Jaikumar Vijayan

Google has released open beta versions of two new machine learning APIs to enable its cloud platform customers to perform data analytics on large text and audio files. The new Cloud Natural Language API and Cloud Speech API are designed to give enterprises a better way to extract business value from large sets of unstructured […]

Artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies will play a significant role in Google’s efforts to make its massive data centers around the world more energy-efficient than they are already. Tests conducted by the company over the past two years on the use of its DeepMind AI technology in data center operations have already helped Google […]

The United States government and law enforcement agencies continue to lead their counterparts in other countries in requesting user data from Google. The company’s latest Transparency Report shows that between July and December 2015, Google received a total of 12,523 requests for user data from U.S. authorities. The data involved a total of 27,157 user […]

Google is offering help to individuals looking for information on registering to vote for the upcoming presidential elections. The company has rolled out a new tool that allows voters to get data on how and where they can register for the process, by searching for it on Google. By searching for “register to vote” or […]

Google, in collaboration with design firm IDEO and a researcher from Stanford University, are collaborating on an effort dubbed Project Bloks that is designed to get kids started on programming at a very young age. The project is inspired by previous and long-standing academic work and research in the area of so-called tangible programming—in which […]

The hits appear to keep on coming for Google in the European Union. Several media outlets on May 27 reported plans by the Competition Office at the European Commission to open another antitrust investigation against the company, this time pertaining to its Adwords online advertising service. In a report from Brussels, The Wall Street Journal […]

Google is reportedly considering commercializing Spanner, a highly scalable, globally distributed database technology that the company has been using internally for the past several years to deliver many of its core services. Engineers from Google’s Cloud Platform Group are apparently working on figuring out how to turn the technology into a product that outside developers […]

Alphabet-owned Google Fiber has agreed to acquire Webpass, a San Francisco-based provider of high-speed Internet services delivered via point-to-point wireless technology to office buildings, apartments and other multitenant facilities. The purchase, if approved, will give Google Fiber a presence in the five major metropolitan areas where Webpass currently operates: San Francisco, Boston, Chicago, San Diego […]

Concerns about things going wrong with the artificial intelligence systems of the future have gotten the attention of researchers at Google. Barely two weeks after the company’s DeepMind group announced a partnership with researchers at the University of Oxford to develop a kill switch for rogue AI systems, Google has released a technical paper devoted […]

Google has launched a program to give students in computer science and related courses at accredited U.S. universities free access to all of the company’s Cloud Platform products. The new Google Cloud Platform Education Grants program will give college students an opportunity to use the same tools and infrastructure available to enterprises, to build and […]