Intelligent Machines 242

Facebook's purchase of Oculus Rift, the new HTC One M8, the Google IO registration game, and more!

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• Transcripts: This Week in Google 242 (Transcript)

Links

• Kickstarter backers' reactions
• Virtual Reality is going to change the world | notch.net
• Oculus Grift: Kickstarter As Charity For Venture Capitalists
• Google Now arrives in Chrome for Windows and Mac
• Google Play Music several new webapp features: drag-and-drop uploads, mini-player, offline downloads
• Chrome Experiment: Chromecast Photowall
• Google Drive adds image editing features in Slides & Drawings
• Gmail Promotions Tab Gets Visual Punch: Google Testing Image-Driven Grid View
• Revealed: Apple and Google’s wage-fixing cartel involved dozens more companies, over one million employees
• Google General Counsel to Arrington Allegation: We Don't Snoop on Gmail to Find Leakers
• About That Time Google Spied On My Gmail
• Google I/O site goes live, new random registration system open from April 8-10
• Google Announces Massive Price Drops For Its Cloud Computing Services And Storage, Introduces Sustained-Use Discounts
• Google Slashes Cloud Prices: Google vs AWS Price Comparison
• Pew maps Twitter conversations
• Pebble sold 400,000 smartwatches last year, on track to double revenues in 2014
• Disney to buy YouTube network Maker Studios for $500 million
• Logging Into Android Apps Just Got Easier
• Majority of San Franciscans like the Google buses
• Unroll Me
• MOAR 2048
• 2048: meta Edition
• people-focused links