has TV become too much of a good thing? We have more entertainment choices than ever, but juggling remotes and switching inputs has become a way of life. Start by catching up on your DVR, switch to an app on your streaming device, turn to your favorite game on your console—it’s tough to keep track of what’s where. 

  
  

  TV providers have been teaming up with Android TV to make things more simple. With the launch of AT&T TV nationwide in the U.S. today, there are now over 160 TV providers making new experiences that let you do all your watching—and more—in one place.

  
  

  So grab your popcorn and check out the features your provider’s TV experience has to offer when it’s powered by Android TV.

  
  

  One Place. One Remote. All your favorite ways to watch. 

  
  

  Sports, news, channels, apps—you name it. In addition to live TV, on-demand, and DVR, you can now download over 5,000 apps and games right on your provider’s TV box. No more HDMI switching or looking for a different remote. Just visit Google Play in your apps tab to download your favorites.

  
  

  A faster way to the entertainment you love

  
  

  Not sure what to watch? Ask the Google Assistant to "find action movies", and get quick recommendations from across live TV and your apps. You can even change the channel, pause live TV, or ask your DVR to record a show all with your voice. Press the Google Assistant button on your remote and ask “what can you do” to get started.

  
  

  Do even more in your home with your voice

  
  

  The Google Assistant isn’t just for controlling your TV. When that horror movie gets a bit too scary, you can turn on the lights and check your security cams from the safety of your sofa. Try creating a custom routine so you can say a simple command like “movie night” to switch on your favorite movie channel, adjust your blinds, and start the popcorn machine.

  
  

  Put your small screen on your big screen

  
  

  Chromecast is built into your TV box, so you can easily cast videos, photos, music and more from your phone to your TV. With your TV in the center of the home, it’s the perfect place to show photos from your recent trip or play music while you do chores.

  
  

  Next time you lay down on your couch, remember these tips to watch, play, and do more, right on your Android TV powered set-top box.

  
  

  
  
  https://www.blog.google/products/android/cable-tv-meets-android-tv-new-way-watch/
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  Reaching a new generation of news viewers with VidSpark
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  Editor's note: Ahsante Bean is the head of Vidspark, a new Google News Initiative partnership with Poynter to help local publishers use video to reach a new younger audience for their journalism.  

  When I want to know what’s going on in the world, I often turn to social media. Like many people my age, I don’t own a television or subscribe to a newspaper, but I do watch a ton of online videos and do basically all of my reading from a screen. I’m eager to stay informed, but when I look for credible, accessible news content that’s relevant to my interests and viewing habits, my options are limited. If I’m looking for local news from my community, those options shrink further.

  People in their teens and twenties are looking for content that’s important, but also engaging, fun, and relatable. We don’t need to seek out information; thanks to a variety of social feeds and specialized algorithms, it comes to us. But it doesn’t always come from trustworthy sources. Meanwhile, mainstream local news is struggling to meet young audiences where they are. If they rely only on their traditional methods of distribution, they risk becoming irrelevant to the next generation.

  With the support of the Google News Initiative, Poynter is announcing VidSpark—a program helping local newsrooms reach younger viewers online with engaging, shareable social video.

  Over the course of this year, Poynter will collaborate on a video series with three local newsrooms: WTSP, a TV station in Tampa Bay, Florida, the radio station atWGBH News in Boston, Massachusetts, and The Star Tribune, a newspaper in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Poynter will provide funding, coaching, and hands-on support in the areas of  content development, audience engagement, and platform optimization.

  As a YouTube creator myself, I know the importance of showing an authentic personality behind the content. With these series, we want to be transparent with the viewer, letting them into the process of journalism. We will showcase each newsroom’s unique talents, areas of expertise, and local character. We’ll have the freedom to play across platforms; we could create an IGTV series on climate change with a quirky host, or a YouTube show that talks about current events in a fun way. We’ll be responding to comments, listening to feedback, and learning along the way.

  VidSpark is about helping newsrooms create fresh content that grows a sustainable audience well into the future. It’s a process of getting in front of younger viewers, acquainting them with local news organizations as trustworthy sources of information, and showing the investigative process. By doing this, we can show the next generation the importance of local news in maintaining informed citizens and safeguarding democracy. 

  VidSpark similarly seeks to shape the larger local news landscape. At the end of the year, Poynter will create a playbook of best practices to share our insights in hopes that our work helps the local newsroom in your community cover what you care about. If you want to see what we create and follow along as VidSpark develops this year, you can do that here.

  The power of local news is in knowing what’s happening on the ground, in your community. It can preserve regional history and culture, and hold local authorities accountable. It can go deep on issues that affect your day-to-day life. Through online video, we hope to bring the strength of local news to the forefront for the next generation and make them feel a part of the story. 

