Earlier this month in Austin, a cyclist and a Google self-driving car met at a four-way stop. This likely wasn’t the first time a Google self-driving vehicle has encountered a cyclist at a four-way stop. The company’s vehicles have driven more than 1.1 million miles...
We live in a world of screens. And most Americans spend a lot of time with them — roughly 7.4 hours per day, by some estimates. And while screens help us work and stay in touch, they're not exactly...
For the last year, Google’s work force has increasingly been under attack from a herd of unicorns. The unicorns, a class of hot start-ups valued at $1 billion or more, are all aggressively pursuing the best and brightest minds in Silicon Valley with promises of talked-about...
First the power goes out. It's not clear what's gone wrong, but cars are starting to jam the streets -- the traffic light are down. And something seems to be going haywire with the subways, too. No one can get to work. And even if they...
I don’t know if I broke a law of computing or committed heresy. But I installed Windows 10 on my Macbook Pro. I had feared that this would condemn me to purgatory in the gates of computing hell. But it has been an...
Google figured out something important: You can sell businesses the future, but they’ll show up with lots of the past. The company on Thursday showed off changes it had made to Chrome, its operating system for business computing, aimed at enabling companies to run most of...
Having taken over the devices on our desks and in our pockets, Apple might be moving onto an even bigger screen: the car windshield. The world’s most valuable company is “very likely” working on a 27- to 50-inch head-up display, a technology most famously used by...
Today at a big press conference, Samsung announced two new flagship phones, the Samsung Galaxy Note 5, and its new sibling, the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge+. While a Note update was highly anticipated, the S6 Edge+ is a new beast. And the best way to...
Verizon's FiOS network is already capable of top speeds of 500 megabits per second, which lets you download an HD movie in about 15 seconds. But the FiOS of tomorrow could be as much as 20 times faster than even those blazing speeds. Verizon has just...
Google announced the general availability of two big data products formerly in beta: Google Cloud Dataflow and Google Cloud Pub/Sub. The two tools complete Google's plan to bring its entire suite of internal big data tools into general availability....