Tag: google

Safer Internet Day

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Tmobile pivots from bloatware

the skeptic in me sees tmobile’s zany moves as born out of desperation.

No Corporate Logo, No Bloatware, no crap you don’t want on the #Nexus6 from T-Mobile​:

That’s Un-carrier – listening to our customers and giving them what they want, not sticking a stupid corporate logo and a bunch of crap software I know you guys don’t want on your #Nexus device.

We know you guys buy a #Nexus6 to avoid that kind of thing!

Google did want to highlight the Virtual Preload (VPL) capabilities on Lollipop, so we made MyAccount available if you want it… But you can totally delete it. That’s what we do.

Hope you like what we’ve chosen to do there (or more importantly, what we’ve chosen not to do).

Des Smith, Sr. Product Manager, T-Mobile US and business owner of Nexus 6 and Nexus 9.

Google Genomics

Google Genomics could prove more significant than any of these moonshots. Connecting and comparing genomes by the 1000s, and soon by the millions, is what’s going to propel medical discoveries for the next 10 years.

this will save so many lives it’s not even funny. we’re of course very very early into this. kinda like the internet in 1995 when larry & sergey were fresh-faced students at stanford, and there were 20k web sites.

and yes, obviously doing the right thing privacy wise is a big big big responsibility.

Tricorder

I’m not one for future shock, but this place triggers it increasingly more frequently. we’re somewhere between SL2 and SL3, depending on domain.

Sometimes moonshots come in small packages — small enough to float in the bloodstream and send out alerts when danger is afoot. That was Andrew Conrad’s vision when he came to Google X after a storied medical research career. Now he is revealing details of that vision — and reporting that experiments are well under way in realizing it.

Death is easygoing

When I type my name (“Death”) into Google, some of the related searches that pop up are things like “death poems,” “death quotes,” “Death of a Salesman,” etc. Super depressing stuff! Not to be braggy or whatever, but I’m pretty fun. This is just a suggestion, but maybe we can change those links to things like “Surprise! Death looks good in a bathing suit!” or “Has anyone heard Death freestyle rap?” I’m not all business all the time! I mean, sure, I usher people into the land of silence and despair every few seconds, but in general I’m pretty easygoing.