Jaikumar Vijayan

Members of Google’s Making and Science initiative and the Multiverse team at the University of California, Berkeley’s Space Science Laboratory are teaming up on a project to produce a high-definition, time expanded video of  the Aug. 21 total solar eclipse using images from more than 1,000 amateur photographers and astronomers. The group of volunteer photographers […]

Box will use Google’s Cloud Vision technology to help its customers manage image files uploaded to its content management platform. The integration will enable enterprises to automatically catalog images uploaded to Box into thousands of categories that make them easier to identify, organize, manage and search. “Images are the second most common and fastest growing […]

Nearly one year after Google rolled out its Allo instant messaging app for smartphones the company has a desktop version of the technology as well. The new Allo for the web works with Google’s Chrome browser desktop. It allows users to chat with mobile users on a one-on-one basis and in a group setting using […]

Google has released the latest developer preview of its Android Things platform for the Internet of Things. Developer Preview 5 of Android Things is the first version of the platform to use Google’s upcoming Android O operating system’s code base. It includes new Application Programming Interface (API) features from Android O as well as specific […]

Google has added several new features to its Cloud Speech Application Programming Interface (API) for developers seeking to integrate speech recognition capabilities into their Android applications. The updates add support for long-form audio clips and increase the number of languages for which speech recognition is now available.  The goal is to give developers more functionality […]

The controversy sparked by former Google engineer James Damore’s outspoken memo on gender diversity issues at the company shows no signs of abating. Instead, it appears to have become a surrogate of sorts for the broader culture war that is going on in the country between the right and the left on a variety of […]

Google this week released a new site to help its customers and partners better understand the steps the company is taking to comply with the requirements of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The statute goes into effect next May and requires any company that handles personal data belonging to EU residents to […]

Google this week announced substantial price cuts on local storage for customers running virtual machine instances on the company’s Compute Engine cloud platform. Starting Aug. 8, enterprises will pay 63 percent less for local SSDs (solid-state disks) that are attached to what Google calls its on-demand Compute Engine VMs. That brings the price down to […]

Google has fired an employee who recently penned a controversial internal memo that claimed women’s under-representation in technology jobs and leadership positions was the result of biological factors and not overt gender discrimination. In an email to the New York Times, Google software engineer James Damore said he had lost his job over the manifesto, […]

Google, which has been trying quite hard to dispel suggestions about unequal treatment for women at the company found itself smack dab in the middle of a fresh controversy after an unidentified employee published a ‘manifesto’ questioning the company’s diversity policies. The employee’s 10-page essay, published in its entirety by Gizmodo accused Google of fostering […]