  
  
  https://www.blog.google/outreach-initiatives/google-news-initiative/reaching-new-generation-news-viewers-vidspark/
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  Exploring personal histories for Black History Month on Google Cloud
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  During Black History month, we honor those who have come before us, the legends who inspire us, and especially the people in our midst every day. 

  We sat down with a few Cloud Googlers who help bring our cloud technology to more people and businesses to tackle issues ranging from helping promote sustainable fishing globally to quantifying the impact of projects to make clean water more available around the world. We discussed their personal histories, the people and moments that inspire them, and how identity shapes their work--and heard anecdotes about working in Congress, traveling the world, and more.  

  Here, they share the path they took to Cloud and some of the things they’ve learned along the way.

  

  Michee Smith, Product Manager
  Being yourself always pays off.

  As a product manager within Google Cloud, Michee Smith is responsible for making sure products work as expected for people. Michee’s area of focus is customer privacy. She’s passionate about making customers comfortable with keeping their data in our cloud. For her, it’s important to make privacy products easy to use, and that customers know what to expect around data access.

  Michee’s path to technology started at Rochester Institute of Technology, where she knew she’d be around people who were different from her. That helped build an understanding and empathy for different cultures and groups of people that still inform her work today. “I’ve always had a belief in myself, which I credit in part to being raised in the Black church, a supportive and encouraging environment,” she says.

  Her advice for those entering tech fields? Don’t counsel yourself out of doing anything. Other people might tell you “no,” but don’t let yourself be the one to say it.

  “I want people to know I’m not a unicorn—I’m not here because I’m necessarily special, but because I haven’t let rejection stop me,” Michee says. “The superpower I rely on is that I won’t let other people tell me I’m not good enough.”

  

  Hamidou Dia, VP, Solutions Engineering
  Education is a lifelong pursuit.

  From his Senegalese childhood to his European education to his work running the global solutions engineering organization at Google Cloud, Hamidou Dia has always had a passion for education. At Google, he leads a team focused on helping customers around the world and across industries solve their most complex business problems using Google Cloud technology. 

  Hamidou’s passion for education was instilled by his mother who knew that education would open doors for him. After being selected to attend one of only five high schools in Senegal, he then attended college in France on academic scholarship. It was there he first interacted with a PC, wrote his first program and got hooked on technology, deciding to study engineering and then earning a master’s degree in computer science. Says Hamidou, “I love technology and how it can be so helpful in everyday life, and I knew right away it was the field for me.” 

  Having lived in the U.S. for over 20 years and raising his family here, Hamidou has always advised his kids to embrace their heritage and stay true to themselves. “Don’t let others tell you what you can and can’t do,” he says. “Carve your own path.” 

  What advice does he give to those new to the workforce? Be passionate about continuous learning and growth, no matter where you are in your career. “I always refer back to the principles I was raised with in West Africa. Number one is character. It’s having integrity in everything you do,” he says. “Second is that it’s all about hard work. In the technology industry, finding your area of expertise, and always continuing to learn more, is how you can stay on top of your game. And finally, don’t be afraid. The greatest challenges are often where the greatest opportunities lie.”

  Albert Sanders, Senior Counsel, Government Affairs & Public Policy 
  People, policy and technology make a big impact.

  Albert Sanders has worked in the White House, negotiated bipartisan deals in Congress, and recently addressed the United Nations General Assembly. His personal and professional travels have taken him to five continents—and he’s visited 11 (and counting!) countries in Africa. At Google Cloud, his team works with governments across the globe to pave the way for new Google Cloud data centers that help expand access to technology and enable more people to benefit from cloud computing.

  Choosing a career in public policy stemmed from an early interest in government, and his experience in an overcrowded high school, where there were often not enough seats or textbooks to go around. “I learned early on that the decisions made in city halls, capitol buildings, and government agencies have a direct impact—sometimes positive, sometimes negative—on real people,” he says. That path started with law school, and led to work on Capitol Hill and then in the Obama White House.

  Connecting to his history started with Albert’s first trip to South Africa several years ago. “Traveling through Africa is intensely personal,” he says. “Many Americans may take for granted that they can trace their family origins to places outside the United States. One of the many enduring legacies of slavery is that most African Americans don’t have that direct connection to their family history. I may not know the names of my ancestors or the place of their birth, but I’m reminded regularly that they passed on to us a resilience, faith, and determination that could not be shackled.”

  Along the way, Albert has gained some advice that he passes on to mentees and others: “Embrace the uncomfortable and unprecedented. And don’t be afraid to advocate for yourself,” he says. And finally: “Representation matters. One of the reasons I do my best every day is because I’m aware that I must excel for myself—and for other people of color who are still terribly underrepresented in our industry. I appreciate Google’s various initiatives to address this issue. I’m committed to doing my part to support those efforts, ensure accountability, and show what’s possible when diverse perspectives and people have a seat at the table.”

