Die Deutsche Telekom nimmt die beiden neuen Smartphones von Google, das Pixel und Pixel XL, ins Programm. Die Geräte sind sowohl ohne Vertragsabschluss- oder verlängerung erhältlich (die Preise liegen in diesem Fall jeweils 95 Cent über... | Continue reading
If Elon Musk’s Mars colony becomes a reality, he won’t be sending just humans to the Red Planet; he’ll be sending trillions of hitchhiking microbes as well. Such a biological invasion seemingly clashes with a concept known as planetary protection — avoiding the "harmful contamina … | Continue reading
PHILADELPHIA -- The Philadelphia 76ers announced Tuesday that forward Ben Simmons underwent successful surgery to repair an acute Jones fracture of the fifth metatarsal of his right foot. Simmons suffered the injury when he rolled his ankle after landing on the foot of another pl … | Continue reading
Developers and the rest of the world will soon be able to make bots that interact with Google Assistant and new Google devices made public, the company said today in a special presentation in San Francisco. “The Google Assistant will be our next thriving open ecosystem,” said Sco … | Continue reading
A new report claims that Yahoo didn't just cooperate with the NSA -- it built an unprecedented database to scan incoming email for keywords in real time and turns this information over to federal agencies automatically. | Continue reading
It's Google's big day and it'll drag Apple through the mud if it wants to.At Tuesday's Made by Google event, the company unveiled the Pixel, Google's first smartphone. They made sure to tout a notable feature: Unlike the iPhone 7, it has a headphone jack. SEE ALSO: Google Pixel p … | Continue reading
At its #madebygoogle event today, the company’s engineering lead for Google Assistant, Scott Huffman, explained how the AI-powered system would get several new features and capabilities in the days to come – and it all sounds pretty exciting. For starters, Huffman noted that, bey … | Continue reading
Google needs to learn some manners.At the company's #MadeByGoogle event on Tuesday, everything was going smoothly as Google announced its much anticipated Pixel mobile phones and other exciting releases, but suddenly the live stream came crashing to an abrupt halt.Angry and confu … | Continue reading
Yahoo built an unprecedented surveillance system in response to a government request last year, according to a bombshell report published today by Reuters’ Joseph Menn, which cites three persons familiar with the matter. The request asked for all arriving emails to be scanned for … | Continue reading
Niantic may have shut down rumors about "Harry Potter Go," but never fear, Potter fans — Google is here for you. The company announced Tuesday that its new mobile virtual reality platform will include a Harry Potter adventure from Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.SEE ALSO: … | Continue reading
In a blog post this morning, Union Square Ventures formally endorsed Hillary Clinton for President of the United States. This marks the first time that the 13 year old fund has endorsed a candidate in a presidential election. In the brief 375 word statement, the firm addressed bo … | Continue reading
Another day done, and another pretty flat day for intraday action in the bitcoin price. We did manage to get in to a short trade a little earlier on, and this has meant we were able to pull in a small downside profit, but nothing over exciting, and definitely nothing to write hom … | Continue reading
Microsoft appears to be readying a number of new Surface-branded PC accessories. Windows Central reports that Microsoft will launch a new Surface-branded version of its Designer Bluetooth Desktop kit, alongside an ergonomic Surface keyboard and a Surface mouse. All three accessor … | Continue reading
IBM’s previously announced work intersecting blockchain and AI is moving forward with the establishment of a new work center in Germany.Source | Continue reading
When Google revealed its Cardboard virtual reality platform back in 2014, it launched an endless series of conversations in which I tried to explain why a $20 piece of cardboard wasn’t the same as an Oculus Rift. The two might both get called "VR," I protested, but their technolo … | Continue reading
PlayStation VR could trigger massive growth for the virtual reality industry. A new report from market analysis group Juniper Research states that VR hardware will be worth $50 billion by 2021. By hardware, Juniper means VR headsets, peripherals, and 360 cameras. To give you an i … | Continue reading
What can you say about a Chromecast — specifically the new Chromecast Ultra? Like the one that came before it, it’s a circular disc with a tiny HDMI cable sticking out of it. Like all Chromecasts, it streams video directly from the internet, but you choose what video to stream us … | Continue reading
Google meint es ernst, mit den nun ganz und gar konzerneigenen Smartphones und wirft sich dafür entsprechend ins Zeug: Die Pixel-Geräte kommen mit unbegrenztem Speicherplatz für Fotos und Videos in ganzer Pracht/Auflösung in der... | Continue reading
The first teaser for Netflix's long-awaited adaptation of A Series of Unfortunate Events is finally here. Continue reading… | Continue reading
Educational technology is making a bold mark on the development of higher education. While edtech overall has seen quite a few successes in the past years, the global uptake of truly innovative educational technology at universities is still limited. The future progress of edtech … | Continue reading
Google just couldn’t stop releasing new hardware products today. It’s part of a new strategy: instead of letting other companies take its software and make stuff, Google is making the first version itself. Just so with the Google Wifi, a router that follows the latest trend: inst … | Continue reading
One of Saturday Night Live's most legendary openings featured the show's executive producer Lorne Michaels asking then-mayor Rudy Giuliani, "Can we be funny?" about three weeks after the September 11, 2001 attacks. Giuliani responded "Why start now?" The audience laugh that follo … | Continue reading
In Part Two of this edition of The Writer Files, two writers help Kelton answer the questions: Is the novel dead? Did the internet kill books? | Continue reading
