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Google is coming back with a new Chromebook. The company is set to have a big hardware event on the 4th of October, but almost all of the announcements have leaked already. Google’s new premium Chromebook device is part of t...
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With nearly 2 billion users estimated to be using digital assistants by 2021, voice assistants are becoming increasingly important. Amazon has been dominating the world of smart speakers for a while now, but other tech giants like...
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If you can’t be a leader at the very least you should be a fast follower. Microsoft has not proven itself adept at leading, and, after a false start, they tend to follow well after the market has already been settled. We saw...
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Google’s Chromecast has a simple technique to allow guests to stream to an open Chromcast device by confirming their proximity using audio signals, so called “audio pairing”. This involves the Chromecast enabled ...
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Google’s old Drive app for Windows (and MacOS) is going away this December, and will stop working in March next year. Google Drive for Mac/PC is officially deprecated. It will no longer be supported starting on December 11...
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Though Google may be dominating Microsoft in the consumer world, in the commercial cloud world it is still something of a contest, with Microsoft’s Azure being one of the main platforms in this market and Google being an als...
by Surur
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Microsoft was a much-chastened company after being very nearly broken up by American anti-trust regulators in early 2000, with much of its hyper-competitive edge being blunted by close supervision by resident lawyers. It seems Goo...
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While Microsoft’s HoloLens still offers the best augmented reality experience it is being rapidly overtaken by hardware-agnostic phone-based mixed reality like Snapchat and of course Apple’s ARKit. Up till now Google&#...
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While Google made its Allo app available on the Windows desktop a few weeks ago, we noted that it was limited to Chrome and users of other browsers–including Microsoft’s Edge–couldn’t use the app. An enter...
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Microsoft this Spring announced a Windows laptop and SKU to take on Google’s ChromeOS, now Google might be about to return the favor. The specs of this new Chromebook are currently unknown, but going by the specs of various ...
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Google has a lot of chat apps, and that’s no secret. But the company’s “flagship” messaging app, Allo, got a major upgrade this week. Google is finally bringing Allo to the web, allowing you to message on A...