Jaikumar Vijayan

Android’s status as the world most widely deployed mobile operating system has in recent years been somewhat clouded by the fact that it is also one of the most vulnerable to security threats. In its latest effort to address the issue, Google this week announced Play Protect, an always-on service for scanning Android applications running […]

Soon, Android users will be able to search for relevant information on objects around them—and take related actions—simply by pointing their mobile device at the things that they are interested in. For instance, a user looking for reviews on a specific restaurant or for ticket prices to a show could get that information by pointing […]

Organizations that want their IoT devices to be location aware typically need to install a GPS module on each device or sensor in order to enable the capability. Google, in partnership with IoT platform vendor Particle this week announced a new approach for achieving the same functionality using the Google Maps Geolocation API instead. Rather […]

Organizations looking for help managing their internet of things environment now have a new option from Google. Google has launched a Cloud IoT Core service that lets businesses connect their IoT sensors and devices to the company’s cloud platform so the devices can be centrally managed. When integrated with Google’s other hosted services, Cloud IoT […]

Implementing the European Union’s right to be forgotten mandate has neither been simple nor without controversy, Google Senior Privacy Counsel Peter Fleischer said on the third anniversary of the passage of the statute. Writing on Google’s The Keyword blog, Fleischer on Monday reiterated Google’s commitment to complying with the requirements of the law even as […]

Google has added a fourth cloud services region in the United States–this one in Northern Virginia. The newly designated us-east4 cloud region will significantly improve performance and speed for U.S. customers of Google’s cloud platform services with a presence in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the country. For instance, Google said cloud customers who […]

A Google-led initiative to find security vulnerabilities in popular open source projects has unearthed more than 1,000 bugs in various open source software in the five months since the effort was launched. About 265 of those bugs are potential security vulnerabilities, the company announced in an update on its OSS-Fuzz project May 8. Open-source projects […]

Google, along with Facebook and Twitter, have once again been sued for allegedly providing material support to terrorists. The lawsuit is the third one to be filed against the three companies on the same issue in less than a year. Families of victims of the terror attacks in Orlando and Paris filed the first two […]

Google has updated its Cloud Natural Language API with new features that help the technology better understand the meaning and context of written words. The company has also added new language support for the API. Google’s Cloud Natural Language API is a fully managed service that is designed to give companies an automated way to […]

When the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) formally goes into effect next year, Google will be ready for it. That’s according to Suzanne Frey, Google’s director of security, trust and privacy, and Marc Crandall, director of compliance at the company. In a blog this week, the two Google executives reiterated the company’s commitment […]

Google, which often likes to tout its environmental friendliness, is at the center of a controversy over plans to increase its daily use of groundwater from an aquifer in Berkeley County, South Carolina to cool one of its massive data centers there. The company itself maintains that the concerns are unfounded and not based on […]

Starting in October, Google’s Chrome web browser will start displaying a “Not secure” warning on web pages that do not use the HTTPS protocol when users enter data into it. At the same time, Chrome will also begin displaying the same warning on all HTTP pages that a user visits while in Incognito mode. The […]