
Google Photos has seen strong user adoption. Nevertheless, privacy concerns were raised, including Google's motivation for building the service, as well as its relationship to governments and possible laws requiring Google to hand over a user's entire photo history. Reviewers praised the updated Photos service for its recognition technology, search, apps, and loading times. Google Photos received critical acclaim after its decoupling from Google+ in 2015. Photos automatically suggested collections based on face, location, trip, or other distinction. In May 2017, Google announced several updates to Google Photos, including reminders for and suggested sharing of photos, shared photo libraries between two users, and physical albums. The computer vision of Google Photos recognizes faces (not only those of humans, but pets as well), grouping similar ones together (this feature is only available in certain countries due to privacy laws) geographic landmarks (such as the Eiffel Tower) and subject matter, including birthdays, buildings, animals, food, and more.ĭifferent forms of machine learning in the Photos service allow recognition of photo contents, automatically generate albums, animate similar photos into quick videos, surface past memories at significant times, and improve the quality of photos and videos. Users can search for anything in photos, with the service returning results from three major categories: People, Places, and Things. The service automatically analyzes photos, identifying various visual features and subjects. The previous free tier, unlimited photos and videos up to 16 megapixels and 1080p resolution respectively (anything larger gets down-scaled to these sizes), ended on the same day. It was announced in May 2015 and spun off from Google+, the company's former social network.Īs of June 1, 2021, in its free tier, any newly uploaded photo and video counts towards the 15 GB free storage quota shared across the user's Google services, with the exception of current Pixel phones. Google Photos is a photo sharing and storage service developed by Google. Readers may write to him at Tech Q&A, 425 Portland Ave. Steve Alexander covers technology for the Minneapolis Star Tribune.

The solution is to disable the touch pad (see /hz2xksx) while using a mouse. They correctly noted that cursor-skipping can be caused by a PC user’s hand coming too close to the laptop’s overly sensitive touch pad. Readers Karen Scheltema of Minnetonka, Minn., and Gordon Hostetler of Elkhart, Ind., thought I left out an important point when I explained how to prevent a laptop mouse cursor from skipping around the screen (see /y8xmsabg). If not, you’ll need to buy a new video circuit board. If this works, your monitor will function with the desktop PC.

Then firmly plug in the circuit board again. (First, ground yourself by touching a metal object otherwise the static electricity on your body can damage the PC’s components.) Locate the circuit board attached to the VGA port and remove it from the connector that links it to the PC’s main circuit board.

You can try to adjust the board in its socket by removing the PC’s case. That likely means the video circuit board connected to that port is loose or has quit working. “No VGA signal” means that the PC isn’t getting a signal from the VGA, or “video graphics array,” port where you plug in the monitor. What’s wrong?Ī: If the monitor works with your laptop PC, then the problem lies with the HP desktop.

I get an error message that says “No VGA signal.” The same monitor works fine with my laptop PC. Q: I got my 2010 HP desktop PC out of storage, but discovered that it will no longer work with the same monitor it always used.
