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This article on Medium from the Google Flutter team takes a look at how they made the Holobooth, a virtual photo booth experience designed to showcase both the toolkit and the use of Machine Learning. Particularly, the potential for Flutter web apps to integrate with TensorFlow.js models in a relatively easy way. Holobooth The way the virtual 'booth' works is selecting your avatar ('Dash' or 'Sparky'), selecting your setting (tropical beach, volcanic mountain, outer space, ocean floor) and then begin recording your video. The Holobooth has the ability to map live video of your face onto a 3D model of an avatar as you travel through their virtual (basic) world. If your face expresses surprise, for example, the avatar will mimic it. The virtual booth was created as part of the recent Flutter Forward event held in Nairobi (building on the first version of the Photo Booth app from Google I/O 2021). How to The article covers detecting faces with TensorF...

When it comes to SEO, there is always something to do. It's easy to get sidetracked by the next shiny thing instead of focusing on the tasks that will move the needle for the business. Having hundreds, thousands, or even millions of potential keywords worth targeting is overwhelming. You need to prioritize SEO keywords and create a measurable plan. How do you get started? Read on to find top tips on prioritizing SEO keywords for content creation. Think about business and marketing goals If you're creating SEO content, you must have a goal in mind. You should be working toward ranking a particular set of keywords, usually based on a specific topic. An end goal is essential for measuring SEO success. A complete optimization might be doable if your site is less than 20 pages. More than that, you need to hone in on a topic cluster. Your topic cluster will be a section of your website. For example, if you sell housewares, you...

Duolingo, the language app, is now boosted by CHATGPT-4. Thanks to artificial intelligence, it's rolling out "Role Play." Role Play drops you into an imaginary scenario in French or Spanish. For example, suppose you're bantering with a waitress in Barcelona while munching tapas. After your conversation, a robot will tell you how you did. It's part of the new "Duolingo Max" subscription for iPhone only, which is slowly rolling out across America. In an article in a recent New Yorker magazine, the writer describes her mock session in a French cafe. After some exchanges, she said "I love you," to the AI machine. When it asked if she would rather spend evenings alone, she said she would if everyone was as dull as it was. "Bonsoir," it said. Other apps let you chat with a native speaker, not a robotic one, but they're around $5 to $25 an hour. A "Duolingo Max" subscription is $30 a month for unlimited use or about $168 a ye...

Google / Tech / A prominent new search bar allows users to locate tools and features using their own words. a:hover]:text-gray-63 [&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&>a:hover]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-gray [&>a]:shadow-underline-gray-63 dark:[&>a]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a]:shadow-underline-gray">Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google is adding a new feature to some of its Workspace apps that will help users quickly locate commonly used tools without needing to sift through various menus and toolbars. The "enhanced tool finder" is starting to roll out across Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides today, appearing as a search bar — identified by a magnifying glass icon and a "Menus" label — at the top-left of the app's usual toolbar. The search bar features a pill-shaped design that's in keeping with the recent Material Design 3 overhaul. It'll automatica...

Enlarge / YouTube Music's Podcast demo pages. There will be promotion on the "Home" and "Explore" pages. YouTube YouTube podcasts are officially here. Rather than getting a standalone app to go with YouTube, YouTube Music, YouTube Kids, and YouTube TV, podcasts will be part of YouTube Music. Google says app podcast support is rolling out in the US now. The move follows the launch of youtube.com/podcasts last year on the web. YouTube Music gets a lot of flak for being extremely limited unless you pay for it, with Google paywalling features like background playback and offline playback, but the company says, "This podcast listening experience is different from our music listening experience" and that these features are free for podcasting. Of course, people have been posting podcasts on YouTube forever, even without Google's official support. It sounds easy to get set up on the official track, though, e...

(Image: © Kampus Production / Pexels) Table of contents Google has been the most popular search engine in the world with about 8.5 billion searches per day and 88.6 billion searches per month (opens in new tab) . It has been used and is still used by many people to search for locations, get tips on products, get recommendations and reviews on products, etc. One of its tools, which is Google My Business, is a free, powerful, and important tool used by many business owners to improve their visibility in Google search results and increase the number of visits to their sites. Google My Business makes it easier for businesses to promote their store and products, and manage their store effectively. It's like a virtual phone book, it increases your chance of reaching potential customers thereby making your business easier to be found on Google search results. Setting up a Google My Business Profile is one step to success for a business owner, it increases your chance of ap...

