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Ars Technica

Stadia's pivot to a cloud service has also been shut down

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Poor Google Stadia; the service seemed like a slow-motion trainwreck from the moment it started.The service's launch, life, and death played out exactly how the "nobody trusts Google" naysayers (your author included) would have predicted, but we were all forced to go through the motions anyway.

Ars Technica

1 year ago

Gadgets

Google Stadia celebrates shutdown with controller update, new game

Google Stadia is scheduled for execution this week.The service dies on January 18, and while there will be tons of spurned developers and hours of lost game progress in its wake, the shutdown of Stadia is going about as smoothly as it can go.After refunding every game purchase made on the service, Google is now responding to calls to open up the service's controller so that it can function as a generic Bluetooth device after Stadia dies.

www.gsmarena.com

1 year ago

Mobile UX

Google will shut down Stadia on January 18, 2023

Google has announced that it is winding down its game streaming service Stadia.

The service will be shut down for good on January 18, 2023.

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Ars Technica

1 year ago

Tech industry

Google cuts 12,000 jobs, the largest layoff in the company's history

Google CEO Sundar Pichai has been on a cost-cutting tear over the last six months, shutting down various projects inside the company.This Friday, the ax has finally fallen on a big chunk of Google's workforce.In its largest layoff ever, Google says it will cut 12,000 jobs across Google and its parent company, Alphabet.

Ars Technica

1 year ago

Gadgets

Google profits plummet 27 percent in Q3 2022 earnings report

Google CEO Sundar Pichai has been on a belt-tightening mission at Google over the past three months, so it seems he saw this coming: Parent company Alphabet's latest earnings are kind of a disaster.The company's Q3 2022 earnings were released last night, and they show a 27 percent drop in profits compared to last year, with weaker-than-expected earnings and revenue.

Ars Technica

1 year ago

Gadgets

Report: Google "doubles down" on Pixel hardware, cuts Google Assistant support

Google is facing turbulent times due to CEO Sundar Pichai's decision to cut costs across the company.

Ars Technica

1 year ago

Gadgets

YouTube experiment makes 4K videos a Premium-exclusive feature

Two months ago, Sundar Pichai announced a new era of belt-tightening at Google, leading to the shutdown of the Pixel laptop hardware team, a culling of half of the experimental projects at Area 120, a spinoff of Project Loon's technology, and the death of Google Stadia.

Know Your Mobile

1 year ago

Mobile UX