Intelligent Machines 312

Google+ is alive!, Google hints at Twitter acquisition, Thomas Hawk: My take on the Mashable Google+ story, Google will give OTA updates to Nexus phones, #looklikeanengineer, and more!

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Links

• Google+ Is Alive and Well Despite Persistent Media Reports
• Inside the failure of Google+, a very expensive attempt to unseat Facebook
• Google just boosted the odds that it will acquire Twitter
• Thomas Hawk: My take on the Mashable Google+ story
• Google Minus: Google keeps backing all the wrong social products
• You May Soon Be Able To Get The Perfect Gmail Address
• Yonatan Zunger (Chief Architect of Google+): Google+ is not dead
• Google announces it will provide monthly OTA security updates to Nexus devices, starting today with Stagefright fixes
• Samsung to Deliver Monthly Over the Air Security Updates for Android
• Hank Green accuses Facebook of lying, cheating, stealing re video
• Study Of Spain's 'Google Tax' On News Shows How Much Damage It Has Done
• New YouTube HTML5 player
• YouTube ditches “301+” video view counter, introduces new method for keeping views up-to-date
• Gina's thing: #looklikeanengineer
• Gina's other thing: Makerba.se launched!!!
• Lynne's thing: Obama Pushes for more diversity in tech
• Jeff's thing: Trump #s
• Jeff's other thing: Dustin Moskovitz gives $25m to Give Directly to give directly