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WikiLeaks’ CIA document dump shows agency can compromise Android and smart TVs
WikiLeaks has released more than 8,700 documents it says come from the CIA’s Center for Cyber Intelligence, with the documents saying the agency had 24 “weaponized” zero-day exploits for the Android operating system as of 2016.News
Google slams the brakes on Pixel Chromebooks
Never say never, but Google isn't planning on making any more Chromebooks right now.News
‘Meet’ Google’s new videoconferencing service for the enterprise
Google appears to have accidentally revealed its new group videoconferencing service for businesses on Tuesday, a week before a big user conference.News
Google is giving away a Chromecast with the Google Home
Google Home is great, but Google Home with a Chromecast or Chromecast Audio is better.
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Akyumen’s Hawk smartphone packs a projector
Over the past decade there have been several attempts to cram video projectors into smartphones. All ultimately failed, but a Silicon Valley startup reckons it has the recipe right and is hoping for a warm response from consumers when its phone debuts later this year.
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Google’s new AI aims to end abusive online comments using ‘Perspective’
Google and Jigsaw (an early stage incubator at Google parent company Alphabet) are working on a project called Perspective that aims to curb online abuse through Artificial IntelligenceUpdated
Chromebooks beyond the cloud: Everything Chromebooks can do offline
From productivity to playtime, offline Chromebooks aren't the useless hunks of plastic that they used to be.
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Google’s new cloud service is a unique take on a database
On Tuesday, Google launched Cloud Spanner, a new, fully managed database that’s supposed to provide the transactional consistency of a traditional database plus the scalability and performance of a NoSQL database.News
PewDiePie dumped by Disney and YouTube over anti-Semitic stunts
YouTube isn't cancelling PewDiePie's account, but the popular vlogger has lost his YouTube Red series and access to the Google Preferred advertising program.
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HoloLens Spectator View makes it easier to show off AR creations
Anyone who owns two HoloLenses can now offer a third-person view of augmented reality, thanks to a project that Microsoft released on Monday.News
Here’s how Evernote moved 3 petabytes of data to Google’s cloud
Evernote decided last year that it wanted to move away from running its own data centers and start using the public cloud to operate its popular note taking service.News
Google Cloud Search helps enterprise users find data quickly
Google is building out its enterprise productivity features with the forthcoming launch of a service called Cloud Search that’s designed to help employees find the information they need.
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TV maker Vizio pays $2.2M to settle complaint that it spied on users
Popular smart TV maker Vizio will pay $2.2 million to settle complaints that it violated customers' privacy by continuously monitoring their viewing habits without their knowledge.News Analysis
What’s keeping enterprises from using G Suite?
While Google has spent the past year trying to woo enterprises to its G Suite productivity service, it’s still the underdog compared to Microsoft Office, at least among large businesses. So what’s keeping it from broader appeal?News
Gmail will push users further away for XP and Vista
Google quietly announced Tuesday that Gmail will stop supporting older versions of its Chrome browser, in a move that will put another nail in the coffins of Windows XP and Windows Vista.News
Alphabet earnings surge on mobile, YouTube
Alphabet reported significantly higher revenue for the fourth quarter of 2016 on the back of increased mobile and YouTube video advertising.News
Google wants to add AI to Raspberry Pi gadgets
Google wants to bring smarts to cool gadgets and devices made using Raspberry Pi 3 or Intel's Edison.News
All new Chromebooks will get Android app support
Android apps are coming to all Chromebooks released in 2017 or later, Google says.
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Microsoft’s upgraded Beam game-streaming service goes live, taking on Twitch and YouTube
Microsoft's Twitch competitor, Beam, launches Beam.pro, which has moved out of beta with support for 10Mbps streams with resolutions up to 1440p.News
How to watch Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration live online for free
No cable? No problem. Here's how to watch Donald Trump's presidential inauguration live online for free.News
EU antitrust regulators praise audiobooks deal from Apple, Amazon
Antitrust regulators from the European Union have welcomed an agreement between Apple and Amazon and Audible to end exclusivity deals for audiobooks.
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Second-gen Nvidia Shield TV hands-on: All the new killer features Nvidia didn’t talk about
The second-gen Shield console is brimming with handy tweaks, updates, and new features that weren't mentioned during Nvidia's CES 2017 keynote.
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Anker enters the TV space with new 100-inch, 1080p laser-projection Nebula TV
Anker's new consumer-electronics brand takes aim at big-screen LCDs with a short-throw projector that can throw 1080p across 100 inches. There's a portable option, too.
