Google has updated the rules for Google Play developers, banning several new categories of applications. Among them – programs for mining, as well as applications with false advertising. Applications for mining cryptocurrency are now prohibited, but those that regulate mining remotely are still allowed. Apple also recently introduced a ban on applications for mining, making […]
The European Commission fined Google at 4.32 billion euros (about 5 billion US dollars) for violating antitrust laws. The Commission’s decision says that the US company uses the dominant position of Android in the mobile OS market to promote its own search engine and Chrome browser. Sundar Pichai, Google CEO, already spoke on this topic […]
On May 8, in Mountain View, Google opened its annual I / O 2018 developer conference. After a brief keynote speech that the technology company was approaching the development of its products with a “deep sense of responsibility,” executive director Sandar Pichai gave the floor to others speakers, who told about the new solutions of […]
At the Game Developers Conference 2018 in San Francisco, Google announced Google Play Instant – an updated application system for Android, which allows you to run them without installing on the device. The technology can be tested right now on Clash Royale, Words with Friends 2, Bubble Witch 3 Saga and some other games. Google […]
Google intends to seriously take up the game industry. This is the conclusion we can make based on the latest rumors about the new Yeti service from the search giant. But there are also reports that the corporation is developing not only its own streaming service. According to The Information, Google is already negotiating with […]
Spotify released on Android an independent experimental application designed to quickly and easily listen to playlists. The application is called Stations and is positioned by the company as “the easiest way to listen to the music you love.” Stations can be found on Google Play, but so far it is only available to residents of […]
The research firm App Annie published statistics on the state of the stores of Google Play apps and the Apple App Store in the fourth quarter of 2017. According to this data, Google set a new world record for the number of downloaded applications. In this case, iOS users are still willing to spend more […]
Quite unexpectedly, Google announced the termination of the existence of a branded payment service called Android Pay, which was launched in late 2015. As owners of Android-devices will now pay for purchases – read further. As it became known, the search giant decided to combine its payment services Android Pay and Google Wallet in Google […]
Specialists of the search giant Google published an article in which they told that they had created a speech generator capable of speaking indistinguishable from a living person in a voice. The development is called Tacotron 2 and can very qualitatively convert text to speech. The program is two interconnected neural networks of in-depth training. […]
Following the announcement of the refusal to support 32-bit applications in future versions of Android, Google decided to tighten the rules for developers to update their programs in a timely manner. The search giant wants all apps on Google Play to be optimally optimized for the latest version of the Green Robot to improve user […]