Update: Google also reports on their blog.
Tag: google
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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
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Gmail Free Storage Thing of Past
Nobody could see THAT coming!
Gmail 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
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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.
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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
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Look, No Hands!
Black Hat 2019 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
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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.
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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. After Google only acquired Looker earlier past week, it seems the race for Business Analytics is on.
SaaS giant Salesforce announced that it has signed an agreement with Seattle-based data visualization and analysis platform Tableau for $15.7 billion in stock. Both companies’ boards of directors approved the deal, which “is expected to be completed during Salesforce’s fiscal third quarter […]
Source: Salesforce To Buy Tableau For $15.7B In Its Largest M&A Deal To Date
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Google to Acquire Looker
Google spent $2.6 billion all cash to acquire business intelligence platform Looker.
Google LLC today announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Looker, a unified platform for business intelligence, data applications and embedded analytics, in a $2.6 billion all-cash…
Source: Alphabet : 06.06.2019 Google to Acquire Looker more | MarketScreener