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| Google Cloud starts Cloud DevJam program on TechGig - Elets Posted: 15 May 2020 03:09 AM PDT TechGig in collaboration with Google Cloud launched the Cloud DevJam, an interactive upskilling online program designed to help Indian IT professionals. The new collaborations will enhance their cloud-based skills and apply knowledge to advance their professional careers. The new program has been designed to enable developers to build their skills during the current lockdown. Cloud DevJam program participants can build their expertise around an array of Google cloud Platform (GCP) skills including Core Infrastructure, Data & Machine Learning, Application Development and more. With points to be earned with each activity, developers can earn the recognition of 'Cloud DevJam Champions' at the end of the program. Sanjay Goyal, Business Head, TimesJobs and TechGig said, "The COVID-19 outbreak, and the social lockdown, has made it critically important for everyone to remain updated with the newer technologies. I am glad that at such juncture, TechGig – in collaboration with Google Cloud – is launching 'Cloud DevJam', a unique opportunity for the technologists to explore, learn and upskill on the Google Cloud Platform. I welcome all the IT professionals to participate in the 'Cloud DevJam' hackathons and skill-based contests and showcase their innovative ideas". Karan Bajwa, Managing Director, Google Cloud India said, "One thing that recent events has made clearer than ever is the importance for organisations and tech talent to be digital-first and cloud-ready. The Cloud DevJam is unique because it's been conceptualized to enable developers to build their knowledge while at home, and companies will need to call on their skills in the immediate and long term to ensure business agility."   |
| Will These New Google Meet Features Be Enough To Crush Zoom? - Forbes Posted: 13 May 2020 06:32 AM PDT  Google Meet is adding new features to take the fight to rival Zoom GoogleAnyone with a Google account should from today be able to use the Google Meet videoconferencing service, but the company is already promising a raft of new features. The question is whether any of them will be good enough to halt the runaway success that rival Zoom has enjoyed during the Coronavirus pandemic? Google Meet has been offered to Google's paying customers for some time, but the company announced last month it was also making it free for consumers to use during the current crisis. Meet will be the eventual replacement for Google Hangouts, the company's previous consumer videoconferencing effort, although - somewhat confusingly - the two services are currently running side by side. Google claims Meet offers many advantages over Hangouts, including superior video and audio quality that uses 30% less internet bandwidth than its predecessor, largely thanks to the use of the VP9 codec that is also used by YouTube. Beating the background noiseGoogle is also working on a selection of new features for Meet which it hopes will give the service the edge over Zoom, which has emerged from nowhere to become the videoconferencing solution of choice for many during the pandemic. One key feature Google is currently testing with its own staff is background noise cancellation. Serge Lachapelle, Director of Product Management at G Suite, demonstrated the feature to me this morning during a briefing held on Google Meet.  Google Meet can filter out background noise GettyLachapelle scrunched a bag of sweets right in front of the microphone that made it difficult to hear what he was saying, before switching on the noise cancellation, upon which the noise dropped to a gentle background rustle, leaving his voice perfectly clear. The noise cancellation is performed on Google's cloud servers, rather than on the local device, meaning that it can be applied on any device, including smartphones and tablets. "There's a lot of talk about de-noising now that everyone is at home and the dogs are barking, the kids are fighting and the vacuum cleaners are going," said Lachapelle. "I had a colleague chasing their Roomba [the robot vacuum cleaner] the other day on a customer call." The noise cancellation feature will be rolled out in the coming weeks to Google's Enterprise customers, although there's no detail of when it might arrive for free users. Presenter featuresGoogle is also making it easier to avoid sensitive documents appearing in the background when a presenter is screen sharing with a new feature - rolling out today - that allows presenters to share a single browser tab. Google says this is the best way to share high-quality video with audio content in meetings, which might also please the thousands of amateur lockdown quizmasters out there. The tab-sharing feature only works in Google Chrome. Meet also promises to bring meeting participants out of the shadows, using "AI" to boost the brightness of people's faces if they are in a dimly lit room or sitting with a bright light source such as a window behind them. Google does admit it's playing catch-up with Zoom on other popular features, most notably the options to blur your background or add a custom wallpaper. Lachapelle said the company was working on both and wanted to implement them "across the board", meaning both desktop and mobile users would have the features. Better security?If Zoom does have a weak spot, it's security, with the company recently forced to backtrack on claims it offered end-to-end encryption and call in security consultants to fix basic flaws. "We built Meet on top of WebRTC, which is an open-source platform that's been specified and standardized at the Internet Engineering Task Force, which is a large group of experts around the world that take a look at the fundamentals of the internet," said Lachapelle. "The fundamentals of what Meet builds on top of is open to a lot more inspection from the whole world than what a closed piece of software can offer." Furthermore, Meet has the added security of Google's existing account system, which offers facilities such as two-factor authentication, Lachapelle added. But perhaps the single biggest advantage Meet offers Zoom's free tier currently is that meetings don't cut off after 40 minutes. Google Meet allows free account holder meetings to run for up to 24 hours with up to 100 participants - surely long enough for any remote quiz to reach a conclusion...  |
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