Tag: Google

Notre Dame quarterback Riley Leonard wristband breaks Google

Did you search for the verse?

Notre Dame football fans came to know [autotag]Riley Leonard[/autotag] very well during his one season with the team. Perhaps they best knew him for how he literally wore his faith on his wrist during games.

Leonard wore and often pointed out his wristband displaying “Matthew 23:12” on it. “All who exalt themselves will be humbled, and all who humble themselves will be exalted,” the Bible verse says.

Irish fans already knew about this, but the College Football Playoff title game against Ohio State afforded the rest of the country a chance to learn about it.

After Leonard scored the game’s first touchdown, he showed his wristband for the ESPN camera. That prompted a bunch of people to head to Google and search for the verse. We know this because entrepreneur and investor Joe Pompliano took to social media and said Google shattered its previous high for searches for the verse right after the touchdown.

In case you somehow missed the touchdown, here it is:

Leonard is a man of faith, and he isn’t afraid to show it.

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Google’s Snake game has a daily challenge that’s deceptively tough

Google’s Snake game is so good.

The classic game of Snake is a simple one: you direct a snake to gobble up food, but the moment you do, your tail gets bigger and bigger, and the goal is not to ram into it or into the wall. When you do, game over.

Google, as part of its array of Google Doodle games, now has a version of Snake in which you have a daily challenge. Sometimes, you’re in a very small space with obstacles. Sometimes, your snake has a weird-looking tail.

Whatever it is, it’s tough and fun, and it seems like people around the interwebs are using their lunch hours to give it a shot. Simply type in “snake” into Google and away you go.

Here are some examples:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7bdESmrAWX0?app=desktop

Olympics fans are all mad at the Google AI commercial known as Dear Sydney

This ad isn’t good.

If you’ve been watching 2024 Paris Olympics coverage on NBC and its other networks, you might have seen the Google ad that is making people mad.

It’s called “Dear Sydney.” It depicts a father talking about his daughter, who is a huge fan of Team USA hurdler Syndey McLaughlin-Levrone. So she writes the track athlete a letter about how inspiring she is … but he has her use Google’s Gemini AI to help find the right words to express that.

That’s not great! She should express herself instead of leaning on artificial intelligence, right? That’s what a lot of folks have said on X (formerly Twitter):

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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LIV Golf partnership with Google produces new ‘Any Shot, Any Time’ live broadcast feature for fans

A new multi-year agreement with Google will allow LIV fans to watch any player live during a tournament broadcast.

PLAYA DEL CARMEN, Mexico — A new multi-year agreement with Google Cloud and PMY will allow LIV Golf fans to watch any player live during a tournament broadcast.

The partnership deal was announced on Thursday morning just one day before the league begins its 2024 season at Mayakoba’s El Camaleón Golf Course in Mexico.

LIV’s new “Any Shot, Any Time” feature will launch later this summer on its LIV Golf Plus app, where “fans will be able to select exactly which golfers, teams, or groups they want to watch at any given time, as well as searchable and customizable on-demand highlight reels from any round of any LIV tournament.” Fans will be able to watch as many as four windows at once within the app.

“LIV Golf has been associated with innovation from its inception and is a leader in incorporating the latest and greatest technology into the sport of golf,” said Matt Renner, President of Google Cloud via a release. “As the technology partner of choice for LIV and other PMY clients, we are thrilled to help them create more engaging fan experiences with our leading generative AI tools and cloud platform.”

PMY Group is a full-service technology solutions provider that specializes in enhancing infrastructure, experience, and intelligence across sport and entertainment clients globally. The group has more than 1,000 clients across 14 countries.

In 2021 the PGA Tour and Amazon Web Services announced “Every Shot Live,” an app that would provide viewers live access to every shot from every player in a tournament. The product has only been available at the Tour’s flagship event, the Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass, since 2021. The Masters has also featured a similar product in recent years.

In addition to “Any Shot, Any Time,” LIV’s new Golf Companion App will feature 3D aerial overviews of each venue, advanced real-time statistics, virtual caddy views and customized competition recaps.

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Google’s Most Searched Playground game has a Taylor Swift Easter Egg secret

There’s a hidden Taylor Swift component to Google’s latest game.

Confused by that headline above? Fear not. We got you.

Google Most Searched Playground is the latest fun Google Doodle Game from the company is a Where’s Waldo-like experience in which you look through a theme park to find images of the most searched terms and people this year.

And yes, Taylor Swift is front and center.

But here’s the fun part for Swifties: If you look for some Swift-related clues on the map — seagulls, a mirror-ball, and so on — you can get a code that leads you to a website: allthestarsalligned.com.

Then, you need a password … and if you want that spoiled, watch this and scroll below:

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There you have it. Enjoy!