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Ari Grobman, at Techcrunch, asks whether or not consumers are ready for AR eyewear and if the technology is ready yet. Industry thinks AR is going to be big and Apple and Google are heading in that direction since both of them have announced release of AR tool kits to developers. However, I'm...

Computer scientists have developed artificial intelligence that can outsmart the Captcha website security check system. AI capability continues to accelerate at a break-neck pace as far as I'm concerned. With this development it appears that Captcha is going the way of the dodo. What's Google...

Google worked with Intel to develop a special-purpose chip for AI and other tasks in the new Pixel smartphones. Intel has to feel somewhat happy with this arrangement since they more or less dropped out of the mobile phone/tablet business last year. I guess time will tell how long this...

Due to backlash from the community Google has pulled its Cupcake Calorie Counter from Goggle Maps. I'm probably like most of you and don't have any idea what this is all about. Anyway, Google tried an experiment where users would see a pink cupcake icon that automatically showed how many...

Google launched the $49 Home Mini last week, but it had one small flaw, recording every sound in your home 24/7 and sending it to Google servers. An Android Police writer noticed his new Home Mini he had received at the Made by Google October 4th launch event was waking up thousands of times a...

Guess we will all know the truth about the new Pixel 2 phones from Google very soon. The press conference is due to start at 11am CDT / 9am PDT. Check out the video.

As tech companies hold more and more power over what information is disseminated to the unwashed masses (that's us), the US Government is now pushing behind the scenes to get a look under the hood as to what exactly is going on with how that information is pushed out. I doubt those answers are...

There has been a lot of talk online about Google and its policies when it comes to politics and fake news, but even the New York Times takes notice when it is a socialists website that says it is getting the shaft. The simple solution to all of of this is to Duck to the left, Duck to right...

Reported by the Verge, Google has pulled the plug on YouTube access through the Amazon Echo Show. The Echo Show is Amazon's latest smart speaker in a 7 inch frame which features Alexa for voice control. Alexa will currently notify users that "Google does not support YouTube on Echo Show." Google...

The recent rumors of Google's parent company Alphabet Inc. buying HTC are almost coming to fruition. Bloomberg reports that Google are nearing the finalization of the deal. This won't be the first time the company has purchased a smart phone manufacturer as it previously acquired Motorola...

Google, you have some 'splainin' to do! The Pay Disparity at Google - A spreadsheet compiled by employees provides a snapshot of salary information at the internet giant. Below are the average 2017 base salaries of 1,194 employees in the United States — about 2 percent of Google’s global...

Former CEO of Opera Software, says that it is time for Google to "return to not being evil." Now I do not think a day goes by that I do not see one of us "regular people" say pretty much the same thing. In fact it is said so often in the HardForum that it is almost a joke. When someone in a...

Walmart has announced today that it is working with Google to offer hundreds of thousands of items for voice shopping through Google assistant. Walmart has also stated that it will be expanding it's grocery delivery service with Uber. To be more competitive with Amazon, Google Express is...

After the events this weekend in Charlottesville GoDaddy sent notification to neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer stating that they had 24 hours to move the domain to another as "they had violated our terms of service." The notification came after a post on The Daily Stormer, which focused on the...

Google's DeepMind AI and Blizzard have just released the tools to let AI researchers create bots capable of competing against humans in StarCraft II. They are also opening a cache of data from 65,000 past StarCraft II games, and they say the trove will grow by around half a million games each...

Following it's agreement with the Russians Federal Anti-Monopoly Service, Chrome will now bring up a prompt for it's Russian users to choose between Yandex, Google, and **************. Sounds like a good thing to me, monopolies can be quite dangerous. Although I don't feel like this is a monopolistic...

In a statement Google announce that they are removing the Instant feature effective today. Google Instant was launched in 2010, a feature that provided you with instant search results as you typed in your query. While this was a feature added to make searches faster when using a desktop, now...

Google has confirmed with Search Engine Land that they are running an experiment where they auto-play videos in the search results page. The tester wrote "when you do a search for some movies (and possibly television shows), Google will begin autoplaying a video in the right hand sidebar...

Yesterday in a report from The Guardian claimed that Google would be changing it's stark white page to a "news feed". ARS Technica reached out to google, that deny the site is getting a revamp. The original report uses quotes and images from Google's July 19th blog post about news feed...

I have been watching this story out of Lithuania for about a month now and it has come to somewhat of a head. Evaldas Rimasauskas, a Lithuanian man, has been in custody since March of this year at the request of the U.S. Justice Department. He is suspected of swindling companies out of over...

