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1. Google pulls the plug on Expeditions VR app, migrates tours to Arts & Culture
2. Apple HomePod Mini review: Remarkably big sound
3. Daily Crunch: Apple unveils new Macs
4. L’Oréal rolls out a line of ‘virtual makeup’
5. Python creator Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft
6. Act now before Google kills us, 135-strong coalition of startups warns EU antitrust chief
7. The Machine Learning Behind Hum to Search
8. Daily Crunch: Google Photos will end free, unlimited storage
9. Improving On-Device Speech Recognition with VoiceFilter-Lite
10. RIP Google Music, one of the company’s last examples of generosity
11. Come June 1, 2021, all of your new photos will count against your free Google storage
12. India approves Google’s $4.5 billion deal with Reliance’s Jio Platforms
13. Josh.ai launches a ‘nearly invisible’ Amazon Echo competitor that’s the size of a coin
14. Google adds COVID-related health and safety info to Google Travel
15. Why I left edtech and got into gaming
16. Huawei reportedly set to sell Honor budget phone division for $15B
17. With $29M in funding, Isovalent launches its cloud-native networking and security platform
18. This Week in Apps: Elections’ impact on the app store, new app privacy requirements, iOS 14.2 arrives
19. Singapore-based sales productivity platform Nektar raises $2.15 million seed round
20. Announcing the Objectron Dataset
21. YouTube copies Spotify’s ‘Daily Mixes’ with its new ‘My Mix’ feature
22. Autonomous delivery startup Nuro hits $5 billion valuation on fresh funding of $500 million
23. India opens antitrust case against Google over its payments app
24. Provizio closes $6.2M seed round for its car safety platform using sensors and AI
25. Amazon to invest $2.8 billion to build its second data center region in India
26. Alibaba passes IBM in cloud infrastructure market with over $2B in revenue
27. Google and Walmart face growth hurdles as India caps payments transactions
28. YouTube removes ads from, but won’t pull, ‘Trump Won’ video following backlash
29. Warren gets $1.4 million to help local cloud infrastructure providers compete against Amazon and other giants
30. Booming edtech M&A activity brings consolidation to a fragmented sector
31. TikTok stars got a judge to block Trump’s TikTok ban
32. Q3 earnings find Apple and Google looking to the future for hardware rebounds
33. Google reveals a new Windows zero-day bug it says is under active attack
34. Background Features in Google Meet, powered by Web ML
35. Cloud infrastructure revenue grows 33% this quarter to almost $33B
36. Daily Crunch: Google had a good quarter
37. Strong YouTube ad growth powers Alphabet to better-than-expected Q3
38. Google tests a helpful app comparison feature on Google Play
39. Google brings Halloween to life using augmented reality
40. Experimenting with Automatic Video Creation From a Web Page
41. Microsoft now lets you bring your own data types to Excel
42. Apple’s Jeff Bigham, disability rights lawyer Haben Girma, author Sara Hendren and more to join Sight Tech Global
43. Joe Rogan, Alex Jones and Spotify’s illusion of neutrality
44. Estimating the Impact of Training Data with Reinforcement Learning
45. Apple search crawler activity could signal a Google competitor, or a bid to make Siri a one-stop-shop
46. Chronicle’s ex-CSO is starting a new company he doesn’t want you to know much about
47. Google’s display advertising business is under antitrust probe in Italy
48. Watch Facebook, Google, and Twitter’s CEOs defend the law that created social media to Congress
49. Dallas’ ShearShare has a marketplace connecting stylists with available seats at salons and $2.3 million in funding
50. Mophie introduces a modular wireless charging module
51. Google’s EU Android choice screen isn’t working say search rivals, calling for a joint process to devise a fair remedy
52. Google confirms post-Election Day political ad ban, partners with AP on election results
53. The Freewrite Traveler is an outstanding, but expensive, dedicated portable writing laptop
54. Facebook employee-turned-critic Tim Kendall traces “extractive business models” to VCs
55. Fragomen, a law firm used by Google, confirms data breach
56. YouTube revamps its mobile app with new gestures, video chapter lists, and more
57. Facebook steps into cloud gaming — and another feud with Apple
58. This Week in Apps: Quibi dies, Snapchat soars, Halide upgrades for iPhone 12
59. Rethinking Attention with Performers
60. Google removes 3 Android apps for children, with 20M+ downloads between them, over data collection violations
61. Leverage public data to improve content marketing outcomes
62. Freelancer banking startup Lili raises $15M
63. Acapela, from the founder of Dubsmash, hopes ‘asynchronous meetings’ can end Zoom fatigue
64. Google Maps launches a new developer solution for on-demand ride and delivery companies
65. Flair’s Smart Vent system is a big improvement for anyone looking to improve their home HVAC
66. The smart speaker market is expected grow 21% next year
67. Anyscale adds $40M to bring its Ray-based distributed computing tech to the enterprise masses
68. Coalition for App Fairness, a group fighting for app store reforms, adds 20 new partners
69. Announcing the Recipients of the 2020 Award for Inclusion Research
70. Daily Crunch: DOJ files antitrust suit against Google
71. Equity Shot: The DoJ, Google and what the suit could mean for startups
72. Investors appear to shrug at antitrust lawsuit aimed at Google
73. Google announces slew of Chrome OS features to help extend enterprise usage
