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Google goes all-in on bringing AI to Workspace
Google and Microsoft are locked in a head-to-head competition to bring as much generative AI to their productivity services as possible. Only days ahead of Microsoft’s “Future of Work̶
Google is adding new Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides and Keep optimizations for tablets
Google announced today that it’s updating some of its apps to work better on tablets. Google introduced Android 12L earlier this year to make tablets easier to use, and at I/O, the company annou
Google Docs now lets you draft emails with others and export them to Gmail
Google is introducing a new feature in Google Docs that aims to make it easier to collaborate on an email draft, the company announced on Wednesday. The new Google Docs email draft template lets users
Google’s R&D division experiments with newsletters powered by Google Drive
Following entries into the newsletter market from tech companies like Facebook and Twitter, Google is now experimenting with newsletters, too. The company’s internal R&D division, Area 120,
Chrome Beta to experiment with a more powerful New Tab page, web highlights and search changes
Google is launching a new version of its Chrome Beta browser today that’s introducing some fairly notable changes to its user interface and design. The browser will introduce an updated New Tab
Skiff, an end-to-end encrypted alternative to Google Docs, raises $3.7M seed
Imagine if Google Docs was end-to-end encrypted so that not even Google could access your documents. That’s Skiff, in a nutshell. Skiff is a document editor with a similar look and feel to Googl
Google interconnects its Workspace apps, adds a dozen new features
Google kicked off its Google I/O Developer event this afternoon with a set of new collaborative workspace tools, which it’s calling, as a group, “Smart Canvas.” The company demonstra
Facebook now lets users export posts and notes to Google Docs, Blogger and WordPress.com
Facebook today announced a new feature that will allow users to export their Facebook posts and notes to a number of third-party services. Although the company has long since offered tools that let yo
Gmail, Google Drive hit by outage
Updated at 5:00PM IST / 11.30AM GMT: Google says it has resolved the issue that was affecting a number of its services. Our original story follows. Having trouble accessing your Gmail, Google Drive or
Google updates G Suite for mobile with dark mode support, Smart Compose for Docs and more
Google today announced a major update to its mobile G Suite productivity apps. Among these updates are the addition of a dark theme for Docs, Sheets and Slides, as well as the addition of Google’
Smart Compose is coming to Google Docs
At its Cloud Next event in London, Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian today announced that Smart Compose, the AI-powered feature that currently tries to complete phrases and sentences for you in Gmail, is
Google Drive beta test expands offline support to non-Google files in Chrome
Google Drive’s offline capabilities are getting an upgrade. Currently, you can use Google Chrome to make your Docs, Sheets, and Slides available offline. On Tuesday, the company announced the la
Google’s new AI grammar checker is now live in Google Docs
Google today announced that its new machine learning-powered grammar checker is now live in Google Docs for G Suite users. The company first introduced this new feature at Cloud Next 2018, but it ling
Google Docs gets an API for task automation
Google today announced the general availability of a new API for Google Docs that will allow developers to automate many of the tasks that users typically do manually in the company’s online off
Google Docs, Sheets, Slides and Sites on the web are going Material Design
Google today announced that it has started the long-expected rollout of its Material Design update for Google Docs, Sheets, Slides and Sites, after first testing this update to the G Suite apps with i
Google rolls out ‘.new’ links for instantly creating new Docs, Slides, Sheets and Forms
Google Docs just rolled out a time-saving trick that’s sure to be welcomed by heavy users of Docs, or any of Google’s other productivity tools like Sheets, Slides, Sites or Forms. The comp
Google Docs gets an AI grammar checker
You probably don’t want to make grammar errors in your emails (or blog posts), but every now and then, they do slip in. Your standard spell-checking tool won’t catch them unless you use an
Two Google alums just raised $60M to rethink documents
When you open a Google doc or a spreadsheet, you get a blank spreadsheet and some documentation as to what you can do with it — and that’s pretty much where we’ve been for quite some tim
Here’s Google’s official statement on today’s fast-spreading phishing attack
Early this afternoon, a new type of phishing attack popped up, targeting Google Docs/Gmail users and spreading like crazy. Well-disguised and infuriatingly subtle, just a click or two (on what was an