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Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai announces that 12,000 employees, across many areas of Alphabet, will be laid off.

5 Gbps and 8Gbps services will cost $125 and $150 per month, respectively. Announcement comes in the wake of Google teasing 20 Gbps service tests.

Priced from $399, this new breed of Chromebook offers; 120 Hz+ screen refresh rates, RGB keyboards, fast networking, and apps for GeForce NOW, Xbox Cloud Gaming, and Amazon Luna.

Google Japan introduces the GBoard stick version keyboard, which resembles a long ruler that users can make at home.

Google is shutting down its Stadia game streaming service, though it may be used in other projects.

Google currently offers 1 and 2 Gbps fiber services, but is going to “dramatically expand our multi-gigabit tiers,” in the coming months.

A new AOM-AV1 update was just released by Google, improving AV1's encoding performance by up to 34% with 16 encoding threads or more.

In this project, we’ll build a digital photo frame with our Raspberry Pi with photos updating dynamically from Google photos.

Google to finance production of open-source chips for emerging applications.

The partners are encouraging students, hobbyists, engineers, start ups and others to bring the spark of open-source innovation to the hardware realm.