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Test Sizes (2010)

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What do you call a test that tests your application through its UI? An end-to-end test?...
What do you call a test that tests your application through its UI? An end-to-end test? A functional test? A system test? A selenium test? I’ve heard all them, and more. I reckon you have too. Tests running against less of the stack? The same equally frustrating inconsistency. Just what, exactly, is an integration t...
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The First Beta of Android 15

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Posted by Dave Burke, VP of Engineering Today we're releasing the first beta of Android 15....
Posted by Dave Burke, VP of Engineering Today we're releasing the first beta of Android 15. With the progress we've made refining the features and stability of Android 15, it's time to open the experience up to both developers and early adopters, so you can now enroll any supported Pixel device here to get this and ...
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How we built the Find My Device network with user security and privacy in mind

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Posted by Dave Kleidermacher, VP Engineering, Android Security and Privacy Keeping people safe and their data...
Posted by Dave Kleidermacher, VP Engineering, Android Security and Privacy Keeping people safe and their data secure and private is a top priority for Android. That is why we took our time when designing the new Find My Device, which uses a crowdsourced device-locating network to help you find your lost or misplaced...
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Gemini 1.5 Pro Now Available in 180+ Countries

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Link copied to clipboard Posted by Jaclyn Konzelmann and Megan Li - Google Labs Grab an...
Link copied to clipboard Posted by Jaclyn Konzelmann and Megan Li - Google Labs Grab an API key in Google AI Studio, and get started with the Gemini API Cookbook Less than two months ago, we made our next-generation Gemini 1.5 Pro model available in Google AI Studio for developers to try out. We’ve been amazed by wh...
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Google Public DNS's approach to fight against cache poisoning attacks

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Tianhao Chi and Puneet Sood, Google Public DNSThe Domain Name System (DNS) is a fundamental protocol...
Tianhao Chi and Puneet Sood, Google Public DNSThe Domain Name System (DNS) is a fundamental protocol used on the Internet to translate human-readable domain names (e.g., www.example.com) into numeric IP addresses (e.g., 192.0.2.1) so that devices and servers can find and communicate with each other. When a user ente...
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Jpegli: A New JPEG Coding Library

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The internet has changed the way we live, work, and communicate. However, it can turn into...
The internet has changed the way we live, work, and communicate. However, it can turn into a source of frustration when pages load slowly. At the heart of this issue lies the encoding of images. To improve on this, we are introducing Jpegli, an advanced JPEG coding library that maintains high backward compatibility ...
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Google Scholar PDF Reader

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Researchers have long loved PDFs for reading papers. You can focus on absorbing the scholarship –...
Researchers have long loved PDFs for reading papers. You can focus on absorbing the scholarship – the format is simple and clean. Researchers have also long complained about PDFs – we have heard “it takes ages to follow a reference”, “I really need to see the methods section first”, and the like. Today, we are launc...
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Google: No realistic path for an evolution of C++ to memory safety guarantees

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Alex Rebert, Software Engineer, Christoph Kern, Principal Engineer, Security FoundationsGoogle’s Project Zero reports that memory safety...
Alex Rebert, Software Engineer, Christoph Kern, Principal Engineer, Security FoundationsGoogle’s Project Zero reports that memory safety vulnerabilities—security defects caused by subtle coding errors related to how a program accesses memory—have been "the standard for attacking software for the last few decades and...
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Updated user interface for signing in to or signing up for your Google Account

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The First Developer Preview of Android 15

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Posted by Dave Burke, VP of Engineering We're releasing the first Developer Preview of Android 15...
Posted by Dave Burke, VP of Engineering We're releasing the first Developer Preview of Android 15 today so you, our developers, can collaborate with us to build a better Android. Android 15 continues our work to build a platform that helps improve your productivity while giving you new capabilities to produce superi...
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Magika: AI powered fast and efficient file type identification

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Today we are open-sourcing Magika, Google’s AI-powered file-type identification system, to help others accurately detect binary...
Today we are open-sourcing Magika, Google’s AI-powered file-type identification system, to help others accurately detect binary and textual file types. Under the hood, Magika employs a custom, highly optimized deep-learning model, enabling precise file identification within milliseconds, even when running on a CPU. ...
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Improving Interoperability Between Rust and C++

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Posted by Lars Bergstrom – Director, Android Platform Tools & Libraries and Chair of the Rust...
Posted by Lars Bergstrom – Director, Android Platform Tools & Libraries and Chair of the Rust Foundation Board Back in 2021, we announced that Google was joining the Rust Foundation. At the time, Rust was already in wide use across Android and other Google products. Our announcement emphasized our commitment to impr...
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Google will disable all but OAuth for IMAP, SMTP and POP starting Sept. 30

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As part of our commitment to user safety, Google Workspace will no longer support the sign-in...
As part of our commitment to user safety, Google Workspace will no longer support the sign-in method for third-party apps or devices that require users to share their Google username and password. This antiquated sign-in method, known as Less Secure Apps (LSAs), puts users at an additional risk since it requires sha...
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