The 10 Most Important Things Google Announced Yesterday

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Google Inc. can't seem to resist the temptation to show programmers all its latest and greatest — and to keep adding to the pile every year.

Google introduced technologies ranging from a brand new mobile-payments system to a virtual-reality camera rig in front of more than 6,000 software engineers at the Web company's I/O developer's conference in San Francisco. That's in stark contrast to Apple Inc., which tends to focus on a few top-priority products at its annual developer's conference, which will take place in less than two weeks.