Amazon and Google ramp up data gathering from speakers
Smart speakers require continuous status-change updates from devices
Since 2019 smart speakers from Amazon, Google have been requiring continuous status-change updates from devices.
Google is putting out Amazon’s Fire
Smart telly makers must agree to ignore Amazon
Amazon’s efforts to expand the Fire TV platform to smart TVs and cable set-top boxes have failed because Google has long prevented consumer electronics manufacturers from doing business with the online book seller.
Google clones Apple Touch using software
Turns out it was not that hard to do after all
A new feature for Google's Pixel line of Android phones includes the ability to "firmly press" on the screen "to get more help from your apps more quickly" and the Tame Apple Press claims that it has ripped off the idea from their favourite cargo cult.
Developers moan that Google is not supporting Stadia
Not paying enough to port games
Developers are moaning that Google Stadia hasn’t been a huge success because Google isn’t willing to spend the money to get more games on the platform.
UK to lose US data protection against Google antics
Brexit means that Google can shift data to the US
Google is planning to move its British users’ accounts out of the control of European Union privacy regulators, placing them under US jurisdiction instead.
AMD puts 2nd Gen AMD EPYC on Google Compute
N2D family of Cloudy Virtual Managers
AMD and Google Cloud announced the beta availability of N2D VMs on Google Compute Engine powered by 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processors.
Apple and Google slammed for playing monopoly
Epic Games boss calls for industry action
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney opened a game event in Las Vegas by blasting the monopolistic practices of Google and Apple.
Google Pixel 4a could come with Snapdragon 730
One of three phones coming from Google
According to the latest report, it appears that Google upcoming Pixel 4a smartphone will be based on Qualcomm's Snapdragon 730 SoC.
Google releases software which can spot fakes
Even deepfakes
Jigsaw, a technology incubator at Google, has released an experimental platform called Assembler to help journalists and front-line fact-checkers quickly verify images.
Google does not let humans touch personal data
GlobalData reports
Artificial intelligence (AI) is now central to Google’s operations, which means that the search engine outfit does not need to let a human near any personal data.