Google revamps Drive with File Stream and expanded Quick Access, launches Gmail add-ons

At its Google Cloud Next conference in San Francisco today, Google is announcing several updates to Google Drive, its cloud-based file syncing and sharing service. For one thing, Google is introducing a feature called Drive File Stream that will make your entire Drive show up on … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 7 years ago

Google’s Jamboard will cost $5,000, plus an annual management fee

 Google’s delivering on its promise of keeping its interactive whiteboard under $6,000. Priced at $4,999, the Jamboard is just a hair more expensive than the 55-inch version of Cisco’s Sparkboard and considerably less so than the $8,999 Surface Hub, which was both the first of th … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 7 years ago

Google adds add-on support to Gmail

 Here’s some welcome news for Gmail users: Google is adding support for third-party add-ons that can integrate directly into the service. There are plenty of services that add functionality to Gmail already, of course, but they typically do that through a browser extension. With … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 7 years ago

Google updates Drive with a focus on its business users

 Google today announced a number of major updates to Drive, its online file storage service, which all aim to make it more useful for the company’s business and enterprise users. In addition, the company announced that Drive now has 800 million daily active users, which probably … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 7 years ago

Google acquires AppBridge to help enterprises move their files to its cloud services

 Google today announced it has acquired AppBridge, a company that specializes in helping businesses move their files and data into the Google Cloud platform. Using AppBridge, businesses can move their on-premise data to Google Drive, but the service also offers connectors for mov … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 7 years ago

New version of Google App Engine supports all programming languages

 Google announced that an entirely overhauled version of App Engine was generally available as of today. It made the announcement at Google Cloud Next being held this week in San Francisco.App Engine is Google’s platform-as-a-service for building application backends without havi … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 7 years ago

Simplifeye gets $3 million to make wearables part of your doctor’s workflow

 New York-based Simplifeye thinks it can improve the productivity of the people who work in your doctor’s or dentist’s office, by making patient information more easily available. The twist? It’s doing so by putting that information on wearables like the Apple Watch. Read More | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 7 years ago

Google launches Hangouts Chat, its Slack competitor

Google is getting back into the team collaboration space to take on Slack, Microsoft Teams, Workplace by Facebook, and Cisco Spark with a new service called Hangouts Chat. Available in a private beta, it blends private rooms for conversations with integrations not only with G Sui … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 7 years ago

Google goes after Slack and splits Hangouts into Chat and Meet

 Google’s messaging strategy can be confusing, but if there’s one thing that’s clear after today’s Cloud Next keynote, it’s that the company is doubling down on the idea that Hangouts is its enterprise product and Allo/Duo are its consumer communications apps. Read More | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 7 years ago

Native Gmail add-ons are coming — but they’ll be business focused

Google is now allowing third-party developers to integrate directly into Gmail with add-ons. Unlike the sort of Gmail utilities you may have used before (like Boomerang or Rapportive), add-ons will work directly in Gmail instead of through a Chrome extension. That will mean that … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 7 years ago

Google Drive has a ton of new updates that make it a lot more enticing for business

Google Drive is growing up a little bit today. At its enterprise-focused Cloud Next conference, Google is announcing a set of changes that will make the product more palatable for businesses — and potentially more interesting for regular consumers as well.The top of the new featu … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 7 years ago

Google Hangouts is getting a major overhaul to take on Slack

If you know anything about Google’s messaging strategy in the last few years, you know that it’s been a bit of a mess. Allo, the consumer app, launched without the cross-platform features users expect. Text messaging on mobile is mired in inter-carrier warfare. And Hangouts has b … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 7 years ago

Google's giant 4K digital whiteboard, Jamboard, will cost $4,999

Google’s Jamboard, a giant 4K digital whiteboard designed for workplace collaboration, is getting a price tag of $4,999 and a release date sometime this May. The details were revealed today as part of suite of new announcements from the Google Cloud Next conference. The Jamboard, … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 7 years ago

Google in the cloud

 This is a pivotal week for Google Cloud Platform. As it hosts its annual Google Cloud Next Conference in San Francisco, it will offer the usual lineup of speakers, customer testimonials and product announcements one would expect at this type of event, but the broader and more ch … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 7 years ago

Harry Potter robotics master lets a hyper realistic leopard on the loose in London

John Nolan is an animatronics visionary, known for having created the terrifying baby Voldemort for the Harry Potter films. Now he's teamed up with National Geographic for Big Cat Week to create the world's first hyper-realistic leopard. The giant animal robot is 1.3 meters tall … | Continue reading


@mashable.com | 7 years ago

Amazon Game Studios hires Command & Conquer veteran Louis Castle

Louis Castle, a veteran game developer of games such as Command & Conquer, has taken a job as head of Amazon Game Studios in Seattle. He becomes a part of Amazon’s growing contingent of veterans game makers such as Rich Hilleman, the former chief creative director at Electronic A … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 7 years ago

