Todd R. Weiss

Google’s latest ThreadSanitizer tool has been updated to Version 2, giving the five-year-old tool improved capabilities to help developers find more coding problems in less time than in the past. ThreadSanitizer (aka TSan) is a runtime data race detector based on binary translation, which was originally developed by Google engineers in 2009, wrote Alexander Potapenko, […]

It’s been just about impossible to artistically create a blurry foreground or background in a photo taken with a mobile phone or tablet camera because the small lenses don’t display “depth of field.” That is changing, though, thanks to a very cool new “lens blur” feature added by Google to its Google Camera app for […]

The 10th annual Google Summer of Code program will involve 1,307 students who will be working with 190 mentoring organizations around the globe as they create open-source code that will be shared with the world. The selection of the participating students was announced by Carol Smith of the Google Open Source Programs Office, in an […]

In the wilds of Nepal, Google Glass is being tested by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) as a way to better track endangered wild animals and guard against poaching, under a testing program established by Google in 2013. Now Google wants to extend the use of Glass by other nonprofits that could benefit from the […]

Internet users who like to keep up on the latest developments about topics that interest them online can now make that task easier by using new subscription tools from Google Trends. The subscription features were unveiled by Gavri Smith, a Google software engineer, on the Google Inside Search Blog. “Google Trends is a helpful place […]

Google Fiber arrived in Kansas City in the fall of 2012, and now Google is helping to get more people—particularly senior citizens—up to speed on using the Internet so they also can take advantage of the super high-speed fiber service. To do that, Arts Tech, a Kansas City, Mo.-based youth organization that works with underserved […]

The Google Cloud Platform is expanding its capabilities with Hadoop through new connectors that can be used with Google BigQuery and Google Cloud Datastore to run Hadoop queries. Also bolstering the cloud platform is a new version of Google App Engine that includes scalability and performance improvements. The new Hadoop connectors were announced by Pratul […]

Google Glass is helping emergency room doctors in a busy Boston hospital get patient information much faster, while also allowing doctors to focus more on their patients instead of on computers. That’s one of the biggest benefits of a Glass pilot project being conducted since December 2013 at Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, where […]

Back in 2011, Google Chrome released a beta Chrome Remote Desktop feature that was very useful for workers on the road. The feature allowed them to remotely access a home or work computer to access files when they were needed. Now, three years later, the Chrome team has released a Chrome Remote Desktop app for […]

As Yahoo continues to rebuild itself, CEO Marissa Mayer, the former Google executive who was hired to head Yahoo back in July 2012, has made a lot of changes within the company, from banning employees from working from home to shuttering the AltaVista search engine. But none of Mayer’s changes might be as big as […]