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Google Announces First Project Glass Hackathons In NYC And SF, Will Detail ‘Mirror API’

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As reported on TechCrunch. by RIP EMPSON Over the last year, Google has slowly been unveiling its plans around Project Glass, the company’s R&D program responsible for attempting to bring wearable computing to the mainstream. Complete with augmented reality and an integrated display, Google’s smart glasses have had many geeks on pins and needles, especially as “Explorer” editions of the glasses have been expected to begin showing up early this year. Today, Google sent out its…

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How Google and Facebook Will Make the Leap to Lightspeed

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As reported on Wired. BY CADE METZ Image: Flickr/HarshWCAM3.   One early morning in 2011, somewhere behind the curtain at the world’s most popular social network, a Facebook engineer pressed a single button and brought down the entire operation. This unnamed engineer didn’t necessarily make a mistake. He just decided to run the kind of software task the social networking giant runs all the time. He ran a “Hadoop job,” a way of analyzing data. The…

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What Did Google Earth Spot in the Chinese Desert? Even an Ex-CIA Analyst Isn’t Sure

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As reported on Wired. BY NOAH SHACHTMAN China’s Mystery Complex Location: 39.6 N, 76.1 E Photos: Google Earth Overview. Nov. 16 2011. Site. Oct. 17, 2009. Site. June 21, 2011. Foundation of Largest Building. June 21, 2011. Closeup of Large Buildings. Nov. 16 2011. Site of Middle Structures. June 21, 2011. Middle Structures. Nov. 16, 2011. Western Structures. June 21, 2011. Western Structures. Nov. 16, 2011. View as gallery   Late last month, former CIA analyst Allen…

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Google drops claims against Microsoft, as patent wars appear to wind down

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As reported on Engadget. By Terrence O’Brien Google has decided to put its patent feud with Microsoft to bed… at least partially. The H.264-related patents in question were part of the Internet giant’s prize when it purchased Motorola, and Redmond has been seeking to license. As a result of the FTC’s recent judgement against Mountain View, Xbox owners will be able to sleep soundly that Big G isn’t about to take its streaming video away. In what would appear…

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U.S. Senator Charles Schumer, Google CIO To Unveil Free WiFi In NYC’s Chelsea Neighborhood

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As reported on TechCrunch. by INGRID LUNDEN Google has slowly been building up its service provider cred, with anambitious fiber project in Kansas City and free WiFi initiatives through a partnership with Boingo. Today, the search giant is taking another step in that direction: it will unveil a free, public WiFi network in the New York City neighborhood of Chelsea. U.S. Senator Charles Schumer is expected to join Ben Fried, Google’s CIO, to make the announcement at 10.30 am…

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Google Quietly Removes Censorship Warning Feature For Search Users In China

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As reported on TechCrunch. by NATASHA LOMAS Google has quietly disabled a feature that notified users of its search service in China when a keyword had been censored by the Chinese government’s internet controls, according to censorship monitoring blog GreatFire.org. The blog reports that the change was made sometime between December 5 and December 8 2012, with no official statement from Google to announce or explain its removal. According to GreatFire.org Google has also deleted a help article…

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Microsoft ‘disappointed’ by Google’s Exchange ActiveSync decision, pledges support for IMAP

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As reported on The Verge. By Tom Warren Microsoft has officially responded to Google’s planned Gmail ActiveSync removal in a statement issued to The Verge today. The company says it has been left “surprised and disappointed” by Google’s decision that will affect the syncing of personal Gmail contacts and calendar for new WIndows Phone devices. Microsoft briefly responded to Google’s decision late last year, but today’s statement appears to indicate that the company has no plans to support Gmail contacts and calendar…

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Google Glass lead says project is still a work in progress

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As reported on The Verge. By Dan Seifert Google’s Project Glass product, the company’s venture into wearable computing, was officially unveiled over half a year ago at the Google I/O conference. Since then, we haven’t heard much from Google about the device, but today IEEE Spectrum published an interview with Babak Parviz, head of the project at Google. Parviz didn’t reveal too much that we didn’t already know, but he did lend a few details about Google’s intentions for Glass…

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Google Extends Free Gmail Voice Calls In The U.S. And Canada Through 2013

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As reported on TechCrunch. by FREDERIC LARDINOIS In what is becoming somewhat of a holiday tradition for Google, the company justannounced that it is extending free domestic calls from Gmail in the U.S. and Canada for yet another year. Just like at the end of 2011 and2010, Google today said that Gmail users will once again get one more year of free voice calls from the Gmail chat widget. It’s interesting that Google continues to extend this service year after…

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Why is Google trying to ruin Christmas?

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As reported on The Verge. By Aaron Souppouris On the list of things that bring joy and happiness to all men on earth, Christmas and Emoji feature very high. With that in mind, you can understand our shock to discover that Google is making a mockery of these fine institutions. In a bug report titled Santa Emoji is sad, when Santa should be jolly, one Android user reveals Google’s actions:   Please describe the problem in detail.…

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