  We’re grateful to these Cloud Googlers for sharing their stories, and we look forward to lots more history being made in and through technology.

  
  
  https://www.blog.google/products/google-cloud/exploring-personal-histories-for-black-history-month-on-google-cloud/
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  Data centers are more energy efficient than ever
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  While Google is the world’s largest corporate purchaser of renewable energy, we’re also taking action on climate change by minimizing the amount of energy we need to use in the first place. For more than a decade, we’ve worked to make our data centers as energy efficient as possible. Today, a new paper in Science validated our efforts and those of other leaders in our industry. It found that efficiency improvements have kept energy usage almost flat across the globe’s data centers—even as demand for cloud computing has skyrocketed.

  The new study shows that while the amount of computing done in data centers increased by about 550 percent between 2010 and 2018, the amount of energy consumed by data centers only grew by six percent during the same time period. The study’s authors note that these energy efficiency gains outpaced anything seen in other major sectors of the economy. As a result, while data centers now power more applications for more people than ever before, they still account for about 1 percent of global electricity consumption—the same proportion as in 2010. 

  What's more, research has consistently shown that hyperscale (meaning very large) data centers are far more energy efficient than smaller, local servers. That means that a person or company can immediately reduce the energy consumption associated with their computing simply by switching to cloud-based software. As the data center industry continues to evolve its operations, this efficiency gap between local computing and cloud computing will continue to grow.

  Searching for efficiency

  How are data centers squeezing more work out of every electron, year after year? For Google, the answer comes down to a relentless quest to eliminate waste, at every level of our operations. We designed highly efficient Tensor Processing Units, (the AI chips behind our advances in machine learning), and outfitted all of our data centers with high-performance servers. Starting in 2014, we even began using machine learning to automatically optimize cooling in our data centers. At the same time, we’ve deployed smart temperature, lighting, and cooling controls to further reduce the energy used at our data centers. 

  Our efforts have yielded promising results: Today, on average, a Google data center is twice as energy efficient as a typical enterprise data center. And compared with five years ago, we now deliver around seven times as much computing power with the same amount of electrical power. 

  By directly controlling data center cooling, our AI-powered recommendation system is already delivering consistent energy savings of around 30 percent on average. And the average annual power usage effectiveness for our global fleet of data centers in 2019 hit a new record low of 1.10, compared with the industry average of 1.67—meaning that Google data centers use about six times less overhead energy for every unit of IT equipment energy.

  Leading by example

  So where do we go from here? We’ll continue to deploy new technologies and share the lessons we learn in the process, design the most efficient data centers possible, and disclose data on our progress. To learn about our efforts to power the internet using as little power as possible—and how we’re ensuring that the energy we use is carbon-free, around the clock—check out our latest Environment Report or visit our data center efficiency site.
  
  https://www.blog.google/outreach-initiatives/sustainability/data-centers-energy-efficient/
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  An Innovation Challenge to Sustain Diverse Media
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  Most communities in North America are diverse. They are comprised of people of various ethnicities, income levels, and countries of origin. In a lot of cases these diverse audiences are not effectively represented in the pages of their local news publication or remain untapped as an opportunity to increase engagement and grow the business for a news organization. That’s why it's increasingly important for publishers to understand the diverse communities they serve. 

  
  

  We hope this is where the Google Innovation Challenge can help. Last year, the GNI North American Innovation Challenge focused on generating revenue and increasing audience engagement for local journalism. 34 projects in 17 states and provinces received $5.8 million to help with projects ranging from a way for local news providers to access and monetize audio clips, to testing a new approach to local news discovery, engagement and membership.

  
  

  This year the spotlight will shift toward helping publishers understand their audiences so that they can build a sustainable business. Through our work with the Borealis Racial Equity in Journalism Fund we know that communities with the least access to relevant news are also most likely to be left out of policy creation and civic processes. A diverse and ethnic media is a critical news source for underrepresented groups, filling gaps for stories that don’t rise to mainstream media, and providing a positive and authentic representation of their cultures. It's important that publishers who cover underrepresented audiences continue to thrive as the world becomes increasingly digital. 

  
  

  How this challenge works:

  
  

  The North American GNI Innovation Challenge will provide funding for projects that have a clear focus on diversity, equity and inclusion in journalism, promote the creation of sustainable models for local media that address diverse audiences, and recognize that as an opportunity for driving engagement and revenue.

  
  

  We’re looking for a breadth of projects, and examples might include using technology to understand the business impact of overlooking certain audiences, designing strategies to improve discovery of local and diverse content, or diversifying revenue streams. Please join us on March 18th at 9a.m. PST for town hall where we will answer your questions. You can tune in using this link.

  
  

  How to apply: 

  Applications open today, and the deadline to submit is May 12th, 2020 at 11:59 p.m. PT.  Over the next 10 weeks we’ll hold workshops and bootcamps to get the word out and answer questions about the Innovation Challenge. You can also get in contact with us at [email protected].

