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Enlarge ImageOh great. Here comes Cthulhu. Google Earth screenshot by Amanda Kooser/CNET If you've been eagerly awaiting the arrival of author H.P. Lovecraft's deep-sea-dwelling tentacle-faced cosmic entity Cthulhu, you may want to hurry up and call the cult together. Cryptozoologists are excited about a weird shape seen on Google Earth in the ocean near Antarctica...

Enlarge ImageGoogle has cooked up a simpler way to enable a secure log in. Screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET Securely signing into any of your Google accounts has just gotten easier.On Monday, the search giant unveiled a new option for logging into a Google service, such as Gmail or Google+. Dubbed "Google prompt," the feature lets you use your mobile phone to either...

Google's doodle commemorates rare pairing of the summer solstice and June's full moon, or "strawberry moon." Google The summer solstice arrived Monday afteoon, officially heralding the first day of summer and the longest day of the year. Because this year's solstice also coincides with a rare astronomical occurrence that will be visible in the Northe Hemisphere sky, Google has created a special animated doodle to mark the occasion. The doodle, created by Doodler Nate Swinehart, follows a squirrel as it tries to snag a strawberry from among a family of anthropomorphized rocks. Along with the summer equinox, the doodle commemorates the "strawberry moon," the nickname for June's full moon. Whil...

Enlarge ImageYou can now search Google for medical symptoms and not just actual conditions. Google You can now ask Google to help diagnose what ails you.Starting Monday, Google's mobile site as well as its...

Google's Android mascot. Stephen Shankland/CNET Google paid 82 people a total of $550,000 in the last year for finding security vulnerabilities that could let hackers compromise phones, tablets, cars and other gadgets powered by the company's Android software.The company launched the Android Security Rewards program in June 2015 in an attempt to harden the software. Google offered up to $30,000 for vulnerabilities. Although nobody received that amount, one researcher called heisecode was paid $75,750 for 26 vulnerability reports, Google said in a blog post Thursday.Security holes can be used obtain personal data and gain access to other computing systems. Even bug bounties from Google and ot...

Google Photos slideshows automatically advance through an album of pictures. Google The Google Photos team, steadily improving its service for saving and sharing pictures and videos, has added a new ability to show slideshows."It's now possible to play a slideshow from any album. Just open the album, click on a photo, and select Slideshow from the dropdown menu," the Google Photos team said on Google+ Thursday. It'll automatically advance through the photos, though tapping the photo stops the show. The service is available on the Android app and the website, but not the iOS app for Google Photos.Google Photos has...

Google's Zurich offices will now be home to a dedicated machine leaing team. Google Google Translate, Google Photo Search, Google Smart Reply -- it made its name in search, but Google is becoming a global powerhouse in machine leaing, and it's not stopping any time soon. The company that calls Mountain View, Califoia, home is now getting a firmer foothold in Europe, aouncing the opening of a new Google Research group, based out of the company's Zurich offices. The research group will be dedicated to machine leaing (ML) and exploring how computer intelligence can be used to replicate processes performed quickly by the human brain. Think image recognition, understanding natural language and cr...

The Eiffel Tower was lit in the colors of France's flag after the coordinated terrorist attacks of November 13. Stephen Shankland/CNET Facebook, Twitter and Google are on the receiving end of a lawsuit from a man who claims they're providing "material support" to terrorist groups such as ISIS.Reynaldo Gonzalez, whose daughter Nohemi was among the 130 people killed in the Paris attacks last November, filed his lawsuit Tuesday in the U.S. District Court in the Northe District of Califoia. The suit specifically charges that the three tech companies "knowingly permitted the terrorist group ISIS to use their social networks as a tool for spreading extremist propaganda, raising funds and attractin...

Eric Schmidt: Google will keep supporting gay rights. FAYEZ NURELDINE/AFP/Getty Images No matter which candidate gets your vote in the upcoming presidential election, the world's most valuable tech company will not be standing behind you.Google will not lend its support to either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump, according to company's executive chairman Eric Schmidt. "We have not taken a position on the American election and nor do I expect us to," said the longtime Googler, speaking at Startup Grind in London on Wednesday.Google might be how much of the world gets its information about politics these days, but it is not immune to accusations of political bias. Schmidt has previously been de...

Here is Google's current road map for Fiber. Dallas could be next. Google Google Fiber is making its way to Dallas as we speak.Google Fiber is currently working alongside Mayor Mike Rawlings and local leaders to lea more about the city's existing infrastructure, local topography and other factors that could impact the building of a fiber network. The fiber network would offer a better and faster inteet coection to locals, allowing businesses to download files in seconds and for people to stream their favorite show without any buffering. Let's block ads! بخوانید...

