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Google is working on integrating its Chromecast streaming devices and Nest Audio speakers, according to a comment from a Google spokesperson in The Wall Street Journal, in a move that would give Google’s smart home and streaming gadgets a feature parity with Amazon and Apple. Being able to combine a streaming platform with a smart phone speaker makes a lot of sense for these companies. After all, customers already have all the hardware in their living room — why not repurpose those… Source link

Google search engine rivals have dialled up pressure on the European Commission over the tech giant’s ‘pay-to-play’ choice screen for Android users in Europe — arguing the Google-devised auction has failed to remedy antitrust issues identified by the European Commission more than two years ago. The joint letter to the Commission, which has been signed by Ecosia, DuckDuckGo, Lilo, Qwant and Seznam, requests a trilateral meeting between the EU executive, Google, and the five… Source link

Despite closed offices and a hiring slowdown during the coronavirus pandemic, Google is still growing in San Francisco. It’s a small addition, picking up what would have been enough space for 300 employees in the days before social distancing protocols. But the Mountain View search giant’s move to expand its real estate holdings, already among the biggest in the Bay Area, comes as other tech companies … Source link

The US-based networking technology major Cisco Systems is banking heavily on the fifth generation or 5G networks and said that the company is closely working with Indian telecom carriers such as Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel to meet their ambitious roadmap. In an interaction with ETTelecom’s Muntazir Abbas, Sanjay Kaul, President, Asia Pacific, and Japan, Service Provider Business at Cisco Systems talks on digital transformation, Atmanirbhar Bharat (self-reliant India), Cisco’s $5 billion… Source link

Google alternative Ecosia is on a mission to turn search clicks into trees. The Berlin based not-for-profit reached a major milestone earlier this month, having used ad revenue generated by users of its privacy-sensitive search engine to plant more than 100 million trees across 25 countries worldwide — targeted at biodiversity hotspots. However these good feels have been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic. Ecosia has seen its monthly revenues slashed by half since COVID-19 arrived… Source link

Image copyright North Smart glasses company North has told customers that their $600 (£460) purchases will stop working in a few days’ time. The Canadian company, recently purchased by Google, says its Focals glasses will cease functioning on Friday. From then, owners will not be able to use “any… Source link

Google plans to keep 200,000 full-time and contract employees working remotely until at least July 2021, The Wall Street Journal reported. Other tech firms have announced long-term plans to keep employees working from home due to restrictions from the coronavirus pandemic, but Google would be the first to extend remote working into the middle of next year. According to the WSJ, Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google parent company Alphabet, made the call last week following a meeting with top… Source link

Google is asking employees to continue working from home until summer 2021, according to the Wall Street Journal’s Rob Copeland.  People familiar with the matter told the Journal that Google would announce as early as Monday that it had pushed its return-to-office date back to July 2021 for nearly all of its 200,000 employees.  The Journal reports that Google CEO Sundar Pichai made the decision to push back the reopening after there was debate among a group of top… Source link

Google is often dabbling in one smart technology or another and now it seems the company is working on smart tattoos.  Known as “SkinMarks” these intelligent tattoos are designed to be rubbed onto curved parts of your body (knuckles for example) and used as a touchpad. CNET reports that these smart tattoos could then be used as a tap interface, with… Source link