  
  

  We’re looking forward to seeing what creative ideas you come up with.

  
  
  https://www.blog.google/outreach-initiatives/google-news-initiative/innovation-challenge-sustain-diverse-media/
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  Stadia Savepoint: February updates
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  With February coming to a close, we’re back with another issue of our Stadia Savepoint series, giving you a summary of recent news on Stadia.

  This month we announced nine new games coming to Stadia, featuring three games launching First on Stadia. That included “Spitlings,” the chaotic multi-player platformer which launched earlier this week and is the focus of our first developer Q&A with Massive Miniteam. 

  

  Stadia on Samsung, ASUS, and Razer phones.

  Expanded Android support

  We’ve added Stadia compatibility to 19 new phones from Samsung, ASUS, and Razer, bringing the ability to play our entire library across tens of millions of devices. See here for more info. 

  New games coming to Stadia

  • SteamWorld Dig

  • SteamWorld Dig 2

  • SteamWorld Heist

  • SteamWorld Quest

  • Lost Words: Beyond the Page

  • Panzer Dragoon: Remake

  • Serious Sam Collection

  • Stacks on Stacks (on Stacks)

  • The Division 2

  • Doom Eternal

  Recent content launches on Stadia

  • Spitlings

  • Monster Energy Supercross - The Official Videogame 3

  • Borderlands 3 - Moxxi's Heist of the Handsome Jackpot

  • Metro Exodus - Sam’s Story

  • Mortal Kombat 11 - The Joker

  • Mortal Kombat 11 - DC Elseworlds Skin Pack

  Stadia Pro updates

  • New games are free to active Stadia Pro subscribers in March: GRID, SteamWorld Dig 2, and SteamWorld Quest.

  • Existing games still available to add to your collection: Destiny 2, Farming Simulator 19 Platinum Edition, Gylt, Metro Exodus and Thumper.

  • Act quickly: Farming Simulator 19 Platinum Edition leaves Stadia Pro on February 29.

  • Ongoing discounts for Stadia Pro subscribers: Check out the web or mobile Stadia store for the latest.

  That’s it for February, we’ll be back soon to share more updates. As always, stay tuned to the Stadia Community Blog, Facebook, and Twitter for the latest news. 

  
  
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  Celebrity GIFs: They’re just like us!
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  In an age when people talk all day on text and email, we’ve come to rely on the art of the GIF to convey our emotions. To recognize life’s most joyous moments—or to navigate the tricky ones—we search for the perfect GIF and hit send.

  The Google Trends team looked at GIF search trends from Tenor (Google’s search engine for GIFs and stickers) to see which celebrity gifs are most commonly associated with certain emotions or reactions. Good news for GIF-lovers: they made made a nifty data visualization tool that you can explore. Search for a specific celebrity like Justin Timberlake, and you’ll see that 42 percent of Justin Timberlake GIF searches are for “happy.” Or filter by emotion, like “surprised” to find out which celebrity has the largest share of those searches (spoiler alert, it's Pikachu). 

  

  Search by celebrity or by emotion.

  Even better news for GIF lovers: you can use this tool to figure out how to deal with any situation that you may encounter. Imagine a friend coming to you with one of the problems listed below. There’s a celebrity GIF out there with the appropriate response.

  Q:How do I let someone know they’ve upset me without making it a big deal?
  A:Emma knows it best, you’re not made of stone. It’s ok to let them know how you feel.

  

  Q: How can I be more supportive of my teammates when they do a good job at work?
  A: Put your hands together for these celebs who have the largest share of “clap” searches.

  

  Q:What should I do on those days when everything is going wrong?
  A:In or out of the office, we’ve got just the thing: Stanley Hudson, who is the king of laughing it off.

  

  Q: My best friend takes me too seriously. How do I make sure he understands I’m joking?
  A: Some people need visual cues; a quick wink can help you deliver your punchline. 

  

  The next time you’re at a loss for words, maybe your favorite celebrity can help.

  
  
  https://www.blog.google/products/search/celebrity-gifs-visualization/
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  Celebrate digital learning with tools for everyone
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  One of my fondest childhood memories is sitting on my dad’s lap and using a program on our old desktop computer to learn multiplication tables. It jump-started my love for math and science and showed me how technology could make learning exciting.

  Educational tools have only improved over the years since I first experienced them. Thanks to educator feedback and companies building tools to help solve real problems in classrooms, they’re better than ever. Today, Feb. 27, thousands of educators across the world are celebrating the use of technology in the classroom by participating in Digital Learning Day. Whether in the classroom or at home, technology can help provide access, increase engagement and help educators and students open up new possibilities for learning. This technology has also helped many students learn the basic digital skills needed for work and life. 

