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Google’s Project Ara Phone: Will You Accept the Challenge? What if there were a modular smartphone, an endoskeleton with interchangeable parts you could customize to your needs? Google's Advanced Technology and Projects group is working on a concept—Project Ara—that will enable users to configure their own phone according to their personal preferences. |
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Big Data, Big Brother, and Big Questions We should all be aware of our credit score—the important number used to determine interest rates and insurance costs. What you may not be aware of is how big data is being used to score you on many areas of your daily life. Joe Townsend explores the connection between big data and big brother. |
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Humility in the Workplace Google recently shared a list of five hiring attributes that it deems important for its employees. Interestingly, one of the attributes is intellectual humility. Anuj Magazine examines humility in the workplace and looks at recent examples from Microsoft and Google. |
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Strong Competition in Cloud Computing Means the End User Wins Cloud computing continues to grow in leaps and bounds. Although Amazon had quite a bit of a lead early on, a lot of competition—from commercial players such as Google and Microsoft as well as open source contenders—has made a strong competitive market. These choices mean the end user benefits. |
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Can We Fight Climate Change with Maps and Apps? The White House recently announced the Climate Data Initiative, and the first batch of data provided is on coastal flooding and the sea level rise. The hope is that by making the climate data available, the “maps and apps” developed may reduce the risks associated with extreme weather. |
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Apple and Google Enter the Connected Car Market A new battle has begun in which the combatants are familiar and the prize is your car’s dashboard. Steve Vaughn explains that in 2014 Google and Apple have decided to bring the fight to Microsoft with a major push in the area of connected cars. |
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Will You Be Putting On Google’s Android Wear? Google has announced Android Wear, a project that extends the Android operating system to wearable technology devices beyond Google Glass. The first project will be smartwatches, a tech device you wear on your wrist that does much more than tell you what time it is. Will you give it a try? |
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Why Hiring from the Top Schools May Not Always Be the Best Strategy Laszlo Bock, Google's senior vice president of people operations, revealed that at Google the percentage of people without any college education has increased over time. This opens an interesting debate about whether hiring from the top schools is really valuable for technology companies. |
