The internet is so taken aback by good manners that a tweet about a British grandma who used “please” and “thank you” as bookends to a Google search has achieved viral status.
We all have a family member who may be a little less...
That explosion in Alexa “skills” wasn’t our imagination. Amazon’s voice-enabled virtual assistant has reached a milestone of 1,000 third-party skills in less than a year, the company says. Skills are the equivalent of apps, allowing developers to add new capabilities to the Amazon Echo and other devices...
Google has hired Sam Schillace to help run its cloud engineering operations, company spokesperson Michael Moeschler confirmed today. As the new vice president of engineering...
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Oracle's lawyers have made their final pitch to paint Google as a copyright outlaw, and the decision is now up to a 10-person jury. The jurors are deliberating in a room on the 19th floor of the US Federal Courthouse in San Francisco. Deliberations have gone on for two days now, and the jury will return...
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A co-leader on Google's product security team has waved a piece of red meat in front of already frothing privacy advocates by deleting part of a blog post saying he wished the Allo messenger app the company announced Wednesday would provide end-to-end encryption by default.
To critics, the deletion by Thai Duong amounted to tacit...
Google is reportedly set to announce its standalone voice-activated home device...
Programmer Dan Bornstein, who testified in the Oracle v. Google trial on Friday, named Android's "virtual machine" after Dalvik, a small Icelandic fishing village. (credit: Dan Bornstein)
The Oracle v. Google trial rolled into its fifth day on Friday, beginning with videotaped deposition testimony from Oracle founder Larry Ellison. Later in the day, a former Sun...
Microsoft and Google have agreed to stop filing regulatory complaints against one another.
As reported by Re/code, the two companies announced...
