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An Awkward First Date Shot Through Google Glass

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As reported on TechCrunch. by Josh Constine We as humans are terrible at expressing our desires. You never quite know what’s going on in someone’s head. We’re not so different from Google Glass in that way. It’s tough to tell what’s someone’s doing in that little prism screen. This short film combines the awkwardness of dating with the overly-intimate nature of Google’s face computer. But it also proves that despite the frequent jeers of Glass for being creepy,…

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Google will also stop scanning business and government Gmail inboxes for ads

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As reported on Engadget. BY MARIELLA MOON Student Gmail accounts aren’t the only ones safe from Google’s prying eyes. Apparently, the company’s also pulling its targeted ad scanners from Gmail inboxes for businesses and government, as well as from free legacy accounts. Mountain View’s confirmed toTechCrunch that it’ll completely kill the enable/disable toggle for targeted ads for those users. These lucky people will just never see another link hawking Viagra (hey, show me a Spam folder without…

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Google Now for Android remembers where you parked

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As reported on Engadget. BY MARIELLA MOON You probably have a trick or two up your sleeve to remember where you’ve parked amidst a sea of other cars. But if you’re still prone to forgetting your parking spot, Google’s refreshed Android Search app might be able to help you out. The update adds a newGoogle Now parking card that lists the address of the place where you left your car, along with a map that shows how far you…

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Sorry, But Google Glass Isn’t Actually For Sale To Everybody Yet

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As reported on TechCrunch. by Frederic Lardinois You Know You Want A Galaxy S5 With Swarovski Crystals On The Back Rumor has it that Google Glass is currently for sale to anybody in the United States. Sadly (or not — depending on your feelings about Glass), that’s not actually the case. While the Google Glass store is indeed open and seems to be taking orders (Update: all the models are sold out now), Google tells us that this isn’t the public launch of Glass to anybody who…

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Google offered to help Samsung with Apple patent battle costs

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As reported on Engadget. BY MAT SMITH Confirming what a lot of us thought already, Google is more than a little interested in Apple and Samsung’s continuing court battle. New evidence revealed by Apple’s lawyers outlines emails from Google that offered to foot some of the damages (if Samsung lost), as well as cover part of the legal costs in the current trial. This would cover two of the five patents that Apple is fighting over. Google…

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Google is working on end-to-end encryption for Gmail

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As reported on The Verge. By Russell Brandom Google wants to make it easier for Gmail users to encrypt their emails, according to a report in VentureBeat. PGP has been an open-source encryption standard for nearly 20 years, but the protocol has been dogged with usability issues that many claim have kept it from broader use. As a result, engineers at Google are working on ways to make PGP easier for users, as part of a larger push…

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The Dawn Of Cloud 2.0 And Why Google Started A Price War

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As reported on TechCrunch. by Peter Relan Editor’s note: Peter Relan is serial entrepreneur-turned-founder of two incubators: YouWeb(focused on gaming), and Studio 9+ (focused on big data, IoT, wearables, and P2P marketplaces). His incubations include OpenFeint, Crowdstar, Hammer and Chisel, Spaceport, and Agawi. Prior to founding his incubators, Peter held founding roles at Webvan and Business Signatures, as well as executive roles at Oracle and HP. Google recently announced up to 85 percent reduction in pricing for its PaaS and BigQuery services. Soon…

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Watch this: Android design head Matias Duarte explains why mobile is dead

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As reported on The Verge. By Sean Hollister Matias Duarte helped design the T-Mobile Sidekick, the Helio Ocean, and Palm’s webOS. Now, he directs the look and feel of Google’s Android operating system. He’s probably not the guy you’d expect to say “mobile is dead.” Those were the words that left his mouth, though, at the 2014 Accel Design Conference in San Francisco. There, Vergeeditor-in-chief Joshua Topolsky interviewed him about his thoughts on design and where Android is headed.…

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This anarchist collective is demanding $3 billion from Google

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As reported on The Verge. By Adrianne Jeffries The Counterforce, Kevin Rose, and the fire beneath San Francisco’s growing class gap Around 7AM on January 21st, 2014, a small group of protesters gathered in the driveway of an understated $1 million four bedroom family home in Berkeley and unfurled a hand-painted banner that read “GOOGLE’S FUTURE STOPS HERE.” The house belonged to Anthony Levandowski, a Google engineer best known for leading the self-driving car project. The…

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Google’s Project Ara wants to revolutionize the smartphone industry within a year

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As reported on Engadget. BY BRAD MOLEN The night before Google’s Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP) division was supposed to show off the one and only functional Project Ara prototype to a room full of eagerdevelopers, someone dropped the phone and broke the display. At any other product reveal, this worst-case scenario would be a nightmare come true. Not to Google: The company made lemonade out of a lemon by turning it into a selling point for the modular smartphone.…

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