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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 ...

Cleaning Up the E-Waste Mess: Big Tech Needs to Do More It’s unreasonable to expect that the problem of electronic waste—the smartphones, laptops, monitors, and TVs crowding landfills around the globe—can be solved at any scale by individuals. We need an industry-wide reckoning. By Chandra Steele April 19, 2021, 6:30 p.m. Men disassemble electronics in Ghana, in May 2019 (Photo by Christian Thompson/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) E-waste is one of the largest environmental problems the world faces. The amount of electronics that are disposed of each year is not fully quantified,...

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 ...

I have a strong affection for LG. Some of the first photos of my daughter were taken with the boxy, powerful LG VX8000, a redoubtable flip phone for Verizon. Since then, I've always admired how LG is willing to take a chance, throw a wink, or crack a smile. LG originally came to the fore in the US because, like Samsung, it decided to make a big bet on Qualcomm's CDMA technology. That made it a major supplier for Verizon, Sprint, and their predecessors (the likes of Alltel and Western Wireless). CDMA created a sort of walled garden in the US and parts of Asia where different manufacturers fl...

It's been a while since we've seen a really out-there device come from Google, along the lines of Project Ara or Google Glass. A new leak from the X division of Google's (technical) parent company Alphabet certainly qualifies. According to the unconfirmed report, "Project Wolverine" is a device that lets the user isolate audio to focus on a specific person or source. Details are light, though Business Insider reports that the technology has been in development since before 2018. The application is obvious: plenty of people have difficulty hearing one person in a crowd, to say nothing of thos...