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Escape for Google Glass brings casual gaming to explorers.

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As reported on Engadget. By James Trew You know what’s not new? Android games. You know what is new? Games for Google Glass. There has been the odd attempt so far, but french-based game developer AMA is porting one of its bonafide titles over to the small screen for real. Escape! is a simple puzzler, the sort that we’re all familiar with on our phones, that is being squeezed into the wearable format. While games on the hardware might be something of an…

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Following Comical Scrap With Google, Microsoft’s YouTube App Will Return To Windows Phone Today

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As reported on TechCrunch. by ALEX WILHELM Well, Windows Phone fans, you are almost home. Today Microsoft’s YouTube application for Windows Phone will return to the platform’s marketplace. At last, Google and Microsoft appear to have worked out a compromise that will allow for a fully featured YouTube experience on the latter’s mobile platform. Google and Microsoft have had a fraught year, bickering over email syncing, search dominance and mobile mapping. And the YouTube thing. Microsoft had pulled…

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Google’s New Maps App Now Showing Local Ads Related To Users’ Searches

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As reported on TechCrunch. by SARAH PEREZ Google AdWords customers can now better target mobile device owners via an updated ad experience within the Google Maps app on Android, iPhone, and iPad, Google announced today. This news follows a recent update to the Google Maps app, which previously saw a number of changes and additions, including an updated user interface, integrated traffic reporting, Zagat reviews, changes to how business ratings display, and more. In the updated Google Maps application, advertisers…

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In Mastering Machine Intelligence, Google Rewrites Search Engine Rules

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As reported on TechCrunch. PETER YARED AND CAMERON OLTHUIS Editor’s note: Peter Yared is the CTO/CIO and Cameron Olthius is the VP of Search for CBS Interactive, a Comscore Top 10 Internet destination.  Google has produced a car that drives itself and an Android operating system that has remarkably good speech recognition. Yes, Google has begun to master machine intelligence. So it should be no surprise that Google has finally started to figure out how to stop bad actors…

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Google adds touch controls to experimental version of Chrome

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As reported on Engadget. By Daniel Cooper The latest build of Canary, the bleeding-edge test-bed for Google Chrome, reveals that the company is working on touch-centric features for its desktop browser. By swiping left and right, for instance, users will be able to avoid the chore of hitting the back and forward page buttons — while pinch-to-zoom and on-screen keyboards are also available to try out. Now, of course, you just need some hardware to take advantage of the new features.

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Google Opens The New Google Maps For Web To Everyone

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As reported on TechCrunch. by GREG KUMPARAK Remember that shiny new Maps web interface that Google started showing off at I/O back in May? It’s here! Technically, the new Maps interface has actually been here for a while… assuming you signed up for an invite shortly after it was announced and were able to make it through Google’s invite queue before they opened the floodgates today. (I signed up a few hours after the announcement and just…

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Google Maps 2.0 for iOS starts rolling out with iPad support, indoor maps (update: offline maps too) Mobile

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As reported on Engadget. By Jon Fingas The revamped Google Maps design reached Android last week; now, it’s iOS’ turn. Google Maps 2.0 is gradually rolling out worldwide for Apple’s platform, and it’s bringing the Android version’s discovery and exploration components as well as some new-to-iOS features. Long-anticipated iPad support is the highlight, although there’s also indoor navigation, live traffic updates and incident reports. Maps 2.0 hasn’t hit the US just yet, although it should be available shortly. Update: It looks like it’s…

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The Art And Science Of YouTube Networks

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As reported on TechCrunch. by RYAN LAWLER Over the last several years, we’ve seen a growing proliferation of multichannel networks (MCNs) pop up on YouTube, all of which are seeking to aggregate channels and audience in an effort to boost viewership and better monetize the videos that creators make. While the end goal — more viewers, more money — is the same for each of them, how they get to that place can differ significantly. I…

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Google Explains Why Its Cloud Service Is Different When It Comes To Lock-In

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As reported on TechCrunch. by ALEX WILLIAMS A Google engineer concluded on his Google+ page last week that a cloud platform can’t be built without some form of lock-in. That’s evidently true but there really is one main reason for making such a point. Google wants to show that it is not much different from its competitors when it comes to this hot topic with cloud customers. The post by Google Engineering Director Peter Magnusson has to be read…

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Google Drive makes it easy to email spreadsheets, copy/paste your heart away

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As reported on Engadget. By Mariella Moon Google Drive updates might be few and far in between, but they usually add welcome changes to the service — take for example its recently improved copy/paste function. You can now paste tables from spreadsheets into Gmail with their formatting intact, and it doesn’t even matter what browser you use. Chrome users get a bit of extra, of course, like bringing shapes from drawings into presentations and copying slides from one presentation to…

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