Meet the Android 8.0 Oreo

Although the name has been rumored for quite some time, Google has now officially named its latest version of the Android, the Android 8.0 Oreo.

That's a nice little search engine we would hate for it to be broken

Google is shelling out billions of dollars in protection to the fruity tax-dodging cult Apple so that it can stay the default search engine on iPhones and iPads.

Cheaper faster cloud

Google is cutting the price for high speed storage attached to its cloud virtual machines.

White guy perpetuated gender stereotypes

Google has fired a bloke who slammed Google’s diversity policy and called for the company to stop hiring women and minorities when they should be hiring open minded conservative white guys instead.

 
We should hire white guys with diverse ideas instead

A senior software engineer at Google has opened a can of worms by calling for the company to abandon it diversity initiatives in favour of “ideological diversity”.

Will not block all ads 

Google's Chrome is set to have its own ad-blocker.

Place for two new Pixel phones

Google's CEO announced that there will be 11 Daydream capable phones available before the end of the year.

All the AI stuff

It is starting to look like there will be a new kid on the chip block, as Microsoft is being forced to hone skills of its own.

At least according to the IEEE

 IEEE Spectrum's annual report on the top programming languages has decided that Python is the top programming language.

About 10 percent faster

A few chaps are implying that Note 8 might be the first phone to have an updated and faster Snapdragon 836, but we learned that Pixel 2 is more likely the one.