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That’s not how Arabic is written, Google.

May 9, 2022May 25, 2022 mark

I’ve been studying Arabic for a few years now, after working with a large-ish team of Egyptian devs at a prior firm. The speech at Google I/O today had something very weird in it, and I’m only a novice. The slide has a lot of incorrect languages on it. It is spelled incorrectly and in a script that raises an eyebrow or two among Arabic speakers, but the Arabic text reads “Sudanese Language.” If you write “What’s That All About” in an attempt to replicate a Canadian accent, you can…

5 million businesses and 66 of the world’s top 100 universities now use Google Apps, including 425 million Gmail users

May 7, 2022Jun 2, 2022 mark

At today’s Google I/O developer conference, the company revealed that Gmail now has 425 million users. Government organizations in 45 states utilize it, and 66 of the top 100 U.S. institutions have already switched over to using it. More than 5 million businesses have “gone Google,” according to a statement from Google. According to Google, this includes a slew of big names, like Roche and KLM, among others. The Google+ social layer on top of several of the company’s tools, according to Google’s Sundar Pichai, enables users to do things…

LatAm e-commerce enterprises can benefit from Amazon-like operations thanks to clicOH’s shipping technology

May 5, 2022May 25, 2022 mark

There are currently $85 billion in Latin American e-commerce businesses that are expected to double in the next three years, which means that consumers’ expectations for timely delivery and proper packaging will only grow. When it comes to logistics and delivery technology, Amazon and MercadoLibre have been at the top of the game for decades while startups have built similar technology to give any e-commerce business equal footing. Argentina-based In a round led by Tiger Global, the shipping technology company clicOH raised $25 million in Series A funding. Existing investors…

The New York Times is buying the popular puzzle game Wordle

May 3, 2022May 25, 2022 mark

The New York Times Company has purchased Wordle, a renowned puzzle game that has enthralled users around the world. An undisclosed sum in the “seven-figure range” has been paid for the game. For the time being, Wordle will remain free to use for both new and existing users, according to the New York Times Company. Additionally, the transfer to The New York Times won’t result in any modifications to the game’s gameplay, according to the business. We are delighted to announce that Wordle, the stimulating and massively popular daily word…

Video chapters, single loop, and more are now available on YouTube’s player.

May 1, 2022May 25, 2022 mark

Today, YouTube is introducing a new feature that will help users recognize the most popular parts of a video they’re watching, as well as a number of other modifications to the video player. According to a blog post from the company, it’s adding a graph that people can use to locate and watch the most frequently replayed parts of a video. This could be especially helpful for longer videos or those that haven’t been broken down into their various sections using either timestamps or video chapters. Formerly only available as…