| Up close with Google's budget Chromebook, the Pixelbook Go
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| The Chromebook has been a marked hit for Google — well, for Google's hardware partners, at least. Low cost devices have flooded the market, with a stranglehold on the educational category in particular. Google's own first party offerings, on the other hand, have been a bit more curious. Devices like the Pixelbook and Pixel Slate have pushed the $1,000 price point in an attempt to demonstrate Chrome OS's viability in a more premium tier. With the Pixelbook Go, on the other however, Google's playing much more to the cloud-based operating system's strengths, with a far more accessible price point. Google launches the $649 Pixelbook Go Chromebook Starting at $649 (albeit configurable all the way up to ~$1,400), the Go is an attempt to play to Chrome OS's base: users looking for a more affordable entry point. After all, hasn't that always kind of been the point of Chromebooks? Of course, affordability comes with compromises. From a design perspective, that means losing some of the things that made the original ...
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| Google's USB-C Titan Security Key Arrives in the U.S.
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 Starting today, October 15, users in the United States have a new two-factor authentication (2FA) method at their disposal in the form of Google's USB-C Titan Security Key. Manufactured in partnership with Yubico, the USB-C Titan Security Key is compatible with Android, Chrome OS, macOS, and Windows devices.
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| Don't forget about Open Graph
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 Open Graph protocol is a web standard originally developed by Facebook that turns any webpage into a graph object with title, description, image and so on. Even though there is no direct correlation between OG meta tags and improved SEO rankings, it still drives more traffic to your webpage by making it more "attractive" in social networks (Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, etc). An example of a link shared in Twitter that has "og:image" and "og:title". Adding OG (and not only) meta tags into your React app Without further due let's jump into newly created React app with create-react-app and OG meta tags to /public/index.html. It should look like something like this: <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta charSet="utf-8"/> <meta http-equiv="x-ua-compatible" content="ie=edge"/> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no"/> <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" href="/rss.xml"/> <title>Awesome App</title> <meta property="og:title" content="Awesome app - the best ...
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| Here's everything Google just announced at the Made By Google 2019 event
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 Google held its annual "Made By Google" hardware event this morning in New York City, where they launched all sorts of new gear back to back to back. Didn't have time to watch the whole stream, but still want to know the bulletpoints of what's new? We've got you covered. Stadia Launch Stadia, Google's cloud video game streaming service, will launch on November 19th. Pixel Buds Google went back to the drawing board with its answer to the AirPods. Shipping sometime in "Spring 2020", the new Pixel Buds will cost $179. Google says the battery should last about 5 hours per charge, with the familiar floss-style charging case packing an additional 24 hours worth of charge. On-board microphones will adapt the sound based on your environment, and help to cancel out background noise like wind. Pixelbook Go It's been a while since Google shipped a higher-end Chrome OS laptop — but with Pixelbook Go, they're taking another swing at it. It's got a 13.3″ display, up to 16GB of RAM, up to 256GB of storage, with the ...
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| Pixel 4 Recorder app can transcribe speech in real time without an internet connection
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 Google is debuting a new voice recorder app on the Pixel 4, and it has some features that very much set it apart from traditional recorder apps. The app, simply called Recorder, also has the ability to transcribe your recordings. That alone is uncommon among voice recorder apps — let alone free ones — and Google pushes that even further, creating those transcriptions on device and in real time, without sending data to the internet. For whatever reason, Google hasn't made a voice recorder app before now. It's been an odd absence on Pixel phones. And while it could be remedied by downloading any number of apps from the Play Store, having a simple one built into a phone should very much be an expected feature. The Recorder app really does...
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| I toured the surprisingly bonkers LinkedIn offices in the Empire State Building, which has a 'speakeasy' bar hidden behind a wall of rotary phones. Here's what it was like.
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| • Business Insider got to take a peek inside LinkedIn's New York City office within the Empire State Building. • The office featured a speakeasy, a full-service cafeteria, game rooms, and a small gym. • The office also gave me a clue into the inclusive company culture. Working parents brought their kids in regularly, and unlike other startups, they don't serve alcohol most days a week. • Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. LinkedIn's company mission is to help connect job seekers with cool places to work — and the company itself may be the coolest yet. The online job marketplace gave Business Insider a tour of its New York City office. The workplace, which takes up seven floors of the historic Empire State Building, is just one of the company's 33 global offices. Other locations can be found in places like the Bay Area, India, and China. Read more: NO WEWORK? NO PROBLEM: Here are the best coffee shops to get your work done if you can't afford a coworking space I took a tour of LinkedIn's ...
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| Amazon eating Google online search ad share: eMarketer
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| Amazon is eating into Google's giant slice of online search advertising in the US as businesses target the online retail platform's shoppers, according to an eMarketer forecast released on Tuesday. Google will continue to dominate the market for serving up ads along with search results, but Amazon and "smaller players" including Walmart, Target, eBay and Pinterest are seeing their shares grow, the market tracker said. Ads displayed along with query results at shopping sites are seen as having good odds of catching the eyes of consumers while they are intent on buying something. "Amazon's ad business has attracted massive increases in spending because advertisers can reach consumers during product queries, a time when they're ready to buy," eMarketer principal analyst Nicole Perrin said. "Amazon has also rolled out better measurement and targeting tools, making it even more attractive for advertisers." The US search ad market overall will have grown nearly 18 percent this year to reach
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