Tag Archives: Google

Google Buys Battle Robots Company

Clip description: Google has purchased the cutting-edge robotics firm which supplies mobile research robots for the Pentagon. The tech giant is keeping secret what it will produce with the acquired technology. Boston Dynamics, an engineering company that designs robots like BigDog, Cheetah, WildCat, and Atlas, is now the eighth robotic company to join Google’s ranks in the last six months, …

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SAN FRANCISCO: Google Employee Bus Blocked By Protesters Who Demand $1B

Yesterday protesters in San Francisco blocked a shuttle bus for Google employees and demanded that the company pay $1B in fines for using the city’s infrastructure without paying. The buses have, for some, become a symbol of tech-fueled gentrification, economic inequality and soaring housing prices in the city. The bus, which was headed to Google’s Mountain View campus, had riders …

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Google: We Have A Throat Tattoo

Via CNN: Google-owned Motorola Mobility has filed for a patent, published last week, for a system “that comprises an electronic skin tattoo capable of being applied to a throat region of a body.” The patent says the tattoo would communicate with smartphones, gaming devices, tablets and wearable tech like Google Glass via a Bluetooth-style connection and would include a microphone …

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Today’s Google Doodle: Edith Head

Edith Head was born 116 years ago today. She won eight Oscars for costume design.

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Google Auto-Complete

Inspired by a similar campaign about women’s rights, the United Nation’s human rights office has launched an ad campaign which notes the most common suggestions when Google searches are made on LGBT-related topics. More results are at the link.

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Did Rupert Murdoch Pull A Weiner?

Fox News owner Rupert Murdoch appears to have accidentally published a tweet that was meant to be a private message. The interwebs are buzzing about its meaning. (Eric Schmidt is the chairman of Google.)

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Google Chat Misfires

Tech sites are buzzing today after some Google chat users found that their messages were going to the wrong people. CNN reports that some cube dwellers found themselves copied on the private chats of their bosses. Google has acknowledged a problem with its Talk service that misrouted messages from users to unintended recipients. At 10:30am EDT today, Google reported on …

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Google Patents “Pay Per Gaze”

This is more than a little bit freaky. Google claims a system that can provide a reliable, low cost, and unobtrusive, eye tracking system could have a variety of useful everyday applications. In particular, it outlines a method for billing advertisers based on the number of times users look at an advert – either online or offline, via a billboard, …

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The Internet Galaxy

Via the Daily Mail: Imagine if the internet was mapped out like a solar system with the world’s biggest websites represented by individual planets. But instead of the map of just a handful of planets that we’re used to seeing when learning about space, The Internet Map, a website set up by a Russian data-visualisation designer, has in excess of …

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Google Launches Web Streaming Device

Google today began selling Chromecast, a dongle for streaming web videos directly to your television.  Forbes reports: Practically giving away the device (it’s only $35 and comes with $24 worth of Netflix, even for current Netflix customers) could turn out to be a brilliant move for Google if it results in a massive uptake in customers turning to the search …

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TRAILER: Terms & Conditions May Apply

Film synopsis: “Terms And Conditions May Apply examines the cost of so-called ‘free’ services and the continuing disappearance of online privacy. People may think they know what they give up when they click ‘I Agree’ on companies like Facebook and Google. They’re wrong.”

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Google Salutes Maurice Sendak

Today’s Google Doogle pays tribute to gay author Maurice Sendak, who died last year.  Sendak came out in 2008 at the age of 80 and revealed a 50-year relationship with his partner. For what would have been his 85th birthday on Monday, Google has drawn up a wonderfully imagined Google Doodle as a tribute to the beloved illustrator and children’s …

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Feds Confirm Secret Data Collection

Last night the Obama administration confirmed that it has been using Facebook, Google, and Apple to secretly collect data on foreigners overseas. The story was first broken by openly gay journalist Glenn Greenwald in articles published by the Guardian and the Washington Post. Today the New York Times reports on the acknowledgement by the feds: The confirmation of the classified …

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Apple Bans “Ex-Gay” App

Responding in part to a petition by All Out, Apple has banned an “ex-gay” app from the iPhone. Pink News reports: A Christian app has been banned by Apple for claiming to help users ‘cure’ themselves of homosexuality, it remains available for download by Google Android users. The app called Setting Captives Free claims: “Despite what you may have heard …

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Petition Of The Day

Via All Out: Gay ‘cures’? There shouldn’t be an app for that. But, there’s a new one called “Setting Captives Free,” available in both the Apple iTunes and Google Play stores, meant to teach you how to stop being gay. It’s a 60-day course that tells gay people they are not “born this way” and offers to help them find …

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Giorgio Moroder – Racer

Consequence Of Sound reports: Italian supercomposer Giorgio Moroder’s having quite a ball lately. In addition to being immortalized by Daft Punk on their latest album — in what’s arguably the best track off Random Access Memories — he’s back with his own new music. No, he’s not churning something out for director Brian De Palma; this time, he’s working alongside …

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Google Goes After PayPal

TechCrunch reports on another announcement out of Google’s developers conference. Flying under the radar amid a flurry of announcements from today’s Google I/O developer conference is the bigger news of how Google is stepping up its efforts to compete with online payment giants, such as PayPal. It plans to do so with a revamped checkout process for the web, mobile …

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Google Unveils $10/Month Music Service

At today’s Google developers conference.

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Google Salutes Saul Bass

Gothamist explains today’s Google Doodle: Today is Saul Bass’s 93rd birthday. You may not know who Saul Bass is, but you’ve probably seen his work at some point—he designed the opening title sequences and posters for films—like Alfred Hitchcock’s North By Northwest, Psycho and Vertigo—as well as the corporate logos to United Airlines and AT&T. The films referenced in the …

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Google Recognizes Palestine

Via BBC News: Internet giant Google has changed the tagline on the homepage of its Palestinian edition from “Palestinian Territories” to “Palestine”. The change, introduced on 1 May, means google.ps now displays “Palestine” in Arabic and English under Google’s logo. Using the word Palestine is controversial for some. Israeli policy is that the borders of a Palestinian state are yet …

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