Apple and Google removed an app meant to coordinate protest voting in this weekend’s Russian elections from the country on Friday, a blow to the opponents of President Vladimir V. Putin and a display of Silicon Valley’s limits when it comes to resistin…
Apple and Google cave to Putin’s censors, block Navalny app as election begins
Navalny app designed to boost opposition candidates deemed “illegal in Russia.”
Google reportedly plans to add free channels to its smart TV platform
Chromecasts and other devices powered by Google TV might give users access to free, ad-supported streaming television channels in the future, according to a new report.
Apple and Google bow to pressure in Russia to remove Kremlin critic’s tactical voting app
Apple and Google have removed a tactical voting app created by the organization of jailed Kremlin critic, Alexei Navalny, from their respective mobile app stores in Russia. Earlier this week Reuters reported that the Russian state had been amping up the pressure on foreign tech giants ahead of federal elections — appropriating the language of […]
【西田宗千佳連載】GoogleがAIやサービスなどの活用で日本のセキュリティカメラ市場を圧倒か
Vol.106-4 本連載では、ジャーナリスト・西田宗千佳氏がデジタル業界の最新動向をレポートする。今回のテーマは引き続き、Googleが日本で発売したセキュリティカメラ「Google Nest Cam」。…
Confluent CEO Jay Kreps is coming to TC Sessions: SaaS for a fireside chat
As companies process ever-increasing amounts of data, moving it in real time is a huge challenge for organizations. Confluent is a streaming data platform built on top of the open source Apache Kafka project that’s been designed to process massive numbers of events. To discuss this, and more, Confluent CEO and co-founder Jay Kreps will […]
Tyk raises $35M for its open source, open-ended approach to enterprise API management
APIs are the grease turning the gears and wheels for many organizations’ IT systems today, but as APIs grow in number and use, tracking how they work (or don’t work) together can become complex and potentially critical if something goes awry. Now, a startup that has built an innovative way to help with this is […]
Alphabet’s Project Taara Laser Tech Beamed 700TB of Data Across Nearly 5km
An anonymous reader shares a report: In January, Google’s parent company, Alphabet, shut down Project Loon, an initiative exploring using stratospheric helium balloons to distribute wireless internet (an attempt to use solar-powered drones folded in 20…
Google’s R&D division experiments with newsletters powered by Google Drive
Following entries into the newsletter market from tech companies like Facebook and Twitter, Google is now experimenting with newsletters, too. The company’s internal R&D division, Area 120, has a new project called Museletter, which allows anyone to publish a Google Drive file as a blog or newsletter to their Museletter public profile or to an […]
Shocking Pixel 6 rumor lists Google SoC with two ARM X1 CPU cores
Google blazes its own trail for its first SoC design.