Sundar Pichai explains why Google is focusing hard on India and other top stories.

• Sundar Pichai explains why Google is focusing hard on India

  Today is a big day for Google for two reasons. Firstly, it's the company's 18th birthday, so it can now legally vote and smoke. Secondly, and possibly more importantly, it just held a massive event in India where it unveiled a bunch of new products relevant to the country including YouTube Go, new versions of Chrome and the Play store, the Google Station public Wi-Fi initiative, Google Assistant in Hindi, and more. India is obviously a major opportunity for Google. There are over a billion peop..

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• Xiaomi Mi 5s & Xiaomi Mi 5s Plus Specifications

  

  After months of various rumors and leaks, Xiaomi has finally announced their new flagship handsets. The company has announced the Xiaomi Mi 5s and Mi 5s Plus handsets during their press event in China. We've already talked about these two devices in ...

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• Germany orders Facebook to stop collecting data on WhatsApp users

  

  Facebook has been ordered to stop collecting and storing data on WhatsApp users in Germany, marking the first regulatory challenge to a controversial data-sharing scheme that the social media company announced in August. In a statement published Tuesday, Germany's privacy watchdog said that sharing WhatsApp user data with Facebook, the messaging app's parent company, constitutes "an infringement of national data protection law." The regulatory body also ordered Facebook to delete all data that ..

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• On its 18th birthday, Google is more indispensable than ever

  

  I’ve been thinking lately about how easy it is to live without Apple products. Sure, they’re the best in the world in each category Apple competes in, but unless you’re already locked into the Cupertino ecosystem, they’re honestly optional technology. You can listen to music on the move, play movies in bed, take your office on the road with you, and concentrate your entire life into a smartphone all without an iPod, iPad, MacBook, or iPhone. There are alternatives. Not so with Google. In its 18..

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• Movie pirate? Don't trust Plex Cloud

  

  Plex is a pirate’s best friend. It’s by far the best way to get movies downloaded illegally from the computer to TV. Sure, Plex has a handful of useful, legal features, but let’s be honest, its big claim to fame is hosting and serving downloaded movies. And now the company behind the software announced a service where users can stream movies, photos and music stored on Amazon’s cloud as if the content was streamed locally. But don’t tell Amazon about the pirated stuff. The Plex Cloud, as the n..

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