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Google is planning to spend over $1 billion — and possibly up to $3 billion — on satellites that can bring internet access to regions around the world that still don’t have connectivity, the Wall Street Journal reports. The project is said to kick off with 180 “small, high-capacity satellites” that circle around earth at Continue Reading →

A while ago, we posted about information we’d received indicating that sometime soon, Google’s search functionality (and other actions) would be expanding beyond the Search app, moving into other apps for device-wide search interaction and – eventually – app-specific functionality. It appears that isn’t the only Search trick Google is working on, though. According to Continue Reading →

When Apple dropped $3 billion on Beats this week, it was pretty clear Cupertino was more interested in the software and people than the hardware. That’s no surprise. From the get-go, Beats cans have been almost universally maligned in the tech press as poor performers, both for their low fidelity and their cheap build quality. Continue Reading →

Ever since Europe’s version of the Supreme Court ruled that search engines need to remove links that are outdated or “irrelevant” from the search results of individuals in European countries, thousands of requests have been flowing into the search giant, ranging from a person convicted of possession of child porn who wants news articles about Continue Reading →

On January 2nd, 2013, David Eckart lived through a nightmare. After being stopped in a Walmart parking lot, New Mexico police asked Eckart to step out of his car, and patted him down. They searched his car without his consent. He was handcuffed, arrested, and eventually a search warrant was issued that allowed police to Continue Reading →

Even as the number of paid streaming-video services like Netflix and Hulu become more accessible on gadgets, built into TVs and installed on videogame consoles, people watching video online still prefer free. Google’s YouTube service soaked up 48% of the time people spent watching online video, according to a March 2014 survey by nScreenMedia that Continue Reading →

Google could become a “serious competitive threat” to the auto industry if it continues to push its self-driving cars, said Mark Reuss, product-development chief at General Motors. GM, which is developing its own autonomous vehicle technology, isn’t in a race with Google to create driverless cars, he told reporters on Wednesday in Detroit. Google announced Continue Reading →

If you’ve been dying to make Google searches with your voice, you’re in luck – Google has rolled out hands-free search to every version of Chrome. The feature was previously available for beta testers or as part of third-party extensions, but came with additional bugs that hadn’t been worked out yet. But now the feature Continue Reading →

Not happy with just offering fiber-optic internet access in select cities, Google — and Facebook to a lesser extent — are investigating satellites as a way to deliver internet access according to The Information’s sources close to the situation who would not speak for the record. Among the evidence the article cites for this conclusion Continue Reading →

Mentioned very briefly, and with far less emphasis than the many descriptions of the tiny size of Google’s new driverless car, is that Google’s new experimental fleet of robotic cars are electric. That’s important because as one of the leaders of developing the software and artificial intelligence that will move autonomous cars through the streets, Continue Reading →