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Google Assistant Updates - Your Computer Is Getting Smarter

Google Assistant getting major upgrades, including full phone operation. If you thought the Google Duplex demo was cool last year, in which a computer user with Google Assistant made a restaurant reservation unassisted, you are in for a treat. Google Duplex and Google Assistant are getting smarter, and will be able to do much more with voice commands. How about telling your computer to make a car rental reservation and watch the computer fill in all the information without intervention? Just click and confirm. There are benefits to Google Assistant knowing everything about you. If you think this is creepy, wait until your computer can anticipate your next question. Wait, it already can? Creepy.

Google Knows Where You Are And Where You've Been

Google unveils auto-delete for location, Web activity, and app usage data | Ars Technica. Google knows. I am not just talking about your physical location and where you've been and what your favorite restaurant is, and when you were there last. I am talking about everything you do. I have written before about how to get into the data Google keeps on you, such as browsing history, and geolocation history. However, you must actively go to a webpage and click to do so. Now, you can limit this data automatically, by setting a time limit on the data keeping. As a lawyer, I might be interested in ediscovery benefits from being able to track someone by examining such data. However, it is really creepy to get into Google's map of every physical you have been for the past couple of years. Now, if I knew I would need an alibi...

The Browser Wars Are Over - Chrome Won - What Now?

Ten hidden Google Chrome tips and tricks for Android. You have finally capitulated to the best browser on the planet, Google Chrome. Now, it is up to you to use it well. What's the point of having a tool like Chrome if you don't use it to make your Internet time more useful and productive? Check out the experimental features in the Chrome Flags section of the browser, and be amazed.

Legal Research On The Internet - First Stop - Google

What Is Google? How to Do an Internet Search. It is amazing to me that more researchers, including lawyers, don't know how to do basic legal research on the Internet. You don't need  a specialized database of cases, or specific training. Every research project should begin with the Google home page. Just start typing search terms and see what pops up. You will probably get lucky. Just do it.

Google Duo Group Calling Going Live

Google Duo group video calling live in certain regions. There isn't a much better way to communicate than face to face. If you can't be there in person, video calls are the next best thing. While I use it primarily to communicate with loved ones, it can be an effective way to connect with clients when email or a phone call won't do. It is also handy when your connection wants to show you something on screen that they are seeing. Now, Google will provide the ability to do this with groups of four. Can't attend a meeting? Fire up Duo.

InBox Zero - Get Your Email Under Control

How to Manage Your Email Using Technology %u2013 and Get Your Time and Sanity Back | LegalFuel. Most modern law practices run on email. Whereas, in decades past, we spent a lot of time on phone calls, communicating with the clients, prospective clients, other lawyers, and judicial assistants, we manage our practices these days online. While some find the use of email onerous, I have found that it enables me to organize my life and practice and reduces stress. However, it is necessary to tame the beast in order to pet it. So, this LegalFuel one hour seminar is a great place to start. My InBox is at zero at all times, and emails I can't deal with immediately are stashed in a Pending folder that I go through often. Are you at Inbox Zero? If not, how do you sleep at night?

Google Assistant Voice History - Creepy Or Cool? You Decide

How to delete your voice recordings from Google Assistant. Somewhere, over the rainbow, in the cloud, Google has a cache of your voice, giving commands to Google Assistant, ever since you started using it. It is a benign invasion of your privacy, intended to make the AI better at recognizing and responding to your commands. But, as the AI gets better, your privacy disappears, and only you can decide where the trade off becomes creepy and unacceptable. There are many more pieces of your digital life that are saved by Google and you need to make a visit to myaccount.google.com, and decide for yourself what is useful and what is creepy. Enjoy.

You Get To Choose Your Google Assistant

You can finally switch the Google Assistant voice to John Legend, here's how to do it. Many of us are spending a lot more time talking to our smartphones. I never thought I would be asking Google Assistant for so many answers, or to perform so many tasks. But, as I become more depending on Assistant, the need for some variety has prompted me to check out all the different voices to assign to my best friend. Now, Google is starting to provide celebrity voices for some tasks, and John Legend is the first. Sorry, John, but my faves are female, and have a U.K. accent. There is something very sexy about a British female voice, especially when she answers every question I ask her.

Gmail Is 15 - Now Do You Believe?

Gmail Turns 15, Announces Scheduled Deliveries and New Language Support for Smart Compose %u2013 Droid Life. I remember when I first began using GMail for most of my daily functions. I endured derision from others, who claimed a GMail address was one step above Aol on the professional image scale. But, coming from the days when syncing my email clients with my PDA software, and my case management software was a hit or miss proposition, not to mention a huge time suck, I loved the everywhereness of it. Phone, tablet, computer number one, computer number two, it was always current, always there, and easy to use. Now, at 15, it is easily the most used, and best, email client on the web. And, with two factor authentication, and 1.5 billion users, and Google engineers, it is as secure as you are likely to get in this world. Yes, there are more secure systems, and you can use them in spot situations. But, for everyday computing? I love my rickgeorges@gmail.com address.

Microsoft Edge Browser With Chromium Is Zippy And Compatible

Further details spilled on Chromium-based Edge browser %u2013 along with a download link | TechRadar. Google Chrome has been my browser of choice for years. However, it has tended, in recent years, to get top heavy and clunky. So, when I discovered that Microsoft had seen the light, and had infused the zippy little Edge browser with Chromium, and that it promised to be compatible with my bookmarks and Chrome extensions that I have honed to perfection over the years, I had to try it. It is fast, compatible, and I am using it right now. Even though this isn't even a Beta version, I love it already.