Google’s recently released Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro are huge steps forward for the company’s smartphones. Google is finally getting serious about its hardware by offering big batteries, great displays, and a custom ARM chip called Tensor. Google even boosted the Pixel series’ anemic charging speed, although, it’s not …
Read More »Chronicle’s Ex-CSO
Mike Wiacek is back with a new company, a year after departing his role as chief security officer at Chronicle, Google’s moonshot cybersecurity company. Wiacek spent 13 years at Google, founding the company’s Threat Analysis Group, a unit dedicated to countering government and state-backed hacking efforts, and also co-founding Chronicle, …
Read More »Verizon Doesn’t Seem to Know How Much its $70 Gigabit FiOS Actually Costs
Verizon gave itself a hearty pat on the back earlier this week as it rolled out a new gigabit tier of its FiOS internet service. The new option, Verizon said in the press release, would only cost $70 per month. FiOS customers were understandably excited. But make sure you’ve got …
Read More »Making the case for mobile site optimizations: Who doesn’t want an extra $13K?
For years, the digital marketing world has asked itself, “Is now the year of mobile?” But at this point, we’ve clearly surpassed the Year of Mobile and are now in the “Age of Mobile Crisis.” Instead of considering if we should include a potential mobile audience, we are weighing the impact our lackluster …
Read More »Judge threatens injunction if Uber doesn’t work harder to find stolen Google Waymo docs
Uber had a bad day in court on Wednesday during the ongoing trade secret litigation case brought by Waymo, Alphabet’s self-driving car division that grew out of a Google project. US District Judge William Alsup was not satisfied that Uber had made a good-faith effort to find more than 14,000 …
Read More »New Snapdragon 835 tests show Qualcomm’s latest SoC doesn’t beat the 821 in every scenario
When Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon 835 earlier this year, the general conclusion was that the new core would feature an improved version of the company’s Kryo CPU architecture, with better performance thanks to fine-tuning of that design. It turns out that’s not the path Qualcomm is taking. Kryo: Frozen out The …
Read More »New study confirms Google doesn’t use Chrome browser data to discover new URLs
Stone Temple Consulting has published a new study supporting Google’s claim that it doesn’t use Chrome browser data for discovering new URLs for its search index. The test was pretty simple: They created a “couple of pages that Google didn’t know about,” then they had “a bunch of people visit …
Read More »SEO Doesn’t Have To Be A Shot In The Dark
To many startups, search engine optimization (SEO) is a task that sits on their company’s back burner. With features to launch and customers to support, the idea of spending time fiddling with your title tags can seem like a fool’s errand. That’s especially true when there’s no guarantee that your …
Read More »Don’t Think You Have a Yoga Body? Here’s Why It Doesn’t Matter
Just five breaths in downward dog felt like an eternity for Dana Falsetti when she first started attending yoga classes in 2014. “I remember feeling really defeated…. I think that’s a common thing for any beginner,” she says. Her shoulders felt weak attempting to hold her bodyweight — and her …
Read More »Waggle raises $2.3 million because the internet doesn’t have enough funny animal videos
A startup called Waggle raised $2.3 million in seed funding to become the go-to destination for animal lovers and pet parents online, and for sharing all the cute pups and madcap kitteh adventures they have to offer. The New York City-based startup was incubated at Broadway Video Ventures, the venture arm of the production company behind premium …
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