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Google has silently acquired a widely-used K-12 data and analytics company.

The tech giant confirmed, in an email to EdSurge, that it's picked up BrightBytes for an undisclosed amount.

The acquisition does not appear to have been publicly announced. And Google declined to provide any details, including when the sale had taken place.

But an email about the deal sent by Google to a school district in early May, obtained by EdSurge, cites May 17th as the expected date of the transaction.

The acquisition will help Google to transform school district data “into actionable intelligence to improve the academic and overall well-being of all students,” the email says.

It also states that Google might have updated the policy and privacy terms of use after the acquisition.

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Google Debuts Smart Glasses Built With Real-Time Language Translation
The device basically brings Google Translate to a pair of smart glasses by displaying the translated text over the lenses.

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Deepmind nahm zur Überprüfung zehn Wettbewerbe von der Plattform Codeforce zur Hand. Ihnen allen lag zugrunde, dass neuartige und interessante Lösungen gefunden werden müssen, die „kritisches Denken“ erfordern. „Insgesamt lag Alphacode ungefähr auf dem Niveau eines mittleren Wettbewerbers“, schreiben die Autor:innen der Beiträge. Codeforce veröffentlichte die automatisch generierten Codes für die Probleme von Selectorunlimited, Wagglecollide und Angularnumeric.

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Vulkanausbrüche, Schneestürme, Überschwemmungen: Google-Tool zeigt Veränderung der Welt
Google hat ein neues Tool gelauncht. Interessierte können bei Google Earth jetzt fast in Echtzeit sehen, was auf der Erdoberfläche so abgeht.

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Google is buying cybersecurity company Mandiant in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $5.4 billion.

Mandiant’s operations, which draw on the work of more than 600 security consultants and more than 300 intelligence analysts, will be folded into Google Cloud to create an “end-to-end security operations suite.” A range of services will be offered, from consulting on cybersecurity to detecting upcoming threats and testing company’s digital defenses.

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