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Google taps AI to help you bid for digital ads
Real-time bidding is an aspect of digital marketing that can seem overly complex for the average bear, so it was only a matter of time before AI entered the picture.News
Chromebook shipments are exploding, but not replacing Windows PCs
Chromebook shipments will grow in double digits this year, but not as Windows PC replacements, which is what Google had hoped for.
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RIP, VHS players: The last VCRs ever will be made this month
Soon, you'll no longer be able to buy a brand new VHS player.News
Google launches new cloud service for understanding human language
Google's intelligent cloud developer tools are expanding with the launch of a new Cloud Natural Language API on Wednesday. The service is aimed at helping developers create applications that understand human language.News
Attackers could steal millions through online phone verification systems
A researcher finds he could earn millions of dollars by abusing the online phone verification systems used by Google, Microsoft, and InstagramNews
Microsoft’s new service is like YouTube for the enterprise
Microsoft thinks it has YouTube for the enterprise on its hands with the beta launch of a new service on Monday.
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Early Android app support rolls out to two more Chromebooks
The addition of Acer's R11 and the 2015 Chromebook Pixel brings the total number of Chromebooks able to run the Play Store to three.News
During coup attempt, Turkish president appears via Facetime on live TV
In what could be another first for our connected world, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan placed what appeared to be a Facetime call into a national news broadcast early on Saturday while the world tried to figure out if a military coup against him had succeeded.News
Confirmed: Only Microsoft Edge will play Netflix content at 1080p on your PC
Microsoft claims that Edge does something Chrome, Firefox, and Opera can't: Stream 1080p Netflix content on your PC. Turns out it's true.News
Google’s AI is learning how to save your life
AlphaGo's uncanny success at the game of Go was taken by many as a death knell for the dominance of the human intellect, but Google researcher David Silver doesn't see it that way.News
Google Cloud acquires video software company Anvato
Google has acquired Anvato, the developer of a video software platform, to shore up its cloud offering in the area of video delivery.News
Google buys sneaker-scanning machine learning company Moodstocks
Someone at Google really likes sneakers: The company has just bought a French machine learning startup that taught a computer how to recognize 15,000 different types of them.News
Fearing surveillance, man allegedly shot at Google and set self-driving car ablaze
A man who told police he feared being watched by Google has been arrested and charged with arson after one of the company's self-driving cars was destroyed in an attack in June.News
Beloved VLC media player releases a robust universal Windows 10 app
VLC now has a Windows 10-friendly version that works with nearly every major Windows 10 platform.News
Google’s Sundar Pichai has been hacked – which CEO will be next?
Google CEO Sundar Pichai has become the latest tech executive to have a social media account hacked.News
Roku’s new universal Windows 10 app avoids Windows Phones
Another big app goes UWP and another big app ignores mobile completely. Wasn't it supposed to be easy to port these apps to mobile?Hassle-Free PC
How to use Google Save as an online image storehouse
Google Save is an easy way to keep track of images you want to access later.News
WD’s new external drive is the first self-contained, fully portable Plex media server
WD's My Passport Wireless Pro external drive is the first self-contained, fully portable Plex media server.News
Twitch fights view-inflating bot makers with lawsuit
The lawsuit is part of an effort by the livestreaming site to prevent video creators from gaming the system and artificially inflating their view counts.News
Google revs its AI engines with a new European research group
Google has made no secret of its AI ambitions, and on Thursday it announced the next step in its bold plans to realize them: a brand-new research group in Europe focused squarely on machine learning.News
Now when you play the ‘world’s smallest violin,’ everyone can hear it — thanks to Google
There's no better way to express mock sympathy than by playing the "world's smallest violin," but the sad song you mime can now actually be heard.News
This company wants to take on Slack with video messaging for enterprises
It's a rare consumer today who doesn't use a mobile video and messaging app like Snapchat, Instagram, Facebook or Vine, but such capabilities are still few and far between on the enterprise side.News
Google goes after SharePoint with new enterprise tools
Google isn't kidding when it says it's serious about the enterprise. The company announced a pair of new services on Monday that are aimed squarely at helping businesses access information and share it internally, similar to what Microsoft's SharePoint product offers.News
Google claims a leap forward for quantum computing
Many approaches are being tried in the race to develop a working quantum computer, but Google this week reported using a combination of techniques with particularly promising results.News
Lenovo planning new AR, VR devices with Google’s Project Tango
Lenovo will build more virtual and augmented reality devices after its new Phab2 Pro smartphone, and virtual reality headsets may be high on that list.News
