Jaikumar Vijayan

The first fully autonomous cars may hit U.S. roads sooner than many might generally have presumed. Google on May 15 said it has received the green light to begin testing prototypes of its self-driving vehicles on public roads in Mountain View, Calif., this summer. The cars have been designed from the ground up by Google […]

A group of 80 Internet scholars from the U.S. and Europe sent an open letter to Google demanding more transparency from the company on its handling of requests filed under the European Union’s Right to Be Forgotten (RTBF) mandate. The mandate went into effect in May 2014 and gives European Union residents the right to […]

Google is expanding its efforts to get more businesses to notice its array of cloud computing technologies. Google’s cloud platform team will hold live events in five major cities this June where it will have customers and developers talk about their experiences with the company’s cloud computing technology. The events are a bid by Google […]

Google self-driving cars have been involved in 11 collisions over the six years and the 1.7 million miles the company has been testing the vehicles. All of the accidents were minor, caused no injuries and resulted when a human driver was behind the wheel, Chris Urmson, director of Google’s self-driving car program wrote in a […]

By pledging to invest $150 million in workplace diversity this year, Google has stepped up its efforts to recruit more women and minorities into an employee base that the company has admitted is under-represented in both categories. In an interview with USA Today, Nancy Lee, Google vice president of people operations, noted the company spent […]

Software programs that insert new ads or replace existing ones on pages that Internet users visit when browsing the Web present a clear and growing security danger, Google said in a report released this week. The report, developed in conjunction with researchers at the University of California at Berkeley and at Santa Barbara, examined the […]

Google has launched a new cloud database service based on the same technology that powers most of the company’s largest applications, including Gmail and Google Analytics. Google Cloud Bigtable, currently available in beta, is targeted at companies looking to process massive data sets without having to go through the hassle of building and managing their […]

Customers of Google’s cloud computing service now have one more option for automating the deployment and management of virtual infrastructures for running cloud applications and services. The company on Tuesday announced beta availability of Google Cloud Deployment Manager, a configuration management tool designed to make it easier for enterprises to create, test and stage production […]

Google revealed that it acquired Timeful, a vendor of an iOS-only time-management application, for an undisclosed sum. The purchase gives Google access to technology designed to let people organize and schedule daily activities more efficiently. The software’s key feature is its ability to intelligently suggest times during the day or week for users to accomplish […]

Google has voiced its support for a surveillance reform bill introduced in Congress this week that, among other things, would allow Internet firms to disclose more details of secret requests they receive from the government for customer data. Susan Molinari, Google’s vice president for Americas Public Policy and Government Relations, called the bill, dubbed the […]

Google launched a new extension for its Chrome browser that is designed to discourage people from using the same password to log in to multiple online accounts. The open-source extension called Password Alert works by alerting users if they type their Google password into a non-Google site. The idea is to foster better security by […]

Google has launched its Person Finder Web app to help people report on or locate family members and others affected by the massive earthquake in Nepal over the weekend. The 7.8-magnitude earthquake is believed to have killed thousands of people and caused enormous destruction in the tiny Himalayan kingdom. Among those killed in the disaster […]