Jaikumar Vijayan

Google has released an experimental version of its E2EMail end-to-end encryption technology to the open-source community. The tool is intended to give users a way to more easily encrypt their email beyond what Google already offers by default with Gmail. In a blog post, Google engineers KB Sriram, Eduardo Vela Nava and Stephan Somogyi described […]

Google parent Alphabet’s Waymo self-driving car subsidiary has sued ride-sharing giant Uber for allegedly stealing its trade secrets and using the information to build competing technology. In a 28-page lawsuit filed in federal court in San Francisco this week, Waymo accused Uber of trade secret misappropriation, patent infringement, and unfair competition pertaining to LIDAR, a […]

Security researchers at Google and the CWI Institute in Amsterdam have found a way to crack the Secure Hash Algorithm-1 (SHA-1) cryptographic function. The two organizations Thursday announced what they described as the first practical collision attack against SHA-1. In other words, what they have done is find a way to mathematically generate identical SHA-1 […]

Google Cloud customers that require extra computational power for running machine learning and other processor intensive apps can now spin up virtual machines based on Nvidia graphical processing units (GPUs). Starting this week, Google cloud customers in certain regions in the United States, Asia and Europe will be able to attach as many as eight […]

Google will allow the Media Rating Council to audit the ad viewing metrics and measurements that it reports to advertisers on its YouTube video sharing site. The goal is to reassure advertisers that the viewing statistics and other data Google provides them—directly or through third-party firms—about how their ads fare on YouTube are accurate and […]

Just weeks after Google parent Alphabet disclosed it had killed off a project to deliver Internet connectivity via high-altitude drones, the company is touting the success of another initiative to achieve the same goal using high-flying balloon’s instead. In a blog this week, Astro Teller, the head of Alphabet’s X lab, said the company’s Project Loon is now one […]

Google’s efforts to drive broad acceptance of the Rich Communication Services cross-operator mobile messaging technology across the Android ecosystem got a boost this week. The company on Feb. 16 announced a partnership with Norwegian telecommunication giant Telenor Group that will bring RCS messaging to some 214 million additional people across Europe and Asia. Starting this […]

Developers creating applications and microservices for the Google Cloud Platform now have a new way to monitor, manage and secure their cloud Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). The company this week announced general availability of Google Cloud Endpoints, an Application Programming Interface (API) management suite for cloud services customers. The technology features a server-local proxy dubbed […]

Google’s Android Wear 2.0 wearable computing operating system will be the first version that fully supports on-device machine learning technology. The ML technology, developed by Google’s Expander research team, will power smart messaging across Google applications as well as third-party messaging apps installed on the wearable. The feature will let users of Android Wear 2.0 […]

YouTube creators now have a new way to interact with the viewers of their videos. Google has launched a new mobile live streaming capability that gives publishers of YouTube videos the ability to instantly reach audiences via their smartphones and tablets. Initially, at least, the feature is available only to creators with more than 10,000 […]