The Verge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

After briefly halting sales of its 6-Series and 5-Series Google TVs due to sluggish, buggy software, TCL this evening announced that the TVs are back. With these updates, this product now represents the powerful performance that TCL and Google believe is the future of TV.”. Image: TCL.

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The Verge

JANUARY 2, 2022

Samsung introduced its first TVs with Mini LED technology at CES 2021, and they wound up being perhaps the best sets that the company has produced yet — not counting the exorbitantly priced The Wall, that is. For 2022, the company says MicroLED displays are now “bezel-free.” There will of course be personalized recommendations as well.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 9, 2021

and 4K gaming at 120Hz — the biggest change had to do with software, with the latest 6-Series running Google TV instead of the Roku OS that has shipped on many of TCL’s most popular sets in the United States. This Reddit thread about the 5-Series with Google TV is equally applicable to the 6-Series.

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CTOvision

JUNE 18, 2014

Artificial intelligence, drones, home appliances – Google has certainly had an interesting shopping spree in the first half of 2014. The company’s emphasis on growth and pursuit of innovation manifest themselves through these acquisitions. With its investor relations page, Google announced its purchase of Skybox Imaging on June 10 th.

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GeekWire

MAY 21, 2024

The AI assistant will now be powered by the Azure OpenAI Service, according to the company. Khan Academy is a longtime Google Cloud customer , based in the search giant’s hometown of Mountain View, Calif.

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The Verge

JUNE 28, 2021

Samsung has taken the wraps off it and Google’s new unified smartwatch platform at MWC 2021 — sort of. The company isn’t announcing a new Galaxy Watch today, or even what the new platform will be called ( it’s unofficially referred to as Wear ); those announcements will come later this summer at a proper Galaxy Unpacked event.

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The Verge

JUNE 18, 2020

The service will initially be powered by Xbox One S consoles in server blades in Microsoft’s datacenters, but the software giant is planning to upgrade this hardware next year. The company is currently testing an xCloud client for PC that will stream Xbox games to Windows 10 PCs, but it doesn’t support PC games just yet.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Google is hiring an “Augmented Reality OS” team focused on building software for an “innovative AR device,” according to job listings spotted by 9to5Google. The team is led by Mark Lucovsky, who announced he’d joined the company this week. My role is to lead the Operating System team for Augmented Reality at Google.

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The Verge

JUNE 9, 2020

Image: Google. Google Meet’s new AI-powered background noise cancellation has started rolling out, VentureBeat reports. Google announced the feature back in April for its G Suite Enterprise and G Suite Enterprise for Education customers. It’s coming to the web first, with iOS and Android following later.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

MAY 13, 2020

Investing In IT is what it will take to make your company successful Image Credit: Photo by rawpixel on Unsplash. As the person with the CIO job, it is your responsibility to provide your company with guidance on how they can be successful. Back in 1985 companies spent roughly 7% of their net revenue on proprietary IT.

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The Verge

JANUARY 5, 2022

Google is announcing no fewer than 13 different new software features at CES 2022, ranging from AirPods-like fast switching to promised software that will mirror your Android text apps on a Chromebook. Android will use Google’s Fast Pair UI to speed up smart home gadget setup.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Google is finally making its own in-house smartwatch that’s set to launch in 2022, according to a person familiar with the matter and a new report from Insider. The watch is being worked on by Google’s Pixel hardware group separately from Fitbit, which Google bought for $2.1 billion earlier this year.

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The Verge

MARCH 22, 2022

Google doesn’t have plans to support C-Band on the Pixel 5A. Google says it doesn’t plan to update the software for the Pixel 4a 5G , 5 , or 5a to support C-band 5G in the US, despite also saying that the phones have the necessary hardware and that the functionality will work in other countries.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

The new Gmail design, with Google Spaces. Image: Google. Google is announcing even more Workspace features today, part of an increased cadence of changes to the company’s office and communications software suite over the past year or so. Image: Google. Today’s announcement is a bit of a milestone, however.

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Vox

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

An interior view of office space with an indoor climbing wall at the Googleplex, the corporate headquarters of Google, in Mountain View, California. For nearly two decades, top-tier tech companies like Google and Facebook (now Meta) were known for their rapid hiring, luxurious perks , and corporate cultures of abundance.

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The Verge

JULY 28, 2020

Google and Samsung are in discussions for a deal that would give the US tech giant’s services more prominence on Samsung phones at the expense of those from the Korean manufacturer, according to a report by Bloomberg. The deal would reportedly involve promoting the Google Assistant and the Play Store over Samsung’s own alternatives.

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The Verge

JANUARY 8, 2022

Google has been publicly building tiny radar chips since 2015. But the company’s Soli radar hasn’t necessarily had commercial success, most prominently featuring in an ill-fated Pixel phone. Ripple appears to be a rebranding of Google’s “Standard Radar API,” which it quietly proposed one year ago (PDF).

