China is reportedly working on a homegrown operating system supported by the local government as a strategy to replace OSs from Google Inc (NASDAQ GOOG) and Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ MSFT) that are widely used across the country. Chinese news agency Xinhua reported of a possible introduction of an operating system backed by the local government…
Google Inc’s (NASDAQ GOOG) self-driving car may drive itself, but the conditions in which it can operate effectively are very limited. These observations come from an article in the MIT Technology Review. In some ways, the self-driving car is not self-driving at all. The research shows how easy it is for hype to get ahead…
Google Inc (NASDAQ GOOG) revealed yesterday that the company would no longer display authors names in search results because it doesn’t seem to affect which links people click on one way or the other. But what’s more surprising to people webmasters who deal with SEO on a regular basis is that authorship won’t be used…
Google Inc (NASDAQ GOOG) is the latest company to get in on the drone wars as its engineers have begun testing them for deliveries. According to reports from The Telegraph and The Wall Street Journal, the search giant has successfully delivered a number of small items to locations in the Australian outback. Engineers at Google…
An unusual glitch occurred this week on Google Inc (NASDAQ GOOG)’s image search engine that had tongues wagging from Twitter to Reddit. When users would search for an image, the same result of a Russian accident would display. This morning when someone searched for an image – any image – what popped up on screen…
Google Inc (NASDAQ GOOG) announced that it has acquired special effects startup Zync Render, bringing the company that rendered the special effects for Looper, Star Trek Into Darkness and dozens of other feature films to its Cloud Platform and making its billing plan more flexible to avoid losing clients in the transition. Unlike previous cloud…
