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Google on Tuesday launched a new free tool called Classroom as part of its Google Apps for Education suite. In short, Classroom helps teachers create and organize assignments, provide feedback to their students, and communicate with their classes. Google says Classroom, which is still in preview, is based on the principle that “educational tools should Continue Reading →

Google Maps for iOS and Android is getting a big update on Tuesday, bringing stronger support for offline maps to both platforms, adding in lane guidance when driving, and integrating Uber as an option for getting around. Among the most helpful of the updates will certainly be offline maps, which is now front-and-center on iOS Continue Reading →

As we wrote last month, Google is building a favoriting service called Google Stars that will let users save, share, and organize Web content. The company is testing a wide array of features for Stars, as depicted in a video and screenshots leaked out on Tuesday (previous leaks only included marketing images and mockups). As Continue Reading →

Google has delivered its same-day shopping service to Manhattan and west Los Angeles. Until Monday, the year-long service had only been available in the San Francisco Bay Area. “We’re working on refining the service as a consumer experience and business model,” says Tom Fallows, product management director of Google Shopping Express. He said Google plans Continue Reading →

Google Now is getting a new superpower: it’s going to be able to remember where you parked. Using your phone’s sensors, it’ll figure out when you’ve exited a moving vehicle and remember your car’s location automatically, so you don’t even have to think twice. Of course, that means you could also get parking locations when Continue Reading →

Teardown.com took apart a $1,500 pair of Google Glass and published estimates of the final bill of materials on Wednesday. The bottom line? Glass components cost an estimated $79.78, or a little more than 5 percent of its retail price. Google shot a quick statement to the Wall Street Journal, calling the estimate “absolutely wrong.” Continue Reading →

Google has released standalone apps for Google Docs and Google Sheets, with Slides coming soon, breaking out these productivity applications from within Google Drive, which is where users could go to access them on iPhone and iPad in the past. The text document, spreadsheet and presentation editors allow for both creation and editing of those Continue Reading →

Google engineer Adam Langley published a blog post taking issue with the GRC characterization that Chrome’s CRLSet is “completely broken.” In the post, Langley said he has always been clear that the measure isn’t perfect, but in any event, it’s more effective than the revocation checks on by default in other browsers. “And yet, GRC Continue Reading →

Google said Wednesday that it stopped scanning student Gmail accounts for advertising purposes after the practice was scrutinized during a recent court case. Google Apps for Education, a free service used by more than 30 million students, teachers and administrators, offers Gmail email accounts, as well as calendars, cloud storage and document creation. Google didn’t Continue Reading →

The abrupt departure of Google+ creator Vic Gundotra from the beleaguered social network led to immediate speculation that its days as a competitor to Facebook and Twitter are numbered. Indeed, media reports have asserted that Google+ is being chopped up for parts or, at the very least, undergoing a strategic review. Google, for its part, Continue Reading →