Todd R. Weiss

Google Maps public transit coverage just received another big update, this time giving residents and tourists in Great Britain coverage for every public transit line throughout the country. The company also added Google Maps with bus line coverage for Vancouver, Canada, and Chicago. These updates, as well as new transit information for every host city […]

By the 2020s, NASA proposes to send humans into space to capture and redirect small asteroids so that they can be studied more intensely, but to do that, some specialized equipment will be necessary. As part of that future project, NASA is today experimenting with how to modify and finesse some existing astronaut gear to […]

Google Glass fans who have been salivating for the opportunity to buy one of the futuristic eyewear-mounted computers need wait no more. Google has announced that anyone in the United States can now buy a beta version Glass device as long as the company has them in stock. The news came in a brief post […]

Google and other search companies can be required, under some conditions, to remove outdated and harmful information about individuals that can turn up in online searches, according to a new ruling by the Court of Justice of the European Union. The ruling is a stunning reversal of an earlier opinion by an adviser to the […]

Google Hangouts chat users just got a simple new upgrade from Google that will make it a lot easier to determine if their friends are actually available when they “see” them on chat inside the Gmail interface. Google is bringing back its old “green bubble” icons that will appear next to a user’s name in […]

Google has again launched another Chrome Experiment—this time an online gamelike tool called “Spell Up” that can help users improve their English spelling and language skills. Spell Up and its intriguing capabilities were unveiled May 13 by Xavier Barrade, the creative lead at Google’s Creative Lab in London, in a post on The Google Chrome […]

Google has launched a $1 million prize for a competition it hopes will inspire new ideas and innovations in the development of better solar power inverters, which collect renewable energy so it can be used. The Little Box Challenge was announced by Google on May 9 in a post on the company’s Google+ page, as […]

Google is advising companies to improve their Websites so they can attract and retain more customers in foreign countries to increase sales and services abroad. To do that, Google has created a helpful list of suggestions that business can use to add foreign language capabilities for their sites, especially their home pages, as well targeting […]

Since April, Google has acquired at least four companies—Stackdriver, Appetas, Adometry and Titan Aerospace. For most acquirers, that might be enough for a year or even five years, but for Google, it’s just its way of doing business. On May 7, Google announced the purchase of Stackdriver, a Boston-based company that was started in 2012 […]

You’re excited to get to the stadium for the ball game or to the theater for the play, so the last thing on your mind just might be, “Where in the world did I park my car?” It’s probably happened to everyone at least once, and though it can be embarrassing, eventually you just wait […]

Google’s fledgling Tech Hub Network for entrepreneurial communities around the United States is growing again, as the Austin, Texas-based Capital Factory joins Google’s continuing efforts to help startups by providing Google help, resources, advice and more. The addition of the Capital Factory was announced by John Lyman, head of partnerships at Google for Entrepreneurs, in […]

Google has acquired Stackdriver, a Boston-based company that was started in 2012 to provide cloud application monitoring services to users. Google announced the move May 7 in a brief post by Tom Kershaw, a Google Cloud Platform product manager, on the Google Cloud Platform Blog. “Stackdriver has built a leading service to help developers intelligently […]