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“MyTerms” wants to become the new way we dictate our privacy on the web

Ars Technica

Author, journalist, and long-time Internet freedom advocate Doc Searls wants us to stop asking for privacy from websites, services, and AI and start telling these things what we will and will not accept. Read full article Comments

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Gemini gets new coding and writing tools, plus AI-generated “podcasts”

Ars Technica

If you want to do more edits or collaborate with others, you can export the document to Google Docs with a single click. Read full article Comments The writing tools available across the Google ecosystem, with options like suggested edits and different tones, are available inside the Gemini-based editor.

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Tip: How to add leading zero for zip codes in Google Docs

Judi Sohn

When Excel (or Google Docs) sees just numbers in a field, it assumes you want the field to be a number. But if you want to bring that spreadsheet to Google Docs, all that goes out the window because there's no special setting in Google for zip codes. Leave a comment »

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Google Docs to finally borrow one of the best features from Gmail

Digital Trends

Google is updating its Docs service with a new Smart Reply feature for comment replies. It's designed to help you compose comments with extra confidence.

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How to successfully use blog commenting to acquire new users (without being spammy)

The Next Web

We read about a cool growth hack involving “commenting on blog posts” recommended by several websites. The general idea is to comment on blog posts that you know your audience likes reading. You hope that readers in turn will like your comment and then click on the link to your website. per comment). moderated comments.

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Google adds Smart Reply to Docs comments to fill your life with more bland platitudes

The Verge

Google is expanding the scope of its AI-powered Smart Reply feature to suggest responses to comments in Google Docs. Smart Reply as it appears in comments in Google Docs. Photo by Thomas Trutschel/Photothek via Getty Images. It’s the latest territory claimed by Google’s AI Smart Reply and Smart Compose features.

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Google Workspace turns to ‘smart chips’ to weave Docs, Tasks, and Meet together

The Verge

The @ mention is the key to Google’s Office competitor Google is launching a slate of new features for its Workspace productivity suite today, starting with new “smart chips” that connect Google Docs to other products. It dynamically resizes the doc to the size of your web browser the way a web app ought to. x 11 piece of paper.

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