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Enlarge Image Unicode In a recent submission made to the Unicode Consortium [PDF], the body responsible for approving new emojis, a group of Google employees has proposed "a new set of emoji that represents a wide range of professions for women and men with a goal of highlighting the diversity of women's car...

Enlarge ImageVB Mario Land converted to grayscale and emulated. The-King-of-Spain Nintendo has always been a bit more of an experimenter than the other console developers out there, but the 1995 3D virtual reality console called the...

Google's headquarters in Mountain View, Califoia. Brooks Kraft/Getty Images Google is testing a new way to deliver search results, by tuing them black instead of blue.Some users have taken to Twitter to express their surprise -- or outrage -- over the change, which currently shows up for some users and not others. One Google user, @MikeClise, tweeted: "Really didn't like being a "black and blue" guinea pig @google. I thought I was going insane with the black links." Others called the change "confusing" and "terrible." Some just expressed curiosity over the shift or simply commented "wow." Google has a long history of testing tweaks on its search results page, the company's cash cow. If you w...

Enlarge Image John Kim/CNET Back in February 2012, Honeywell filed a lawsuit against Nest Labs, the startup-tued-Google/Alphabet property. The lawsuit claimed various patent infringements related to Nest's Wi-Fi-enabled...

Google Self-driving cars look to be in the pipeline for Apple, as the Silicon Valley tech titan is reportedly shopping for land to create facilities to develop and test autonomous vehicles.The plans were let slip on a call by Victor Coleman, the CEO of a San Francisco real estate firm, the Wall Street Joual reports. "We are seeing a definitive movement in the autonomous car from named companies and non-named companies," Coleman reportedly said. "And I haven't even mentioned the 400,000 feet that Google is looking to take down and the 800,000 feet that Apple's looking to take down for their autonomous cars as well."While Google has been very open about its testing of driverless vehicles, ther...

Yoky Matsuoka, the co-founder of Google X and ex-vice president of technology at smart home company Nest, has recently moved to Apple to work on health projects reports Fortune.The robotics expert previously worked at Google's X research labs in the medical space and led development of the Nest thermostat. She will join the Apple team under Jeff Williams, head of the Cuppertino tech giant's health initiatives. The move is the latest in a growing trend in health and fitness tracking for Apple, which just last week released its first set of CareKit apps to help people manage medical conditions.Apple did not immediately respond to a request for comment.Let's block ads! بخوانید...

Claudia Cruz/CNET Google reportedly confirmed this week that it will not back out as the official live-stream provider for the 2016 Republican National Convention in the face of protests demanding it do so as a stand against candidate Donald Trump's inflammatory speech.Google told Politico that it is not deterred by critics who say working the convention is essentially a show of support for Trump and his harsh rhetoric targeting women, immigrants and minorities. The company will reportedly continue to provide the live stream, in addition to convention videos, election trend reports, virtual reality tools and other data to viewers and attendees. It provided similar services at the Democratic ...

Up next in "terrifying things I don't ever want to have done": Google has filed a patent for a vision-correcting electronic device that has to be injected directly into your eye.The device, Forbes reports, is designed to help the focusing of light onto the retina, resulting in the correction of poor vision. It will contain its own storage, radio and lens and will apparently be powered wirelessly from an energy harvesting antea. Presumably, you won't need aerials sticking out of your eyeballs.Although Google has filed the patent, that's no guarantee that we'll be seeing the idea come to life any time soon, or even at all. Many patents are filed by tech firms and never see the light of day. Th...

Google Glass has a new home. Sarah Tew/CNET Google wants you to buy more of its devices.To get you to do that, the search giant is shaking up the way it runs its hardware business. Google is bringing all of its disparate devices, from its Nexus smartphones to its Chromecast streaming sticks, together under one group, the company confirmed. The division will be run by Rick Osterloh, the former president of Motorola. The news was reported earlier by Recode.Other than Nexus and Chromecast, Osterloh's kingdom will contain Google Glass, the company's much-maligned smart eyewear. Google unveiled the device in 2012, but the public quickly recoiled because of privacy and piracy conces. Osterloh will...

Google Cardboard is a cheap and simple way to experience virtual realty with a smartphone. Sarah Tew/CNET The New York Times and Google are teaming up once again to provide select subscribers with Google Cardboard headsets. The newspaper said Thursday it will provide 300,000 of the VR headsets to its "most loyal" digital-only subscribers, which the company determined based on the duration of their subscriptions. This isn't the first time the Times has teamed up with Google. The two companies ran a similar promotion in November 2015, which saw one million Google Cardboard viewers sent out to home delivery subscribers. The headset is a cheap and simple way to experience virtual realty with a s...

Enlarge Image Google Life admin can be tough, but a new feature Google has introduced to its Calendars hopes to help make workplace scheduling easier.Called "Find a Time", it requires you to punch in who you want to have a meeting or get-together with and takes every thing from there. It looks through your schedule and those of the people you want to meet with and suggests a time w...

