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BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — A man who told authorities he was high on acid when he tried pulling a 5-year-old from another person’s vehicle was sentenced Tuesday to three years in prison. Quincy Dean, 30, received the prison term after pleading no contest to a felony assault charge. Five other felonies, including multiple counts of assault with a deadly weapon other than a firearm, were dismissed, court records show. Source link

Google’s main campus. Photo by Michelle Le Visitors to Google’s tech campus in Mountain View can walk right up to the front doors of the Googleplex, enjoying the views of the public courtyard outside one of the largest companies in the world. But that could change soon. In an effort to reduce security risks at all of the company’s sites, Google is looking to revamp its 1995 headquarters — along with a second North Bayshore office building currently under construction — and clamp down… Source link

Satellite View is a feature that has been in Google Maps since the service was first released. It can be handy to see a real-world top-down view of any location. We’ll show you how to start in this view by default on Android and iPhone. Before we enable Satellite View by default, you should know that it will use more data than the minimalist “Map” view. Satellite View will also be enabled during turn-by-turn navigation. Keep this in mind if you use Google Maps with a mobile data… Source link

MOUNTAIN VIEW — Google has filed a new set of proposals for two new neighborhoods in northern Mountain View, an ambitious endeavor that would create thousands of new homes — and represent the largest residential project in that city’s history. Two new neighborhoods of houses, office buildings, shops, restaurants, open spaces, and public areas would sprout north of U.S. Highway 101 in Mountain View, according to Google’s preliminary master plan proposal for North Bayshore that the… Source link

MOUNTAIN VIEW — Google has filed a new set of proposals for two new neighborhoods in northern Mountain View, an ambitious endeavor that would create thousands of new homes — and represent the largest residential project in that city’s history. Two new neighborhoods of houses, office buildings, shops, restaurants, open spaces, and public areas would sprout north of U.S. Highway 101 in Mountain View, according to Google’s preliminary master plan proposal for North Bayshore that the… Source link

TipRanks 2 “Strong Buy” Penny Stocks That Could See Outsized Gains Well, it’s official. Joe Biden is now President, and he’ll be backed – at least for the short term – by Democratic majorities in both Houses of Congress. Wall Street is taking the measure of the new Administration, and sees, among its first moves, a boost in fiscal stimulus that is likely to goose consumer spending, bump corporate profits, and provide general economic support in the first half of 2021. Covering the… Source link

Authorities in Mountain View were investigating a reported suspicious package Friday morning at Google’s headquarters, according to Mountain View police. The preliminary investigation revealed the package was not dangerous, though the investigation was ongoing, police said. Officers responded to a Google building in the 2000 block of Casey Avenue on the reports of the suspicious package, police said. The Santa Clara County bomb squad was called to the scene. The building… Source link

Chewy Shaw, an engineer at Google, attends a video meeting with other workers in the union from his home Synopsis On the back of automation and outsourcing, a handful of tech giants and their generously paid tech workers are shaping a twotiered society, hollowing out the middle-class in the US. Pressure groups like worker unions could play an important role in setting the stage for collective bargaining. Earlier this month, 225-odd workers got together at Alphabet — parent conglomerate of… Source link

OAKLAND, Calif. — In 2000, just two years after it was founded, Google reached a milestone that would lay the foundation for its dominance over the next 20 years: It became the world’s largest search engine, with an index of more than one billion web pages. The rest of the internet never caught up, and Google’s index just kept on getting bigger. Today, it’s somewhere between 500 billion and 600 billion web pages, according to estimates. Now, as regulators around the world examine ways… Source link

An update to Google’s Street View app on Android will now let anyone contribute their photos to help enhance Google Maps, the company announced this morning. Using a “connected photos” tool in the new version of the Street View app, users are able to record a series of images as they move down the street or a path. The feature requires an ARCore-compatible Android device, and for the time being, will only support image capture and upload in select geographic regions. ARCore is… Source link