This Week in Google 424

Google is 19 years old. Its present to us? Cool Google Doodles. Its present to itself? 2,000 HTC Engineers. Google and Levi's make a smart jacket. Google might make a better-sounding Home. Amazon is definitely making approximately 724 new Echo devices, including a smaller Echo, Zigbee-enabled Echo Plus, Echo Spot, Echo Buttons, and more. Just don't try playing YouTube videos on your Echo Show. Twitter tests 280 character limits.

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• Google celebrates 19th birthday with 19 games from Doodles past
• Google is buying HTC's Pixel team for $1.1 billion
• Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL features detailed in brand new leak
• Google ATAP and Levi’s will launch their Jacquard-powered Trucker jacket Sept. 27th
• RELATED: You Can Only Wash Google and Levi’s New $350 ‘Connected’ Jacket Ten Times
• Google is reportedly working on a high-end Home ‘Max’ smart speaker
• Amazon’s new Echo is smaller and $99
• Amazon’s Echo Plus features a built-in smart home hub for $149
• Amazon announces $20 Echo Buttons for playing trivia games with your family
• Up close with the adorably tiny Echo Spot
• Amazon just launched a $35 box that turns your Echo into a landline phone
• Amazon announces new Fire TV with HDR and 4K capabilities
• BMW to bring Alexa to its cars starting in 2018
• Google pulls YouTube off the Amazon Echo Show
• Google blocks Microsoft's new YouTube Windows Phone app
• MISSED LAST WK: Amazon working on Alexa-powered smart glasses, says report
• Bill Gates now uses an Android phone
• Google Rolls Out Search, Shopping Ad Changes In Europe
• EU will test Google search remedies with competitors
• Apple ditches Bing for Google search results in Siri and Spotlight
• Twitter testing shift from 140 to 280 characters
• The Ends of the World
• vets.gov is a great site for veterans.
• Also usds.gov/join
• Google Home gains support for reminders