  As part of our Grow With Google initiative--which helps ensure opportunities created by technology are available to everyone--Applied Digital Skills has curated a collection of our most popular lessons, which include everything from creating a resume to understanding your digital footprint. Applied Digital Skills is Google’s free, online, video-based curriculum that provides training on basic digital skills for learners of all ages. To date, this resource has helped over 1 million students learn digital skills and empowered thousands of educators to teach them in a fun and engaging way. 

  It’s important to make sure everyone has access to these skills, and community leaders are making sure this happens. Valamere Mikler is the founder of She Ran Tech, a community initiative that encourages digital proficiency and empowerment for women and girls from underserved areas. “Our focus is on data privacy and technology, particularly with girls and young women to educate them on the alternatives to social media trolling, oversharing, idle web surfing and so on,” says Mikler. She’s incorporated Applied Digital Skills lessons into her organization’s internship, as well as its workshops and recommended resources. “We want to get them into technology,” she says. “We are fighting for equity here and this initiative is a way to empower them.” 

  Valamere and I know firsthand the positive impact technology can have on learning experiences. Dive into our new collection of Digital Learning Day lessons to get started yourself, and use the momentum to embrace educational technology all year round.

  
  

  
  
  https://www.blog.google/outreach-initiatives/grow-with-google/digital-learning-day-2020-/
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  Celebrate digital learning with tools for everyone
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  One of my fondest childhood memories is sitting on my dad’s lap and using a program on our old desktop computer to learn multiplication tables. It jump-started my love for math and science and showed me how technology could make learning exciting.

  Educational tools have only improved over the years since I first experienced them. Thanks to educator feedback and companies building tools to help solve real problems in classrooms, they’re better than ever. Today, Feb. 27, thousands of educators across the world are celebrating the use of technology in the classroom by participating in Digital Learning Day. Whether in the classroom or at home, technology can help provide access, increase engagement and help educators and students open up new possibilities for learning. This technology has also helped many students learn the basic digital skills needed for work and life. 

  As part of our Grow With Google initiative--which helps ensure opportunities created by technology are available to everyone--Applied Digital Skills has curated a collection of our most popular lessons, which include everything from creating a resume to understanding your digital footprint. Applied Digital Skills is Google’s free, online, video-based curriculum that provides training on basic digital skills for learners of all ages. To date, this resource has helped over 1 million students learn digital skills and empowered thousands of educators to teach them in a fun and engaging way. 

  It’s important to make sure everyone has access to these skills, and community leaders are making sure this happens. Valamere Mikler is the founder of She Ran Tech, a community initiative that encourages digital proficiency and empowerment for women and girls from underserved areas. “Our focus is on data privacy and technology, particularly with girls and young women to educate them on the alternatives to social media trolling, oversharing, idle web surfing and so on,” says Mikler. She’s incorporated Applied Digital Skills lessons into her organization’s internship, as well as its workshops and recommended resources. “We want to get them into technology,” she says. “We are fighting for equity here and this initiative is a way to empower them.” 

  Valamere and I know firsthand the positive impact technology can have on learning experiences. Dive into our new collection of Digital Learning Day lessons to get started yourself, and use the momentum to embrace educational technology all year round.

  
  

  
  
  https://www.blog.google/outreach-initiatives/grow-with-google/digital-learning-day-2020/
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  Meet humanity’s first artists through virtual reality
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  Editor’s Note: France’s Chauvet Cave contains some of the world’s oldest prehistoric drawings. It’s so delicate that it’s closed to the public, but thanks to our partner, the Syndicat Mixte de la Grotte Chauvet, you can now step into the world of our ancient ancestors through Google Search’s augmented reality feature as well as virtual reality. One of these ancient ancestors, who has asked to remain anonymous, has time-traveled 36,000 years to share what the cave was like back then. 

  We began our journey to the big cave days ago. Today we arrive and settle near the stone arch that spans the river. We light a fire, signalling to our people up near the caves that we’re here. We’ve brought small stone tools with us to sew the arrowheads we use for hunting. Perhaps we’ll be able to trade them.

  There’s plenty of moonlight, so once we’ve made camp I venture out, hiking up to the cave’s entrance to greet the others. The children are still awake, playing with their toys but also listening intently to the lions roaring in the distance. There used to be bears living here too, but they’re long gone.

  The closer I get to its entrance, the more the dark cave seems to draw me in, so I light a torch and step inside. After a short walk, the fire illuminates where we—and those before us—have left our marks. Here, someone scraped the clay, exposed the limestone and painted their world, long before we arrived. My favorites are the horses—I think one is afraid, another is playing, and a third one, the curious one, has pricked up its ears inquiringly.

  Near the familiar mammoth, a new image catches my eye—perhaps some of our young hunters have depicted this lion to celebrate their success.

