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After months of protest, Google contractor Appen, which rates search results, raised hourly pay to $14-$14.50 from $10-$12 on January 1, the first ever raise (Richard Nieva/Forbes)
Richard Nieva / Forbes: After months of protest, Google contractor Appen, which rates search results, raised hourly pay to $14-$14.50…
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Apple launches Business Connect, letting US businesses update and manage information across Maps and other services, something Google Maps has had since 2005 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Apple launches Business Connect, letting US businesses update and manage information across Maps and other services,…
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A profile of Character.AI, founded by two former Google researchers to offer "plausible conversation" with famous people, like William Shakespeare and Elon Musk (Cade Metz/New York Times)
Cade Metz / New York Times: A profile of Character.AI, founded by two former Google researchers to offer “plausible conversation”…
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Filing: Google warns Android growth in India will stall due to the CCI's antitrust order that requires making "far-reaching changes" to its mobile platform (Reuters)
Reuters: Filing: Google warns Android growth in India will stall due to the CCI’s antitrust order that requires making “far-reaching…
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Google releases the Extension SDK for developers to bring new features, like the new Photo Picker API that launched with Android 13, to older Android versions (Adam Conway/XDA Developers)
Adam Conway / XDA Developers: Google releases the Extension SDK for developers to bring new features, like the new Photo…
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Android's director of engineering said Google wants RISC-V to be a "tier-1" Android architecture and outlined a years-long roadmap at the recent RISC-V summit (Ron Amadeo/Ars Technica)
Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: Android’s director of engineering said Google wants RISC-V to be a “tier-1” Android architecture and…
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Legal filings: Google alleges over 50 instances of India's antitrust investigators copy-pasting parts of the EU's antitrust ruling, sometimes word-for-word (Reuters)
Reuters: Legal filings: Google alleges over 50 instances of India’s antitrust investigators copy-pasting parts of the EU’s antitrust ruling, sometimes…
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Google has agreed to pay $29.5M to settle lawsuits with Washington DC and Indiana over location tracking practices, after agreeing to pay ~$392M to 40 US states (Jared Gans/The Hill)
Jared Gans / The Hill: Google has agreed to pay $29.5M to settle lawsuits with Washington DC and Indiana over…
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