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Now Serving The Latest In Exponential Growth: YouTube!

It goes without saying that YouTube has become the quintessential online video source for amateurs and professionals alike, but on [...]

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Google Search Gets Smarter With Knowledge Graph

This week Google is rolling out a new search tool: the Knowledge Graph. Breaking with the old strategy of keywords [...]

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Green Light For Google’s Driverless Car As It Receives First Autonomous License

We knew Nevada was serious about becoming the first state to adopt driverless cars when the governor signed a law [...]

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Google Maps Now Lets You Take A Virtual Boat Ride Down The Amazon

I am continually surprised at the extent to which Google Maps cameras have travelled to bring us street views from [...]

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A Look At BMW’s Semi-Autonomous Driving Car

While robotic cars have a ways to go yet before rolling (themselves) out onto showroom floors, BMW is incorporating driver [...]

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Google Shoots Down One Company’s Plans To Turn Street View Into A First Person Shooting Game (video)

I guess it was only a matter of time before someone equipped Google Street View navigators with a gun. Pool [...]

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Mysterious Structures In Chinese Desert Captured By Satellite Explained…Most Probably (video)

There’s nothing like satellite pictures of strange structures in the Chinese countryside to spark an online conspiracy debate. News sites [...]

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Google Maps Gets New Look With WebGL 3D (video)

Google Maps just got an upgrade. The new version, Google MapsGL, incorporates WebGL 3D rendering technology to improve 3D graphics, [...]

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Google Brings Books, Authors Guild Brings Lawsuit

The digitization of print media is the logical next step. Document scanning technology and the Internet have made instant access [...]

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Google’s Driverless Car Causes Accident – Due To Human Error

As if to spite me just days after I was gushing about Google’s driverless Toyota Prius, they go and rear-end [...]

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China Gains On Google in Driverless Car Race With 177 Mile Road Trip (video)

The race is on. Last month China cut their driverless car loose for a fully automated, 177 mile (286 km) [...]

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Don’t Look For Me On Facebook, I’ve Moved To Google+

It’s time to pack my bags and move to a new social network. Who’s with me? Google+ has been available [...]

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Google This: The Internet Is Changing Our Brains – But So What?

The debate about whether or not computers are making us dumber, largely speculative to this point, has recently gotten a [...]

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Google+ is Awesome. Facebook Maimed, Twitter Mortally Wounded?

I´ve spent the last week playing with the new Google+, and I´m here to tell you the service is pretty [...]

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Billions and Billions Served – Traffic In The New Era of Google and Facebook

Google’s online dominance can now be expressed in a new way: every month, the equivalent of one seventh of the [...]

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Google Launches Voice Search – and Two Other Brand New Features (video)

“Most awesomest Google search feature ever.” If your vocalized search gets you the resulting links, it means you already have [...]

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Kazakhstan Tries to Censor Google – But Google Fights Back

Once again Google is making headlines as they clash with another country over usage constraints. The internet giant got word [...]

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China’s Cyber Attack on Google Presages Era of Digital Warfare (video)

Hackers broke in. After some investigation U.S. officials determined that the hackers were located in China. The sophistication of the [...]

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The Government is Spying On You Through Facebook Right…Now

In our ongoing effort to keep you safe we’ve decided to read your email without your consent. Love, Your Democratically [...]

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Google Now Lets You Search Just By Talking To It

Select users of Google’s Chrome web browser are getting a glimpse into the future of web searching. The latest update [...]

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Google Brings Map Maker to the US. Crowd Sourced Maps Are the Future (video)

Congratulations, you’ve just been hired by Google. In a quest to bring high-quality digital maps to every corner of the [...]

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Anything You Search For Can and Will Be Used Against You in a Court of Law

What’s the worst possible way your online activity could come back to haunt you? Losing your job? Or getting expelled from school? [...]

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Car Radio Powered by Android. Introduce Your Ride to Some Apps (video)

Sure your car can go from 0 to 60 in less than four seconds, but can it play Angry Birds? [...]

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Android Crushing iPhone – Open Source For the Win

Google’s Android is spreading like wildfire.  In little more than a year phones based on Google’s Android OS have gone [...]

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Google’s New Robot Car Raises Hopes, Reality Will Dash Them Soon

Google shocked the world this weekend by announcing that not only was it developing robot car technology, but that its [...]

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