The Oracle copyright case against Google is ongoing and interesting details have begun to surface. According to a court transcript cited by Bloomberg, Google paid the Cupertino-based company $1 billion back in 2014, in order to remain the default iOS search option. According to the same source, there is an …
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Google’s Project Abacus Will Make Us Forget About Passwords
Google has a great number of innovative projects going on at the same time, and one of the most interesting ones is the Project Abacus, which intends to turn passwords into history and replace them with biometric readings that are basically uncrackable. This doesn’t only mean that passwords would be …
Read More »Google Cardboard Gets 3D Audio
Google’s affordable VR headset was already pretty great, but now it will get even better thanks to the 3D audio that the tech giant will improve it with. According to a post on the Google Developers Blog from Wednesday, January 13, the Cardboard SDKs for Unity and Android support spatial …
Read More »Google’s I/O 2016 Conference Starts on May 18
Sundar Pichai, Google CEO announced in a Twitter post that the annual conference of the tech giant will take place this year between May 18th and May 20th. This time around, the event will be held in Mountain View, California, where the company’s headquarters are situated also. The Shoreline Amphitheatre …
Read More »Nexus 6P to be sold via Best Buy
According to 9to5Google, the Nexus 6P will be sold via Best Buy in the near future. This is not the only good news for the fans of the brand, according to the same source the gold variant of the device will also become available for US customers at the same …
Read More »Installing apps is not necessary anymore – Google can stream them for you!
The battle between search apps to take over the market is still on, making every developer improve their smartphone apps. Google is trying to consolidate its status as one of the most used search apps and is constantly improving its app so users will stay loyal to the company. Now, …
Read More »Chrome beta for iOS with 3D Touch support launched by Google
Yesterday Google announced in a blog post that iOS users will be able to test the beta version of Chrome, which is available for Windows, Mac, Linux, Chrome OS, Android and now iOS. None of the other two Chrome channels, the dev or the canary, were available for iPhone and iPad …
Read More »Google will alert Gmail users about unencrypted emails
Gmail, Google’s email service is taking security extremely seriously. The company united their forces with research teams from the University of Illinois and the University of Michigan starting 2013 and they tried to come up with a solution to make the email service even more secure. Now they revealed the result …
Read More »Google car pulled over for impeding traffic
Google’s autonomous cars are allowed to freely circulate in California, but it seems that one of them got into trouble. The Google car got pulled over by a police officer that noticed that traffic was backing up behind the self- driving vehicle. It’s no wonder that traffic was getting heavy …
Read More »Google’s Expeditions VR Platform Is Extending to Another 15 Cities
Google launched their Expeditions Pioneer Program in September and ore than 100,000 students already got the chance to use Google’s VR kit for students. Google’s Expeditions Program consists in teams of the company visiting schools around the world, starting with the United States but including also countries like Australia, New …
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