Todd R. Weiss

Google has been working on WebRTC projects for some time, but now the search giant has included it in an experimental video game that will allow players to see, hear and communicate with each other using only a Web browser. And even if video games aren’t your style, the technology used in the Cube Slam […]

Google Android users can now use gestures to search on their devices on many more languages than just English. The latest version 2.1.1 of Gesture Search, released by Google on the Play Store June 12, now can help users find information on their Android phones and tablets in some 40 different languages, according to a […]

Google has released the latest version 1.8.1 of the Google App Engine, incorporating “significant changes” that have come through the continued development of the application. The new release comes on the heels of May’s Google I/O Developers Conference, where many of the latest features and improvements were unveiled, wrote Chris Ramsdale, product manager for Google […]

Google says it has been monitoring a series of email phishing campaigns going on in Iran just as the nation is preparing for its national elections on June 14. “For almost three weeks, we have detected and disrupted multiple email-based phishing campaigns aimed at compromising the accounts owned by tens of thousands of Iranian users,” […]

Google is asking the United States government to allow it to report more fully on more of the government requests for private data that it receives, especially in light of the recent National Security Agency PRISM program controversy. In a June 11 letter to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and FBI Director Robert Mueller, Google’s […]

Google has announced the recipients of its 2013 Ph.D. Fellowship program, which the search giant promotes as a way to gain new insights and innovations from some of the best minds in colleges and universities around the world. “We are extremely excited to announce the 2013 Global Google Ph.D. Fellows,” wrote Michael Rennaker of Google […]

Google Glass engineer Mike LeBeau loves his job working on the voice interface for Glass so much that he decided to show off—in a new YouTube video he created with several friends—some of the cool things Glass can do. LeBeau shared the video on his Google+ page June 10 to exhibit some of the many […]

Google is expanding its mapping services with the acquisition of the Waze crowd-based traffic and navigation app for mobile devices. The transaction was rumored in various reports on June 10, but Google unveiled the finished deal on June 11 in a post on the Official Google Blog. “To help you outsmart traffic, today we’re excited […]

Google thinks that stuck-out tongues, wrinkled noses, frowns and funny faces can help future smartphone owners keep their phones more secure from intruders under a patent application the company filed on June 4. The facial recognition patent application is for a process that would recognize a user’s unique facial expressions, including a stuck-out tongue, a […]

Google will pay $1.3 billion to acquire Israeli community-based traffic and navigation app startup Waze to add to Google’s growing portfolio of popular and revenue-enhancing mapping tools. The two companies have agreed to the deal in principal, but it has not yet been completed, according to a Reuters report that quoted sources who are familiar […]