Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Tuesday, September 13, 2022.

I'm Brian McCullough.

Today, Google does what it does best, kills a product line, as the Twitter Whistleblower

testifies before Congress, did extreme heat in California almost bring Twitter down recently.

Amazon has updated the entry-level Kindle and a review of the

recently released iOS 16. Here's what you miss today in the world of tech. Sources are telling the newly redesigned Virge that Google cancelled the next version of its

Pixel Book laptop which was slated for a 2023 release.

Google has also dissolved the team building the

Pixel Book as a part of recent cost-cutting measures.

Quote,

The device was far along in development and expected to debut next year

according to a person familiar with the matter. Members of the team have been

transferred elsewhere inside the company. As recently as a few months ago, Google was planning to keep the Pixelbook going.

Ahead of its annual I.O developer conference, Google Hardware Chief Rick Austerlo told

the Verge that, quote, we are going to do Pixel Books in the future. But he also acknowledged that the

Chromebook market has changed since 2017 when the original and best pixel book launched.

What's nice about the category is that it has matured, Austerlo said.

You can expect them to last a long time, end quote.

One way Google might be thinking about the Chrome OS market is that it simply doesn't need

Google the way it once did.

Sundar Pachai, Google's CEO has been saying for months that he intends to

slow down hiring and cut some projects across the company.

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