Todd R. Weiss

Google Street View is adding a wealth of new information to the most spectacular image collections in its Street View galleries to give online visitors even more to explore and learn as they peruse the images from remote and fantastic locations. The new facts, notes, details and behind-the-scenes stories are being added by Google to […]

Google’s Keep note-taking app for Android has just been upgraded with some useful new features, including a “navigation drawer” that makes it easier to keep notes organized and a streamlined process for adding photos to a Keep note. The new features were unveiled in an Aug. 21 post by Erin Rosenthal, the Keep product manager, […]

Google is taking the popular television “Do-It-Yourself” concept to a new level with its upcoming new Helpouts video instruction and “how-to” service, which will help match experts with people who need assistance fixing up their homes, repairing cars, cooking or improving their lawns. The new Helpouts service isn’t live yet, but Google has begun searching […]

Google’s Project Loon wants you—if you live in California’s Central Valley and would be willing to let Google install some Loon equipment on your property and will help test out the fledgling Internet service that aims to bring Internet access to remote users around the world. After hearing from residents around the United States and […]

Google+ users will now be able to quickly get basic translations when other users make posts in languages other than their own. The new Google+ translation feature, which will roll out gradually for desktop users, was unveiled in an Aug. 20 post by research scientist Ed Chi and software engineer Lichan Hong on the Official […]

Google’s YouTube online video service now lets users watch multiple videos in a row through playlists and even lets users watch a video while conducting a search at the same time using a Web browser. The new capabilities and several other new features were unveiled for YouTube Android and iOS apps users in an Aug. […]

Google has integrated Waze community-reported, real-time traffic reports into the mobile versions of Google Maps, just two months after Google acquired Waze in June 2013. “No one likes getting stuck in traffic. That’s why the Waze and Google Maps teams are working together to harness the power of Google technology and the passion of the […]

When Google Glass asked prospective users to dream back in February about what they would do with Glass if they had one of the innovative, ground-breaking eyewear-mounted computers, Andrew Vanden Heuvel, a high school teacher, quickly composed his reply, which he sent off to Google’s #ifihadglass Web page. “ifIhadglass … It would transform the way […]

Google is fighting a new legal battle over data-privacy challenges in the United Kingdom and argues that the company can’t be held accountable to U.K. privacy laws because Google is an American company based in the United States. That position, however, is not going over well with British authorities or with a group of Britons […]

Google Glass is a difficult platform for which to build a video game, but the extra challenge of the small screen and lack of traditional game controls doesn’t discourage mobile games designer Sean McCracken. Instead, for McCracken, building his first video game for the diminutive Glass devices has been a journey into a realm of […]