Jaikumar Vijayan

Google has open sourced its Embedding Projector, a web application that gives developers a way to visualize data that’s being used to train their machine learning systems. Embedding Projector is part of TensorFlow, the machine learning technology behind some popular Google services like image search, Smart Reply in Inbox and Google Translate. The company released […]

When Google announced Assistant, its digital assistant technology earlier this year, CEO Sundar Pichai described it as critical to the company’s effort to enable a more conversation-based and artificial intelligence-centric computing model in coming years. This week, Google took one step toward executing on that vision by opening the development platform for the digital assistant […]

Red Hat’s OpenShift Dedicated container management technology is now generally available on Google’s cloud platform. That means enterprises seeking to build, launch, and manage applications using Red Hat’s technology can now get it as a managed service running on Google’s cloud. Under an arrangement between the two companies, Red Hat will act as the service […]

Google this week said it has reduced the size of its application updates by 65 percent using an approach that however, somewhat ironically, doubles the time it takes to apply them on end user devices. The company’s new file-by-file patching mechanism is designed to minimize the amount of data that end users have to download, […]

Sometime next year, the total amount of renewable energy that Google purchases from wind and solar farms will for the first time match the amount of electricity consumed by the company’s global network of data centers and offices. The milestone will not mean that all of Google’s data centers and offices will be powered solely […]

Google has rolled out a new tracking app that for once is not all about delivering targeted web advertisements to people. Rather, the company’s new ‘Trusted Contacts’ is a personal safety application that lets users share their location information with loved ones so they can be quickly located in an emergency. The app works even […]

DeepMind Technologies, an artificial intelligence company owned by Google parent Alphabet plans to open-source all the code for the central platform it uses to train virtual software agents to perform complex tasks autonomously. The code for DeepMind Lab will be hosted on GitHub along with scripts and all other relevant assets related to the technology. […]

Google has launched a new project for continuously testing open source software for security vulnerabilities. The company’s new OSS-Fuzz service is available in beta starting this week, but at least initially it will only be available for open source projects that have a very large user base or are critical to global IT infrastructure. Google […]

Google has released a new development tool dubbed App Maker for organizations seeking to develop applications that work with and extend the company’s existing G Suite apps like Gmail, Docs and Drive. In a blog post this week, the company described App Maker as a low-code tool that will let software developers and even systems […]

Google is making its Network Time Protocol (NTP) servers publicly available to organizations that need help keeping their systems running smoothly through a one second addition to clocks the last day of December this year. Organizations can use Google’s Public NTP service to keep their local system clocks synchronized with the time on virtual machine […]

Google is hoping to apply its machine learning expertise to help doctors identify patients at risk of diabetic retinopathy (DR) early enough in the disease cycle to be able to treat them effectively. Researchers from the company this week published a paper in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) describing a deep learning […]

Google will offer up to 10,000 scholarships to individuals in the European Union interested in acquiring Android application development skills. Up to 9,000 of the scholarships will be reserved for an Android Basics course designed for individuals with no previous programming skills. The remaining 1,000 scholarships have been earmarked for a new Associate Android Developer […]