  The fresco is so enormous, it’s impossible to take it all in. I step back to try and comprehend its meaning. There are cave lions, reindeer and stags, all seeming to move in the play of light and shadow. Just a few lines, drawn by practiced hands, and somehow we have a masterpiece.

  Then there are the handprints left by those who came before us. I stand on my toes and stretch to match my own hand to the imprints on the cold rock, and suddenly I feel compelled to leave my mark too. I’ve never been chosen as a painter, but I’m alone and feeling daring, so I dip my hand into the red paint that’s been left out, rise back to my toes, and add my handprint to the others on the wall. 

  As it dries, I draw back and watch as the animals and the handprints fade into the darkness. Who knows how long they’ve all been here, and how long they’ll remain?

  Another note from the editor: if you enjoyed hearing from our anonymous cave ancestor, check out the following images of the cave she described, or find out more in Google Arts & Culture’s latest exhibit “Chauvet: Meet our Ancestors.”

  
  

  • Panoramic view of the a river and mountains

    Panoramic view of the Pont d’Arc, a stone arch over the river with the Chauvet Cave mountains in the background. © David Huguet

  • Phone screen displaying a AR model

    When you search for the Chauvet Cave on Google Search, the AR in Search features  let you view and interact with a 3D model of a fresco in the cave. Use your smartphone to place it directly into your own space, to get a sense of scale and detail.

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    “Chauvet - The Dawn of Art” is a virtual reality experience available on HTC vive that guides visitors through the Chauvet Cave. 

    Narrated by Daisy Ridley (English version) or Cécile de France (French version), it shows you 12 stations within the cave. No worries if you don’t have a VR headset - this Youtube 360 video version is equally immersive.

    
    

  • Image of a cave painting with felines

    The “alcove of the felines” is the central part of the Horses Fresco, one of the masterpieces of Chauvet Cave. 

    © David Huguet

    
    

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    This is the 3D model of a bear skull that was placed on a  block of stone in the cave. It was staged deliberately, meant to be seen this way, and has not moved for 36,000 years.

  
  
  https://www.blog.google/outreach-initiatives/arts-culture/meet-humanitys-first-artists-through-virtual-reality/
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  Google Translate adds five languages
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  Millions of people around the world use Google Translate, whether in a verbal conversation, or while navigating a menu or reading a webpage online. Translate learns from existing translations, which are most often found on the web. Languages without a lot of web content have traditionally been challenging to translate, but through advancements in our machine learning technology, coupled with active involvement of the Google Translate Community, we’ve added support for five languages: Kinyarwanda, Odia (Oriya), Tatar, Turkmen and Uyghur. These languages, spoken by more than 75 million people worldwide, are the first languages we’ve added to Google Translate in four years, and expand the capabilities of Google Translate to 108 languages.

  Translate supports both text translation and website translation for each of these languages. In addition, Translate supports virtual keyboard input for Kinyarwanda, Tatar and Uyghur. Below you can see our team motto, “Enable everyone, everywhere to understand the world and express themselves across languages,” translated into the five new languages. 

  

  If you speak any of these languages and are interested in helping, please join the Google Translate Community and improve our translations.

  
  
  https://www.blog.google/products/translate/five-new-languages/
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  Meet the Doodle for Google guest judges
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  The 12th annual Doodle for Google competition is underway, and we’re asking students across the country to unleash their creativity and show us their interpretation of this year’s theme, “I show kindness by…”.  Submissions are due by March 13.

  This year we’re excited to announce our panel of stellar guest judges who will help us choose the contest finalists and winners. They have each made showing kindness a guiding principle in their lives. Teacher of the year Rodney Robinson, works to create a positive environment and to empower his students. In 2015 he started teaching at Virgie Binford Education Center, a school inside the Richmond Juvenile Detention Center, in an effort to better understand and prevent students from entering the school-to-prison pipeline.

  Joining Rodney as a judge is acclaimed author and illustrator Mari Andrew. Mari values optimism, resilience and vulnerability in her work and has inspired over 1 million devoted fans through her art and writing, where she beautifully covers these subjects. In her New York Times Bestseller book, “Am I There Yet?: The Loop-de-loop, Zigzagging Journey to Adulthood,” she uses poignant essays and illustrations to help her readers feel less alone as they experience the trials and tribulations of life. 

  Last but certainly not least, the multifaceted entertainer and late-night host Lilly Singh will also join our guest judge panel. Lilly has amassed a global audience of millions through her social channels and work in entertainment—she uses her platform to uplift others. In 2017, UNICEF appointed Lilly as one of their Goodwill Ambassadors. She also created her #GirlLove initiative to inspire positivity among women and support each other's voices encouraging upward mobility.  
  

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    Teacher of the Year Rodney Robinson.

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     Author and illustrator Mari Andrew.

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    Entertainer and late-night host Lilly Singh.

