Jaikumar Vijayan

Google’s office in Zurich will be home to a new dedicated research group focused on advancing the company’s ambitions in the machine-intelligence arena. The group will work on finding ways to improve the company’s machine-learning infrastructure and developing products that put the technology to practical use. As part of the machine-learning research, the group will […]

Dallas could become the third city in Texas to receive Google’s Fiber high-speed Internet service. The company has begun preliminary talks with officials to scope out the work involved in bringing the gigabit service to the city. As part of the process, Google will work with officials to get details on the city’s topography and […]

Enterprise users of Google Apps for Work now have a new tool that the company says will help them search more easily through and find information from Gmail, Docs, Calendar, Drive, Groups and other applications. Google Springboard, announced this week, will also assist users by proactively serving up “actionable” information and recommendations relevant to their […]

Google appears unlikely to win any new friends with its decision to come out publicly in favor of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a widely controversial trade agreement that is in the works between the United States and 11 other countries. In a blog post June 10, Google Senior Vice President and General Counsel Kent Walker […]

U.S. Cellular has become the third carrier to partner with Google on its Project Fi wireless service initiative. The partnership will significantly expand the 4G LTE network coverage available to Project Fi customers, which currently comprises owners of the company’s Nexus smartphones and tablets. U.S. Cellular provides service to customers in 23 states. Ninety-nine percent […]

Researchers from Google’s DeepMind group and at the University of Oxford are collaborating on a project to develop what amounts to a kill switch for preventing artificial intelligence systems from going rogue, like the iconic HAL 9000 system in “2001: A Space Odyssey.” A paper, titled “Safely Interruptible Agents,” describing the effort will be presented […]

Starting this week, Google will use data from Google Maps to enrich a user’s existing contact data in Google Contacts. When a user enters a business phone number in Google Contacts, the app will see if a match for that number exists in Google Maps. If it does, data from Maps, such as the physical […]

The U.S. Supreme Court will not review Google’s appeal of a decision by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals that had granted class-action status to a lawsuit claiming the company misled thousands of California advertisers. The court’s refusal June 6 to consider Google’s petition means the case could move ahead as a class-action suit as […]

Google has released a new tool that it says lets Website owners test the mobile friendliness and speed of their sites and get fixes for any issues that might be identified in the process. To run a test, all that site owners or administrators have to do is type their URL into the tool, which […]

Google has made its Now on Tap feature in its Android 6.0 Marshmallow mobile operating system a little smarter. New features in Now on Tap, announced this week, will make it easier for users of devices running Marshmallow to get additional information and context on text, images, photos and other content that they may looking […]

Users of Google’s My Account hub for setting privacy and security preferences now have three additional options for accessing their controls and protecting their data. One of the new features gives users an additional way to locate their lost or misplaced Android and iOS devices. The other two features offer users new ways to access […]

Customers of Google Container Engine now have the ability to set up container clusters with nodes of varying configurations within them. Making the support for heterogeneous clusters possible is a new feature in Container Engine called node pools, which Google moved from testing into general availability this week. In a blog post, Fabio Yeon, software […]