Shocker: The Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Is Faster Than the 845
The first benchmark tests are out for the upcoming Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 chip, and unsurprisingly it’s faster than last year’s 845. At least this gives us...
We Learn to Live: Featured Poetry by Andrés Cerpa
We’re thrilled to begin a new series of poetry excerpts at The Millions. These poems come from selected new books that appear in our monthly must-read...
The Dirty Truth About Turning Seawater Into Drinking Water
As countries in the Middle East, Africa, and elsewhere struggle to find enough freshwater to meet demand, they’re increasingly turned to the ocean. Desalination plants, located...
Android Enterprise Recommended validates top management solutions
Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) providers play a vital role in enabling and managing the business features and services in Android — helping customers deploy devices and...
Introducing the Google.org Fellowship
Samantha Ainsley usually spends her days as a software engineer and technical lead for Google Cloud Platform, but for six months last year, she applied her...
A Reading List of Orphans in Literature
Elizabeth Brooks, author of “The Orphan of Salt Winds,” on the literary trope of the foundling Home for Belgian orphans, Epagny, courtesy of Library of Congress From...
You Can Now Tell Pandora What You Want to Listen To
Telling your phone what to do is quickly becoming way cooler than, you know, touching it, and Pandora is on it. The company just announced Voice Mode,...
The Best Portable USB-Powered Monitors
Once you upgrade your desktop to two or more monitors, it’s tough to go back to one—but lugging them along with your laptop is less than...
Three reasons to participate in Hash Code this year
Hash Code, Google’s team programming competition, is back…and this time, it’s going global. Think you could optimize video serving on YouTube? Or how about route Loon...
A Far From Quiet European Vacation in the First ‘Spider-Man: Far From Home’ Trailer
If, somehow, you’ve managed to avoid all Marvel Studios production news for the past couple of years and you truly believed that the end of Avengers:...