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Xiaomi launches a new media router and an updated Mi TV 4, but just for China
Chinese consumer electronics company Xiaomi launched a new media router and an upgraded modular TV, but just for the Chinese market.News
Nvidia’s making it easy to broadcast video games direct to Facebook Live
For the second time this year, Facebook makes a move on Twitch's territory. We'll see if it fares any better than YouTube Gaming did.News
GeForce Now picks up the OnLive mantle, allowing you to stream games direct to your PC
The catch? It’s going to cost you $25 for every 20 hours you play. At that rate, you might as well save up for a few months and buy a dedicated gaming PC.News
AT&T’s next 5G trial will shoot DirecTV Now to users’ homes
5G conjures up visions of super-fast smartphone service, but it could give consumers and enterprises a lot more. In the next few months, residents of Austin, Texas, will get to watch DirecTV Now at home through an AT&T 5G trial.Feature
Google’s biggest hits, misses, and WTF moments of 2016
From hardware wins like Google Pixel and Home to epic fails like the confusion over messaging apps, here are Google's biggest moments of 2016.News
Google Keep for Chrome adds drawing tools for doodling in notes
You can now use Google Keep to add drawings to notes, but only in the Chrome app.News
Chrome OS is coming to Lenovo’s radically creative Yoga Book
The Yoga Book's innovative adaptive keyboard may be a good fit for schools, so Lenovo's planning a Chrome OS version for 2017.News
Google publishes national security letters for the first time
Google is providing for the first time a look into the world of national security letters — demands from the Federal Bureau of Investigation to hand over details about account holders and keep quiet about it.News
Google and Slack deepen partnership in the face of Microsoft Teams
Slack and Google have vastly deepened their partnership roughly a month after Microsoft announced its competitor to the popular enterprise chat service.News
YouTube’s top trending videos for 2016
Here's a look at the weird, wonderful, and mundane from YouTube's top trending videos of 2016.
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2016 will be 1 second longer: Google can help you cope
Like a man eager to show off his new watch, Google is encouraging anyone running IT operations to ask it for the time. The company will let anyone use its NTP (Network Time Protocol) servers, a move to help IT shops cope with the next “leap second,” which will be tacked onto 2016.News
Google gets into the low-code enterprise app development biz
Google is the latest enterprise software provider to throw its hat in the ring of low-code app development with a new service called App Maker.News
Google acquires AWS training vendor Qwiklabs
Google announced Monday that it's acquiring Qwiklabs, a company that helps people learn how to use public cloud services to run applications without having to operate a data center.News
4K Netflix videos debut on Windows 10, but you probably can’t watch them
4K video streams finally make their debut on PCs thanks to Netflix and Windows 10, but strict software and hardware limitations curb our enthusiasm.News
AI beating humans? Not in my lifetime, says Google’s cloud chief
The head of Google's cloud business says she doesn't expect machine intelligence to exceed that of humans during her lifetime, despite recent rapid progress that has surprised many.News
Microsoft and Google bury the hatchet in one small way
There's one small glimmer of hope in the relationship between Google and Microsoft: Google has joined the .NET Foundation, to help drive forward the programming language Microsoft created.News
Google levels up its cloud machine learning with new services
Google fired its latest salvo in the cloud machine learning wars on Tuesday when it announced a set of enhancements to its existing suite of cloud machine learning capabilities. Here's the rundown.News
Samsung boosts audio, connected car businesses with $8B Harman buy
Samsung Electronics wants to buy its way into the connected car market, with a plan to acquire Harman for $8 billion.News
Google brands malicious websites with ‘repeat offender’ warnings
Google's Safe Browsing program has a new repeat offender classification to deter sites from continuing to be harmful to users.News
Google: Cloud won’t require customers to worry about infrastructure
Google infrastructure czar Urs Hölzle is focused on a cloud future where customers don't think about the infrastructure underlying all of the workloads they're running.News
How the White House’s social media accounts will transition to the next president
The White House will give up its social media accounts to the next President in just a few months. Here's how it will happen.News
Google’s massive, cloud-connected Jamboard aims to reinvent the whiteboard
What's big, red, and supposed to be the next big thing in workplace collaboration? Google's new Jamboard, a massive touch display and accompanying cloud service that's supposed to help business users brainstorm together.News
Why LeEco thinks you should buy its smartphones, TVs, streaming content and more
The world already feels saturated with gadgets, but Chinese company LeEco now lands in the U.S. with ambitious plans to sell you phones, TVs, and content tuned to work seamlessly.News
Here’s how Google is overhauling its cloud storage offerings
There are big changes afoot for Google Cloud Platform's storage offerings. On Thursday, the company announced a complete overhaul of the storage options available to customers, complete with new storage tiers and reduced pricing.News
Google is turning spreadsheets, documents and presentations into to-do lists
Google is trying to do away with the tiring process of figuring out who's supposed to do what after a meeting wraps up with a new Action Items feature.News
Netgear Nighthawk X10 AD7200 Smart WiFi Router goes all the way to 11
The new router sports 802.11ac and 802.11ad, a built-in Plex server, 10Gbps networking, and bonded gigabit Ethernet.News