Search engine and cloud computing juggernaut Google is hosting its Google Cloud Next ’21 conference this week, and one of the more interesting things that the company unveiled is several layers of software that makes its Spanner globally distributed relational database look and feel like the popular open source PostgreSQL relational database. Making the Cloud Spanner implementation of Spanner – meaning not the version that Google uses itself for its internal workloads like ad… Source link
Read More »Google says Fortnite’s in-app purchase swap was a breach of contract, sues Epic
Epic Games Epic Games keeps piling up lawsuits with app store owners. This time, Google is countersuing Epic for breach of contract. Epic vs. Apple/Google View more stories Epic signed contracts with both Google and Apple, pledging to use the default payment systems for in-app purchases. As part of its push for more open payment systems, though (and to dodge each platform’s 30 percent fee), Epic boldly
Read More »Google search spotlights endangered species in AR
Google search delivers an AR representation of five endangered species, inlcuding the arctic fox. Google … Source link
Read More »Samsung announces Unpacked 2 event for Wednesday Oct 20th, right after Apple and Google
Samsung has just sent out invitations for an event it is holding online on Wednesday, October 20th at 7AM PT / 10AM ET. It’s called “Galaxy Unpacked Part 2,” which is possibly an indication that rather than all new Galaxy phones, we may be seeing iterations on existing ones. With Samsung’s announcement, we’ll now have an Apple event on Monday (where we are expecting new MacBook Pros), Google’s Pixel 6 launch on Tuesday, and now Samsung’s apparently smaller event on… Source link
Read More »Google Pixel 6: Release date, price, specs and all the other rumors we’ve heard
Google’s Pixel 6 phones. Google Google’s new phones, the
Read More »Google Gives Up on Bank Accounts
We recently learned that Alphabet‘s (NASDAQ:GOOGL)(NASDAQ:GOOG) Google is abandoning plans to create its own bank accounts, and Industry Focus host Jason Moser and Fool.com contributor Matt Frankel, CFP, discuss what investors need to know. Also, despite rising wages and lower interest rates, home affordability in the U.S. is at its worst level since the financial crisis. And finally, Matt discusses why SoFi (NASDAQ:SOFI) is the stock he’s most… Source link
Read More »Google files a counterclaim in Epic Games lawsuit, saying it’s owed financial relief – TechCrunch
As the Apple v. Epic Games lawsuit goes under appeal, Google on Monday afternoon filed an answer and counterclaim in the Epic Games’ antitrust litigation against the company. The tech giant and Android maker denies Epic’s allegations of antitrust behavior and instead says that it’s owed relief, as Epic Games breached the Google Play Developer Distribution Agreement (DDA) by allowing Fortnite players who download the app through Google Play to use Epic’s own payment processing… Source link
Read More »Google Cloud unveils carbon footprint tracker, satellite imagery suite
The Google logo is pictured at the entrance to the Google offices in London, Britain January 18, 2019. REUTERS/Hannah McKay Oct 12 (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google will tell its cloud customers the carbon emissions of their cloud usage and open satellite imagery to them for the first time for environmental analysis, as part of a push to help companies track and cut carbon budgets. The new features were among announcements Google Cloud made Tuesday to kick off its annual customer… Source link
Read More »Google goes all in on hybrid cloud with new portfolio of edge and managed on-prem solutions – TechCrunch
Today at Google Cloud Next, the company’s annual customer conference, Google announced a broad portfolio of hybrid cloud services designed to deliver computing at the edge of Google’s network of data centers, in a partner facility or in a customer’s private data center — all managed by Anthos, the company’s cloud native management console. There’s a lot to unpack here, but Sachin Gupta, Google’s GM and VP of Product for IaaS, says the strategy behind… Source link
Read More »Google Cloud launches a managed Spark service – TechCrunch
At its Cloud Next event, Google today announced the launch of Spark on Google Cloud as a fully managed service. With this, the popular open-source data processing engine will become a premium offering on Google Cloud. “With this innovation, Spark finally arrives in the cloud-native world,” said Gerrit Kazmaier, Google’s VP & GM for Database, Data Analytics & Looker. “It allows data engineers and data scientists to work with Spark without worrying about cluster end… Source link
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