Google and the EU could be about to knock heads once again -- this time over image piracy.Photo agency Getty Images is accusing Google of encouraging piracy and lodged a complaint against the company on Wednesday with the European Commission.By displaying photos owned by Getty in its own picture search results, Google is taking away traffic that would otherwise go to Getty's website, the photo agency claims.Getty's case is just the latest in a string of antitrust complaints lodged with the Commission's competition directorate against Google. Only last week, Europe's competition commissioner charged Google over Android abuses following a yearlong investigation. When companies are found to bre...

RoadshowCar IndustryUber, Google and Ford form self-driving car coalitionA fleet of auto companies are forming a self-driving car coalition, Reuters reports.The report claims that Google, Uber and Ford are among the auto companies ganging up to promote the interests of self-driving cars. The coalition's aim is reportedly to urge federal action on self-driving vehicles.Reuters quotes ex-US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration official David Strickland as saying, "The best path for this iovation is to have one clear set of federal standards, and the coalition will work with policymakers to find the right solutions that will facilitate the deployment of self-driving vehicles." Driverl...

The comedy series from Mike Judge follows a group of guys trying to make it in Silicon Valley. HBO The third season of HBO's Silicon Valley started on Sunday, and with it, once again, comes lots of Easter Eggs. If you search for "Silicon Valley" in Google, you'll find some news stories based on the events of the first episode in the search results (mild spoilers contained therein). HBO also set up an entire parody news website called Code/Rag for Silicon Valley-related news stories. And if you visit the Pied Piper website, you'll see a cheeky baer at the top declaring that the company is "under new management." Meanwhile, the Hooli website has also undergone an appropriately smug facelift....

Reddit users have seen evidence that Google's Play Store may be headed to their Chromebooks. Reddit User InauspiciousPagan Google's Play Store and its millions of Android apps could be headed to Chromebooks and the Chrome operating system.Screenshots posted by Reddit users on Sunday indicate that the integration of Google's app emporium into its desktop software might be imminent.An image posted by user "TheWiseYoda" show an option in settings that reads: "Enable Android apps to run on your Chromebook," which then disappears. Ars Technica reported being able to replicate this on a second-generation Chromebook Pixel.The company's aual developer's conference, Google I/O, is slated for May and ...

Remember when pretty much every major tech company started suing each other over their smartphone, software, and wireless intellectual property? Microsoft and Google are calling that fight quits. Last September, the two companies settled their long-ruing patent feud, and today representatives from both companies say they'll stop sending complaints to regulators, too. "Microsoft has agreed to withdraw its regulatory complaints against Google, reflecting our changing legal priorities," a Microsoft representative told Recode. "We will continue to focus on competing vigorously for business and for customers.""Our companies compete vigorously, but we want to do so on the merits of our products, n...

Nest, co-founded by Tony Fadell, is one of the Alphabet companies that is struggling right now. James Martin/CNET Google became one of the most powerful companies on the planet by answering a once-in-generation problem: make it easy for people to search for stuff online. But now it's searching for the next big thing.Alphabet, Google's parent company, is hard at working tinkering with a breadth of projects ranging from Wi-Fi-coected thermostats to nanoparticles for detecting cancer. That kind of experimentation isn't cheap, nor is it quick. Sales from those other projects, which Alphabet calls "Other Bets," tallied $166 million last quarter, up from $80 million year over year. But losses from...

Google Google is updating its search offering to show listings for live TV chaels.Searching for a show like "Game of Thrones", for example, will show results for which chaels are airing the show and at what times. This will appear alongside Google's existing information, which indicates where you can watch the show using on-demand services, such as the Google Play Store or Apple's iTunes."What we're seeing is that more and more, viewers are tuing to their phones to find out what to watch, where to watch it and when it's available," said Daniel Alegre, Google's president of global partnerships, in a company blog post. "In fact, searches for TV shows and films on mobile have grown more than 55...

Google is in hot water in Europe over Android. On Wednesday moing the European Union's competition commissioner aounced that she is charging the search and software giant over unfair business practices, following a lengthy probe into preloaded apps on its Android operating system. "Google has abused its dominant position" and "imposes unjustified restrictions and conditions on manufacturers of devices," said the commissioner, Margrethe Vestager, as she aounced the charges in a press conference in Brussels. The Commission has sent a statement of objection to Google explaining how it has breached EU competition law. Google will now have 12 weeks to respond. The charges could have significant r...

US tech giants are definitely feeling the Be. Google was the No. 1 employer of donors to Beie Sanders' campaign, according to analysis of findings released by the Federal Elections Commission, racking up in excess of $250,000.While the search giant clinched the top spot for employees who donated to the Democratic candidate's campaign, it was joined by other tech mainstays Microsoft, Apple and Amazon, which rounded out the top five.It's a stark contrast to Hillary Clinton, his competitor in the Democratic race, and Donald Trump, the current Republican front-ruer, who both have financial groups and unions populating their donor lists.Still, it may seem odd that Google employees, among the best...