Todd R. Weiss

Google is starting up a new Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab to find ways to make computers much smarter so they can help solve some of the world’s most challenging problems, from diseases to environmental threats. The idea, according to a May 16 post by Hartmut Neven, director of engineering for the Google Research team on […]

Google invited the general public back in February to submit their innovative, fun and cool ideas for how they would use Google Glass if they could put their hands on the eyewear-mounted computers. Now Google is getting ready to ship those devices out in waves to those whose ideas were approved—once they each pony up […]

Google’s 2-month-old pilot project to provide same-day delivery service for online shoppers in some areas of San Francisco is apparently being expanded to more Bay Area neighborhoods. The Google Shopping Express service, which was unveiled at the end of March in select areas, will now be available across the entire Bay Area, according to a […]

Google is apparently the subject of a new, fledgling antitrust probe by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission in connection with how the company is selling and marketing its online ads, which are at the heart of Google’s annual revenue. The nascent investigation was reported by Reuters and Bloomberg, based on anonymous sources who provided some […]

Google’s Crisis Response unit has created a “crisis map” Web page to help the tornado-devastated community of Moore, Okla., continue its clean-up and recovery after a powerful tornado ripped through the town on May 20. The Moore Crisis Map Web page includes a detailed map of the area and the path of the EF5 tornado […]

Google’s Android team has unveiled new apps to improve the company’s Drive and Chrome services for Android users. The new Google Drive app for Android now incorporates several changes to simplify its operation for users, wrote Denis Teplyashin, a Google software engineer, in a May 22 post on the Official Android Blog. “The process of […]

Google’s DoubleClick unit, which serves up graphical ads to users as they conduct searches, is hosting its annual “ThinkDoubleClick” digital leadership summit June 4 to help online advertisers gain insights into the latest online ad trends today. The free online conference will feature speakers from myriad successful online advertisers and publishers, including Coca-Cola, Omnicom Digital, […]

Google Chrome’s latest Version 27 Web browser just picked up innovative speech-to-search capabilities and increased speed, as it has been pushed out to the Chrome Stable Release Channel. The latest Version 27.0.1453.93 of the lightweight, flexible Web browser was unveiled in a May 21 post by Karen Grunberg of the Chrome team on the Google […]

Google’s Checkout tool, which allows customers to make purchases of services or physical goods from online vendors, is being dropped by the company as of Nov. 20. Created by Google in 2006, the service has outlived its usefulness for the search giant and will end as the company plays up and expands its related Google […]

Google Glass will be launched later this year for retail sales to buyers, which is at least months earlier than the 2014 retail debut the company has been targeting since last year, a source inside Google told eWEEK today. “Our goal is to launch Glass later this year,” the source told eWEEK in an email […]

Google’s YouTube unit just turned 8 years old, having launched in May 2005 as a video-sharing Website where people could post their creative works and watch to see if they gained any footholds. The results have been quite amazing, with YouTube today receiving more than 100 hours of uploaded video from creators each minute, according […]