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
Alphabet, Google‘s parent company, has dethroned Apple as the world’s most valuable company after a blockbuster quarter fueled by the growth of its digital advertising business. In its first earnings report since spinning off Google’s businesses and creating the new parent company Alphabet, the company announced a $4.9 billion profit — up from $4.7 billion...Read More
A new Google project is testing the use of drones for high-speed Internet delivery. The technology company is currently developing the program, codenamed Project SkyBender, to utilize solar-powered drones equipped with millimeter-wave radio transmitters that could send out next-generation 5G wireless Internet signals, the Guardian reports. Work on the project is ongoing at Spaceport America, a facility...Read More
Amazon, Microsoft, and Google aren’t slashing cloud prices as fast and furious as they did two years ago, but there’s still plenty of smack talk going on. For example, Google goog on Friday took to its cloud blog to proclaim that its cloud computing service is less expensive than comparable Amazon amzn Web Services products....Read More
The company that lets you compare air fares and translate foreign languages online wants to make it easier to weigh the costs and benefits of installing solar panels on household rooftops. Google is rolling out a new online service that quickly tallies up considerations of going solar and whether homeowners should consider buying or leasing...Read More
When Apple revealed that its new operating system for mobile phones, iOS 9, would feature what the company called “content-blocking Safari extensionsâ€, no one really blinked. Tim Cook, Apple’s chief executive, didn’t even detail the feature on stage at the lavish launch for iOS 9 in July. Instead, details of the content-blocking extensions were buried...Read More
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