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Google today announced that it’s “doubling down” on custom chips as “one way to boost performance and efficiency now that Moore’s Law no longer provides rapid improvements for everyone.” The company hired a new engineering vice president, formerly of Intel, to lead a design team — focused on SoCs — in Israel. Uri Frank is Google’s new VP of Engineering for server chip design.

One big focus for Google today is making products for what it dubs the Next Billion Users in countries just coming online. The initiative has been led by Caesar Sengupta who announced today that he’s leaving Google after nearly 15 years. Jan 2006. I had just finished solving a linked list problem on the whiteboard during my Google interview when my interviewer asked me about my personal…

WhatsApp submitted a new update through the TestFlight Beta Program that shows the company is testing voice message playback speed. According to WABetaInfo, WhatsApp version 2.21.60.11 is not ready yet for the public, but the site can show a preview of the feature, that will be available in a future build. It will be possible to speed up a message up to 1.5x and 2.0x while also listening at…

The popular messaging application Telegram has been updated today with a focus on audio communication. The latest version of Telegram for iOS brings a new version of the app’s Voice Chats feature with a handful of improvements. Telegram first introduced support for voice chats back in December, and today’s update introduces version 2.0 of the functionality. The first key change here is that…