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One of the first applications of DeepMind at Google was to reduce and now control power usage at its data centers. Google is now leveraging machine learning to make more efficient wind farms by predicting wind power output 36 hours in advance.
No one likes a slow website, and that’s especially true on mobile devices. This week, Google has updated its suite of site testing tools to include more information for businesses. With the new “Test My Site” tool from Google, tons of data is just a click away on how to make your site faster.
Samsung is the biggest name in Android today, so it only makes sense for Google to work with the company to better improve the Android ecosystem. Today, Samsung and Google are announcing a new Android standard which makes it easier for Enterprise users to control OEM features of a device.
Following a full day of phone announcements from Barcelona, Google is outlining its Android presence at MWC 2019. This includes Android Foldables and 5G, as well as Rich Communication Services (RCS) adoption and Digital Wellbeing officially expanding beyond Pixel and Android One.
In this week’s top stories: Google Contacts app receives the latest version of the Google Material Theme, Gmail’s Material Theme on Android rolls out to everyone, Google Chrome’s dark mode on Android aims to also darken web pages, the Samsung Unpacked event showed what Samsung has to offer in 2019 and much more.
As technology’s role, reach, and impact grows in the coming years, it will face a great deal of public scrutiny and government regulation. As one of the biggest companies, Google will face a significant amount of attention, and is reorganizing the division responsible for policy and government relations.
In mid-January, Project Stream ended its four-month test trial of “Assassin’s Creed Odyssey.” Google today just announced a mysterious gaming-related press conference during the Game Developers Conference in March.
In this week’s top stories: Google Assistant’s built-in list of features gets a visual redesign, Nikkei reports the Made by Google 2019 lineup, an ad for the Pixel’s Childish Gambino Playmoji airs during the Grammys, and more.
The past week in big tech criticism has been centered around Amazon’s pull out of New York for its HQ2 after local complaints over tax breaks. A new report today looks at Google’s use of non-disclosure agreements when building out data centers around the U.S.
At the start of last year, Google detailed plans for new or expanded offices and data centers in 14 states across the country. Sundar Pichai today announced another U.S. expansion to the tune of $13 billion throughout 2019.
Google has a number of outreach and philanthropy initiatives from Google.org to encouraging STEM programs. The latest is called Google Sandbox and aims to foster “talent in communities that have been historically underrepresented in the tech industry.”
According to a new report from Reuters today, Google is apparently being investigated by the Competition Commission of India (CCI) as regards accusations of the company using its Android platform to block competition. The CCI has apparently been looking into the case for the past six months.
In this week’s top stories: Tech21 offers up the most unique Pixel 3 XL case to date with a built-in keyboard, we see how the Samsung Galaxy Note 9 holds up 6 months after release, Childish Gambino dances his way into Google Pixel phones, and more.
Alphabet today announced its Q4 2018 earnings to wrap up the last fiscal year. Including the busy holiday season, Google and the other companies earned $39.27 billion, up 22% from the same quarter last year. These numbers range from October to December and slightly surpassed analyst expectations, but the stock is currently down 3.69% in after hours trading.
In this week’s top stories: Google labels the iPhone XS as “Phone X” in a Pixel 3 ad, the Google Material Theme arrives for both Gmail and Google Voice, and we get a more official look at the Galaxy S10 from press renders.
After it emerged that Facebook was taking advantage of an iOS enterprise program to collect data on users, Apple pulled the social network’s privileges. The iPhone maker has now done the same with Google over a similar program and breach of rules.
In this week’s top stories: leaked prototypes give us our best look at the Galaxy S10 & S10 Plus yet, we show off one of the best Pixel 3 cases, celebrate the arrival of Android Pie beta on the Galaxy S8 and Note 8, and more.
We learned in 2016 that Google was working on an entirely new operating system called Fuchsia. Development continues with new features and testing on a variety of form factors spotted regularly. Google has since hired 14-year Apple engineer Bill Stevenson to work on its upcoming OS, and help bring it to market.
Google prides itself on being the world’s largest corporate purchaser of renewable energy with projects in three continents. Today, the company is furthering its green status by signing a long-term agreement to purchase the output of a 10-megawatt solar array in Taiwan for a nearby data center.
With the General Data Protection Regulation, Europe set out to unify privacy regulation and “ensure consistency of regulatory decisions for companies and EU citizens.” Google today was fined by France’s privacy regulator over the “lack of transparency, inadequate information and lack of valid consent regarding the ads personalization.”
In this week’s top stories: we got an early, leaked look at Android Q with system-wide dark mode, saw Android Pie arrive for the Samsung Galaxy Note 8, and witnessed a surprise early review of the Google Pixel 3 Lite.
Google, like many tech companies, is always looking for more ways to move computing to their cloud. Google Cloud Functions, for example, lets developers use their Python and Node.js code “serverlessly” in the cloud. Google Cloud Functions has now picked up beta support for Google’s own Go programming language.
Google has won an interim victory in the final phase of the long-running ‘right to be forgotten‘ case, indicating that it may not need to censor search results outside EU countries.
The European Union Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled back in 2014 that individuals have a right to require Google to remove sensitive information from search results. It provided a so-called ‘right to be forgotten’ in the case of information relating to private individuals where there is no legitimate public interest in the facts being known …
Google Chrome needs to have the RAM management issues addressed but it hasn’t really stopped it from being arguably the best browser, even more so when you factor in the power of Chrome Extensions.
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