As the market for smart home products expands, the joint forces of Google, Apple, and Amazon are coming together to form a new standard in “Matter.” This week, the company behind Philips Hue announced that a future software update will make all Hue products fully compatible with Matter.
Matter, the just-unveiled name for Project Connected Home over IP (CHIP), is currently looking at a…
After two years of confusing lineups and messy launches, the Pixel 6 is shaping up to potentially be a big deal for Google this year. After we exclusively reported that the Pixel 6 series will be powered by the Google-designed Whitechapel chipset, some alleged renders are…
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Starburst, a company that targets enterprises with a commercial version of the open source Presto-based SQL query engine Trino, has launched a new fully managed cloud product for Amazon Web…
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Code security startup BluBracket today announced it has raised $12 million in a series A round led by Evolution Equity Partners. The capital will be used to further develop BluBracket’s products and grow its sales team.
Detecting exploits in source code can be a pain point for enterprises, especially with the onset of…
Apple products aren’t normally known for being amazing gaming consoles, but Nvidia wants to change that. is its cloud-based gaming service, which instantly transforms your Mac, iPhone, or iPad into the gaming rig you’ve always dreamed of it being.
How it Works
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Chrome gets a bad rap for eating up your RAM, but when given proper resources, it’s still an extremely quick web browser. Now, it’s adding another feature that should make it feel even faster with the “back-forward cache” coming to desktop versions of…
2021’s first half has been full of disheartening news for Google Stadia since the closure of Stadia Games & Entertainment (SG&E) earlier this year and most recently with the departure of John Justice earlier this month. Many have questioned the staying power of the product, but according to Google, Stadia is still “alive and well” and has taken on a new product lead.
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In working to expand availability around the world, Google, over the years, has brought Assistant to feature phones. Nokia is now launching the 2720 V Flip phone with Google Assistant in the US on Verizon’s 4G network.
The Nokia 2720 V Flip is officially a “smart…
Alphabet Scoop 122: Previewing Google I/O 2021
May 14, 2021
This week 9to5Google’s Abner Li, Ben Schoon, and Kyle Bradshaw discuss more details in the Google and Roku YouTube TV disagreements and what they all expect from Google I/O next week.
Sponsored by NVIDIA GeForce NOW: Real-time gameplay straight from the cloud to any device…
When Wear OS made its debut under the name of Android Wear, Samsung was one of the first partners to give it a shot. The short-lived Gear Live was quickly replaced by Samsung’s Gear and Galaxy Watch lines that went on to become some of the most successful options out there. Now, Samsung might be making a return to Wear OS, and I think it’s a move that’s good for everyone. Here’s…
