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‘I wanted to go after big tech’: ex-Google exec’s novel rips Silicon Valley — The Guardian

It was once Jessica Powell’s job to defend Google. Now she’s taking her industry to task in a ‘totally fictional but essentially true’ book,...

Tim Berners-Lee tells us his radical new plan to upend the World Wide Web — Fast Company

With an ambitious decentralized platform, the father of the web hopes it’s game on for corporate tech giants like Facebook and Google, writes Katrina...

Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi alliance cars to embed Android, based on new partnership with Google

The Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi alliance and Google have inked a technology partnership to embed the Android operating system in vehicles sold by the automotive alliance, starting from 2021.

Google’s prototype Chinese search engine links searches to phone numbers — The Guardian

The feature on the secret prototype, Dragonfly, would put Chinese citizens at increased risk of government repression, writes Noah Smith. Here is the link: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/sep/18/google-china-dragonfly-search-engine

Google owns 63,605 miles and 8.5% of submarine cables worldwide — Broadband Now

Google makes billions from their cloud platform. Now they’re using those billions to buy up the internet itself — or at least, the submarine...