Jaikumar Vijayan

A new experimental Chrome extension from Google lets users transmit the URL of a Web page they might be visiting to any system within earshot using audio. The extension, dubbed Tone, behaves much like a human voice in transmitting the information. Unlike radio waves, Tone’s transmissions cannot pass through walls and neither does it require […]

Google slashed prices on its Compute Engine hosted infrastructure service by up to 30 percent and introduced a new class of virtual machines for those looking for short-term capacity boosts at low cost. In a blog post Monday, the company described the price cuts as reflecting its commitment to following Moore’s Law and dropping prices […]

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 […]