Google Self-Driving Car (Photo credit: romanboed) What will your next car be like? Google, Apple and other giants of the smartphone business have plenty of ideas. In fact, Google alone has 310 U.S. patents relating to areas such as car-based smart devices, navigation and route guidance. Apple has another 35. Meanwhile, five other smartphone players...Read More
Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, Calif.(Photo: Marcio Jose Sanchez, AP) Google Engineering Director Scott Huffman recently announced that the company sees its handy virtual assistant, Google Now, forging into brand new territories — namely the car and the living room. Well, Mountain View is making good on part of that promise as Google is now...Read More
(Credit: James Martin/CNET) Google’s bid to dismiss a class action suit alleging its Street View program violated wiretap laws is headed, once again, to a federal appeals court. The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday agreed to rehear the issue, but refused Google’s request to grant for an “en banc” review. The court...Read More
Of course, traditionalists may also want to check out NORAD’s Santa Tracker program, which has been running for over 50 years. Last year, the program attracted over 22 million unique visitors to its site, as the Associated Press reported. This year the site is available in English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese and Chinese....Read More
The inquiry, which began in November 2010, centers on whether Google has abused its dominant position as the most widely used search engine in Europe, and in particular on whether Google has favored its own products and services over those of rivals. In October, the union agreed to a tentative deal that would have required...Read More
Boston Dynamics designed the land robot “Cheetah†for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.(Photo: DARPA via AFP/Getty Images) Robert Hof, Forbes: “Google … has bought a military robot company called Boston Dynamics. … Unlike the other robot-makers, this company makes machines by the names of BigDog, Atlas and Cheetah that can variously outrun Usain Bolt...Read More
When Google acquired the robotics company Boston Dynamics, tech lovers worldwide started dropping the S-word: Skynet, a reference to the fictional artificial intelligence that nearly exterminated the human race in the “Terminator” movies. Illah Nourbakhsh, author of “Robot Futures” and professor of robotics at Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania, chuckled and said that Google’s purchase...Read More
Google acquired Boston Dynamics, an engineering and robotics-design company, in a deal that significantly enhances the search giant’s robotics expertise. The Friday acquisition brings a new dynamic to Google’s robotics efforts, led by Andy Rubin, which includes the company’s much-discussed self-driving cars, according to The New York Times. Financial terms of the deal were not...Read More
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