This Week in Google 241

Google announces Android Wear, Google removes underlined links, Google Drive prices reduced and more!

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• Google Announces Android Wear, Its Plan for the Smartwatch and Beyond
• Google extends Android to wearables with Android Wear project, launches developer preview
• Motorola teases Moto 360 wristwatch powered by Android Wear, launching this summer
• In-depth with Android Wear, Google’s quantum leap of a smartwatch OS
• Google plans to kill Google Voice in coming months, integrate features into Hangouts
• Google removes underlined links, says goodbye to 1996
• Google Play Store update lets you require a password for every purchase
• Google Drive monthly prices reduced to $2/100GB, $10/1TB, $100/10TB, deeply undercutting Dropbox and OneDrive
• Skype for Android update promises to make your battery life suck less
• YouTube Enlists ‘Trusted Flaggers’ to Police Videos
• Viacom and Google settle 7-year-old YouTube copyright lawsuit, sources say no money changed hands
• Google Play Games gets gifts, multiplayer invites, cross-platform Android and iOS multiplayer support
• In sudden announcement, US to give up control of DNS root zone | Ars Technica
• Google Voice Search Easter Egg Unlocks “Cheat Mode”
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