Jaikumar Vijayan

Eric Schmidt, the former Novell CEO that Google hired 17 years ago to bring adult supervision to the company is stepping down from his role as executive chairman of Google parent Alphabet. Starting January 2018, Schmidt will transition to the role of technical advisor at Alphabet. He will however, continue as a member of Alphabet’s […]

Google wants enterprises to accelerate adoption of some of the company’s more modern Android mobile device management technologies. After years of supporting organizations that are continuing to use a Device Administration Application Programming Interface that became available seven years ago with Android 2.2, Google this week announced plans to gradually drop support for the API […]

Google will require Android developers to start providing 64-bit versions of their applications starting August 2019 as part of a broader effort to improve the performance and safety of Android apps. Starting in the second half of 2018, Google will also require Android developers to ensure that any new applications they write are designed for […]

Google researchers have developed an experimental machine-learning model that they claim can rate photos and images based on their aesthetic qualities rather than purely quantitative ones. The proposed model—dubbed Neural Image Assessment (NIMA)—is trained to intelligently predict which images humans are likely to rate as attractive or aesthetically pleasing. Unlike existing aesthetic prediction approaches, which […]

In keeping with Google’s mobile-first strategy, the company’s search engine crawlers will increasingly consider the mobile version of a website’s content first when indexing and ranking the sites’ search results. Mobile-first indexing is a shift away from Google’s current practice of crawling, indexing and ranking websites by looking at the desktop version of the site […]

In a move that could de-escalate some of the growing tension between the two companies, Amazon has decided to once again start selling Google’s Chromecast video streaming device two years after removing it from the online retailing site. The move comes just days after Google said it would block users of Amazon’s Fire TV starting […]

The same machine learning approaches that Google is bringing to many of its enterprise technologies and products recently helped scientists at NASA discover two new planets far outside the solar system. One of the planets, Kepler-90i, is the eighth planet that NASA has discovered orbiting Kepler 90, a star that is very similar to the […]

Google Dec. 13 released two whitepapers describing the measures the company has in place to protect data that is transit from customer networks to the Google Cloud and then internally on its network. One of the whitepapers describes a system that Google uses called Application Layer Transport Security (ATLS) for protecting service-to-service communication internally, for […]

Google on Monday released the first installment of a new series of planned mobile photo apps based on experimental technology under development in its labs. One of the three newly released apps is designed purely for Android devices; one is for Android and iOS devices while the third is designed solely for iOS. The Android […]

Google has increased the number of managed service providers (MSPs) it is partnering with to help enterprises migrate and manage workloads on its cloud infrastructure. Among its new partners are Accenture, Pythian, RightScale, SADA Systems, and Taos.  The new partnerships bring to 12 the total number of MSPs that Google is partnering with to offer […]