MOUNTAIN VIEW — In a harsh warning letter made public Monday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ordered Google (GOOG)-backed 23andme to stop selling its widely used genetic test to consumers because the company has failed for four years to prove the product is medically useful, and the agency fears it could endanger lives. In...Read More
This week, Eric Schmidt, Google’s executive chairman, was quoted as saying during a speech in Washington: “We can end government censorship in a decade. The solution to government surveillance is to encrypt everything.” Earlier this week, we at greatfire.org successfully unblocked the Reuters Chinese website, which had been blocked on 15 November. We also unblocked...Read More
Google’s top execs are using the company’s private fleet of jets to fly to some of the world’s most exotic vacation spots — and taxpayers appear to be footing part of the bill. When they aren’t grounded at NASA’s Moffett Field, the search engine’s jets guzzle government fuel to carry Google’s billionaire bosses to Tahiti,...Read More
How in the world can one of the smartest companies on the planet end up posting a satellite photograph of a slain teenager lying dead in a dusty lot next to a railroad spur in Richmond? It makes you want to scream at Google (GOOG): What were you thinking? It makes you want to wrap...Read More
DJ and USC artist-in-residence Young Guru tests new music features of Google Glass(Photo: Google) Story Highlights New command, ‘OK Glass…listen to’ lets you listens to tunes from Google Play Music New stereo earbuds plug into Glass, come in five colors People in the music industry say Glass is helping them do more things on the...Read More
SAN FRANCISCO — Google’s (GOOG) mystery barge is still under wraps but new documents obtained Friday show the giant tech company has quietly promoted it to local officials as “a curious and visually stunning” structure, with sails “reminiscent of fish fins,” that will serve as a floating exhibit hall at sites from San Francisco to...Read More
An artist’s rendering of the so-called Google Barge, featuring large sails. (Credit: LLC,By and Large) The once-mysterious Google Barge is becoming less and less so every day. A new report from The San Francisco Chronicle suggests that the large structure currently under construction in San Francisco Bay is intended to be a large exhibition space,...Read More
(CNN) — You’re attempting to make meringue and your egg whites are a runny mess. What if you could pick up your phone or computer and instantly video chat with a cooking expert who can take a look at your kitchen disaster and tell you exactly what you’re doing wrong? Google launched a tool called...Read More
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a…floating showroom? Google’s mysterious barge in San Francisco Bay just became a bit less of a mystery. KPIX, a CBS affiliate in the Bay Area, has dug deep and found sources that tell the station the barge will house luxury showrooms and a party deck for the search...Read More
(CNN) — Google on Thursday released its latest candy-themed mobile operating system: Android 4.4, more deliciously known as Kit Kat. The system will launch immediately on Google’s new Nexus 5 phone and then roll out to other Nexus devices, the Samsung Galaxy S4 and HTC One, in the next few weeks. Nexus devices are Google’s...Read More
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