Having been down at Google’s DeepMind office earlier this week its man vs AI machine gaming competition preview, I was tipped off that a potentially-more-serious healthcare announcement would follow soon. That it has, but contrary to what the company’s remit might suggest, this p … | Continue reading
Google has announced that it’s opening its anti-DDoS Project Shield technology to all online news websites as First announced back in 2013, Project Shield has been in testing for more than two years now with a select group of organizations. The service aims to counteract attempts … | Continue reading
PARIS (Reuters) – France is seeking 1.6 billion euros ($1.76 billion) in back taxes from U.S. Internet giant Google, criticized for its use of aggressive tax optimization techniques, a source at the finance ministry said on Wednesday. “As far as our country is concerned, back tax … | Continue reading
The French government is reportedly seeking a pretty hefty $1.76 billion (€1.6 billion) in taxes it believes Google has avoided paying in the country. The sum dwarfs the $180 million (£130 million) sum agreed with Google by the British government last month for back taxes owed be … | Continue reading
Have you ever looked through your photo library and tried to determine where an image was taken without any additional detective work? It’s not always an easy task. Today, MIT Tech Review details a new project led by Tobias Weyand, a computer vision specialist at Google. The proj … | Continue reading
A new update for the Google+ app on Android is rolling out, and there's a lot to love about it. Autocomplete search is back! | Continue reading
Google is in cahoots with Vizio to effectively build Chromecast tech into TVs before they ship. And word on the street is that they might ship as early as this spring. | Continue reading
Although LG and Google's work with the Nexus line was well-received, LG is taking a break to work on its branding. | Continue reading
While many of us are pleased with the stick or disc-shaped media dongle hanging out of the back of our regular old dumb televisions — the well-lived Chromecast — it seems that Google has plans to put those features directly in televisions. According to a scoop by Variety, a new m … | Continue reading
Google is attempting to free up your hands completely by adding vocal editing and formatting controls to Docs. | Continue reading
Google Docs just stepped up its voice features in a big wayNearly six months after introducing voice typing for Google Docs, the company is adding voice commands, which allow you to edit and format documents with only your voice.See also: Google Docs now lets you type without typ … | Continue reading
Google today announced updates to Google Docs that builds on the speech recognition capabilities it introduced a few months ago. “We launched Voice typing in Google Docs to help you capture ideas, compose a letter, or even write the next great novel—all without touching your keyb … | Continue reading
It’s finally coming: after years of expanding into new and different cities, Google is finally bringing Fiber home to the San Francisco area. Announced in a blog post today, the company will be bringing Google Fiber to existing homes through an already-built fiber network. “By us … | Continue reading
Google has announced that it’s looking to bring Fiber to San Francisco and will be using the city’s existing fiber network to help accomplish that. It said that by doing so, “we can bring service to residents more quickly.” However, the company was light in terms of the details o … | Continue reading
Since rolling out support for voice typing back in September, Google Docs has made a significant jump from a convenience and accessibility standpoint. Now, it is even better, as today the company announced it would now support voice commands for Docs on Chrome. These new commands … | Continue reading
It can cost as little as $150 on the black market to launch a DDoS attack on a website if you don’t like the views being expressed there. So Google has built a free tool for journalists, news sites and other organizations, like election monitors, called Project Shield that re-rou … | Continue reading
Google today announced a few useful additions to Gmail on Android. Two longtime features of Gmail on the Web are now being ported over to Google’s mobile operating system. That thing that lets you tell Google if you’ll be attending an event that you’ve been invited to? Google cal … | Continue reading
Google has released a helpful, stylish update to Gmail for Android that will make the service a lot easier for power-users to take advantage of. Namely, the mobile app now supports rich text and RSVPs — fairly nifty features when you’re using Gmail on the desktop. Now, on mobile, … | Continue reading
Google announced two small but useful updates for Gmail on Android today: rich text formatting and instant RSVPs. Rich text formatting has long been available for Gmail on the web, but this is the first time Google has brought it to mobile. The formatting options are pretty strai … | Continue reading
Google has some big plans when it comes to making the web faster on your mobile phone. The company just added AMP-enabled pages in its mobile search results. And one of the first companies supporting the new Instant Article-like format is an important one — Automattic’s WordPress … | Continue reading
