News & Reviews:   Google

According to Amanz, Google has officially announced the expansion of its YouTube Shopping affiliate programme to Malaysia. Introduced in Indonesia back in September 2024, the programme was developed in collaboration with Shopee to rival TikTok Shop through creator-promoted e-commerce.

Today, Google announced the integration of ShopeePay and TNG eWallet (an Alipay+ Partner) with Google Pay in Malaysia. With this, it marks Google Pay's first eWallet integrations in Southeast Asia, which will enable Android users in Malaysia to check out seamlessly with selected online merchants.

Wikimedia Enterprise is now offering parts of Wikipedia's datasets to companies that want to use them to train artificial intelligence (AI) models. They collaborated with Keggle – a subsidiary of Google – to offer selected datasets in English and French. So, what should you know about it?

In March last year, Google removed its currency converter widget when users searched for the Malaysian Ringgit (MYR due to a wrong USD to MYR conversion controversy, which led to Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) reprimanding the tech giant. Google then disabled the widget to address technical issues, and it has been gone until today, when the feature makes an unexpected return.

Google announced that the Gemini Live feature with camera support and screen sharing is now available to all Android users through the Gemini app. So, what should you know about it?

If you don't know, Google previously allowed device makers to use only 16GB of internal storage, enough to run the Android operating system, but no more than that. But, that could change soon. So, what should you know about it?

Today, Google announced a major change to the way it delivers local search results. The company will phase out the use of country-specific domains like google.com.my, google.ng, google.com.br and others in favour of a more streamlined, global approach.

Google today announced Ironwood, its 7th generation Tensor Processing Unit (TPU), which is a high-performance, scalable custom AI accelerator, and the first designed specifically for inference . So, what should you know about it?

Editor's note - On 11 April, we were updated by Google that Gemini Live supports Bahasa Indonesia, not Bahasa Malaysia, as we thought

For a few months, the Google Gemini App is free to download on most Android phones from the Google Play Store. To the uninitiated, it's an app that lets you chat with Gemini. Today, a source reported that Gemini Live can now understand Bahasa Malaysia.

Over the long weekend holidays, Google sent out a new update for Google Photos on the web. So in case you missed it, you can now set a dark mode theme on your Google Photos in your web browser.