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The Googleplex in Mountain View, Califoia. Brooks Kraft/Corbis via Getty Images An Oakland resident has been charged with one count of arson after being allegedly linked to multiple attacks at Google's headquarters in Mountain View, Califoia.The Mountain View Police Department arrested Raul Murillo Diaz, 30, of Oakland, Califoia on June 30, after his vehicle was spotted at Google HQ (also known as the "Googleplex") around midnight. His car, a 2004 gray Volkswagen Touareg, was previously caught on security tape involving three other criminal incidents at the campus. Diaz mentioned Google, Google co-founder and CEO Larry Page and Facebook several times during his police interview, according to...

Enlarge Image Android Police Earlier rumors have suggested that HTC will be building the next Nexus smartphone for Google. We now have a look at what that phone may look like when it is released later this year. The image was published on Tuesday by...

Google has its eye on solving the world's medical problems. Chris Jackson, Getty Images Fresh off a stuing victory in a hard-to-master board game, Google's DeepMind AI project is bringing its brains to one of the most common medical procedures of all time: the humble eye scan.Using tech created by DeepMind, a British startup acquired by Google back in 2014, Google is partnering with the UK's state-run National Health Service. The mission: to create a system whereby sight-threatening conditions can be diagnosed from just a single scan of the eye, according to an aouncement by the company on Tuesday.In partnership with Moorfields Eye Hospital in London, DeepMind will delve deep into identifyin...

Enlarge ImageHurrah! NASA's Juno satellite gets the Google Doodle treatment! Google To honor NASA's Juno spacecraft entering Jupiter's orbit, Google illustrated the successful mission with a animated doodle honoring the team who worked hard to get us our first color images of the gas giant. The Juno mission aims to take new measurements and photos with the nine instruments aboard the 3,50...

Enlarge ImageHappy 240th! Google Google Doodle is hosting the best Fourth of July party ever, and you're all invited!The Doodle of the day shows the 50 stars from the American flag enjoying an Independence Day barbecue.Per my random decision to assign states to each star, Texas is grilling hot dogs. Eleven states are...

Google's efforts to create a more diverse workforce is making slow progress in hiring more black, Latino and female employees, the web giant revealed Thursday.Women made up 31 percent of Google's workforce in 2015, up 1 percent from the previous year, according to figures the company released Thursday. Women also made up 21 percent of technical hires last year, up from 19 percent in 2014.Google said it increased the percentage of new hires who were black or Hispanic, 4 percent and 5 percent, respectively. However, the overall percentage of non-white white employees did not change in 2015 from the previous year, staying at 2 percent for blacks and 3 percent for Hispanics."We saw encouraging s...

Getty Images/EyeEm A new 50-turbine wind farm in Norway has yet to be constructed, but Google has already bought up its entire 12-year supply of energy. The farm, due to be completed in 2017, will be used to power Google's European data centres, Reuters reports. The search giant has also bought the entire power output of a second wind farm in Sweden, which is due to be built in 2018. The two power plants will supply 236 megawatts in total."[The additional wind farms] take us one step closer to ruing 100 percent of our operations on clean energy," said Marc Oman, EU energy lead of Google global infrastructure on the company's European blog.Let's block ads! بخوانید...

Enlarge Image NEC Back in 2014, Google aounced that it was one of several companies investing in a $300 million underwater inteet cable linking the US west coast to Japan. Today,...

Google's searchable database will show you almost everything you do on the inteet, as well as which device and browser you used. Google It's common knowledge that web companies spend a lot of effort tracking everything you do online. But now Google wants to share with you all the information it has on your inteet activities.Offering a much more in-depth view than a browser history can offer, Google has introduced My Activity, a searchable history of almost everything you do online. The new tool will show you everything from the Netflix programs and YouTube videos you've watched to sites you've visited, the things you've searched for, as well as the Google products you have used.The tool's de...

Enlarge ImageSen. Elizabeth Warren says we need more competition in the US. Win McNamee, Getty Images There have been several high-profile acquisitions in the tech industry over the past few years: Google bought the phone maker Motorola in 2012...

Nonprofit Black Girls CODE teaches young girls of color tech skills. Black Girls Code For young girls of color, the distance between first getting interested in computers and eventually landing a job in tech is long and marked with exit ramps.Nonprofit Black Girls CODE and search giant Google are hoping to shorten the distance between that initial spark and an actual job by putting coding students in the same building as Google's New York office. On Wednesday, Black Girls CODE and Google will launch the new space inside Google's building in Manhattan. Google bought the building in Manhattan in 2010. The space, valued around $2.8 million, is a gift from Google. The idea: By sharing the same s...

