Todd R. Weiss

Google has announced the names of five nonprofit groups that are receiving its first-ever Giving Through Glass grants to advance their work in their communities using Google Glass as a way to make their ideas happen. The five winners—3.000 Miles to a Cure, Classroom Champions, The Hearing and Speech Agency, Mark Morris Dance Group and […]

If the idea of trying out one of the build-it-yourself, supercool Google Cardboard virtual reality devices that were recently unveiled by Google has caught your imagination, you’re in luck. At least two companies have created inexpensive kits that include all the simple parts needed to build your own Google Cardboard unit in a few easy […]

Google and its vast IT infrastructure have been busy during the FIFA World Cup 2014 crunching data to predict the ongoing results of the soccer tournament, and so far, the Google Cloud Platform analysis has been correct in 11 of the 12 matches played since the Round of 16. The predictions have been made in […]

Gmail users now can access translation support for an additional 13 languages around the world, bringing the total number of languages available using Gmail to 71. The expansion of the language translation services was announced by Ian Hill, senior project manager of Google Localization, in a July 7 post on the Official Gmail Blog. The […]

Google researchers write a lot of papers on topics including computing, data, statistics and more, and share them often with the world’s scientific community to drive innovation and new ideas. As part of that ongoing effort, Google is now sharing some of the most influential research papers produced by Google researchers in 2013 to expand […]

The Samsung Gear Live and LG G Android Wear smartwatches are now on sale and available to consumers as of July 7, giving prospective users new ways to access the information they use in their daily lives. Both devices are now available through Google Play, with the black Samsung Gear Live retailing for $199 and […]

Faster frame rates, an expanded library of cool sound effects and easier fan funding options are just some of the new content creation features coming to YouTube as the online video site bumps up its tools and offerings for the artistic minds that create and post videos on YouTube. The expanded YouTube creator features were […]

Google has been gathering more than 5,000 images of ornate and beautiful street art from around the world in a series of some 100 exhibits as it works to preserve artworks that can fade, be vandalized or even be forcibly removed in the communities where they are on public display. The creation of the online […]

Google Glass units have only been on sale to early Glass Explorer beta testers in the United Kingdom since June 23, but already the devices are the subject of a ban inside movie theaters. The reason for the ban, according to a June 29 report in The (London) Independent, is that theater owners are worried […]

A new European Union law that allows citizens to request the removal of negative information about them when it turns up in online searches is in the midst of its first data deletions, which are spurring loud criticisms from content producers who argue that the practice is wrongly changing and cleansing history online. In a […]

Google has a lot on its plate with everything from Android to self-driving cars to wearable devices, Chromecast and much more, so it has released its new Google Play Services 5.0 application to developers worldwide so they can customize their apps to run on Google’s various platforms and products. The global availability of the new […]

Google wants its growing group of Google Cloud Platform developers to continue to expand their skills with its products, so it’s taking some helpful training sessions on the road to teach developers where they work and live. The North American Developer Roadshow was announced by Greg DeMichillie, the director of product management for the Google […]