Google Now is partly a portal to the main Google search engine, so you can ask the digital assistant anything that you would query Google for: the height of the Eiffel Tower, what six inches is in centimeters or even what’s on your agenda. But the app also integrates with specific features on your phone—here...Read More
Will Alphabet pass Apple in the race to become a trillion dollar company next year? It wasn’t that long ago that many investors assumed Apple (AAPL, Tech30) would get there first. At its peak price earlier this year, Apple had a market value of nearly $775 billion. Alphabet, which I’m now going to refer to...Read More
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Google’s self-driving car prototype would, in finished form, have neither a steering wheel or pedals.(Photo: Tony Avelar, AP) SAN FRANCISCO – Google’s self-driving car chief is adamant that the California Department of Motor Vehicles’ draft proposal on autonomous vehicle rules is misguided and threatens to rob key constituents of the benefits of driverless vehicles, including...Read More
As the world’s largest search engine in terms of market share, Google’s “Year In Search†list is a pretty good gauge of the zeitgeist. In 2015, basketball player Lamar Odom, the terrorist attacks in Paris, and action game Agar.io made the list of the most popular queries. (It’s important to note that since Google only...Read More
Who says you need to be a Verizon customer to pick up a limited edition Star Wars: The Force Awakens Google Cardboard headset? Certainly not Google. If you’re in the United States and act fast — right now — you can pick any of the four versions and get it shipped to you directly from the...Read More
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Google Life Sciences, the Silicon Valley giant’s new foray into health and medicine, announced a new name Monday that slips easily off the tongue but might sound antiquated to a high-tech, life-sciences ear: Verily. “Verily, I swear,†as Shakespeare wrote in Henry VIII. The word means “truly†or “certainly.†It dates back to...Read More
The device sends an “abrupt surge” of gas into a barrel that has a “micro-particle†that punctures the skin and takes a tiny amount of blood. When the droplet is formed, it is sucked into a negative pressure barrel. “Such an application might be used to draw a small amount of blood, for example, for...Read More
“A lot of us, when we went to school, we were in the kind of classroom where you had 30 students in the classroom. The teacher would have to explain the same thing to 30 students. If you didn’t get the concept, they would just move onto the next. That was the way you had...Read More
Google Play Music(Photo: Google) MANHATTAN BEACH, Calif. – This week I just ditched Spotify for Google Play Music. Here’s why. Spotify is fine, the world’s most popular streaming music service, with access to most of the world’s recorded music. But thanks to the new YouTube Music, which was released in November, I discovered that Google...Read More
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