Over the last five years, the November-December holiday shopping season has accounted for an average of 19 percent of annual retail sales, driven in large part by the surge in shopping over the five-day Thanksgiving holiday weekend. In 2021, nearly 180 million Americans shopped between Thanksgiving Day and Cyber Monday, generating online sales of $8.9B […]

Many companies, both in Digital Native and traditional regulated industries, such as Finance, Healthcare and Telecom, use their data and cloud technologies to solve complex problems, enable rapid ML experimentation, and bring new products to market.   However, before using Cloud for data workloads, many in regulated industries weigh risk vs reward. The risks are mainly […]

Organizations increasingly turn to AI to transform work processes, but this rapid adoption of models has amplified the need for explainable AI. Explaining AI helps us understand how and why models make predictions. For example, a financial institution might wish to use an AI model to automatically flag credit card transactions for fraudulent activity. While […]

Communication services providers (CSPs) are experiencing a period of disruption. Overall revenue growth is decelerating and is projected to remain below 1 percent per year, following a trend that started even before the pandemic.1 At the same time, driven by the pandemic, data consumption in 2020 increased by 30 percent relative to 2019, with some […]

The Google Maps Platform Android SDK supports extensions for reactive programming, which helps you write code to handle asynchronous operations. Write reactive and responsive mapping applications with Google Maps Platform In mobile apps, asynchronous events can happen at any point in time: user touch events, waiting for network calls to complete, or receiving push notifications, […]

To better support equity and opportunity in higher education across the globe, we are proud to announce the expansion of Google Cloud research, teaching, and learning credits to eight countries in Africa: Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Morocco, Namibia, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, and Tunisia. With the recent additions of five countries in Latin America, Asia, and […]

This article is the final in the three part series to explore the performance debugging ecosystem of PyTorch/XLA on Google Cloud TPU VM. In the first part, we introduced the key concept to reason about the training performance using PyTorch/XLA profiler and ended with an interesting performance bottleneck we encountered in the Multi-Head-Attention (MHA) implementation […]