Google announced today that it has finished rolling out fast-loading webpages in mobile Google search results as part of its Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) Project. These pages appear on mobile devices four times faster than the same pages built without the technology, and they u … | Continue reading
Google’s elaborate tax structures have been slammed by UK policymakers charged with getting to the bottom of the £130 million sum it recently agreed to pay on back taxes between 2005 and 2015. The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) inquiry into the tax deal published its final repor … | Continue reading
AMSTERDAM — The price of oil continues to drop, but Saudi Arabia still has cash to burn on mobile games. Only around 30 million people live in Saudi Arabia, but that population generates approximately $350 million per year in revenues for mobile games, according to research firm … | Continue reading
Making a system work in one datacenter is hard. Now imagine you move to two datacenters. Now... | Continue reading
BARCELONA — This year's Mobile World Congress is a huge sea smartphones (yay!), networking gear (meh) and people wearing VR headsets (uh...), but in between all the suited-up business folks and sweaty, stinky reporters was one booth that had something really charming.At the Andro … | Continue reading
A fractious MWC16 panel on mobile ads brought several executives from the ad industry side plus ad behemoth Google face-to-face with what might be their worst nightmare: network-level mobile ad blocking… Read More | Continue reading
Google Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP), the company’s effort to help publishers speed up their sites, has gone live today with the company quietly beginning to show results in searches. The AMP project is Google’s version of Facebook’s Instant Articles. The company created a speci … | Continue reading
Google is closing down its advertising product which served suggestions for a range of financial products, including credit cards, mortgages and insurance policies. Read More | Continue reading
BARCELONA — We all use mapping apps to get from one location to another when we're outside, but we could soon use them for indoor navigation, too.At Mobile World Congress on Monday, I got to experience for myself how indoor navigation works with a Project Tango device. (Google's … | Continue reading
Google today announced that its Cloud Dataproc service — a fully managed tool based on the Hadoop and Spark open-source big data software — is now generally available. The service — which supports the MapReduce engine, the Pig platform for writing programs, and the Hive data ware … | Continue reading
What better place to become the next Google Fiber partner than Rocket City, a.k.a. Huntsville, Alabama, so called because of its links to the space exploration sector and its high concentration of engineers. Google is already working with 20 different areas in the US to deliver F … | Continue reading
Google today announced Google Fiber is coming to Huntsville, making it the first city in Alabama to get the $70 per-month service. Mayor Tommy Battle shared the news this morning that Google will be playing a part in helping Huntsville Utilities build its fiber network. To be cle … | Continue reading
Google today announced that it is bringing its gigabit Fiber service to Huntsville, Alabama. As Google noted in today’s announcement, every city it has brought Fiber to is different. In Huntsville, the company is piggybacking on the fiber network that Huntsville Utilities is buil … | Continue reading
Morgan Freeman is lending his voice to popular GPS driving app Waze, meaning those in the U.S. can be given directions by the soothing, dulcet tones of the legendary Hollywood actor. Freeman joins other big-name stars who have added their voice to the navigation app in the past, … | Continue reading
Mobile ad technology provider Marfeel wants to make Google’s AMP technology painless for publishers, so it made an out-of-the-box solution for building and maintaining mobile Web pages. With AMP, publishers are expected to keep a separate HTML page available. Those pages must als … | Continue reading
Google is partnering with a myriad of mobile operators in a move to expedite the rollout of Rich Communication Services (RCS) on Android. The partnership sees the Internet giant team up with a number of global and regional carriers, including América Móvil, Bharti Airtel Ltd, Deu … | Continue reading
Here at Mobile World Congress 2016, the annual Barcelona-based flesh-pressing of the telco industry, Google and a bunch of carriers have put out a press release talking up how they are apparently ‘aligning’ to try to drive adoption of RCS. Read More | Continue reading
Google has thrown down the gauntlet in front of the top player of one of the world’s hardest games to show that an AI that it’s been developing is the most advanced, human-like algorithm on the planet. Announced by Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, himself a former chess master … | Continue reading
This week, the US patent office issued 6,759 patents. Each patent adds a little something new to the human knowledge base. As we cannot list all six thousand, the PatentYogi team has selected the eight most interesting patents. Facebook’s imposter detection Patent Number – US 9,2 … | Continue reading
With the most recent release (1.5.3, last week) App Engine's Python API for Memcache has added a new feature, Compare-And-Set . This feature... | Continue reading