Alphabet buys its own ads to give its hardware top search spots, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday. Products like the Nest thermostat and Pixel phones — owned by Alphabet’s Google — came up top in 91 percent of 25,000 related searches, according to analysis by the Journal and data firm SEMrush. The December...Read More
The splashiest auto news coming out of CES and the North American International Auto Show has been about new models, self-driving tech, and wild concepts. But in a quieter series of moves, automakers also continued to strengthen their control over what it is we’re able to do inside our cars, particularly when it comes to...Read More
(Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images) Which one’s better, Google Home or Alexa? originally appeared on Quora: the knowledge sharing network where compelling questions are answered by people with unique insights. Answer by Kartik Ayyar, Engineer at Google, on Quora: I have two Echos and two Google Home devices. First off, I think they are both...Read More
(Photo: JOSH EDELSON/AFP/Getty Images) What is it like to be a research scientist at Google? originally appeared on Quora: the knowledge sharing network where compelling questions are answered by people with unique insights. Answer by Dmitriy Genzel, machine learning engineer, on Quora: What is it like to be a research scientist at Google? It’s very nice....Read More
For Google Assistant, 2017 is a make-or-break year Alphabet and Google began to embrace practicality in 2016 as the two closely related entities changed course on a number of efforts. After many years of teasing its own self-driving car, it chose instead to become a vendor of car technology. But in more pedestrian device pursuits,...Read More
Google’s first pop-up, Made By Google, closed its doors today at the corner of Spring and Mercer St. in SoHo New York. The pop-up, Google’s second foray into a retail-like setting after its original Google Glasses shop, was greeted by adoring tech fans and curious tourists who were willing to stand in long lines to preview Google’s new...Read More
Just about everything you see on TV is presented by one of a handful of media conglomerates. A similarly small number of telecommunication companies provides your cable service. If you have Comcast and you’re watching NBC, the content and the delivery infrastructure are owned by the same people. This tiny world will concentrate further if regulators approve ATT’s...Read More
Long thought of as one of Silicon Valley’s more improvident spenders, Google has lately been garnering a reputation as a skinflint. The reality, of course, is more complicated. Last year saw an ambitious restructuring that created the parent company known as Alphabet. This separated the core Google business from the company’s other ventures. The idea...Read More
Google will be launching two new flagship smartwatches in the first quarter of next year, according to Jeff Chang, product manager of Android Wear at Google. In an exclusive interview with The Verge, Chang said that the new watches will be the flagship Android Wear 2.0 devices and will be the first ones to launch...Read More
Steve Biko fought apartheid in South Africa before his death at the age of 30. Photo by Google Near the end of his life, Steve Biko wasn’t permitted to speak to more than one person at a time, but that didn’t stop him from spreading the message of equality for all. Biko was an anti-apartheid...Read More
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