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37 votes
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Google’s constant product shutdowns are damaging its brand
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Google is rolling out AMP for Gmail to let you shop and fill out forms without leaving your inbox
22 votes -
Google TossingBot - DeepLearning meets physics to create a robot that can grasp and throw items
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Brain implants are happening — are you ready for yours?
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Edge-on-Chromium approaches; build leaks, extensions page already live
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Two devs automated the process of generating and publishing "garbage" mobile slot machine games on Google Play, and made over $50,000
28 votes -
Google Stadia hands-on
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Google announces "Stadia", a new game-streaming platform with deep YouTube integration
38 votes -
Google fined $1.7 billion by EU for unfair advertising rules
14 votes -
Saving of public Google+ content at the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine by the Archive Team has begun
16 votes -
The hottest chat app for teens is … Google Docs
28 votes -
How Google’s bad data wiped a neighborhood off the map
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Google has quietly added DuckDuckGo as a search engine option for Chrome users in ~sixty markets
21 votes -
Google’s Larry Page leveled ‘veiled threat’ over control of company
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Algorithms Allowed: a project that tracks usage of Google and Facebook assets in countries under US sanctions
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An All-Neural On-Device Speech Recognizer
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Elizabeth Warren proposes breaking up Amazon, Google, and Facebook
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Turn on auto-updates everywhere you can
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Waymo are making their lidar available to companies outside of self-driving
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Google to ban political ads in Canada ahead of federal election, citing difficulty of complying with new transparency rules
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Google pay study finds it underpaid men for some jobs
13 votes -
Google employees uncover ongoing work on censored China search
9 votes -
A silly Google Maps origin story about how “Satellite” was almost named “Bird Mode”
@btaylor: Here's a silly Google Maps origin story about how "Satellite" was almost named "Bird Mode
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The history of Android
9 votes -
The real reason why Facebook and Google won’t change
17 votes -
Google ends forced arbitration for employees
6 votes -
Google Maps can now guide you to drug disposal locations
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AlphaStar: Mastering the Real-Time Strategy Game StarCraft II
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How did the police know you were near a crime scene? Google told them
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Data privacy bill unites Charles Koch and Big Tech
6 votes -
Flickr will soon start deleting photos — and massive chunks of internet history
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Chromium team to make changes to Manifest V3 in response to ad-blocking extension developers’ outrage
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Does the Oracle v. Google court case mean that Wine/DXVK is illegal?
I've been thinking about this but based on the current rulings in the Oracle v. Google court case, it would seem that APIs are indeed copyrightable. This would mean that Wine would be infringing...
I've been thinking about this but based on the current rulings in the Oracle v. Google court case, it would seem that APIs are indeed copyrightable.
This would mean that Wine would be infringing on Microsoft's copyright of the Windows API and system calls. Of course it wouldn't matter until Microsoft actually does something about it. But as Wine gets better and better and its market share higher and higher, I worry that Microsoft might set their sights on Wine now that they have the law on their side.
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Critics call on Apple and Google to shut down Saudi app that can restrict women’s travel
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"I just tried Google's brand new augmented reality Maps on a one mile walk through San Francisco, and I miss it already"
16 votes -
The Google Chrome team is developing tools, heuristics and warnings to help protect against deceptive URLs
11 votes -
Goodbye Big Five: Kashmir Hill tried to block each of Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Apple from her life for a week. To end the experiment, she tried to block all five at once.
19 votes -
Cameras that understand: portrait mode and Google Lens
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Harassment, transphobia, and racism: A look inside Blind's anonymous chatting forum for Google employees
12 votes -
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff review – we are the pawns
7 votes -
I was wrong about Google and Facebook: There’s nothing wrong with them (so say we all)
23 votes -
Why CAPTCHAs have gotten so difficult
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Apple blocks Google from running its internal iOS apps
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Google is also abusing Apple's Developer Enterprise Program to distribute a data-collection app
24 votes -
I cut Google out of my life. It screwed up everything
38 votes -
Google asks Supreme Court to overrule disastrous ruling on API copyrights
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How I abused 2FA to maintain persistence after a password change (Google, Microsoft, Instagram, Cloudflare, etc)
16 votes -
Google Voice is going to be integrated with Hangouts Chat
I was a bit worried about the future of Google Voice with the demise of Hangouts, but I got an email from GSuite about classic Hangouts today, which linked to this support page. Coming to Hangouts...
I was a bit worried about the future of Google Voice with the demise of Hangouts, but I got an email from GSuite about classic Hangouts today, which linked to this support page. Coming to Hangouts Chat are:
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Enhanced video calling experience
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Google Voice integration
I included the video calling line because I thought it was a bit odd for Chat to have that - I thought that's what Hangouts Meet was for (though it certainly wouldn't be the first case of Google making a redundant product). In any case, if Chat is going to have video calling, it's not much of a stretch to assume it'll also have voice calling for Google Voice, in addition to SMS/MMS.
Self-post instead of a link post because I want to highlight just 2 bullet points in the support page that wouldn't be obvious if I just linked the page. I wasn't sure if this should go in ~tech or ~comp, but ~comp seems to have more non-link discussion than ~tech.
Edit: Somewhat related, I found a news article about the Google Voice 5.7 update. They've created some interesting Google Calendar integrations, which makes sense since Voice will be available in GSuite this March.
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Thieves of experience: How Google and Facebook corrupted capitalism
6 votes