Google Transmits Our Data 70 Billion Times In A Day
Business Standard|May 17, 2022
Along with the Pixel phones, watches and earbuds at Google's annual showcase of software and devices last week came a pair of nifty-looking translation glasses.
Google Transmits Our Data 70 Billion Times In A Day

Put them on and real-time "subtitles" appear on the lenses as you watch a person speaking in a different language. Very cool. But the glasses aren't commercially available. It's also unlikely they will make anywhere near as much money as advertising does for Google's parent, Alphabet. Of the company's $68 billion in total revenue from the quarter ending March 31, 2022, about $54 billion came from advertising

The scope of our own, oblivious involvement in that business is also incomparable with any other time in history.

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