Google’s I/O developer conference was the platform for the launch of Google IoT Core, a cloud computing service for connecting IoT devices and processing their valuable data on Google’s cloud platform. Google also announced that its cloud would be increasingly populated by its TPU machine-learning chips – in the same week that HPE revealed its new ARM-based big data processing Machine. For Google, the Cloud IoT Core is essentially just a streamlined manner of pulling data from edge-devices, and moving it into the Google Cloud Platform, where it can be turned into something actually useful for a business – such as predictive maintenance alerts, finding a gap in a market, or noticing a trend among customers. So the Cloud IoT…