Todd R. Weiss

Google is outfitting Uber vehicles in Philadelphia with free WiFi this summer through Labor Day as an experiment to test out the concept of providing the service inside Uber vehicles. The project was announced by Kelly Campbell, Google’s director of enterprise marketing, in a July 22 post on the Google Enterprise Blog. “Work doesn’t just […]

Google has now laid out the rules for its $1 million “Little Box Challenge” competition, which was unveiled as a concept in May to encourage the development of smaller, more efficient solar power inverters that can store energy for later consumption. The complete rules and requirements for the contest were announced by Maggie Johnson, Google’s […]

Seven months after releasing its first version of LiquidFun, a C++ 2D rigid-body physics library that makes it easier for developers to add realistic physics to their games, Google has announced its third and latest improved version that now includes iOS support and can run in a Web browser using JavaScript. The new Version 1.1 […]

Google Maps is available with automatic Hindi translations, as the company continues to tailor and customize its products to make them even more useful to people in other languages. The new Hindi Google Maps translations were announced in a July 22 post on the Google India Blog by the Maps team. The Hindi translations were […]

Italy is the latest European Union nation that is telling Google to change its data privacy practices or face large fines. Italy’s data protection agency, The Italian Data Protection Authority, has given the company 18 months to comply with the rules that will protect that nation’s residents or face fines of up to $1.35 million […]

Google has been working to revamp how content appears for mobile users on a wide range of device screens by updating the Roboto font and introducing a new Chinese, Japanese and Korean language font. The font updates are part of Google’s constant mission beyond search, which it sees as making the Web easier to use […]

The new Chrome 37 Beta Web browser release from Google will be converted into the Stable release of Chrome in about four to six weeks, and when it does, it will bring a host of improvements that will benefit Windows users, including a move to the Windows DirectWrite API. The Chrome 37 Beta improvements were […]

Forty-five years ago this weekend, humans landed on the moon for the first time as astronauts from the Apollo 11 spaceflight began exploring the lunar surface on July 20, 1969. NASA astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin spent only a few hours on the moon on that first voyage, but their accomplishment still stands […]

An internal FBI report reveals that officials within the law-enforcement agency have serious concerns about the potential impact of driverless cars being developed by Google and other companies in high-speed pursuits of criminals and even terrorist bomb attacks on civilian targets. The document, which is “unclassified but highly restricted,” according to a July 16 report […]

Google DevArt Exhibit: Where Art and Code Come Together By Todd R. Weiss Playful Color “Playful Geometries” is a multi-user, multi-screen exhibit that reacts to sounds. The aim for participants using these cheap Raspberry Pi mini-computers is to experiment and have fun with color and light. Godzilla Kids “The Giant Map” is a large interactive […]

Google’s latest Chrome 36 Web browser has been unveiled with several new features and improvements on the stable release channel, along with the latest versions of Chrome for Android and a Beta channel update for Chrome OS. The promotion of Chrome 36 to the stable channel for Windows, Mac and Linux was unveiled by Matthew […]

Android smartphones and tablets are great devices for many tasks, but sometimes you just wish you had a bigger screen to see the videos and other content that you are viewing. Now you can do just that, using Google’s $35 Chromecast dongle, which has just been upgraded to push Android content from your small devices […]