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Google had a pretty good year in 2013. The company’s share price exploded to all-time highs, Android now eclipses all other mobile platforms in global market share at more than 80%, and Google’s share of search traffic is still nearly 70% despite increased competition from Yahoo and Microsoft’s Bing. Now, there’s a new feather Google Continue Reading →

Google Search is changing rapidly. Given the company’s love of small, rapid-fire updates, its sometimes hard to keep track of where the company is going, but earlier this month, at the LeWeb conference in Paris, Google Engineering Director Scott Huffman presented a pretty compelling overview of the direction Google is taking in search. Here’s the Continue Reading →

Crowds gathered at a NASCAR racetrack in Miami this weekend to witness a more sedate sport than usual, as some of the world’s most advanced legged robots inched their way through a range of emergency tasks, including clambering over rubble, clearing debris, and operating a fire hose. And two of the robot-makers acquired recently by Continue Reading →

It’s the holiday season, which traditionally means great parties, great food and, of course, great adult frosty beverages. Sadly, it also means a great number of calories – an overabundance of which can cause all kinds of post-holiday anxiety. Is there anything you can do? Of course there is! You can use your smartphone to Continue Reading →

Google updated its Search app on Thursday for Apple hardware with a refined iOS 7 redesign, expanding the overall UI and swipe-up Google Now feed to fill the entirety of the screen. It’s subtle tweak, but given that the Google Search app was always well-designed and not too dissimilar to the look of iOS 7, Continue Reading →

Once upon a not so distant time, a woman took a long walk off a short pier while checking her Facebook page. True story. Then there was the time the San Diego police department ticketed a woman for driving while under the influence of Glass. Clearly, we’ve fallen victim to our technological dependence, not just Continue Reading →

In 2005, on Google’s sprawling, college-like campus, the most secret and ambitious of many, many teams was Google’s own smartphone effort—the Android project. Tucked in a first-floor corner of Google’s Building 44, surrounded by Google ad reps, its four dozen engineers thought that they were on track to deliver a revolutionary device that would change Continue Reading →

Earlier this year, the French independent administrative authority CNIL advised six European countries to take action over Google’s privacy policies. Now Spain has become the first of the six to fine the search giant, demanding €900,000 ($1.24 million) for breaching the nation’s privacy laws. The Wall Street Journal reports that the fine, administered by the Continue Reading →

Quick! Where were you last Tuesday at 6:35 PM? If you’re anything like me, your answer is probably along the lines of “I… have absolutely no idea.” Most people’s brains just don’t work that way. But odds are, Google knows. They probably know where you’ve been most other days, too. And they’ll happily show you, Continue Reading →

Week in and week out we keep hearing about how Samsung is planning to branch out beyond Android, but as 2013 draws to a close, the only future Samsung phone receiving any attention is the Galaxy S5. According to ITNews, the long delayed expansion into new territory is finally going to begin during a press Continue Reading →