Google announced that its annual I/O developer gathering would commence from May 28th in San Francisco, running through to the end of the 29th. The Big G also revealed that registrations for the event would take place from March 17th, which is today, and if you want to register for the raffle-based system that will draw randomly-selected attendees once signups close later on in the week, check the details after the fold.
Google has just announced a new and refreshed Chromebook Pixel, and while it looks every bit like the original one, the machine has some serious upgrades under the hood. Head over the jump to read all about the company's assault on the notebook market.
Hackers and security experts make a living from sourcing bugs and vulnerabilities with our everyday software, but while the aim of the game is to find and patch these bugs as swiftly as possible, some lie dormant for many years before being discovered. Case in point: a long-standing flaw affecting both Google and Apple software has just been highlighted, leaving users vulnerable to attack when visiting a number of apparently secure websites including Whitehouse.gov, NSA.gov and FBI.gov.
Google first announced Android for Work at last year's I/O developer gathering, and after a fair amount of delay, the search giant has now considered it ready for prime time. Catch the low-down after the jump.
Since the 2007 introduction of the original iPhone, Apple has continued to go from strength to strength, with the sales of, and general response to, its wider product range having improved annually. Now, for the eight time in a row, the Cupertino-based outfit has topped the list of World's Most Admired Companies, and with the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus having made as much of an impression on the sales charts as popular culture, just edged out Google in second place.
If you can remember some of those ancient products that entertained us long before the age of the smartphone, you'll no doubt recall the View-Master. An iconic, binocular-like device, you would hold it up against your eyes and scroll through a set of enchanting frames, giving the impression of virtual reality. Times have changed dramatically in the last couple of years, though, with a number of companies dabbling in the field of head-mounted tech, and after carrying the flag for so long with Glass, Google will team up with Mattel while using its innovative Cardboard VR tech to re-create a modern-day View-Master.
Uber, the taxi company built for the Digital Age, has seen tremendous growth in the past few years, and despite a fair amount of opposition - no less from disgruntled preexisting taxi firms - continues to expand its reach and range of services. But while everything seems to be plodding along relatively smoothly just now, a new report suggests that the dark, shadowy and imposing figure of Google may be lurking in the background, and despite the Big G having pumped major investment into Uber over the past 18 months or so, could now be looking to build a directly-competing service.
Google's first Android TV device, the Nexus Player, is now available to buy at retail from somewhere other than Google's own online store. In fact, if you're willing to trek down to a local Best Buy, you can even walk away with one right there and then.
Google's answer to Apple's AirPlay was the Chromecast, but that feature was only applicable to all things video and a dedicated audio casting service was missing. Google Cast, from the search engine giant fills that gap up as it prepares to once again take on AirPlay in its full might. More on this can be found right after the break.
Google has been working on its driverless cars for quite some time now and if you happen to have been on the right street in California at the right time then you might have even seen one of the prototypes doing the rounds. If you'd looked really closely you would have spotted a rather ashen-faced human babysitting it, too. But the worst kept secret of it all was that Google didn't have any fully automated cars to call its own. That's now changed, with Google producing a prototype that has all the usual functionality that you might expect from an automobile. That means it starts, stops and turns corners, then. It's the stopping part we're most interested in at this point though, if we're totally honest!