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Following its release on Android back in July, Google has just made its One Today charity app available on iOS. For those unfamiliar with the app, it details a new charity everyday and encourages users to donate $1 a day, or more, to it. Users can share their donations to social networks, or keep them Continue Reading →

Yahoo may be working on its own voice-based personal assistant to rival Apple’s Siri and Google Now. A video has recently surfaced that shows the unreleased app running on an Android smartphone. The origins of the clip are unclear, though it may have been developed for internal purposes. In the video, we see the Android Continue Reading →

Google has just announced a massive update to Google Glass which adds a lock screen, Hangouts chat, direct YouTube uploading via a Glass app and a ‘wink to shoot a picture’ mode. The wink photo mode is obviously interesting as developers had dug up references to it in the Glass firmware a while ago and Continue Reading →

Technology giants like Google and Facebook are expanding efforts to control more of the world’s Internet backbone, raising tensions with telecom companies over who runs the Web. In the past year, these companies that supply much of the world’s online content have ramped up their investment in Internet infrastructure. The moves include bringing online new Continue Reading →

BigDog, Cheetah, WildCat and Atlas have joined Google’s growing robot menagerie. Google confirmed on Friday that it had completed the acquisition of Boston Dynamics, an engineering company that has designed mobile research robots for the Pentagon. The company, based in Waltham, Mass., has gained an international reputation for machines that walk with an uncanny sense Continue Reading →

A minor, but interesting, update to the Google Maps iOS application out on Thursday introduces a little bit of Google Now-like functionality to the otherwise utilitarian Google Maps application. Users who choose to sign in will be able to see their flight, hotel and restaurant reservations in Maps, which appear following a user-initiated search. After Continue Reading →

Google on Thursday announced a change to how Gmail handles images: on the desktop, the email service will show images in your messages automatically starting immediately. The change will be rolling out to Gmail for Android and iOS “in early 2014.” Currently, Gmail asks you before showing images in emails. Google, like other companies that Continue Reading →

Back in September, Google rolled out Chrome Apps — not to be confused with the lightweight Chrome OS and Chrome browser apps, these were more fully fledged applications that look and feel more like native apps and have full offline support. At first, they were only available for Chrome OS and the Chrome browser for Continue Reading →

YouTube is bigger and growing faster than previously thought, according to a new report. Estimates released Wednesday by research firm eMarketer peg revenue for Google’s video site at $5.6 billion this year, up 51% from $3.7 billion in 2012. That’s significantly faster growth than estimated by Mark Mahaney of RBC Capital Markets, who thinks YouTube Continue Reading →

Dell said it would join a growing market of thin-and-light Chrome OS laptops with the new Chromebook 11, but the system will initially be available only to educational institutions. The company did not provide specifications for the laptop, but in an email said more Chromebooks will be announced for “budget-strapped” small-and-medium business and consumers in Continue Reading →