  Kindness means something different to everyone, whether it’s starting a community garden, standing up for a friend or doing chores around the home—so it’s up to you how to interpret this year’s theme. 

   With Rodney, Mari and Lilly’s help, we’ll select five National Finalists who will win a $5,000 college scholarship and a trip to our Mountainview headquarters. One National Winner will receive: a  $30,000 college scholarship, a $50,000 technology package for their school or non-profit and their artwork featured on the Google homepage for a day. 

  We can’t wait to see how you show kindness. Let’s get Doodling! 

  
  

  
  
  https://www.blog.google/inside-google/doodles/doodle-for-google-2020-guest-judges/
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  Continuing to grow and invest across America in 2020
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  Today I’m pleased to announce that Google will invest more than $10 billion in offices and data centers across the United States in 2020. 

  Google has a presence in 26 states across the country and our new investments will be focused in 11 of them: Colorado, Georgia, Massachusetts, Nebraska, New York, Oklahoma, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Washington and California. 

  Everywhere we invest, we strive to create meaningful opportunities for local communities. A powerful example is our data center in Pryor, a town in Mayes County, Oklahoma. Last year, I visited Pryor to announce a $600 million investment, our fourth expansion there since 2007. It felt like the whole community came out to welcome us, from small business owners to teachers to Google employees. Pryor Mayor Larry Lees told the crowd that Google’s investments have helped provide local schools with the resources they need—including the latest textbooks and STEM courses—to offer a world-class education. He talked about the small businesses we have helped train and the mentorship Googlers have provided to Pryor’s students. 

  This is exactly the kind of difference we hope to make with our new office and data center projects in 2020. These investments will create thousands of jobs—including roles within Google, construction jobs in data centers and renewable energy facilities, and opportunities in local businesses in surrounding towns and communities. 

  This effort builds on the momentum of the $13 billion investment in communities from South Carolina to Nevada we made in 2019. Combined with other R&D investments, Google’s parent company Alphabet was the largest investor in the U.S. last year, according to a reportfrom the Progressive Policy Institute.  

  We look forward to continuing this progress in the year ahead. Here’s a look at our 2020 investments by region:

  

  South

  Google continues to invest in Atlanta, and we will be welcoming new engineering teams to our growing office there this year. We will also invest in expanded offices and data centers in Texas, Alabama, South Carolina, Virginia and Tennessee. Plus, we’ll open a Google Operations Center in Mississippi to improve our customer support for users and partners around the world. 

  

  Breaking ground at our office development in Atlanta in 2019. We’re expanding our space in Atlanta this year.

  Midwest 

  We recently opened a new Google Cloud office in Chicago and expanded our office in Madison, Wisconsin. We’ll make additional investments in our offices in Detroit, open a new data center in Ohio, and complete the expansion of our data center in Iowa.

  

  Ribbon cutting at our new Google Cloud office in Chicago in 2019.
  

  Central 

  In Colorado, we plan to double our workforce over the next two years, in part by expanding our presence in Boulder. We’ll also invest further in growing data centers in Nebraska and Oklahoma.

  

  Google’s Mayes County, Oklahoma data center expansion event. 

  East 

  We’re opening our new Hudson Square campus in New York City, where we have the capacity to double our local workforce by 2028. We’re also expanding our office in Pittsburgh, and a bigger office in Cambridge, Massachusettes, is under development. 

  West 

  We are expanding our Google Cloud campus in Seattle and undertaking a major development in Kirkland to open later this year. We’re making office and data center investments in Oregon. In California, we continue to invest in new locations in the Bay Area and Los Angeles. 

  We’ll also accelerate our work with businesses, governments, and community organizations to distribute the $1 billion we committed for Bay Area housing. In the first six months of this commitment, we’ve helped to create more than 380 new affordable housing units in the Bay Area, including an investment in a development focused on affordable and inclusive housing for adults with disabilities. There’s more to come in 2020.

  In addition to these investments in infrastructure and jobs, we’ll also continue our work nationally with local startups, entrepreneurs and small business owners to help Americans access new digital opportunities. Already Grow with Google and Google for Startups have trained more than 4 million Americans in hundreds of communities across all 50 states. Looking ahead, we're especially excited about our work creating pathways to jobs in the fast-growing field of IT through our two Grow with Google certificate programs. 

  Our growth is made possible only with the help of our local Googlers, partners and communities who have welcomed Google with open arms. Working together, we will continue to grow our economy, create good jobs for more Americans and make sure everyone can access the opportunities that technology creates.

  
  
  https://www.blog.google/inside-google/company-announcements/continuing-grow-invest-across-america-2020/
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  How we help Black-owned businesses grow their digital skills
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  Born on a cotton plantation in Louisiana in 1867, Sarah Breedlove faced many challenges as she sought to work her way out of poverty during a time of intense racial discrimination. Like many Black Americans, Sarah, who would later be known as Madam C.J. Walker, turned to entrepreneurship as a way to create her own opportunity and started a hair care line in 1906. She eventually grew that company into a hair and cosmetics empire, becoming the first Black female millionaire in the United States.