Google enhances Firebase with Cloud Functions support, streamlined terms of service

At its Google Cloud Next conference in San Francisco today, Google is announcing updates to its Firebase portfolio of mobile-oriented cloud services. First, Firebase is getting an integration with the Google Cloud Functions serverless event-driven computing service. Google unveil … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 7 years ago

Google integrates Firebase deeper into its Cloud Platform

 Firebase, the mobile app development platform Google acquired in 2014, is getting a major update at the Google Cloud Next conference in San Francisco today. The general theme here is that Firebase is moving closer to the Google Cloud platform. It’s adding support for Google Clou … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 7 years ago

Scientists use lasers to detect enriched uranium from a distance

Blasting uranium with lasers sounds like a bad idea, but it's actually a good way to figure out if it's dangerous or not. The post Scientists use lasers to detect enriched uranium from a distance appeared first on ExtremeTech. | Continue reading


@extremetech.com | 7 years ago

'Typeshift' Is the Puzzle Game Zach Gage Has Been Teasing, It's Coming Next Week

We've been following mysterious teasers from game design mastermind Zach Gage all week now, the latest was posted just moments ago and once solved reveals that these teasers are a clever trailer for the game Typeshift, which is due out March 18th. (What's with games coming out on … | Continue reading


@toucharcade.com | 7 years ago

Plex’s hardware-free media server, Plex Cloud, opens to all

 After a couple of stops and starts – and some concerns – media player software maker Plex is opening up its online service known as Plex Cloud to all paying Plex users. The service, which was first introduced into private beta in September, eliminates the need for an always-on P … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 7 years ago

Uber backtracks on shady Greyball tool allegedly used to avoid authorities

As the hits keep on coming for Uber, a spokesperson has come out admitting the company used a tool to get around investigators. The New York Times reported Uber used an internal tool called Greyball to determine if a user was a government employee. When users suspected of investi … | Continue reading


@thenextweb.com | 7 years ago

How To Use Reddit For Business and Content Promotion

Reddit is a big, scary place for businesses. Users on this platform are known to start petitions against businesses. However, if you are willing to put the time and effort into understanding Reddit and how to effectively use it for marketing purposes, it one of the most influenti … | Continue reading


@alltop | 7 years ago

The Moto Z successor may have been used to demo Sprint’s Gigabit Class LTE speeds

Sprint said it demoed its new Gigabit Class LTE network with an upcoming flagship phone from Motorola, which may be the successor to the Moto Z. | Continue reading


@androidauthority.com | 7 years ago

Explore the International Space Station in VR right now

Mission: ISS — a virtual reality collaboration between Oculus and three space agencies — is now available for free to Oculus Rift and Touch owners. The experience is a detailed recreation of the International Space Station where participants can do things like dock cargo capsules … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 7 years ago

IndiePlus Winning 'Mushroom 11' Arrives on the App Store

This seems to be the week of super rad Steam games hitting the App Store, as following right behind Kingdom is Mushroom 11 [$4.99], a game of spreading a fungus around to complete levels in incredibly clever ways. Following the development of Mushroom 11 over the years has been a … | Continue reading


@toucharcade.com | 7 years ago

Online vs. Offline Marketing: An Infographic

Your business needs to attract customers, as well as build a loyal fan and follower base. As you would expect with the digital world, there are many online avenues and channels your business can utilize...read moreThe post Online vs. Offline Marketing: An Infographic appeared fir … | Continue reading


@alltop | 7 years ago

Online vs. Offline Marketing: An Infographic

Take a look at this online vs offline marketing-infographic for details on a variety of marketing channels, as well as the support statistics for each. | Continue reading


@socialmediaexplorer.com | 7 years ago

DeepMind says no quick fix for verifying health data access

 Why should you trust an advertising giant with the most sensitive personal data you possess: aka your medical records? That’s the hugely sticky issue Google-owned DeepMind is facing as it seeks to embed itself into the UK’s healthcare space — a big push publicly announced in Feb … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 7 years ago

Google Cloud launches committed-use discounts, can cut monthly costs by 57%

theAt its Google Cloud Next conference in San Francisco today, Google announced the launch of a new discounting system for its Google Cloud Platform public cloud offering. Customers will be able to get a lower cost after committing to a particular volume. That model is different … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 7 years ago

Google launches committed-use discounts for its Cloud Platform

 At its Cloud Next event in San Francisco, Google today announced the beta of a new pricing option for virtual machines on its Google Compute Platform. These new committed-use discounts lock you into a one- or three-year commitment. You decide how many cores and how much memory y … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 7 years ago

Activision Blizzard is the only game company on Fortune’s list of 100 best places to work in America

The gaming industry can be a grueling one, known for pushing employees with long hours. But one company has plenty of happy workers. Fortune released its list of the 100 best places to work in America, and Activision Blizzard was the only game company to make the cut. The publish … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 7 years ago

