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Google AI to power Spotify’s personalized music recommendations
Whenever we start hearing music, everyone wants their favorite music to be at the top. Spotify’s song discovery process will be facilitated by Google AI. Utilizing the technology giant’s artificial intelligence to identify user preferences through patterns, the streaming platform has extended its partnership with them. Then, based on your interests, it can suggest songs, albums, or playlists. In an effort to provide personalized suggestions, Spotify and Google Cloud extended their collaboration on Thursday.
LLMs, or large language models, are used to detect a user’s listening habits across podcasts and audiobooks. Generating text and other material, artificial intelligence-driven LLMs like Google Bard and OpenAI’s ChatGPT are trained on vast amounts of data. The three main areas of concentration for Google Cloud AI tools are:
Content discovery: In an effort to get a deeper understanding of its library and employ more metadata in its recommendation system, Spotify is investigating the potential of large language models (LLM).
Personalised suggestions: Spotify is also investigating methods to leverage LLM to enhance the user experience. Specifically, it wants to identify trends in its customers’ preferences for spoken material (such as audiobooks and podcasts) and provide them with recommendations for more recent and engaging content.
Safer experiences: In order to identify potentially hazardous material and offer safer experiences, Spotify is also investigating the use of LLM.
Spotify was one of the first companies to employ AI, implementing algorithms for music recommendations a decade ago. The Swedish business is now trying to reproduce it in its non-music material, such as audiobooks and podcasts, by using LLMs. Understanding these three points suggests that using AI will encompass podcasts in addition to music. As a result, voiced recommendations that are more suited to our tastes will be available to us. In addition, it will identify hazardous information so that consumers won’t see it.
Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian said,With this expanded partnership, Spotify will use Google Cloud’s AI tools to take its customer experience to a new w levelSpotify is aware of the potential that AI can bring to their activities. Together, we will continue to collaborate in the development of innovative technologies that are beneficial to them.”
Over the years, Google has made several improvements to its most crucial application, the Google Play Store, and it constantly provides new utility features and improvements. Now, with the latest development, the company is working on a new capability to handle multiple application downloads.
According to the information, Google is looking to bring a new capability to download multiple applications together. Previously, when you tap on the install button of the applications, it starts downloading them one by one. When one application fully downloads, it starts downloading the second application.
However, it is worth noticing that the phenomenon of multiple downloading is limited to only two applications, meaning if you tap on more than three applications to download, it will start downloading two applications while the third one is still pending.
Additionally, the simultaneous download is limited to the new installs, but it will not apply to the update section. We hope that Google may expand the multiple downloads to update phenomenon and may increase the number of downloads together in the next developments.
As per the information, the new change has already started working on several devices, at least for the Android 14 installed devices with the latest version of the Play Store (40.6.31).
Good Lock plays a key role in providing a platform for all the customizing applications or plugins of the Galaxy devices. For information, it provides several types of plugins like NavStar, QuickStar, LockStar, Camera Assistant, and many more. With these plugins, users can perform several customizations for the smartphone UI, including navigation bars, lock screens, home screens, notifications, and many more. To manage these plugins more conveniently, the company has started rolling out the update for Good Lock.
Good Lock is receiving a new update, version 2.2.04.95. With the latest update, the company has introduced some new changes that will fix the phenomenon of installation and deletion of modules, so users can easily manage them according to their requirements.
Along with this, the changelog also says to bring some fixes for the security-related functionalities, so if you are also having some issues while using any of the functions of Good Lock or want to get some performance enhancements, then you should go for the latest Good Lock update.
If you want to install the latest version of Good Lock, you can check its availability from the Galaxy Store. If it is available, tap on the update button, but if it isn’t available, you can also sideload the application through some external sources.
Google’s developers are releasing an update for its Android Auto app with great constancy. After providing stable version 11.8, there is a new beta ready to test.
Google released Android Auto 11.9 Beta Update
This new Android Auto 11.9 beta build landed online a few hours ago, allowing users to test its features before the public rollout begins.
The latest Android Auto 11.9 beta is ready to download for all users who have registered for it. However, the update rarely brings significant changes from the previous updates. The mMountainvViewgiant didn’t offer the changelogs for the Android Auto updates, so the only way to find out what’s new in version 11.9 is to install it on your device and look for changes.
In the previous Android Auto 11.8 update, the redesigned Settings menu began rolling out to users. Installing Android Auto 11.9 beta doesn’t guarantee you’ll get the new Settings interface today, but it is required once Google enables the server-side update on your device.
Keep in mind that Android Auto 11.9 is still in the beta stage. As a result, you may encounter bugs and issues after installing it. As a result, you might experience crashes or other issues while using this beta version.