  Today the number of Black-owned businesses is on the rise in the U.S., with Black women fueling much of that growth. Even so, Black entrepreneurs still face obstacles, including a lack of access to funding and digital tools. 

  Google is committed to creating greater access to opportunities for these business owners. Last year, Google.org pledged$10 million to help underrepresented entrepreneurs start new businesses by providing access to training and capital. And we recently announced the Google for Startups Founders Academy, which will support underrepresented startup founders in Atlanta on topics such as sales, strategy, hiring and fundraising.

  We’ve been working in communities across the country to provide free in-person workshops through our Grow with Google Digital Coaches program, which aims to help Black and Latino business owners become more digitally savvy and reach customers online. Since the program’s launch in 2017, our digital coaches have trained tens of thousands of business owners in cities across the country. 

  One of those cities is Washington, D.C., which has long been home to a vibrant Black entrepreneurial community. Our local digital coach, Johnny Bailey, has trained thousands of local entrepreneurs,  including Sherika Wynter and Shallon Thomas, co-founders of T|W Lunch Tote, a startup that creates stylish and professional lunch bags. They knew that plenty of people were tired of carrying their lunches in paper or plastic bags, but struggled to find their customers. 

  After attending Grow with Google workshops led by Johnny, Sherika and Shallon learned more effective ways to use online tools like Google Ads, Analytics and G Suite, and put that knowledge to work. Since then, their sales have grown by 55 percent and now they face a new challenge: keeping up with orders.

  As we celebrate Black History Month, Grow with Google is hosting a Black Small Business Meetup in D.C. today, where we’ll be training entrepreneurs on how to use digital tools and hearing from Johnny and Sherika about how they grew their business. You can join us by tuning into the livestream or learn more about Digital Coaches.

  We look forward to continuing to support business owners like Sherika and Shallon, who carry on the legacy of Madam C.J. Walker, and the many other entrepreneurs who came before them.

  
  

  
  
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  How Android helps you work smarter
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  Technology should be there to assist you at work by solving problems in new ways. Android is built to be helpful with smart features that speed up everyday tasks and make work more accessible. From better communication tools to time-saving tricks, here are some of the ways that Android can help you be more productive. 
  
  

  Faster dialing with Click to Call

  Need to make a call while working from your laptop? Instead of awkwardly glancing back and forth between your computer and phone to punch in the number, which can easily lead to a misdial, Click to Call does all the work at once.

  With Click to Call, you can send a phone number from the Chrome browser on your computer to your Android phone. Just right-click on the number, select your Android device from the menu, and this will send a push notification to your phone. Then tap the notification and the  dial button to start the call. Make sure you’re signed in to sync on both devices.

  

  Make phone calls quickly with Click to Call.

  Save time with Smart Reply

  In Android 10, Smart Reply gives recommended actions based on the content of a message you receive. For example, if a colleague sends you the address of a client meeting, Android will pull up directions in Google Maps. Or if you receive a Hangouts Chat message with a link to a Google Doc, you can open it directly and start editing. Smart Reply works in messaging apps like Hangouts Chat, Messages, and many third-party apps such as Signal.

  

  Smart Reply sends you directly to just the right app.

  Enhance communication with speech to text apps

  Live Transcribe and Live Caption help you capture and follow conversations, presentations, or meetings. As part of Android’s accessibility suite of tools, Live Transcribe captions speech in real time on screen and, if you choose to, saves the transcriptions on your device for up to three days. The app can help the deaf people and people with hearing loss more easily participate in conversations. Additionally, for business meetings it can provide clarity in communicating when one or more of the participants are not native speakers to the language used in the conversation.

  

  Spoken words appear on your device with Live Transcribe.

  Live Transcribe is available in the Play Store for all devices Android 5.0 and up. On Pixel 3 and Pixel 4 devices, the service can be enabled from the accessibility settings.

  Live Caption, introduced in Android 10, automatically captions any media playing in real time on your device, even if you’re offline. It’s helpful for situations where you need to catch a company presentation or webinar, but it’s not convenient to play the audio because you don’t have headphones on you. Live Caption gives deaf people and people with hearing loss another accessibility tool for following along with a video conference or company presentation.

  Live Caption is available on Pixel 3, Pixel 3a, and Pixel 4 devices running Android 10, and is coming to the Galaxy S20.

  These are among the many ways Android is here to help and strives to provide new solutions for everything you need to get done throughout the day. Learn more about how Android is ready for work and transforming how businesses get things done.

  
  
  https://www.blog.google/products/android-enterprise/how-android-helps-you-work-smarter/