Bloomberg reports that Google won its fight against a $1.3 billion tax bill in France (beware of auto-start video). The French Administrative Court of Paris sided with Google after claims of the company abusing tax loopholes by routing sales out of its European headquarters in Ireland. A...

Yeah, I said it. Probably runs like you too. Check out the video. Google's artificial intelligence (AI) company, DeepMind, has developed an AI that has managed to learn how to walk, run, jump, and climb without any prior guidance. They gave the artificial intelligence simple tasks like "keep...

After fining Google $2.7B (yeah BILLION) last month for leaning search results in its own favor when it came to shopping, the EU is now looking at coming at Google with the rest of its one-two punch according to Reuters. It seems that the EU now wants to go after Google for requiring...

While everyone is gushing about the iPhone's ten years of existence, an article from CNN's Money blog takes its accomplishment down a peg. Launching in 2008, Google's partnership with HTC helped produce what the world has come to know as the HTC Dream (first released as the T-Mobile G1 in the...

Some very prominent tech companies have sent a letter to Margrethe Vestager, the European Commissioner of Competition, which we are learning about on the heels of the $2.7B fine announced yesterday. It seems that these companies want regulatory action against Google and are not afraid to ask...

Diane Greene, SVP Google Cloud, is blogging that Google will very soon stop reading your emails in order to advertise to you even inside the free version of Gmail. But have no fear, Google will use all its other data to figure out what needs to be advertised. G Suite’s Gmail is already not...

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While this does not come to us from a usual tech source, Variety does seem to have all its ducks in a row after making a few calls about this this story. Google as hired Manu Gulati away from Apple. Gulati was at Apple for almost 8 years and was very active when it comes to building custom...

While this story is short on details about what is exactly going on, what I think it basically comes down to is that Google is not including Amazon and Ebay results in it searches. While it is referred to as "distorting internet search results to favour its shopping service," I have to admit...

So I awoke this morning with the "Emergency Calls Only" and "Cellular network no available," messages on my Pixel XL phone. Hmmm. Restart. Nada. Restart again, Nada. So I got on a support chat with T-Mobile and they informed me that my phone had been "blacklisted as stolen." Nothing...

Movie piracy service Vodlocker has unleashed a new video embedding API that uses a Google like crawler to find the best quality sources of pirated movies on the internet. After entering the desired movie's IMDb code, the service will initiate the crawler to search websites such as Google Drive...

The current number one player in the world was narrowly defeated by the Google DeepMind artificial intelligence in the first of three scheduled matches based in China. The game went to a count and the DeepMind AI won by the closest possible margin of half a point. Demis Hassabis, founder and...

When I first discovered Google's AMP pages on my phone, I was bothered by them. Instead of the pages being hosted on the sites I expected, they were somehow cached on an unintelligible Google link, and now there was an extra menu bar on my screen for AMP, taking up screen real-estate...

Rowdy Ryan Shrout has a quick write-up on Google's newest Daydream standalone headset. If you have used any of the VR headsets that use your phone for a screen in the past, you have likely found that the experience can be less than good. Many of these devices overheat while using as well. And...

I am not sure what to think about this. Earlier this year, Google/Alphabet/Waymo sued Uber for ripping off patented and trade secret tech regarding self driving car research back in early 2016. According to the suit, Levandowski, who runs Uber’s automated vehicle research team, downloaded data...

In a short, yet notably excited blog post, Google announced their acquisition of the award-winning development studio Owlchemy Labs. The studio has made the most out of virtual reality’s recent popularity, releasing quality titles such as Caaaaardboard!, Job Simulator, and Rick & Morty: Virtual...

Today at Build 2017, Microsoft's developer conference, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced that Windows 10 has reached a new milestone, with 500 million monthly active installations. Of course, this is about half the billion installations they had targeted reaching by now, and they reached...

Gmail users were hit by a massive and interesting phishing campaign today. What makes this phishing campaign unique is that it was coupled with a dummy app that mimics Google Docs. If opened, the user would be redirected to a real Google account page that asks them to give Gmail access to the...

Google has created a machine learning platform called the Cloud Vision API that can categorize images looking at them. It also can pick out faces in a crowd and identify them, identify inappropriate content, determine that a house on lakefront property is different than a lake ecosystem...

Ad revenue generated for videos on the Youtube service has shrunk by 99.5% for many channels when major brands pulled their advertising earlier this year. This was due to the ads being run on a few videos promoting terrorism and extremism. Youtube was told to tighten the reins on the type of...