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Jun 9, 2021 07:36 EDT with 4 comments Google's moonshot factory is notorious for killing projects. The latest service to face the axe from the search giant is its Measure app based on Augmented Reality (AR) tech. This service will now join the likes of Google Clips, Google Daydream, Google Goggles, Project Ara, and more at the Google Graveyard. The Measure app utilized ARCore features to compute an object's dimensions via your Android phone's camera. You could get measurements by simply plotting two points on the screen. Although it wasn't very accurate, it gave a ...

Weekend poll: Which dead Google app or service do you miss the most? Google's habit of killing its products is a meme by this point. Many of them were short-lived, but the company has been known to throw out widely used and much-loved services years after they debut and have accrued a significant following. While most of us probably didn't even realize there was a Google Shopping app when news of its demise landed last week, the Google graveyard is massive, and I bet there's at least one app or service you miss. Google's tendency to kill even successful products has led some of us (including ...

CDC zombie apocalypse preparedness guide rises from the dead Yes, the CDC really does offer survival tips for a zombie pandemic. Listen - 01:47 This is a clip from the CDC's zombie preparedness graphic novel CDC You may have noticed the chatter about the US Centers for Disease Control's online zombie preparedness guide. It's risen from internet obscurity to once again haunt the public consciousness, likely due to pandemic fatigue and a goofy alleged Nostradamus prediction.  The CDC isn't expecting a...