Google - Bom, Mau ou Vilão?

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Googles poaches key engineers from Apple to fuel its chip design ambitions

https://www.neowin.net/news/googles-...sign-ambitions

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Google managed to shield $19 billion in taxes via a shell company in 2016

https://www.neowin.net/news/google-m...ompany-in-2016

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Google quietly bought a UK startup that uses vibrations to turn your screen into a speaker
The Cambridge-based Redux also used vibrations to simulate touchable buttons on 2D displays

https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/11/1...een-vibrations

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Google To Construct Three Undersea Cables In 2019

Google has announced that they will be commissioning three new subsea cables in 2019. Curie, a private cable connecting Chile to Los Angeles; Havfrue, a consortium cable connecting the U.S. to Denmark and Ireland; and the Hong Kong-Guam Cable system (HK-G), a consortium cable interconnecting major subsea communication hubs in Asia.



https://www.hardocp.com/news/2018/01...cables_in_2019

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Google officially acquires part of HTC's smartphone unit for $1.1 billion

https://www.neowin.net/news/google-o...for-11-billion

Google Planning to Design More Chips to Reach the Same Calibre as Apple, Claims Latest Report

https://wccftech.com/google-planning...latest-report/

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Internet rages after Google removes “view image” button, bowing to Getty
Getty drops lawsuit against Google in exchange for controversial image search changes.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018...wing-to-getty/

Google's "View Image" Button Returns With This Chrome Extension

https://www.hardocp.com/news/2018/02...rome_extension

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Google discloses a "high" severity security flaw in Windows 10

https://www.neowin.net/news/google-d...-in-windows-10

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Google helps Pentagon analyze military drone footage—employees “outraged”
"Project Maven" applies Google's image recognition tech to drone footage.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018...drone-footage/

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Google is opening up Maps so game developers can create the next Pokémon Go
The first wave of games includes Jurassic World and The Walking Dead
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Google says that its new Maps platform for games is divided into three main parts. First, and most obvious, is that developers who sign up will have access to real-time Google Maps data. As part of this, Google is also launching a new software development kit for Unity, one of the most popular game engines in the world, to make it easy to incorporate this mapping data into a game. “Our new Unity SDK does all of the heavy lifting,” says product manager Clementine Jacoby. “No Google Maps expertise needed.”
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https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/14/1...d-walking-dead

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To Find Suspects, Police Quietly Turn to Google

WRAL is reporting on a number of unique warrants out of Raleigh, North Carolina, in which police requested (and were subsequently granted) data from all mobile devices in the surrounding area of a crime scene. Traditionally, police must find a suspect first before searching their data, but now, the opposite is occuring.

https://www.hardocp.com/news/2018/03...ly_turn_google

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Google employees revolt, say company should shut down military drone project
Project applying Google’s image recognition to military drone footage causes uproar.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018...tagon-project/

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Try Google's New OS In Your Browser

Google has been fighting with itself for a long time having Android and Chrome OS overlapping each other, and now Slash Gear is reporting that Google is apparently working on a third wheel. "Andromeda" was a rumor that had started from people thinking that Google would merge their two current operating systems together, however Google Fuchsia is a new OS built from the ground up that you can play with today in your browser.

https://www.hardocp.com/news/2018/04...n_your_browser

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AI Doc "Do You Trust This Computer?" Streams for Free, Courtesy of Elon Musk

"Do You Trust This Computer?" is a new documentary exploring the potential consequences of artificial intelligence. Elon Musk (who has warned about these dangers before) thinks it is something that everyone should see and has thus made it available to stream for free. You can hit this link to go directly to the documentary.



https://www.hardocp.com/news/2018/04...tesy_elon_musk

Computer System Transcribes Words Users "Speak Silently"

The device is thus part of a complete silent-computing system that lets the user undetectably pose and receive answers to difficult computational problems. In one of the researchers’ experiments, for instance, subjects used the system to silently report opponents’ moves in a chess game and just as silently receive computer-recommended responses.

https://www.hardocp.com/news/2018/04...speak_silently

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Google disables domain-fronting, removing ability to bypass state-level firewalls

https://www.neowin.net/news/google-d...evel-firewalls