Six shiny new cards are coming for Google Now, the assistive app for Android and recently iOS devices that offers predictive information tailored to your needs. The new cards, announced at Google I/O today, are for reminders, music, TV shows, public transit, books and video games. Photo credit:...
At the Google Developer conference keynote this morning in San Francisco one of the clear highlights was the introduction of a redesigned Google Maps experience for the PC and mobile. The New Google Maps are available now with an invitation. Already the leading digital and mobile mapping service,...
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google Knowledge Graph Gets More Stats and 4 New Languages At Google I/O today, Amit Singhal, Google VP of Search, announced that statistics and four new...
At Google I/O today, Amit Singhal, Google VP of Search, announced that statistics and four new languages are being added to the Google Knowledge Graph. Knowledge Graph is already supported English and eight other languages — French, Italian, Spanish, German, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian and...
Google has allowed you to speak your search to it on the desktop and mobile devices for some time, but now it’s going to get smarter — talking back to you and continuing the conversation you started. Google shared details at its Google I/O 2013 developer event today and also in a blog...
Bing is continuing to honor Star Trek (and promote tomorrow’s release of Star Trek Into Darkness, the latest in the Star Trek film franchise) by boldly going where no homepage has gone before. After announcing their Klingon translator yesterday, Bing dedicated their homepage to the iconic...
Last week, Alex Chitu at Google Operating System blog reported on some screengrabs that were apparently leaked from Google Maps. The images indicated that new Maps interfaces could be in the works, and it was supposed that these might be officially announced at Google I/O today or tomorrow. This...
In an update on the early progress of the transition to enhanced campaigns last night, Sridhar Ramaswamy, SVP, Ads and Commerce at Google — and the lead on enhanced campaigns — said that close to two million campaigns have been set to enhanced. That’s up from 1.5 million Google...
Like many online marketing professionals, B2B marketers are obsessed with data. Technological innovation creates phenomenal opportunities for marketers to “slice and dice” information in an effort to create more meaningful lead acquisition strategies. But, innovation might also act as a...
NASA's Kepler space telescope has
As expected, there was nothing revolutionary about the boatload of upgrades introduced at today?s Google I/O conference, but that doesn?t mean there wasn?t a whole lot of very cool stuff announced.
NASA's extraordinary Kepler space telescope, whose job over the last four years has been finding and characterizing planets around other stars, is dead.
Wired has obtained a copy of a cease and desist letter sent by Google to Microsoft today, demanding Microsoft immediately remove the YouTube app from its Windows Phone Store and disable existing copies on consumers? devices by May 22.
Forget telling Glass to search images of kittens. You need to work those 15 extra winter-pounds off and Recon's new HUD (Heads Up Display) sunglasses will help you getting into fighting shape without dragging $1,500 out of your bank account.
The tide of starving sea lion pups washing ashore in Southern California has ebbed, giving rescue centers a bit of a break from the flood of animals that began arriving in January.
The new Google Hangouts app combines typed conversations, images, and video conferencing into a single, seamless experience. This is the way chat is supposed to be.
Gran Turismo 6 is coming to PlayStation 3 this holiday season.
An employee of the videogame company Meteor Entertainment decides to gender-swap a piece of pin-up art in her office, with interesting results.
Grant Kirkhope, composer of game soundtracks like Banjo-Kazooie and Goldeneye 007, has made his work available for free.
Google announced its subscription streaming service, Google Play Music All Access (wow that's a mouthful), at Google I/O Wednesday. It's all about harnessing the power of Google to provide you with stellar music recommendations, on your phone, tablet, or on the web.
Beneath the checkout counter, down in the tubes that contain the ancient electronic infrastructure of the global financial system, the sap is rising.
Welcome to Wired?s live blog of the Google IO keynote. What should we expect today? We know it won?t be a roll-up of Chrome and Android, no matter how much that might make sense. But we are hoping for an Android update, maybe an Android game center of sorts, unified chat, hopefully a little bit of hardware, and of course, more, more, more Glass. Stay tuned for all the action, kicking off at 8:30 am Pacific, 11:30 Eastern.
Deep under New York City, the Metropolitan Transit Authority is working on the country's largest and most expensive transportation project. Over 50 years in the making, this $8.24 billion railway will connect the Long Island Rail Road to Grand Central Terminal. Follow Engineer Bill Ury on an inspection of this massive subterranean project from beneath 38th Street in Manhattan to Sunnyside Yards in Queens.
When Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer banned her employees from working at home earlier this year, she sparked a culture war over How We Work Today. ?Speed and quality are often sacrificed when we work from home,? the head of Yahoo HR wrote in a memo. ?We need to be one Yahoo!, and that starts with physically being together.?
For the first time, scientists have captured 3-D images of caterpillars caught in the process of morphing into butterflies.
The Navy is about to place a major bet on the future of U.S. air power.
The drones are coming, but rather than hovering over our homes in some big-brother scenario, they?ll be checking farmer?s crops, inspecting power lines, fighting forest fires and delivering medicines and vaccines in rural Africa. Those are just some of the customers and markets into which Newport Beach-based startup Airware plays with its commercial drone software and hardware. On Tuesday, Airware announced almost $11 million in funding from Andreessen Horowitz and Google Ventures.
Generally speaking, Google I/O has been bad luck for products launched there. So now the developer conference is turning into mellower, lower-profile affair, starting today.
Offered by Amosu for around $4,300, this iPad wears a 24-karat jacket and a Apple logo made of 360 Swarovski crystals, and is otherwise just like every other iPad with Wi-Fi and 3G connectivity.
Accenture announced yesterday it will acquire design firm Fjord, making the consulting firm one of a growing list of multi-faceted companies that are integrating design into their product by buying whole studios.
Now that there's an open call for people to go to Mars for Dutch reality television, it's time to think up some science-fiction-meets-science-reality shows. Here are a few.
Cycling is a pretty big deal in the Bay Area, where it's been said cycling is the new golf. So it should come as no surprise to learn that nearly every tech company from Twitter to Intuit has a dedicated band of riders, who rock some sweet kit.
In his project, Family Meal, photographer Douglas Adesko?joins families at home or at their favorite dinner spot so he can document the long tradition of breaking bread together.
When Morgan Marquis-Boire heard about the Internet Census 2012, he was excited. But there was a problem. The Internet Census was illegal. Somebody ? nobody knows exactly who ? had built a network of hacked computers called the Carna botnet to generate the data.
Sabeen Mahmud has short-cropped hair and rectangular glasses; she?d fit right in hunched over a laptop at Philz or behind the counter at one of Apple?s Genius Bars. Her resume matches her style. She?s founded a small tech company, opened a hip coffee shop and organized a successful hackathon. But Mahmud doesn?t hail from the ...
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How a career con man made a fortune selling illegal pharmaceuticals online?and pulled off a federal sting that cost Google $500 million.
Airbus pulled its newest airliner, the A350 XWB, out of the paint booth this week and may well be the big story at the upcoming Paris Air Show.