Google recently rolled out an automatic delete feature for new users, the feature deletes user data every eighteen months unless users change the settings as per their preference. This data will include the user's location history, web, and app activity. Now, Google is rolling out new controls for smart features that will give the ability to users to turn them off. Smart features in Gmail include automatic email filtering, tabbed inbox, summary cards above emails, Smart Compose, and Smart Reply that essentially give suggestions to users before they type out the entire message.

All these features are aimed at the convenience of users but they use significant amounts of data. Google will roll out a toggle that users can turn off if they do not rely on the features. They can also turn it back on anytime.
With Google capping storage data for Google Photos at 15GB from June 21, 2021, users will want to opt to turn off smart features and the toggle will make it easier. Google will roll out the feature soon and when it does it will notify the users. Google noted that the ability to turn off the smart features is not new and users can separately turn off the smart feature control for Gmail, Google Meet, and Chat.

"The ability to turn on (or not) some of these individual smart features is not new. What’s new is a clearer choice over the data processing that makes them possible. This new setting is designed to reduce the work of understanding and managing that process, in view of what we’ve learned from user experience research and regulators’ emphasis on comprehensible, actionable user choices over data," Google in a blog post said.
Turning off the toggle will also limit the user’s access to personalized data on Gmail, Chat, and Meet. If a user personalizes this data, they get reminders from Google Assistant for bills, the option to view restaurant reservations in Maps, and loyalty cards & tickets for Google Pay.

Earlier this week Google announced that starting June 21, 2021, Google will no longer offer unlimited free photo backup June 2021. However, any high-quality picture or video that will be uploaded before June 21, 2021, will not be counted towards your 15GB of free storage. The photos that are backed up before June 21 will be considered free and will be exempted from the storage limit.

Source: indiatoday

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Google is starting to roll out a new editing mode for Google Photos on Android, which adds machine learning-powered automatic suggestions, and improved tools for more granular manual controls to help make your photos look even better.

The biggest change is a new “Suggestions” tab in the photo editing menu, which will offer recommendations for edits for the specific photo you’re currently looking at, automatically adjusting things like “brightness, contrast, and portrait effects.” The broad edits are also just a starting point — Google will also show you what edits it made, and let you tweak them further.
To start, Google is offering some basic options for suggestions, like “Enhance” and “Color Pop,” but the company promises it’ll continue to expand its lineup of options optimized around specific types of images (like portraits, landscapes, or sunsets) in the coming months, starting with Pixel phones.

Google is also rolling out a new interface for its general editing tools, for things like brightness, contrast, saturation, warmth, white point, blur, and more, making it easier for users to scroll through each option and adjust it for the image in question.

The new Google Photos editing tools should be rolling out on Android devices today. No iOS release date was announced.

Source:theverge

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Google Photos, the most popular photo, and video storage app, will no longer offer unlimited free photo backup from June 2021. As per google’s new storage policy, Google will start charging for the services from June 21.

The company announced that any new photos and videos that you upload will count toward the free 15 GB of storage that comes with every Google Account.

Announcing the change in High-quality storage quality, Shimrit Ben-Yair, VP, Google Photos said, “Starting June 1, 2021, any new photos and videos you upload will count toward the free 15 GB of storage that comes with every Google Account or the additional storage you’ve purchased as a Google One member. Your Google Account storage is shared across Drive, Gmail, and Photos. This change also allows us to keep pace with the growing demand for storage. And, as always, we uphold our commitment to not use information in Google Photos for advertising purposes. We know this is a big shift and may come as a surprise, so we wanted to let you know well in advance and give you resources to make this easier.”

However, any high-quality picture or video that will be uploaded before June 21, 2021, will not be counted towards your 15GB of free storage. The photos that are backed up before June 21 will be considered free and will be exempted from the storage limit.

Google notes that if you upload your photos and videos in original quality, the changes made will not impact you. The Original quality photos and videos will continue to count toward the 15 GB of free storage across your Google Account.

The Google Pixel users will not be impacted by the changes either. If you are using any Pixel device from 1 to 5, you will still be able to upload high-quality photos and videos for free even after June 21.

“This change does not take effect for another six months, so you don’t need to do anything right now. And once this change does take effect on June 1, 2021, over 80 percent of you should still be able to store roughly three more years worth of memories with your free 15 GB of storage. As your storage nears 15 GB, we will notify you in the app and follow up by email,” Yair said in the Google blog.

If you want to expand your storage, you can buy the plan starting at $1.99 per month in the U.S. for 100 GB of storage. It includes additional benefits like access to Google experts, shared family plans, and more.

Source: theverge

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To quote Google CEO Sundar Pichai: AI is “more profound than fire or electricity.”

To back up this claim with incontrovertible evidence: here’s an AI tool made by Google researchers that turns doodles into weird monsters. What could be more profound?

It’s certainly fun, anyway. The tool is called Chimera Painter and uses machine learning to generate imagery based on users’ rough sketches. This sort of dynamic is becoming a relatively common one in machine learning. Nvidia has done it with landscapes before; MIT and IBM did it with buildings, and now Google is ... doing it with monsters.

The team behind Chimera Painter explained their methods and motivations in a blog post, saying the idea was to create a “paintbrush that acted less like a tool and more like an assistant.” Chimera Painter is just a prototype, but if software like this becomes common it could “reduce the amount of time necessary to create high-quality art,” claim the team.
The researchers gave themselves the challenge of creating artwork for a fictional fantasy card game, in which players combine features from different monsters and battle them like mutating Pokémon. They trained a machine learning model on a database of more than 10,000 sample monsters, which were themselves in part procedurally generated using 3D models rendered in Unreal Engine. Each image is paired with a “segmentation map” — an overlay that divides the monsters into anatomical parts like claws, snouts, legs, and so on.

Once the model has been trained on this data, users can then paint their own segmentation map which is then rendered using photorealistic textures. If you load up Chimera Painter you can see some of the preset monsters and they’re impressively cohesive. However, painting one yourself takes more time and effort than you might think. Our attempt below, for example, looks like a knock-off Gruffalo depicted using mud. It’s monstrous, but not necessarily a monster.

Source: theverge

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