Jaikumar Vijayan

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 […]

Google is offering help for shoppers trying to figure out when and how to avoid the crowds this holiday shopping season. The company this week announced a new real-time component to its Popular Times feature in Google Search and Maps that lets people check how busy a particular shopping location is at that moment. The […]

Google this week introduced a completely revamped version of its Google Sites enterprise webpage and wiki-creation tool. The new version of the tool, which Google has previously described as one of its most popular enterprise products, is designed to make it easier for employees to create and share content within the enterprise via team websites. […]

Google’s recently released Android Nougat-powered Pixel smartphones offer a whole new level of data protection because of their built in encryption capabilities, the company said this week. In a blog post Google senior software engineers Paul Crowley and Paul Lawrence said the new data security capabilities made Pixel and Pixel XL better, faster and stronger […]

Google and Intel will explore new ways of using their respective technologies to deliver high-end cloud services for enterprises. The two technology giants this week announced a strategic alliance that will focus on technology integrations and joint marketing efforts. The partnership builds on an existing relationship between the two companies under which Google has been […]