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Enlarge Image Andrew Hoyle/CNET Congratulations to Peter G. of Galloway, New Jersey, for wiing a Reeljuice 5X portable charger in last week's giveaway. Now, for this week's prize. You can't buy the ultimate And...

The Smart Reply feature in Google's Inbox tries to help you more quickly respond to your emails. Google Google is already reading your email, so why not let it help reply too?Users of Google's Inbox email Web service can now save time and effort responding to messages, courtesy of a feature called Smart Reply.Already available for Google's Inbox mobile app, Smart Reply scans your email and then suggests up to three automated responses based on the messages you receive. If one of those responses hits the mark, simply select and send it. You can also modify the replies before sending. Inbox is an alteative to Google's Gmail that offers a cleaner interface and uses algorithms to sort and catego...

Shafi Ahmed wears a virtual reality headset in the operating theater. Medical Realities Are you squeamish? You may want to look away now.St. Bartholomew's Hospital in London next month will live-stream an operation on a cancer patient in 360-degree video so that it can be viewed by anyone in the world with a virtual-reality headset, including bargain-priced ones like Google Cardboard.The live stream is set to be a world's first, according to colorectal and laparoscopic surgeon Dr. Shafi Ahmed, who will perform the two-hour operation. He didn't specify where the live stream would be broadcast, although sites like YouTube now show 360-degree video. Speaking at the Wearable Technology Show in L...

RoadshowCar IndustryGoogle receives hilariously timed patent for autonomous-car bus detectionEnlarge ImageSchool buses don't act like typical cars -- they stop frequently, ban passing while stopped and typically accompany a large number of pedestrians....

More tech companies want to enhance the encryption for their products. CNET Facebook and Google are among the major tech players increasing their efforts to make sure your data is as secure as possible from prying eyes, including those of the US govement.Facebook already encrypts the messages of its WhatsApp instant-messaging service. Now the social network is aiming to apply encryption to the service's voice calls and group messages, The Guardian reported Monday, citing two people familiar with the matter. Facebook is also looking into enhancing the security of its Messenger chat tool.Google is investigating whether the encryption used for emails as part of its End-To-End project can be app...

Yes, a computer program created by Google just beat a human at one of the world's most complicated strategy games. But robots aren't on the precipice of taking over yet. Screenshot by Max Taves/CNET A supercomputer programmed by Google just beat a human at a really complicated game. But don't worry about the computer wiing at anything else.On Saturday in South Korea, a Google artificial-intelligence program dubbed AlphaGo beat world champion Lee Sedol in Go, an ancient and complex board game in which strategy and tactics collide with intuition and cuing. "When I look back on the three matches, even if I were to go back and redo the first match, I think I would not be able to win because I mi...

Yes, a computer program created by Google just beat a human at one of the world's most complicated strategy games. But robots aren't on the precipice of taking over yet. Screenshot by Max Taves/CNET A supercomputer programmed by Google just beat a human at a really complicated game. But don't worry about the computer wiing at anything else.On Saturday in South Korea, a Google artificial-intelligence program dubbed AlphaGo beat world champion Lee Sedol in Go, an ancient and complex board game in which strategy and tactics collide with intuition and cuing. AlphaGo didn't go easy on Lee; it beat him 3 games to none. "When I look back on the three matches, even if I were to go back and redo the ...

RoadshowAuto TechGoogle's Chris Urmson explains self-driving car crashChris Urmson took the stage at SXSW to talk about Google's self-driving car project. Screenshot by Wayne Cuingham/Roadshow Taking the stage at Austin's SXSW festival, Chris Urmson, director of Google's self-driving car project, explained precisely what happened during a recent collision between a self-driving car and a bus. He talked further about the progress of self-driving car technology and how even that incident was a crucial leaing experience for the technology.The collision occurred on February 14 between a Lexus RX 450h which Google had modified with sensors and controls to enable self-driving, and a city bus in Mo...

Enlarge ImageGoogle's new Android software N features split-screen view. Google is hoping it can make the newest flavor of its mobile software sweeter than Apple's. The search giant on Wednesday launched the next generation of its Android software, which powers more than 80 percent of the world's smartphones and...

