Google Updates: Scuba, Singularity, SMS and suing – The INQUIRER

PLEASE BE upstanding for the round-up of this week's Google-related stories.

Firstly, there's Google's plans to sue Uber for allegedly nicking design patents for self-driving cars, and a new hack that warns users of "missing fonts" which turn out to be malware are plaguing Windows Chrome users.

On the enterprise side, Google is now offering Tesla K80 CPU clusters to spin up a supercomputer on demand, In VR, the days of silly hats for VR could be numbered as the company appears to have designed a sort of scuba-diving helmet instead.

Remix OS has announced Singularity, it's plan for an Android phone OS that plugs into a monitor to become a computer.

Meanwhile, Google Project Zero has decided to go public on the exact glitches that caused Microsoft to delay this month's Patch Tuesday. Cheeky monkeys.

Other big news this week, Google suffered a technical glitch last night which meant that some people using the company's ON router may have had to reset their credentials. No harm done, but the company has had to apologise.

There's even more big news on the messaging front - a first leak of Allo for the desktop has leaked (on purpose) presumably as a "keep the faith" acknowledgement to people who have abandoned the messaging platform which is now outside the Top 500 Android apps, despite the company hoping to make it the replacement for Google Hangouts, which is now aimed at business customers.

But meanwhile Android Messages is coming to replace Messenger and will be the default messaging app for twenty OEMs, offering Rich Communication Services (RCS) and a joined up message service equivalent to Apple's iMessage. And about ruddy time.

Google Play Music has had a tweak, but really needs a bomb put under it for the mish-mash of different design concepts, bugs and missing features that remain. It also claims to have more than 40 million songs in its library. Yet still nothing from Cardiacs.

Finally, for anyone who has a Mac and likes tinkering about in betas, the Canary channel of Chrome now offers Mac Pro Touchbar support, which means it'll be live for the rest of us after Easter. You might want to hang on though as it's by all accounts, bobbins at the moment.

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Google Updates: Scuba, Singularity, SMS and suing - The INQUIRER