New Improved Machine Learning Platform by Google

New Machine Learning Platform by Google

It was announced by Google of a new machine learning platform which developers can use in their applications and solutions. 

It was presented at NEXT Google Cloud Platform user conference. It was stated by Google chairman Eric Schmidt "Google believes machine learning is “what’s next.”

The service is now available in limited preview and it was stated. “Major Google applications use Cloud Machine Learning, including Photos (image search), the Google app (voice search), Translate and Inbox (Smart Reply),” the company . “Our platform is now available as a cloud service to bring unmatched scale and speed to your business applications.”

Presently, Google’s Cloud Machine Learning platform consists of two parts: one that allows developers to build machine learning models from their own data, and another that offers developers a pre-trained model. To train or operate these machine learning models, developers can choose their data from tools such as Google Cloud Dataflow,Google BigQuery,Google Cloud Dataproc, Google Cloud Storage, and Google Cloud Datalab.

The pre-trained models include existing APIs like the Google Translate API and Cloud Vision API, but also new services like the Google Cloud Speech API. The Cloud Speech API powers Google’s own voice search and voice-enabled apps. It can do speech-to-text conversion for 80+ languages.

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Google Apps No Longer Support Internet Explorer 8 from Microsoft

It was announced today by Google on a post that Google is dropping support for Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 for its offering solution tools of Google Apps. This comes in a context where Windows 8 will have Internet Explorer 10 as standard.

It is expected that this new development, will leave many current Microsoft Windows XP powered machines and its users with no alternative following this announcement by Google, particularly in this case where Windows XP users cannot install Internet Explorer 9 as an alternative on their desktops.

Nevertheless, windows XP is now over a decade old with a worldwide market of around 42% source. And only recently Windows 7 overtook Windows XP, so this announcement will have a significant impact for XP users that rely on Google Apps.

Google Apps Enterprise Users Now Have Google Plus Functionality

Great news for Google Apps business customers, despite some already having had the new functionality of Google+ available on their app dashboard.

Nevertheless Google today has provided the full functionality of Google+ features available for Google Apps Enterprise users.

As a result, Enterprise users now have enterprise-grade functionality and controls using Google+ on their accounts.  The new functionality for businesses now includes:

• Post Sharing Control using Filtered Privacy.


• Google+ Hangouts.


• Controls for Google Apps administrators, capability to control set sharing defaults for posts on different teams, among others.

Google+ will also be included for standard users of Google Apps, it will become available next year.