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(Reuters) – Waze has struggled to grow within Alphabet Inc’s Google, the navigation app’s former top executive said, renewing concerns over whether it was stifled by the search giant’s $1 billion acquisition in 2013. FILE PHOTO: Waze, a mobile satellite navigation application, is seen on a smartphone in this photo illustration taken in Tel Aviv May 9, 2013. Facebook Inc acquired the Israeli start-up in 2013. REUTERS/Nir Elias More than 140 million drivers worldwide use Waze monthly, up… Source link

(Reuters) – Waze has struggled to grow within Alphabet Inc’s Google, the navigation app’s former top executive said, renewing concerns over whether it was stifled by the search giant’s $1 billion acquisition in 2013. FILE PHOTO: Waze, a mobile satellite navigation application, is seen on a smartphone in this photo illustration taken in Tel Aviv May 9, 2013. Facebook Inc acquired the Israeli start-up in 2013. REUTERS/Nir Elias More than 140 million drivers worldwide use Waze monthly, up… Source link

Scotty Miller is feeling it. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers wide receiver has made some big downfield plays in the playoffs, including Sunday’s game-changing, 39-yard touchdown catch at the end of the first half of the NFC championship. Now he’s out here calling out Tyreek Hill. The second-year speedster joined “The Dan Patrick Show” on Wednesday for some pre-Super Bowl fodder. He’s clearly not worried about providing bulletin-board material. When Patrick asked him if he could beat Hill in… Source link

Google’s Gary Illyes reveals the search index uses a tiered system where the most popular content is indexed on faster, more expensive storage. This topic is discussed in the latest episode of Google’s Search Off the Record podcast which deals with language complexities in search index selection. In explaining how Google builds its search index, Illyes says content is indexed on three types of storage: RAM (Random Access Memory): Fastest and most expensive SSD (Solid State Drive): Very fast… Source link

Qualcomm and Google have announced they’ll be working to expand Project Treble, Google’s ambitious multiyear project that aims to simplify OS updates so it’s easier for device manufacturers to upgrade phones and tablets to new Android versions without worrying about Qualcomm’s chipset-specific software. The goal is to make it even easier for users to get the latest version of Android on their phones (something that isn’t always guaranteed) and to ensure that new Qualcomm chips… Source link

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) has administered one million COVID-19 tests over the course of 2020, according to the school’s dashboard. This means that the school — which is located in Central Illinois, about 150 miles south of Chicago — has done more tests than the states of Wyoming, Vermont, South Dakota, Montana, Hawaii, Idaho, Delaware, Kansas, New Hampshire, and Maine. “This milestone is far more than an accumulation of lab results,” the school’s… Source link