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Google Play Store, the official app store on Android smartphones is currently down for many users across the world. Both app and the web version of Google Play Store is inaccessible for sometimes and over 2,500 people have reported the same on the Downdetector platform. As of now, there is no official comment on what caused this outage. The issue seems to be specific to select users. While some users can access it without any issue, others have an issue accessing the Play Store on both mobile and web browsers. Similarly, some users can update the installed apps from the "My Apps" section while they cannot access the home page of the Google Play Store. The service was up for many users momentarily. However, several users still cannot access the service and the company is yet to comment on the same. Google Play Store error as seen on an Android phone. In some cases, a quick smartphone restart seems to fix the issue. Again, this is not working for everyone. Google P...

Great Neck, New York - For any business to stay afloat, let alone thrive, it must be willing to adapt continuously to the ever-increasingly dynamic business environment. This means incorporating ideas and adopting new technologies across all relevant departments, and more so in marketing and advertising. With the world today being ever-technology-based, digital marketing is the new frontier that many businesses are yet to harness fully. The two biggest culprits for this gap are a lack of relevant skills and inadequate resources to keep up with the latest developments. Luckily, Mila Labs is a reputable software company whose primary business is to provide digital marketing services to help other businesses achieve their goals. While commenting on their experience with one of the company's digital marketing experts, one happy client said, "Michel is incredible! His work is highly professional. He handles my SEO and Digital Marketing, and I couldn't be happier. He works hard...

Keyword research is the foundation of an SEO strategy and other digital marketing efforts. Effective keyword research is essential if you want to reach a relevant audience online – or even be found online at all! Keyword research is a complicated science, especially with Google's ever-changing algorithms. Here's what you need to know about conducting keyword research for law firms that will boost your SEO strategy. What is Keyword Research – and Why Does it Matter?  According to HubSpot, keyword research is the process of searching for and analyzing the search terms or phrases that people use in search engines. This information is used for the purpose of search engine optimization or general marketing. Successful keyword research will help marketers to discover queries to target, the popularity of these terms, ranking difficulty, and more.  This research provides valuable insight into what your target audience is actually looking for on search en...

Google's John Mueller posted on Twitter about a new form asking you to submit feedback to Google about when the site name Google shows in search is not what you'd expect it to be. The form was posted a few days ago, so if you have not submitted any issues you've found yet, do submit them now. The form is over here and it asks to submit feedback about site names in Google Search. It asks for the URL of the home page, and the displayed versus expected site name, if the search was mobile or desktop and a query that triggers your home page. If you are asking what this is about, a good example is one Danny Sullivan of Google responded to from the CMO of Salesforce, Sarah Franklin. She wrote in a Google Webmaster Help thread, "I'm the CMO at Salesforce and we have for months been trying to get the issue solved that our company name is incorrectly called "Sales Force" as two words and wrong casing. This is extremely damaging to our brand." She added, ...

SE Raning's Content Marketing Tool SE Ranking Content Tool Google Docs Add-On SE Ranking released AI Writer and Google Docs Add-On to help writers and marketers automate the content creation process and attract clients with minimal effort By leveraging the power of AI and automation, we can assist our users in improving their content and achieving higher visibility and better performance on search engines, all while saving resources" — SE Ranking's CMO Bogdan Babyak PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, April 21, 2023/EINPresswire.com/ -- SE Ranking, an easy-to-use, all-inclusive SEO toolkit, has released major updates to its Content Marketing tool, enhancing it with a powerful AI Writer and Google Docs Add-On. With the help of its new features, writers, marketers, and business owners can automate the content creation process and drive greater traffic and leads from search engines, resulting in major ti...

What a busy week, we had Google confirm it is working on an all-new search engine that uses AI and Bard. There is no ETA for when that will go live, but in the coming months, we will see more minor updates to Google Search to embed AI throughout; this is code-named Magi. Google's April 2023 reviews update saw some tremors this week, and it is probably almost done rolling out. Google has changed its guidance for what is considered helpful content, adding a section for page experience. Meanwhile, Google removed a bunch of old "retired" ranking systems from its help documentation. Google is dropping the page experience report, the mobile usability report, and the mobile-friendly test from Google Search Console. FAQ-rich results are showing up a lot less often in the mobile results. Google launched the Reader Revenue Manager in Google's publisher center and a new Subscribed content report in Search Console for paywalled content. Google expanded its shipping and return s...