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Google Signs On as Network Validator for Blockchain Video Network Theta

Google is teaming up with Theta Labs in a move meant to help the video delivery network onboard users through Google Cloud.

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Markets

Bitcoin Halving Searches on Google Hits All-Time Highs

Searches for “bitcoin halving” on Google Trends recently reached record highs, suggesting peak interest in the retail crowd about the upcoming supply altering event.

Google search for halving

Markets

Mystery Hacker Tries to Steal Crypto Through Fake Google Chrome Wallet Extensions

Google has removed 49 Chrome extensions masquerading as legitimate crypto wallets including Ledger, MyEtherWallet, MetaMask and Jaxx, according to MyCrypto's Harry Denley.

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Tech

For Contact Tracing to Work, Americans Will Have to Trust Google and Apple

Critics have doubts that Google and Apple can make their contact tracing system work. Key issue: Trust.

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Tech

Europe Debates COVID-19 Contact Tracing That Respects Privacy

European researchers are looking for ways to track the spread of coronavirus while respecting privacy rights.

Inside the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Emergency Operations Center. (Credit: CDC/Unsplash)

Policy

Think a Privacy Law Will Stop Surveillance Capitalism? You Don't Know Google

Big Tech's business model isn't threatened by the prospect of new data privacy laws, says one VC. FAANG firms are too nimble, powerful and ingenious.

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Markets

Unstoppable Domains Chrome Extension Lets Users Browse Ethereum-Based Sites

Unstoppable Domains, the censorship-resistant web developer, has released a Google Chrome extension in its bid to open up web 3.0.

Unstoppable Domains CEO Matthew Gould (left) and Chief Technical Offier Braden Pezeshki

Markets

Google Reinstates Bitcoin Rewards Game Suspended for ‘Deceptive Practices’

The “Bitcoin Blast” app is back on the Google Play store, though Google still hasn’t clarified why it was taken down in the first place.

The Bling team in 2020.

Markets

Developers Say Google Play Unfairly Booted Their Bitcoin Rewards Game

"Bitcoin Blast," a puzzle game that rewards players with BTC, was kicked off the Google Play store with little explanation, said the game's developers.

“The moment they see crypto or bitcoin, I think Google's red flags just go off,” Bling CEO Amy Wan said. (Courtesy photo)

Finance

Coinbase Hires Google VP as Chief Product Officer

Surojit Chatterjee becomes Coinbase’s first chief product officer since the departure of Jeremy Henrickson in December 2018.

Coinbase Chief Product Officer Surojit Chatterjee (left) poses with CEO Brian Armstrong. (Courtesy photo)