This Week In Tech – October 24, 2021

This week has been super busy in the tech industry, Apple, Google and, Samsung all held hardware announcement events. Apple Event At their event on Monday, Apple announced details about their new pro-tier Mac chips. They also announced new upgraded Macbook Pros. Some of the highlights are the return of the ports Apple removed from Macbooks in 2016 and MagSafe. Made By Google 2021 During their annual Made by Google event, Google announced the next generation of Pixel phones. The Pixel 6 & 6 Pro will for the first time have Google’s in-house built Tensor SoC. Both devices get a … Continue reading This Week In Tech – October 24, 2021

This Week In Tech – Dec 20th 2020

I’ve been very busy this week so I’ve not had time to write anything here are links to a few important stories of the week: FTC investigating data collection practices of tech companies SolarWinfs HackTwitter fined under GDPRTwitter is shutting down PeriscopeGoogle sued for antitrust twice this weekInstagram data leakUS Space Force official renamed to Guardians Continue reading This Week In Tech – Dec 20th 2020

This Week In Tech – Nov 1, 2020

Firstly, I intended to write an article last week because I did not have time. Last week the US Department of Justice sued Google for anti-trust. Experts and journalists think that the suit was rushed and that it did not do a good job of establishing the problems that it focuses on search instead of advertising. They talk about business deals like Google paying Apple and Mozilla to be the default search engine on their given platforms. I agree, Big Tech should be dealt with, but I don’t think that anti-trust/monopoly law is how to deal with it. I plan … Continue reading This Week In Tech – Nov 1, 2020

Made By Google 2018

They started off by listing off all the new annoncments: The Pixel 3, The Pixel Slate, and the Google Home Hub. Google Devices hove won over 45 design awards. Google is merging Nest back into Google. First the Google Home Hub, it is Google’s smart display. Google first talked about their Smart Displays at CES (I think). I has a 8 inch displayThe UI actually looks really good. it is compatible with most thing the regular Home is. It has a feature that makes it act as a digital picture frame when not in use. Preorder today get on October … Continue reading Made By Google 2018

Google I/O 2017

On wednesday Google hosted their I/O conference where they announced In stats they announced that they passed 2 billion active android users. Last year youtube passed 1 billion hours watched last year In products gmail on android and iOS will now have smart replies In android google lens allows identifies stuff like restaurants and passwords form routers from photos(the router password probably uses data from the device) when it sees a restraint sign it uses your location to bring up information about the restaurant like reviews. This would be in the photos app. Google Assistant will be coming to Android … Continue reading Google I/O 2017