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Google's I/O Developer Conference Starts May 7th At the Shoreline Amphitheater (theverge.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the mark-your-calendar dept.

Twitter user Till Kottmann used a shortcut accidentally hidden in a puzzle Google tweeted out this morning to figure out that the company's next I/O developer conference will be taking place at the Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View, CA starting May 7th. The Verge reports: Typically, the I/O puzzle takes a little longer to solve. This year, Google tweeted out an enigmatic, 12-line block of tweet with an accompanying URL that led to a video with equally enigmatic voiced narration of said text, put to a string of cryptic images and some pleasant ambient music. It's not entirely clear what Google was going for here, but it's safe to say it was likely some form of programming puzzle that most standard Twitter users would not have been able to easily decode.

Duplex will certainly be a hot topic at this year's I/O, as well as the standard updates to Google Lens, Maps, and News, as well as the next version of Android. Hanging over the company's developer efforts this year, however, will be increased scrutiny around Google's plans to work with the US military, following backlash over its involvement with a Department of Defense drone project it has pledged to distance itself from, and the continued murkiness around its plans to launch a search product for the China market.

10 comments

  1. AKA the REAL DEFCON by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    #Target rich environment

    1. Re: AKA the REAL DEFCON by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      So basically the equivalent of where not to go maps?

  2. MAGA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Build that cave, Mr. President. Your shutdown was the best. #covfefe

  3. So we'll reopen the government with no wall money? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Isn't that the EXACT deal Trump was faced with 35 days ago before he killed the US growth and put millions of Federal workers in food bank lines, causing evictions and job losses and massive dysfunction?

    Best kompromat ever! Putin got his fucking money's worth that's for sure. How else could the Russian President have shut down the US government for 35 days?

  4. How to get the ads by AHuxley · · Score: 2

    past the browsers that still have working ad blockers?

    --
    Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
    1. Re:How to get the ads by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      So they're going to talk about how to convince Mozilla to rebase to Chromium?

  5. Let me guess, the Vaelley echo chamber? by 0xdeaddead · · Score: 1

    What a surprise!!!

  6. Half a Conference by bill_mcgonigle · · Score: 1

    After a day and a half, Google will lose interest and discontinue the conference. Complaints will be handled by a python script that a human never looks at.

    --
    My God, it's Full of Source!
    OUTSIDE_IP=$(dig +short my.ip @outsideip.net)
  7. Google's I/O Developer Conference. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.

  8. Looking forward to by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    ... eating lunch in a parking lot ... sitting in a poorly ventilated tent listening to a session ... watching all the Google employees use bikes to go back to their comfortable offices and cafeterias