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RoadshowNewsCar IndustryMichigan could soon legalize fully driverless carsEnlarge ImageGoogle and other companies have a number of autonomous vehicles on public roads already, but by law, they must include a driver ready to take control. Google Without a national framework, some states like Califoia and Michigan have taken the lead and drafted up regulations for testing autonomous vehicles on public roads, albeit ...

Apple is expanding the capacity of its iCloud Drive storage service. CNET Apple has doubled the maximum amount of data users can store on iCloud Drive, now offering 2 terabytes to customers of its online storage service.Apple's new storage capacity will run customers $19.99 per month, twice the $9.99 monthly cost of its previous 1TB storage max. Consumers still have the option of getting 5GBs of storage for free. ...

Enlarge ImageGoogle Crowdsource lets you help the company with language translation, handwriting recognition and map translation accuracy. Screenshot by Stephen Shankland/CNET Google has a formidable artificial intelligence team working on everything from photo recognition to email spam filtering. But for some tasks, it's looking for the human touch -- yours, specifically.The online giant on Monday released a new ...

Enlarge ImageTrendForce expects most PCs will come with SSDs, not hard drives, in 2018. TrendForce They've been a fixture of the computing industry for 60 years, but in 2018, hard drives will be pushed aside by storage systems using memory chips in PCs, an analyst firm predicts.Hard drives revolutionized computing when IBM commercialized the first, RAMAC, in 1956. They read and write ones and zeros as tiny patches...

Attendees at next month's Google Play Indie Games Festival will have a chance to play more than two dozen new games, some of which are not yet widely available.Google on Monday unveiled the 30 Android games selected from more than 200 submissions vying for a chance to be exhibited at the conference. Fifteen of the games showcased are on a very limited beta, so this is the best opportunity many will have to play them.Fans will have an opportunity to vote for their favorite games at the festival. ...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImageWhere on the dashboard is its moral compass? KAREN BLEIER/AFP/GettyImages I think of morality as a feather that shifts in the wind and occasionally brushes your face delightfully as it falls to earth.I'm still perturbed, however, whether technology has a fine grasp of it. Or whether it can.I'm moved by the new...

On this date in 1916, President Woodrow Wilson signed into law the National Park Service Organic Act, which mandated the creation of the National Park Service "to conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects and wildlife" found inside the United States and make them available for public enjoyment. To celebrate the centennial of the service, Google has created an animated doodle that takes viewers on a virtual coast-to-coast tour of some of the sites and sounds that can be...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImagePokemon Go was released in Japan on July 22. Tomohiro Ohsumi, Getty Images Perhaps it was always going to happen somewhere, sometime.In Tokushima, Japan a truck driver was allegedly playing Pokemon Go at the wheel on Tuesday evening. Reuters reports that his truck plowed into two women who were crossing the r...

Enlarge ImageThe two Koreas. Google South Korea has delayed its reply to Google's request for mapping data, a Reuters report said Wednesday. The Alphabet property first reached out to South Korea in June, requesting access to govement-held mapping information for distribution to outside servers. This would allow Google to offer complete Google Maps services there. South Korean officials had previously agreed to re...

Enlarge Image Google 2016 was a big year for VR, and it's about to get bigger. Google will be launching its Daydream VR platform in a matter of weeks, Bloomberg reports. Alphabet, Google's parent company, is said to be investing big money on content for the platform. Much of this is going toward development of video games and apps, licensing sports leagues and shooting 360-degree videos, many of which include YouT...

Enlarge Image Google Who doesn't enjoy a good pop-up ad? Everyone, that's who. Now Google is trying to be the ultimate bro, announcing on Tuesday that it'll soon be punishing mobile sites with obstructive advertisements. "Pages that show intrusive interstitials provide a poorer experience to users than other pages where content is immediately accessible," product manager Doantam Phan wrote in a blog post. "This c...

RoadshowNewsCar IndustrySchedule a test drive where you want with Hyundai and Amazon Close AutoComplete: Massachusetts will tax ridesharing and give that money to taxi comp...

Google is sunsetting Chrome Apps for non-Chrome operating systems. Sarah Tew/CNET Google has touted its Chrome browser as all you need for desktop computing on any operating system. But the search giant said in a blog post Friday that it will gradually be phasing out the browser's apps for Windows, Mac and Linux machines. The apps range from photo-editing program Pixlr Touch Up to games like a now-discontinue...

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Enlarge ImageParents can keep an eye on their child's workload. Google Sigh. Yes, the break is over and school awaits. But with a little luck you might be able to ditch class and go to the moon instead. With the new school year upon us, Google has souped up its Expeditions and Classroom apps for teachers and students. The Expeditions app, which lets students take virtual-reality field trips with the help of ...

RoadshowNewsCar IndustryOne is the loneliest number: Hyundai looking to buddy up with GoogleIt's dangerous to go alone! Take this! [hands Hyundai a map to Google's HQ] Mark Renders/Getty Images These days, automotive industry collaborations are commonplace. Ridesharing and tech companies are popular partnerships right now, as the industry moves toward self-driving vehicles and a new sharing economy. It's hard to ...

Close Google's Hangouts on Air heading to YouTube Drag Hangouts on Air is a pretty good live-streaming app within Google's soci...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImageIs this the hell of an IT manager? BigPanda Are all the notifications getting to you?Does your phone buzz, ping and ding with far too many deeply unimportant messages?Imagine, then, you work in an IT department.It seems that, at least for some IT people, their brains are being addled by a constant stream of a...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImageNot exactly sticking to one particular lane. York Regional Police/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET Is it over yet? I had rather assumed that the Pokemon Go phenomenon was rather abating. When politicians start making jokes about it, you know that the shark is beginning to duck. Police in Canada, ho...

Google's update to its productivity suite allows users to edit a document or spreadsheet while running a browser or another app on the other side of the screen. Ian Sherr/CNET iPad users will finally get split-screen multitasking on iOS versions of Docs, Sheets and Slides, thanks to an update Google released Wednesday.The update allows users of recent models of the iPad Pro and the iPad Air 2 running iOS 9 to edi...