The upgraded satellite image of New York shows details like skyscrapers and baseball fields compared with the older version on top. Google If you've just tued on satellite imagery for your Google Map or Earth apps and wondering if your eyesight has gotten better, well, the answer is probably no. Google has rolled out an update that upgrades the satellite imagery on both apps with a lot more detail and better colors.Using the new Landsat 8 satellite launched in 2013, the search giant has been busy building up a new mosaic of the world to replace the images obtained with the previous Landsat 7 satellite. If you're a numbers person, Google says the mosaic was compiled from "nearly a petabyte of...

Right now, the closest things to Google phones are the devices in the company's Nexus program. Juan Garzon/CNET It's the eteal question for Google: Will the search giant come out with its own version of the iPhone?Apple tued itself into one of the most powerful companies in the world on the strength of the little rectangular device: a premium, flagship phone with both hardware and software designed in-house. The company sold so many iPhones, it tued the phrase "Designed by Apple in Califoia" into an iconic stamp that the company made it into a warm, fuzzy commercial. It's the kind of gadget success Google would kill for. So the question keeps popping up. And it popped up again Monday after T...

A report from the Telegraph says Google will introduce its own Google-branded phone later this year. Google also is speaking with wireless carriers, which suggests the phone would be available from more places than Google's online store. It's hard to tell what impact a move like this would have for Google and its partners who make Android phones. Subscribe: CNET Update delivers the biggest tech news of the day, breaking down trends, hot devices, new apps and what's ahead. Subscribe to the podcast via the links below.iTunes (HD) | iTunes (SD) | iTunes (HQ) | iTunes (MP3)RSS (HD) | RSS (SD) | RSS (HQ)| RSS (MP3)...

Brooks Kraft/Getty Images Google continues to be in hot water with the European Union.The EU is preparing a third antitrust complaint against the online search giant, targeting its core advertising services business, according to Bloomberg. Adwords, which places ads next to search results, is the company's most lucrative business. The EU previously complained that Google unfairly promotes its own shopping services over rivals and accused the company of prioritizing its mobile services in its Android software. Google and the European Commission weren't immediately available for comment. Let's block ads! بخوانید...

An own-brand Google phone would be a first for the company. Kim Kulish, Corbis via Getty Images Google is reportedly plaing to go head to head with Apple and the iPhone by releasing its own phone in 2016.The tech titan is currently in negotiations with mobile operators about releasing the device later this year, the Telegraph reported on Monday, citing "sources familiar with the discussions."Releasing a non-Nexus, Google-branded phone would put the company in direct competition with Apple on the hardware front for the first time. Between them, the two companies dominate the smartphone world with Android and iOS software featuring on the majority of mobile devices sold worldwide.Google is res...

Sundar Pichai James Martin/CNET Google CEO Sundar Pichai seems to have been the latest target of hacker group Ourmine, the hacking group who claimed responsibility for hacking into Mark Zuckerberg's social media accounts earlier this month. The group made several posts to Pichai's Twitter account from his Quora account to Pichai's 508,000 followers, and claimed to have hacked into both.However, unlike the Zuckerberg hack, where entry was gained into his accounts using a password obtained from the massive leak of LinkedIn data, access to Pichai's Quora account seems to have been via a vulnerability on Quora's end. According to The Next Web...

Google Fiber will soon have a new tool in its toolbox to bring ultra-fast 1Gbps broadband service to millions of people in cities throughout the US. Google On Wednesday Webpass, an inteet service provider that uses point-to-point wireless to deliver high-speed broadband to apartment buildings and businesses, said it was being bought by Google for an undisclosed amount. Neither company has disclosed details of the transaction, but the deal is expected to close this summer after regulatory approval. Webpass uses a combination of rooftop wireless networks coected to high speed fiber coections to deliver broadband coections that it claims can be as fast as 1 gigabit per second. The company is al...

Enlarge Image Udacity/Google Apps can be monumental business, with industry leaders like Snapchat making billions in just a matter of years. Now, Google is hoping to help the average Joe and Joaa make the next big thing.The company on Wednesday launched...

Chris Olah at Google Research has, in a blog post on Tuesday, spelled out the five big questions about how to develop smarter, safer artificial intelligence.The post came alongside a research paper Google released in collaboration with OpenAI, Stanford and Berkley called Concrete Problems in AI Safety. It's an attempt to move beyond abstract or hypothetical conces around developing and using AI by providing researchers with specific questions to apply in real-world testing."These are all forward thinking, long-term research questions -- minor issues today, but important to address for future systems," said Olah in the blog post.The five points are:Avoiding Negative Side Effects: AI shouldn't...