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  • Apple, Amazon, Google, and Zigbee Develop Open Smart Home Standard

    Source: Apple, Amazon, Google, and Zigbee Alliance to Develop Open Standard for Smart Home Devices – MacRumors Update: Google also reports on their blog.

  • Edge vs. Chrome: A new Browser War

    The new Edge browser, built on the same open source code as Google Chrome, contains a new Tracking Prevention feature that blocks third-party trackers and, at the Strict setting, many ads. My tests show that one in four items blocked are from Google. Source: Edge vs. Chrome: Microsoft’s Tracking Prevention hits Google the hardest

  • Gmail Free Storage Thing of Past

    Nobody could see THAT coming! When people hit those caps, they realize they have little choice but to start paying, or risk losing access to emails, photos and personal documents. Source: Bloomberg

  • Google introduced AR navigation.

    Apparently it’s not just a cool new feature but a controversial discussion.

  • Google chief: I’d disclose smart speakers

    “Does the owner of a home need to disclose to a guest? I would and do when someone enters into my home, and it’s probably something that the products themselves should try to indicate.” Well, d’uh. If Rick Osterloh, SVP of Devices and Services, says so. At least the BBC writes.

  • Google Claims ‘Quantum Supremacy’

    Google announced they built a 53 qubit quantum computer. A usecase Quantum computers are popular for is factorizing products of large prime numbers, making them interesting in the field of Cryptography. With 53 qubits, Google increased the possible performance by a factor via fortune.com

  • Look, No Hands!

    Look, No Hands!

    Google’s Project Zero drops a hand full of Zero Day vulnerabilities for the iPhone at Black Hat 2019. Apparently one of them isn’t patched yet. Interaction-less Attack Surface in this context means, it’s wormable, executing code with no human interaction. Source: Look, No Hands! — The Remote, Interaction-less Attack Surface of the iPhone

  • The colors of future

    Sabine Hossenfelder googled images for ‘futuristic’ and found something puzzling. A quick experiment verified her finding. So it seems the future will not be bright but something in black and blue. Somebody really needs to figure out and in particular why the past is more orange.

  • Salesforce buys Tableau

    Salesforce buys Tableau for an amount of $15.7B, in not only its largest M&A deal to date, but probably one of the largest deals ever.

  • Google to Acquire Looker

    Google announced it plans to acquire acquire business intelligence platform Looker in a $2.6 billion all cash transaction.