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Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai announced that Google Gemini now has over 750 million monthly active users (MAU). This was revealed in Alphabet's latest financial report yesterday, up from 650 million (MAU) announced last quarter.

Alphabet, the company behind Google, has now overtaken Apple to become the second most valuable company in the world. At the time of writing, Alphabet has a market value of $3.892 trillion (~RM15.97 trillion), while Apple has a market value of USD3.863 trillion (~RM15.64 trillion). So, what should you know about it?

The world’s most popular web mapping platform, Google Maps, has announced that it will be displaying the ‘Gulf of Mexico’ as the ‘Gulf of America’ in the US following President Donald Trump’s Executive Order to rename the geographical area. Google Maps elaborated that the name change on the platform would take place after the US Geographic Names System has been officially updated.

As Alphabet closed its Q3 2024 financial report, it was reported that YouTube is doing very well. From the latest investor relation earning calls, YouTube's combined ad and subscription revenue has surpassed $50 billion for the first time ever.

Alphabet, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft and NVIDIA are among the companies worth more than $1 trillion globally, and their technologies are seen to power all layers of our lives on this earth. Recently, RBC reported the Russian government will sue these giants. So, what should you know about it?

The world’s first trillion-dollar company, Apple ended trading on Wednesday (2 November 2022) with a market value of a whopping USD2.307 trillion or RM10.95 trillion. That means that Apple was valued to be worth more than three of its tech competitors combined, namely Alphabet, Amazon and Meta.

Google is reportedly working on a feature that would allow for devices running Android 13 to support multiple profiles on a single eSIM. This would essentially allow users to connect to more than one carrier with a single eSIM and make SIM cards obsolete.

Senior technical editor for Android developer platform Esper, Mishaal Rahman in a blog post last Thursday alluded to this feature coming to the big Android 13 update. However, no release date timeframe for the update was mentioned.

Google’s online video sharing and social media platform YouTube is now offering TV streaming service too, but with a twist. Get this, you can stream up to 4000 episodes of TV for free, but you’ll be interrupted with ads the whole time.

Seems like a fair compromise, don’t you think? Also, isn’t this just exactly what a conventional TV channel is anyway, only with an extra step and the convenience of picking what show to watch?

Google has officially unveiled a new feature to Google Maps called Live View, which helps you navigate to your destination more easily than ever before. The feature utilizes augmented reality (AR), which will display various important information such as direction and distance markers which you can follow to get to your destination quickly.

The cases of Covid-19 in Malaysia have increased to a total number of 553 by today. While the cases are increasing, it doesn’t mean we have to panic over the virus and cause unwanted chaos in our society. At this time, we think that everyone should follow the precautions to stay away from crowded places and keep yourself hygienic. Meanwhile, in the US, Google’s sister company has developed a site which offers free Covid-19 screening tests to specific counties, as one of the measures proposed by the US President Donald Trump.