Enlarge Image Google When you're in need of a blood transfusion, you'll be given blood that matches the blood your own body produces. But this wasn't always the case. The reason we know about it is because of an Austrian and American biologist by the name of Karl Landsteiner, who discove...

Trump reportedly criticized Google for its autocomplete function. Spencer Platt/Getty Images There's a viral video going around that asserts Google has manipulated its autocomplete function in favor of Hillary Clinton. On Friday, Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, reportedly called out the search giant. "If this is true, it is a disgrace that Google would do that," Trump said, according to a report Friday by Business Insider. "Very, very dishonest."Trump's campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The video, by pop-culture-news site SourceFed, cites examples related to Google's autocomplete function, which tries to predict what kind of search ...

Bonjour, Euros! Screenshot/Google While the rest of the world is readying itself for the Summer Olympics in August, Europe is far from Rio ready. But for an excellent reason: the 2016 UEFA European Championship, or the Euros as it's affectionately known, is upon us.Like the Eurovision Song Contest for soccer, but without Australia in the mix, the football touament is all sports fans across the continent can talk about right now -- and Google is getting in on the action.The search giant's creative animators have taken on the task of creating a dedicated Google Doodle to celebrate the kick off the Euros and have scored not once, but twice, with a pair of doodles bound to get everyone in the sp...

Open up Google Maps on your phone and, depending on where you are, you'll see some streets, some buildings and a blue dot. That blue dot is you, in "YOU ARE HERE" form. When you move, it moves. The dot is helpful when you're walking around outside, but if you're indoors -- in an airport, a mall, or even a conference venue, like I am today -- you might as well be in no-man's land.Google wants to change that with something called Tango.The initiative, previously called "Project Tango," is Google's ambitious plan to map the indoor world. Google Maps is already wildly popular, with more than 1 billion users. But whereas Maps is a cartographer's dream on steroids, Tango isn't conceed with streets...

Google may let Android developers keep more of the money from subscription sales from apps. Sarah Tew/CNET Apple isn't the only one making big changes to how it does business on its app store.Google is testing a tweak to its Play Store, where people can download apps on phones that run Google's Android mobile software. The change gives app makers a bigger cut of subscription sales, according to a report Wednesday by Recode. Right now, app makers on the Play Store take home 70 percent of sales when consumers subscribe to their apps, but Google has been testing a new model where they take home 85 percent. The change could signal a big shift for how app makers charge people for their services.T...

Future smartypants. CNET Google is putting building blocks in place to make your smartphone apps a whole lot brainier.The search giant brought an early version of TensorFlow, its "neural network" software platform, to Apple's iPhones and iPads. The platform should enable more sophisticated apps from Google and other developers using TensorFlow, which was already available on Google's Android mobile software.Also on this podcast, we delve into players transitioning to digital video-game purchases and people holding onto their iPhones for longer before replacing them.The 3:59 gives you bite-size news and analysis about the top stories of the day, brought to you by CNET Executive Editor Roger C...

Tuing your Live Photos into shareable GIFs just got so much easier thanks to Google. Today the company released a free iOS app, Motion Stills, that allows you to do just that.Motion Stills is an iOS app from Google that converts Live Photos into animated GIFs. Google Google claims that the app stabilizes the camera movement of a Live Photo for a steadier shot with less visible shakiness. Once downloaded, the app doesn't need inteet access to work, just access to your iPhone's photos.You have to create a Live Photo using the native camera app first, then use the Motion Stills app to convert them into steady GIFS (or video clips, if long) that can be shared via text message, social media, Slac...

Google TensorFlow is neural network software core to artificial intelligence technology. Google Google's TensorFlow software, smart enough to help vanquish the world's top Go player and answer your email, is coming to your iPhone.On Monday, Google published an early version of TensorFlow (the 0.9 release candidate) that adds support for iOS, the software that powers Apple iPhones and iPads. TensorFlow is "neural network" software that lets computers process data in a way similar to our own brain cells, a key foundation to the artificial intelligence movement sweeping the computing industry.While TensorFlow won't give your iPhone an immediate IQ boost, its neural network capabilities will lea...

The lawsuit by advertisers against Google was filed in 2008. Getty Images The US Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal from Google on a class-action lawsuit brought against it by advertisers.The court's decision on Monday will leave in place a ruling from last year in a San Francisco federal court that will allow the litigation to move forward as a class action representing thousands of advertisers who previously used Google's AdWords program.The suit, filed in 2008, claims advertisers were misled about where their ads were placed online. AdWords is primarily used to put ads next to relevant Google searches, but the plaintiffs said Google also put their ads on third-party sites without pr...

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