Bryan Stevenson speaking at a Black History Month celebration at Google’s Mountain View, Calif., where his Equal Justice Initiative nonprofit received a $1 million racial justice grant to educate the country about it racial past from Google.org(Photo: 510Media) SAN FRANCISCO — Google.org is teaming with Bryan Stevenson and his non-profit Equal Justice Initiative to push America to...Read More
Google Fiber is heading close to home for its next location:Â San Francisco. Google announced this morning that it intends to bring its fast gigabit internet to “a portion of San Francisco,” specifically to apartments, condos, and affordable housing units. Details on exactly where and when are nonexistent for now, and Google suggests that we may...Read More
Further Reading Comcast begs Atlanta customers not to switch to Google Fiber Comcast touts more on-demand video, voice remote; leaves out price and data caps. Google Fiber said on Monday that it plans to bring its gigabit Internet service to Huntsville, Alabama. But instead of laying its own fiber, Google will offer service over a network that...Read More
Google is switching up how it displays ads on desktop searches, removing them from the right-hand side of results and putting them only at the top and bottom of the page. The change was first reported by The SEM Post with Google later confirming the move. Usually Google’s ads are shown all over the page —...Read More
Back in 2013, Google launched Play for Education, a program that made it easier for educators to purchase apps and books and distribute them to their students’ Android tablets. Now, this program is coming to an end. As first reported by CRN and also confirmed by us today, Google will stop selling Play for Education licenses...Read More
Google is abandoning Picasa, its photo editor and sharing service that is, well, kinda dated. The desktop application will no longer be supported by Google beginning March 15, 2016, according to a company blog post, and in May the company will archive users’ Picasa Web Albums. A blog post from Google Photos head Anil Sabharwal...Read More
On Friday morning, Google fired up its official Picasa blog for the first time in over four years — only to tell users of the photo service that it is no more. That’s because Google made a better photo service, Google Photos, that is tailored for mobile phones. So Google is shuttling all Picasa photos and...Read More
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Google working on a new virtual-reality addon, which will replace the “Cardboard†silliness, say deep-throat sources. The journalistic gobbledygook of “people familiar with its plans†popped up to leak Google’s VR future. Fascinating, if you happen to think virtual reality is The Next Big Thing. But what if it’s just a load of hyperbolic lunacy? Google’s as-yet-unbranded tool is...Read More
According to IEEE Spectrum, documents filed to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission indicate that new efforts toward Google’s prototype autonomous cars include the testing of several wireless charging systems for the vehicles in California. The systems come from two companies that specialize in creating charging plates for vehicles, Hevo Power and Momentum Dynamics. Documents show...Read More
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