I follow the battles between developer guilds for quite a while and now and then I post my own snarky remarks on Twitter about the latest JS frameworks to join the club. It's too easy to get dragged into grumpy-mode these days. Articles like the satire about How it feels to learn … | Continue reading
Richard Branson, Virgin Group founder and billionaire entrepreneur, said yesterday at an event in London that the blockchain technology could create an ‘economic revolution’ to numerous countries worldwide. At the Virgin Disruptors Week in London, Branson took some time out to ta … | Continue reading
Today's Google event was dedicated to how its new hardware and software will blend together. Google started off with an official Pixel phone unveiling, after weeks of rumors and leaks. That kicked off a focus on software, especially the way Google's new Assistant software will po … | Continue reading
One of my earliest jobs was secretary at my mother’s hair salon. I booked appointments and sold shampoos, sure, but mostly I gossiped with customers. I could spot the exact moment when a guest spotted a juicy tidbit in the salon’s copies of Entertainment Weekly or US. Their eyes … | Continue reading
It’s finally here, the smart speaker that Google announced in May at its I/O conference. And the biggest thing to know is that it’s priced to beat its main competitor, at $129 to the Echo’s $179. I got a brief chance to mess around with the Home last week at Google’s campus in Mo … | Continue reading
Google hat die beiden neuen Smartphones in den deutschen Online-Store eingepflegt. Wer jetzt bestellt, soll in zwei bis drei Wochen sein neues Telefon bekommen, diese Lieferzeiten dürften recht schnell länger werden, obwohl: Mit einem Startpreis... | Continue reading
GM envisions fuel cell vehicles for stealth patrols -- there's no engine noise and no heat signature. | Continue reading
Hierzulande ist es noch eine virtuelle Konkurrenz, global betrachtet kreuzen zwei Tech-Giganten die Klingen: Mit Google Home schickt der Suchmaschinenkonzern ein Gerät in die direkte Konkurrenz zu Amazons Echo und wie dieses hat das Teil im merk/denkwürdigen... | Continue reading
On the face of it, today’s big Google event in San Francisco was all about hardware, but let’s be real here – there’s always something bigger going on with Google below the shiny glass and metal exterior. Much of the event was devoted to the company’s play for the smart home – a … | Continue reading
Here they are, at long last, the Google Phones. Technically, they’re called Pixel and Pixel XL. I’ve spent slightly longer with both than we usually get at a typical tech event hands-on, and so I have a few impressions to share. But the most important one is this: these are perha … | Continue reading
Looking cool has never been Google’s strong suit. This is the engineer-led company that brought us Google Glass, after all. Yet some beanie-clad Mountain View designer seems to have had a vinyl-fueled revelation. Google is late to the game of non-cardboard virtual reality headset … | Continue reading
Google is tossing its hat into the VR ring with its just announced virtual-reality headset Daydream View.Due this November, the headset will be compatible with a series of Daydream-ready phones made by a variety of Android device manufacturers. The first ones will be Google's Pix … | Continue reading
Google has announced Android 7.1 Nougat, which adds a number of features to Android 7.0 that launched earlier this year. Android 7.1 brings new features to all devices, but it also includes a number of special things that are exclusive to Google's new lineup of Pixel phones.The P … | Continue reading
Keine Überraschung: Googles erstes eigenes VR-Headset, Daydream View, sieht den Entwürfen, die es auf der Entwicklerkonferenz im Mai diesen Jahres zu sehen gab, verdammt ähnlich. Dass man selber so ein Headset bauen wolle, war schon damals... | Continue reading
Kicking off the show at its hardware launch, Google CEO Sundar Pichai touted the shift from mobile to artificial intelligence that allowed for two-way conversation and natural dialogue. He described Google’s desire to build an ‘individual Google’ for each user before detailing so … | Continue reading
With the announcement of Google's new Pixel and Pixel XL today, there has been the question of what's happening to the long-running Nexus hardware program, which started in 2010 with the Nexus One and has been comprised of eight phones, four tablets, and two media players. Accord … | Continue reading
The inside story of Google’s bold bet on hardware Continue reading… | Continue reading
Google's Chromecast — the updated version of which launched in October 2015 — is a great, cheap way to stream content to your TV, with one major drawback: It doesn't support 4K videos. This is now remedied with the Google Chromecast Ultra, a straightforward update to the Chromeca … | Continue reading
At a press event in San Francisco today, Google provided more detail about the Google Home, its smart speaker that lets you talk with Google. The company first introduced the hardware at the Google I/O developer conference in May but not talk about how much it would cost or when … | Continue reading
Google Home, the company’s competitor to the Amazon Echo, is now available for preorder. It will cost $129, cheaper than Amazon’s device. You can pre-order it today in the US and it will start shipping November 4th. In our brief testing it was a little smarter than Siri and a lot … | Continue reading
Google Home, Google's answer to Amazon's hit Echo voice assistant/speaker/smart home hub device, finally has a release date and price.The physical Google Search device will be available on Nov. 4 for $129, which is less than the $179 Echo. It'll be available from Google and retai … | Continue reading
Google Home, the company’s answer to Amazon’s Echo, made its official debut at the Google I/O developer conference earlier this year. Since then, we’ve heard very little about Google’s voice-activated personal assistant. Today, at Google’s annual hardware event, the company final … | Continue reading
Coming at one of the weirdest times ever to announce news — the start of a major Google event — Periscope announced a new partnership with its mother company Twitter. In the box to the left you can now add your account by clicking ‘edit profile’ and ticking the box next to ‘Show … | Continue reading