Google tests Material Design makeover for Google search on the desktop
The look recently landed on Chrome OS and now Google is aiming its Material Design makeover brushes at its legendary search engine.News
Google, Facebook, Yahoo, rights groups oppose FBI expansion of surveillance powers
Google, Facebook and Yahoo and industry and civil rights groups have opposed legislation that would extend the categories of Internet records that the U.S. government can collect without court approval through administrative subpoenas known as National Security Letters.News
Hands-on with Samsung’s Gear IconX: Wireless earbuds with step and heart-rate sensors
Look closely, because this may be the future of mobile music playback: Completely wire-free earbuds with built-in data tracking.News
Google will help people find lost iPhones
Google is giving iPhone users another way to find their misplaced devices — by searching the Web for it.News
Google’s Magenta project just wrote its first piece of music, and thankfully it’s not great
Google's Magenta project has just released its first piece of machine-composed music. Fortunately for human composers, it's not that good. Yet.News
Toyota said to be in talks to acquire two Google robotics companies
Toyota is close to acquiring two robotics companies from Google, according to a report in Wednesday's Nikkei newspaper.News
Staring at your phone? The next ARM chips are just for you
ARM, the company behind the architecture of most mobile processors, created its next-generation chip designs for sustained high performance and longer battery life.News
Google cleared of infringement in Oracle lawsuit over Java
A jury in San Francisco has cleared Google of copyright infringement in a case brought by Oracle over Google’s use of Java in Android.News
Google goes after Microsoft, Tableau, and others with a new free analytics tool
Google is doubling down on its commitment to the business analytics market with the launch of a new free data visualization tool.News
The fantastic $35 Raspberry Pi 3 mini-PC may soon get official Android support
Google appears to be developing a version of Android for the Raspberry Pi 3, but nobody knows what it will be for.News
Report: Microsoft could debut Xbox One game streaming stick and ‘Xbox TV’ at E3
Petri's Brad Sams speculates that Microsoft is filling a price gap with two lower-cost streaming devices, along the lines of the Chromecast and Roku.News
New ads in Google Maps might suggest a pit stop at McDonalds
Later this year, Google Maps users will start seeing new ads as they're driving down the road and planning trips using its mobile app.
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Consumers are more nervous than excited about self-driving cars
Google, Uber and Tesla may be giddy about the prospect of self-driving cars, but U.S. consumers aren't convinced that the technology is safe or that they need it.News
Google’s modular smartphone project sacrificed its original vision to move forward
Google's Project Ara modular smartphone is coming to developers at the end of this year, but it's lost a key part of its vision along the way — total customizability.News
Google I/O’s biggest reveals: VR dreams, personalized AI, and chips that blow away Moore’s Law
Google I/O 2016 was full of big news, from Android N to Daydream VR to new apps galore.News
Android apps will come to Chromebooks, as Google puts the Play Store in Chrome OS
Google's Play Store will be coming to Chrome OS, the lightweight operating system that powers Chromebook laptops. This move will suddenly give the app-starved Chrome a lot more to work with.News
Bing Concierge appears to be Microsoft’s answer to Google’s conversational Assistant
A job posting at Microsoft reveals the Bing Concierge bot, indicating that Microsoft plans to respond to the new Google Assistant by putting bots on as many messaging platforms as possible.News
Chromebooks surge past Macs in the U.S. for the first time
Chromebooks outsold Macs in the early months of 2016, according to IDC. But the victory comes with a few caveats.News
A big update to Google’s Android Wear will make fitness tracking easier
Android Wear, Google’s operating system for smartwatches, is getting its biggest update to date with the upcoming 2.0 release of the software that brings improved messaging and fitness support.News
In pictures: How Google’s Daydream VR apes Oculus’ hardware and software design
Google's Daydream looks awfully similar to the Oculus Rift, from the headset to the controller to the software itself.News
Meet Google Assistant, Siri and Google Now’s conversational lovechild
Forget about chatbots, Google's baking its digital assistant right into your life.News
A huge fine for Google could come soon in EU antitrust investigation
Google could face a record fine of up to €3 billion ($3.4 billion) as soon as early next month as part of a six-year European Commission antitrust investigation into the company's search engine dominance, according to a news report.
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Google’s cool new natural language tool is called Parsey McParseface
Google has changed the way developers build applications that understand human language — and in the finest tradition of the Internet, has named the result after Boaty McBoatface.News
Evernote and Google team up to show Drive-stored content directly inside your notes
Evernote and Google may be competitors when it comes to notes, but the two companies are burying the hatchet so you can view your Google Drive-stored content directly inside your Evernote notes.News