Enlarge ImageDeep in the action of the Google DeepMind Challenge, pitting artificial intelligence against human intellect. Screenshot by Claire Reilly/CNET The jocks of the world thought the End of Days would come with explosions, bravado and full-camouflage utility belts. But the rise of...

Enlarge ImageDeep in the action of the Google DeepMind Challenge, pitting artificial intelligence against human intellect. Screenshot by Claire Reilly/CNET The jocks of the world thought the End of Days would come with explosions, bravado and full-camouflage utility belts. But the rise of...

Deep in the action of the Google DeepMind Challenge, pitting Artificial Intelligence against human intellect. Screenshot by Claire Reilly/CNET The jocks of the world thought the End of Days would come with explosions, bravado and full-camouflage utility belts. But the rise of the machines is currently playing out in the Four Seasons Hotel in Seoul, and it's being led by possibly two of the nerdiest groups known to man.It's Match 1 of the Google DeepMind Challenge: AI versus human, a slow-paced, four-hour battle of strategy, complex algorithms and black and white tiles. We know what you're thinking: Time to clear your schedule and start heating the snacks.If you haven't heard of Go, you're no...

Google has seen a surge in takedown requests for copyrighted material. CNET Google is busier than ever putting the kibosh on search results that link to material that allegedly infringes copyright.The company reported Monday that over the past month it received more than 76 million requests to remove from search results URLs that point to such content. That's more than double the number of requests it received in the same period last year, or around 34 million, according to the search giant's updated transparency report. Google is the way most people find things on the Inteet from other websites, whether it's searching for specific products or information in general. Many of the sites that t...

Enlarge Image Screenshot by Seth Rosenblatt/CNET Last month, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg had his hopes of coecting India dashed when Free Basics, a plan offering free access to selected websites and apps, was baed by the country's regulators. Now, Google is stepping up to the plate to coect r...

Google is providing information about the disease directly within search results, due to an abundance of Zika-related search requests. Google Before the mosquito-boe Zika virus hit Latin America hard last November, almost no one outside of the region had ever heard of the disease. Four months later, the trend is reversed. Zika has popped up in headlines and casual conversations across the globe.Much about the virus remains a mystery, and not just to the non-medical folk of the world. Zika is tricky to identify, to map and to contain. It doesn't help that four in five people with the virus don't show any symptoms.Now tech giant Google has decided to throw its vast processing power behind the ...

Sometimes iovation just needs a little incentive to get moving. Sometimes that incentive comes in the form of money, sometimes it's exposure, and sometimes, as in the case of the Google Lunar XPrize, it's both. The GLXP is a $30 million pool of prizes that's kicked off a new-age space race. Private teams from around the world are competing to land craft on the moon in pursuit of a $20 million grand prize, plus a further $10 million in bonus prizes. The biggest check goes to the first team to land on the moon and cover at least 500 meters across (or above) the lunar surface while beaming high-definition video back to Earth.[embedded content]That financial incentive has been enough to get 19 i...

Enlarge ImageCanadian pey for your thoughts, America? Google Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump were the big wiers in the Super Tuesday primary races on the road to the White House, but the results seem to have left some people feeling like the entire United States i...

Enlarge ImageCanadian pey for your thoughts, America? Google Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump were the big wiers in the Super Tuesday primary races on the road to the White House, but the results seem to have left some people feeling like the entire United States i...

Enlarge ImageCanadian pey for your thoughts, America? Google Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump were the biggest wiers in the Super Tuesday primary races on the road to the White House, but the results seem to have left some people feeling like the entire United Stat...

The Pentagon has tapped Alphabet Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt to lead a board that will provide advice on emerging tech. Kay Nietfeld/dpa/Corbis Tensions between Silicon Valley and the US govement may seem to be at an all-time high, particularly with the headline-grabbing privacy battle between the FBI and Apple. But there's one agency that still has love for Silicon Valley: the Pentagon. On Wednesday, Secretary of Defense Ash Carter said that Alphabet Executive Chairman and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt will lead a newly created board meant to bring Silicon Valley-style iovation to the $600-billion-a-year military bureaucracy. The 12-member group, called the Defense Iovation Advisory Bo...