reader comments 100 SAN FRANCISCO—Oracle lawyers argued in federal court today that their copyright trial loss against Google should be thrown out because they were denied key evidence in discovery. Oracle attorney Annette Hurst said that the launch of Google Play on Chrome OS, which happened in the middle of the trial, showed that Google was...Read More
Google has announced that Hangouts on Air — the live-streaming service once used by Barack Obama and Pope Francis — will be mostly discontinued next month. A new post over at Google’s YouTube support page lays out the details for Hangouts on Air users, who will have to use YouTube Live to handle all their...Read More
For years, Google has developed two operating systems side-by-side in Android for mobile devices and Chrome OS for laptops and desktops. But it looks as though Google now has a third operating system project underway known as Fuchsia. Although Google isn’t revealing much, Android Police dug into the documentation for the project on GitHub and discovered more...Read More
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Google Now, the intelligent personal assistant bundled into Android and Google’s search application, is already adept at bringing you the information you need at the right time, whether that’s traffic alerts, event reminders, sports scores, stock updates, weather, flight info, and much more. But one area where Google Now falls a little short is in customizing the...Read More
The 2016 Olympic Games open in Rio de Janeiro today, and what better way to celebrate than opening the Google app on your phone, tapping on the Google Doodle logo, and playing some simple free minigames in which various fruits take part in sporting activities? No, us either. But that is indeed what Google has...Read More
One of the joys of Google’s wealth of 3D mapping data is being able to explore far-flung locations from the comfort of your laptop. And the company’s latest experiment takes that idea a step further: what if you could turn those maps into interactive, educational playgrounds? The result is a new Android app called Verne:...Read More
Earlier this year, Google launched a new section to its Transparency Report that highlighted the use of HTTPS to encrypt connections between its users’ devices and its servers. At the time, the report only showed data for Google Drive, Finance, Gmail, Maps, News and the company’s advertising products. Today, Google added data for YouTube and Google Calendar...Read More
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