Earlier this week, an FCC filing revealed Google is working on a new version of its Nest Hub smart display. According to a report 9to5Google published on Thursday, the company will release the device later this year, and it will use its Soli technology for sleep tracking.
If, as I suspect many of you have, you have worked your way through baking every type of cookie, bread and cake under the sun over the last year, Google has a surprise for you: a pair of AI-generated hybrid treats, the "breakie" and the "cakie."
The storming into the United States Capitol by a mob of Donald Trump's supporters has evoked widespread condemnation from the CEOs of Tesla, Apple, Google, Facebook, and JP Morgan to name a few. The CEOs publicly posted their disapproval in online forums or internal memos sent to their employees to condemn this violent attack and sought restoration of democratic traditions at the earliest.
MORE than 400 Google engineers and other workers have formed a union, the group revealed on Monday, capping years of growing activism at one of the world's largest companies and presenting a rare beachhead for labour organisers in staunchly anti-union Silicon Valley. Read more at The Business Times.
The Business TimesIt all sounds very futuristic, but Air Protein's Chief Executive Officer Lisa Dyson says it's like making yogurt, a process that involves live cultures, but that requires no arable land. If scalable, the technology will help cut agriculture emissions and even improve food security as the product can be made anywhere independent of climate, soil and weather conditions.
Crain's Chicago BusinessSpaceX, Elon Musk's rocket company, started the New Year off by sending a new communications satellite to space for the nation of Turkey on Thursday. Turksat 5A is the first of a pair of next-generation broadcasting birds that SpaceX will boost to orbit.
CNETBy DAVID KLEPPER and MATT O'BRIEN After years of treating President Donald Trump's inflammatory rhetoric with a light touch, Facebook and Instagram are silencing his social media accounts for the rest of his presidency. The move, which many called long overdue following Wednesday's deadly insurrection at the U.S.
OCRegisterSAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 7, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- CNET, the world's largest consumer tech media brand, will curate all the headlines from the 2021 Consumer Electronics Show (CES), giving its global audience unbiased, in-depth looks at the technology, services, trends and products with exclusive video hands-on looks at new products, interviews with top tech luminaries, and special reports covering significant trends of the year.
PRNewswireBoth parties in Congress broadly agree that something has to be done about the unprecedented power that Google wields over the search-engine market. The Justice Department's antitrust lawsuit filed last month puts new focus on the company's tactics to effectively control the entire search industry, making it impossible for competition to get a foothold.
(Bloomberg) -- Google's planned changes to advertising data were targeted by a group of rivals who pushed U.K. regulators to make the company a top antitrust priority.Marketers for an Open Web is asking the Competition and Markets Authority to temporarily halt Google's rollout of so-called privacy sandbox technology next year, it said in an emailed statement on Monday.The group said the changes will curb members' ability to gather information on web users, which helps them offer more valuable advertising.
For a long time, I felt my digital photos weren't nearly as well organized as other areas of my life. That situation changed overnight with Google Photos. Google Photos is in the news because of a change in its policy -- it will no longer be free for unlimited storage.
Google has teamed up with Disney and Lucasfilm to bring the Star Wars streaming series "The Mandalorian" to augmented reality. The company announced this morning the launch of a new Android AR app, "The Mandalorian" AR Experience, which will display iconic moments from the ...
TechCrunchWhile Thanksgiving is usually the busiest travel holiday, the coronavirus has changed things in 2020, with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warning against travel to visit relatives and friends, but an online giant is trying to help make things easier and safer. "Things have definitely changed," Justin Burr said.
FOX 6 MilwaukeeThe users in its beta version can download the app from Google Play but can only use it now with a referral code, available through an invite.
The Financial ExpressThe software stack of a startup in 2020 looks much different than a company starting in 2007. In 2007, a new company would require large capital expenditures to build a Windows infrastructure for email, file storage, accounting, and marketing tools. It would cost tens of thousands of dollars and require hiring IT experts to deploy and manage ongoing.
The Next WebGoogle Assistant has worked with Hue and other smart lights for some time, to turn them on and off and to set alarms, but now you can tell your Assistant when you want to turn on lights and other devices in a smart home using the "scheduled actions" feature.
The VergeGrowthpond-owned Dukaan app has been restored by Google on its Play Store 50 days after it was removed due to legal battle with Khatabook.
EntrackrCLOUD Google to help European tech services giant ABB expand its cloud footprint Google LLC has inked a major cloud deal involving the European technology services giant ABB Ltd. Under the terms of the deal, ABB Information Systems Inc., a subsidiary of ABB, said it plans to migrate its entire information technology infrastructure to Google's cloud.
SiliconANGLE NewsA consortium of Australia's biggest media companies have written an open letter to the Morrison government, calling for a code to have Google and Facebook pay for news content finalised by the end of the year.
Facing backlash from developers, Google said on Monday that it will postpone enforcing a 30 per cent commission on in-app purchases of digital content from its Play Store from next January to next September. Under the new policy set to be adopted in late September, Google plans to take a 30 per cent commission on all digital content purchases by users from app developers.
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