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Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP), a project spearheaded by Google. Mobile data is unlike our home WiFi connections. It’s slow. AMP aims to help fix that, in a rigidly prescribed way, by ridding sites of their most inefficient parts.
AMP has very rigid rules for the source in order to get the big speed gains it’s going for.

Think Google can't handle JavaScript? Think again. Contributor Adam Audette shares the results of a series of tests conducted by his colleagues at Merkle | RKG to examine how different JavaScript functions would be crawled and indexed by Google.

Paperpile is like Gmail for your papers - a modern and efficient reference manager for the web.

Import a youtube video / playlist into VLC.

Whether you're planning to run Linux or just need more space to work with, an SSD upgrade is easy and cost-effective.

There are over 650 Google Fonts available for free. But, pairing typefaces isn’t easy and many of those fonts don’t work for typical websites. Part of the 25x52 initiative, this collaborative, ongoing project offers inspiration for using Google’s font library.

The thought of one google account for every student in your class is overwhelming at first.  If you have 20 students, that’s 20 usernames, 20 passwords, and 20 kids who may not understand the nuances of creating and sharing documents with other people.  The key is  simplicity: in the beginning, use one google account for your entire class. 

Web Inspector allow you debug Javascript right in the editor

This free app for Google Chrome is touted as “What you bought your Chromecast for” by its developers — and they’re right. It allows you to easily stream the videos stored on your local computer or network location directly to the big screen. It’s able to play virtually every file type out there. The secret is it uses FFmpeg, a multimedia framework for transcoding video files.

The Google Fonts service has been immensely popular with web designers ever since it first launched in May of 2010. And for good reason. There are no accounts to sign up for and no monthly fees like there are with other web font services. Just add a single line of code to your website and you have at your disposal a huge selection of free fonts that display beautifully on screen.

But all of this begs the question: why is Google in the fonts game? What do they have to gain by hosting fonts for millions of websites for free? Is Google in this for the long haul or will Google Fonts eventually end up in the dreaded Google Graveyard?

The Physical Web is an approach to unleash the core superpower of the web: interaction on demand. People should be able to walk up to any smart device - a vending machine, a poster, a toy, a bus stop, a rental car - and not have to download an app first. Everything should be just a tap away.

Proof of concept Google camera lens blur parallax creator

Start your project with the Web Starter Kit and ensure you're following the Web Fundamentals guidelines out of the box.

Polymer is a library that uses the latest web technologies to let you create custom HTML elements. Build anything from a button to a complete application as an encapsulated, reusable element that works across desktop and mobile.

Web Fundamentals is a comprehensive resource for multi-device web development.

The Secret Door to Google Street view

DevArt — это новый вид искусства. Это искусство, сделанное программистами из программного кода, расширяющее границы возможностей, творчества и технологии. Для создания инновационных, привлекательных инсталляций программисты в качестве холста используют технологии, а в качестве материалов — программный код.
DevArt служит возможностью открытия творческого процесса, представления их искусства всему миру и присоединения к новому течению в современном искусстве.
Компания Google совместно с лондонским центром искусств Barbican предоставит одному из разработчиков заказ на новую художественную инсталляцию, которая будет демонстрироваться в одном раду с произведениями лучших интерактивных художников на выставке Digital Revolution («Цифровая революция») — самой крупной и наиболее подробной экспозиции цифрового творчества, когда-либо проходившей в Великобритании. После этого выставка отправится в турне по различным городам мира.

Проснувшись утром 13 декабря, что-то стрельнуло у меня в голове, и, взяв телефон в руки, я тапнул по микрофончику и, не ожидая ничего нового, спросил: «какая погода в Москве?»

This handy chart lists more than 60 commands for interacting with Google's voice assistant, including some fun Easter eggs. They work with the iOS version, too.