Tivoli’s new Model One Digital brings retro vibes to a wireless speaker

Tivoli launched its new Model One Digital speaker this week as a more tech-intensive counterpart to its Model One radio, which was first released in 2000. The new speaker pairs over Wi-Fi or Bluetooth and streams from FM radio or various online services, like Spotify, Tidal, and … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 7 years ago

Kong: Skull Island Is a Likable Near-Miss

“Mark my words, there’ll never be a more screwed-up time in Washington.”This is the opening line of Kong: Skull Island, and it comes across today as more knowing even than it presumably did when the scene was shot. The movie, directed by Jordan Vogt-Roberts, is full of such winks … | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 7 years ago

Google’s security AI is now so smart it doesn’t need to ask if you’re “not a robot”

Google’s security AI has become so smart, it can now tell whether you’re a human or a robot without asking you to check a box or solve annoying puzzles… most of the time, anyway. We’ve all come across CAPTCHAs, those challenges that ask you to type in the characters you see in sc … | Continue reading


@thenextweb.com | 7 years ago

Google Cloud adds three new GCP regions

 Today at Google Cloud Next in San Francisco, the company announced three new regions for its Google Cloud Platform. The Netherlands, Canada and California are set to join the rapidly growing list of host locations. The move benefits users by allowing more flexibility for where u … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 7 years ago

Are Apple, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Amazon dominating too much of tech?

Walt’s column this week was all about the Gang of Five — Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Facebook — and how they dominate the tech industry. We break it down this week on the podcast — and get into some deep comparison with Microsoft in the ‘90s, complete with old columns a … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 7 years ago

Analyst: Expect Bitcoin Price at $3,000 By Year’s End

[…]The post Analyst: Expect Bitcoin Price at $3,000 By Year’s End appeared first on CryptoCoinsNews. | Continue reading


@cryptocoinsnews.com | 7 years ago

Activist Brittany Packnett is coming to Disrupt NY

 Words cannot express my excitement, but they’ll have to do. Brittany Packnett, VP of National Community Alliances at Teach For America and co-founder of social justice organization Campaign Zero, social justice activist will be joining us at TechCrunch Disrupt New York in May. I … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 7 years ago

How to Be Successful with Content Marketing

I became a fan, and practitioner, of content marketing after I went through HubSpot’s Inbound Marketing University about seven years ago. Marcus Sheridan’s Ted Talk four years ago just reinforced my commitment to combining this form of marketing with the traditional outbound mark … | Continue reading


@alltop | 7 years ago

Gboard for Android gets Google Translate support, emoji suggestions and more in latest update

The update is currently rolling out in the Google Play Store. | Continue reading


@androidauthority.com | 7 years ago

Shout for Chrome and iOS is like the lovechild of Goodreads and Pocket

There’s a lot of great content on the internet. But sharing it in a way that’s both visible and organized isn’t particularly easy – especially on services like Twitter and Facebook. Enter Shout. Available for Chrome and iOS, this service is a bit like what would happen if Goodrea … | Continue reading


@thenextweb.com | 7 years ago

The Wild Boars of Fukushima

Six years after the devastating 2011 earthquake and tsunami struck Japan, the evacuation zone around the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant remains devoid of humans—but the boars have moved in. Reuters reports that after the people left, wild boars living in the nearb … | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 7 years ago

Wikileaks says it wants to help tech companies thwart CIA hacking

Wikileaks mastermind Julian Assange says he wants to help tech companies block the CIA's hacking techniques. "We have decided to work with them, to give them some exclusive access to some of the technical details we have, so that fixes can be pushed out," he said during a Faceboo … | Continue reading


@mashable.com | 7 years ago

Cadillac’s CTS sedans can now ‘talk’ to each other, which may make driving way less deadly

General Motors announced today that all of its new 2017 Cadillac CTS sedans would come equipped with “vehicle-to-vehicle” technology that will allow them to communicate with other similar models and detect potential upcoming hazards, like slippery roads or disabled vehicles. For … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 7 years ago

Ford details some of the big hardware challenges to overcome in self-driving

 Ford’s still keen on its mission of delivering a fleet of self-driving vehicles in operation by 2021, but their remain significant technical hurdles to overcome between now and then. Ford’s Chief Program Engineer for Autonomous Vehicle Development Chris Brewer detailed some of t … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 7 years ago

5 Reasons You Need a Content Calendar (and a Free Worksheet and Template)

Content marketing is one of the most effective and affordable ways to directly and indirectly promote your business, but coming up with interesting things to write every day can be a significant burden -- especially if you don't have the budget to hire someone to help you write! … | Continue reading


@keysplashcreative.com | 7 years ago

Rethinking return on education investment

 A new generation of tech-enabled startups are beginning to reimagine how students finance their education. Higher ed’s transformation is fueling a convergence of fintech and edtech that aims to blur the line between learning and earning — and will force students, colleges and fi … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 7 years ago