74. Google calls DOJ’s antitrust lawsuit “deeply flawed” in GIF-laden blog response
75. Google Photos revives its prints subscription service, expands same-day print options
76. Gowalla is being resurrected as an augmented reality social app
77. The Justice Department has filed its antitrust lawsuit against Google
78. Google Cloud launches Lending DocAI, its first dedicated mortgage industry tool
79. Google Assistant, Maps, and Search can now help you figure out where to vote
80. Trump’s latest immigration restrictions are bad news for American workers
81. Engageli comes out of stealth with $14.5M and a new approach to teaching by video remotely
82. We need universal digital ad transparency now
83. EU’s Google-Fitbit antitrust decision deadline pushed into 2021
84. Daily Crunch: Zoom launches its events marketplace
85. WizVille Local Monitor helps small shops track Google Maps ratings of competitors
86. Duplex, Google’s conversational A.I, has updated 3M+ business listings since pandemic
87. Google introduces song matching via humming, whistling or singing
88. Google launches a slew of Search updates
89. Brazil’s Black Silicon Valley could be an epicenter of innovation in Latin America
90. Google will let everyone migrate from Hangouts to Chat for free in 2021
91. Recreating Historical Streetscapes Using Deep Learning and Crowdsourcing
92. Apple reveals the $99 HomePod Mini
93. Family-tracking app Life360 launches ‘Bubbles,’ a location-sharing feature inspired by teens on TikTok
94. Alphabet’s latest moonshot is a field-roving, plant-inspecting robo-buggy
95. Nest launches its $129 thermostat with a new design, swipe and touch interface on the side
96. New Chinese browser offers a glimpse beyond the Great Firewall – with caveats
97. Odell Beckham Jr. turned to Mojichat’s advertising features during his inaugural live-stream
98. Daily Crunch: Waymo opens up driverless ride-hailing
99. Google Assistant can now control Android apps
100. Waymo starts to open driverless ride-hailing service to the public
101. Announcing the 2020 Google PhD Fellows
102. Headroom, which uses AI to supercharge videoconferencing, raises $5M
103. Google must negotiate to pay for French news, appeals court confirms
104. Here’s the curtain raise on the Sight Tech Global agenda
105. To fill funding gaps, VCs boost efforts to find India’s standout early-stage startups
106. Amazon’s Josh Miele and Anne Toth talk Alexa and the future of accessibility at Sight Tech Global
107. Daily Crunch: Big tech responds to antitrust report
108. Media roundup: Google to cut big checks for news publishers, Substack continues to draw top creators, more
109. YouTube Premium subscribers get a new perk with launch of testing program
110. Google Assistant gets an incognito-like guest mode
111. Big tech blows a collective raspberry at the House’s antitrust report
112. Truecaller tops 250 million users
113. Arm CEO Simon Segars discusses AI, data centers, getting acquired by Nvidia and more
114. Daily Crunch: G Suite becomes Google Workspace
115. Google’s new logos are bad
116. Standing by developers through Google v. Oracle
117. Google adds ‘Stories’ to its search app for iOS and Android
118. Google Assistant comes to gaze-powered accessible devices
119. Google is providing cash awards to 76 startups through a racial equity initiative announced in June
120. G Suite is now Google Workspace
121. Daily Crunch: Venmo launches a credit card
122. Airbnb nears IPO as Asana and Palantir land their direct listings
123. This Week in Apps: Google Play gets new rules, Apple launches app marketing tools, EU looks to rein in tech giants
124. The next big tech hearing is scheduled for October 28
125. As it closes in on Arm, Nvidia announces UK supercomputer dedicated to medical research
126. Google teams up with Samsonite to launch a Jacquard smart fabric-enabled backpack
127. Paired picks up $1M funding and launches its relationship app for couples
128. There’s a way to pick the absolute best images for your content: Apply AI
129. Nest Audio review
130. Google delays mandating Play Store’s 30% cut in India to April 2022
131. Google research lets sign language switch ‘active speaker’ in video calls
132. Google wakes up from its VR daydream
133. Macrometa, an edge computing service for app developers, lands $7M seed round led by DNX
134. Massively Large-Scale Distributed Reinforcement Learning with Menger
135. Daily Crunch: Google commits $1B to pay publishers
136. Developing Real-Time, Automatic Sign Language Detection for Video Conferencing
137. Prosus Ventures leads $13 million investment in Pakistan’s ride-hailing giant Bykea
138. Audiovisual Speech Enhancement in YouTube Stories
139. Google Maps gets improved Live View AR directions
140. Pixie Labs raises $9.15M Series A round for its Kubernetes observability platform
141. Google takes aim at ‘beauty filters’ with design changes coming to Pixel phones
142. Google now has three mid-range Pixel phones
143. Google to pay out $1B to publishers to license content for new Google News Showcase
144. Indian startups explore forming an alliance and alternative app store to fight Google’s ‘monopoly’
145. A new Google Assistant feature, ‘Hold for Me,’ waits on hold so you don’t have to
146. Pixel 5 and 4a 5g get the same, improved cameras with rear ultrawide lens, Night Sight portraits and more
147. Google unveils the $99 Nest Audio smart speaker
148. Google launches the $499 Pixel 4a 5G
149. Google’s Pixel 5 get reverse wireless charging and 5G for $699
150. The new Chromecast adds a remote and the new Google TV interface for $49