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Google builds up recovery ward for digital zombies

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Unlock Clock. We Flip. Desert Island. Post Box. Are these some new children’s games to keep them busy on your smartphones while you’re looking for parking? No way. Google has released activities that form something called the Digital Wellbeing Experiments. The latter is a platform that Google said is “to share ideas and tools that help people find a better balance with technology.”

Google’s aggressive ‘ambient computing’ strategy means it wants to be everywhere

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The company repeatedly touted “ambient computing” as a hardware strategy driver at its annual hardware event.
Executives unveiled several new “lightweight” products it hopes will fill the gaps.
Google, which has shown inconsistency in hardware, wants to sell its latest line on the basis of uniformity.

Google does not have to apply ‘right to be forgotten’ globally, EU court rules

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The ECJ’s ruling states that Google’s delisting of search results that concerned EU citizens only applies in the bloc’s 28 member states.
A Google spokesperson said the company has “worked hard to implement the right to be forgotten in Europe” and welcomed the ruling.

Google is investing $3.3 billion to expand its European data centers

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Google CEO Sundar Pichai said the company would invest an additional 600 million euros into its Hamina, Finland data center next year.
He said that half of the 1,600 megawatts of renewable energy Google bought in a recent deal would be committed to Europe.