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Google Play Music will officially abdicate to YouTube Music by December
Google has now put a timeline on the death of Play Music. You have until September to play your music, and until December ...
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Hey Google, can you sort out the Docs iPad app please?
I have but one simple request: Google, please make the Docs iPad app usable for actual writing and not totally goddamn suck? ...
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We charted the screen-to-body ratio of Google Pixel phones
Ever wondered about the screen-to-body ratio of Google Pixel phones? Well, even if you haven't, here are some graphs that ...
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Google’s top search result? Surprise! It’s Google
In Google’s early years, users would type in a query and get back a page of 10 “blue links” that led to different websites. “We want to get you out of Google and to the right place as fast as possible,” co-founder Larry Page said in 2004. Today, Google often considers ...
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Congress fumbles through antitrust hearing with big tech CEOs
Heres an exhaustive play-by-play of the US House Judiciary Committee's antitrust hearing with the CEOs of Apple, Amazon, ...
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We charted the battery life of Google Pixel phones
Because we've got a lot of spare time we put together a graph comparing the battery life of Google Pixel phones. But we also ...
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Android 11 is codenamed Red Velvet Cake — but Google won't call it that
Android 11 is known to Google engineers working on the project as Red Velvet Cake, or RVC. Sadly, It will not be referred ...
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Google ad portal equated 'Black girls' with porn
This article contains graphically sexual language. Google’s Keywords Planner, which helps advertisers choose which search terms to associate with their ads, offered hundreds of keyword suggestions related to “Black girls,” “Latina girls,” and “Asian Girls” — ...
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Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google CEOs to face antitrust committee that owns $100K+ of those companies' stocks
Three of the lawmakers leading an antitrust investigation into the operations of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google own ...
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Google turns Nest Hubs into little TVs with Netflix support
Google's announced it's added official Netflix support for its Nest Hub devices, giving them an advantage over the likes ...
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Gmail is getting a massive redesign to work more like Slack
Slack may have launched with the purpose of replacing email in the workplace, but recently, Google has been fighting back ...
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Google and Reliance Jio team up to build an affordable Android phone for India
Google and Reliance Jio announced today that they will collaborate on an entry-level Android device for India. This was the part of an announcement of the search giant investing $4.5 billion in the Indian company in exchange for a 7.7% stake. Reliance's chairman, Mukesh Ambani, ...