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The Verge

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Image: Google. Google chose a configuration that’s similar to recent Samsung and Apple devices, which have prioritized ultrawide over telephoto cameras on dual-camera handsets like the Galaxy A51 and iPhone 11. As I wrote last year , Google has a habit of talking down features that go on to appear in its very next phone.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Google quietly rolled out a Pixel 6 update that addresses fingerprint scanner issues, as first reported by XDA Developers. Google responded by saying that the scanner’s “enhanced security algorithms” may result in sluggish or unreliable performance. You can view the full list of carriers on Google’s website. 210817.037.A1)

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Dataconomy

JANUARY 25, 2024

If you are currently facing the Google Pixel update issues, you are definitely not alone. Don’t worry, Google is also aware of it. Here is a closer look into Google Pixel update issues! But for Google Pixel users, the latest update in January 2024 has brought problems instead. This fix is hardly ideal.

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The Verge

APRIL 27, 2021

During the height of the pandemic last year, Google was the rare tech giant that actually saw a revenue decline — the first in the company’s history — but only by 2 percent. But the bleeding has slowed, with the company losing less than a billion dollars ($974M, to be precise) on over $4 billion in revenue. billion loss in 2020.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Citing currency fluctuations, Microsoft is all set to increase prices of its on-premises software, online services and Windows licenses in India by up to 11%. The change will see India prices for commercial on-premises software rise by 4.5%, Microsoft said in a blog post. Microsoft, Pricing

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The Verge

MAY 23, 2021

Once again , Google is hitting the reset button, combining with Samsung’s Tizen wearable operating system for a new wearable OS, tentatively called “Wear.”. The company is throwing in the towel on Wear OS. It’s trying yet again, this time with Samsung’s Tizen OS helping to fill in the gaps that Google, for whatever reason, can’t.

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The Verge

JANUARY 28, 2022

Google told The Verge in an email that his specific role is “leading software development for Android for large screens” in the “Platforms and Ecosystems team.”. Miner worked on Android when it was being built by a company called Android, Inc., which would later go on to be acquired by Google.

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ComputerWorld IT Management

OCTOBER 23, 2020

But there’s plenty of ways companies can still adapt to the New Normal. Seven months into lockdown and many employees have settled into work-from-home routines.

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The Verge

JUNE 10, 2020

Image: Google. Under normal circumstances, Google would have introduced its Pixel 4A smartphone by now. The company aggressively advertised that strength by comparing its midrange device to Apple’s pricey iPhones, which (at the time) couldn’t compare to Pixels when it came to low-light photography. What about the Pixel 4A XL?

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 18, 2024

of Nvidia’s enterprise-spanning AI software platform will feature a smorgasbord of microservices designed to speed app development and provide quick ways to ramp up deployments, the company announced today at its GPU Technology Conference. the company said. Version 5.0

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GeekWire

MARCH 29, 2021

T-Mobile will make Google Messages its default messaging app for customers on Android devices, provide new backup and storage options via the Google One cloud service, offer an expanded lineup of Google Pixel devices, and adopt YouTube TV as its default service for premium live TV under an expanded partnership.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 20, 2021

It’s high time that Google followed that example with a Pixel Watch that does the same thing for Wear OS. It’s pretty likely that Google is already working on something along those lines: When we asked, Rick Osterloh told The Verge’s Dieter Bohn that its own Wear OS wearable is just a matter of time. Photo by Dieter Bohn / The Verge.

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The Verge

APRIL 2, 2021

Google’s next Pixel flagship — the presumably named “Pixel 6” — will reportedly feature a Google-designed GS101 “Whitechapel” SoC (system on a chip), a first for the company, as reported by 9to5Google and XDA-Developers. A Google-designed GS101 chip is an intriguing idea. Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Image: Google. Google announced today via its Google for Education blog that it's starting a repairability program to help schools fix Chromebooks in-house, and turn it into a valuable training opportunity for students looking into the IT field. 50M students & educators around the world use #Chromebooks. Image: Microsoft.

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Dataconomy

APRIL 16, 2024

Meta asserts that by managing both the hardware and software components, it can outperform standard commercial GPUs in terms of efficiency. “We Meta launched its inaugural proprietary chip last May, tailored specifically for the company’s unique computational demands. And we’re only at the beginning of this journey.”

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

As cool as videoconferencing hardware can look, it’s often exorbitantly expensive — the $2,000 Series One Desk 27 for Google Meet being a perfect example. Luckily, alongside that expensive Meet machine, Google also announced its “Designed for Google Meet” program and a more affordable first entry, the Rayz Rally Pro.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 12, 2024

As a result, AI skills are now among the most sought-after skills, even as companies retrench via layoffs. These roles include data scientist, machine learning engineer, software engineer, research scientist, full-stack developer, deep learning engineer, software architect, and field programmable gate array (FPGA) engineer.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The company, Ixana , says devices that incorporate its chip will give users the equivalent of a “wearable brain” — sensing and analyzing the person’s environment, and providing real-time information about everything from inventory on a warehouse shelf to a previously forgotten acquaintance at a party.

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GeekWire

JULY 25, 2023

Glowforge co-founder and CEO Dan Shapiro with the company’s new Aura laser printer/engraver at the startup’s office in Seattle’s SoDo neighborhood. Aura relies on the same software infrastructure and Google Cloud capabilities that are used to power the bigger Glowforge machines. Glowforge employs 145 people.

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The Verge

AUGUST 17, 2021

Smart updates and a lower price Google is revealing a phone this year where it’s pulling out all the stops and going big on a cutting-edge, in-house designed SoC, upgraded camera specs, and a bold new look. It’s also weirdly missing software-level support for C-band 5G frequencies that US carriers will start using over the next few years.

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