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Alphabet grants Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai largest ever stock award, again

According to the most recent proxy statement from the company, Pichai earned nearly $1.9 million in 2018, which mostly included the costs for his security and personal use of aircraft.

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Google Recorder App Now Supports Pixel 2, Pixel 3, Pixel 3a-Series Phones

Recorder was earlier exclusive to Pixel 4-series phones. It can be used to live transcribe audio content.

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Google Photos Adds Manual Face Tagging: Here's How to Use the Feature

Google Photos' new manual face tagging feature still relies on Google's face detection algorithms, but now users can manually edit or name the tags.

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Google Nest Wifi Is All the Router Most People Need

At last month’s big hardware extravaganza, Google finally showed off an update to its three-year-old mesh wifi system that now lives under the company’s Nest smart home brand. Despite a lack of support for the new WiFi 6 standard, Google Nest Wifi includes other hardware and performance upgrades, including access points that double as Nest Mini smart speakers, which means new users to the Google eco-system can get away with buying less hardware.

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Google Pay to Offer Checking Accounts Through Citi, Stanford Federal

The Google project, codenamed Cache, comes as rivals Facebook and Apple are expanding their own efforts in consumer finance.