Over the past few days, we’ve seen US-based companies line up to sever their ties with the Chinese telecom giant, Huawei.
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Talk about an unexpected comeback. Google’s Glass, those augmented reality specs that we were convinced had fallen off the map in 2015, have returned. And, like all good sequels, they’re better than ever in addition to being back. Meet the redesigned (and ponderously named) Google Glass Enterprise Edition 2. Catchy, yeah?
This week we saw the US Trump administration place Huawei, the Chinese smartphone maker on an ‘Entity List’, but Huawei seems surprisingly calm about it all.
Google suspended business operations with Huawei effective immediately. Meaning Huawei’s phones won’t get future updates, access to the Google Play Store, Gmail, YouTube and other Google apps.
The Chinese device maker has issued a statement reassuring existing Huawei customers that their devices will continue to receive support.
A sister company of Google, Alphabet’s Wing Aviation, just got federal approval to start using drones for commercial delivery. Amazon’s own drone-delivery program is ready to launch as well. As drones take flight, the world is about to get a lot louder – as if neighborhoods were filled with leaf blowers, lawn mowers and chainsaws.
Google’s annual I/O generally includes a focus on either hardware or software, but this year we got a healthy combination of the two.
These days you can’t be too safe with data phishing attacks, and now a developer has found that even Chrome for Android is susceptible.
Google has partnered with Pluralsight, an online platform that offers tech-related courses, to sponsor 30,000 aspiring programmers from Africa.
Two-factor authentication is a service that keeps your online accounts and services a whole lot safer than they would be otherwise. Why else would you lock down a Steam account using Steam Guard, a Blizzard account with Blizzard Authenticator, an Xbox Live account with whichever notification system from Microsoft annoys you the least? Shouldn’t your more business-y accounts have the same protection? Google thinks so.