Mashable - Tech For better or worse, Google is still invested in supporting the network and its users.

Business Insider Google's think tank is combatting ISIS recruitment through targeted ads.

Business Insider How Google deals with young people who are susceptible to ISIS's messagning.

Techmeme Google sees signs of interlingua in its neural network as its expands its AI system to translate between language pairs the system has not seen before (Google Research Blog) http://research.googleblog.com/2016/11/zero-shot-translation-with-googles.ht Read more ... ml

Kerry Rego Consulting This is a fascinating explanation of how the buildup and breakdown of Google+ happened. By Mashable

Mashable - Business What happened to Google+?

Propage Quand Google a tenté d'imiter Facebook et s'est royalement planté. Un retour sur la naissance et la (prochaine) mort de Google+ (via Mashable)

Techmeme "The service will switch between Wi-Fi, Sprint and T-Mobile. A pretty tough piece of networking when you consider that Sprint is a CDMA network and T-Mobile is a GSM network. Because of all the network hopping, Google needs to tweak the hardware and Read more ... software of devices that use its network. This is why the Nexus 6 will be the device of choice, Google can’t get in to tweak the settings of phones from other manufacturers."

Techmeme Google X head Astro Teller says Neural Network Project, formerly Google Brain, produces value comparable to total Google X costs (Conor Dougherty / New York Times) http://nyti.ms/1vAsKNk http://techme.me/JAkF

TechCrunch Google looks primed to become a wireless carrier – but existing carriers probably aren't scared.