Welcome to Jupiter, Juno. NASA aren’t the only ones celebrating the Juno spacecraft’s successful arrival at Jupiter this week. In a surprise move, and also that someone at Google was obviously hoping and anticipating that Juno wouldn’t miss or indeed slam right into Jupiter, literally minutes after Juno entered orbit... Read more

Google has banned an extension of its Chrome browser which was being used to identify Jewish names on the internet by surrounding them with three sets of brackets, or parentheses. The brackets, known as (((echoes))), have become notorious in recent years in far right social media as an anti-Semitic punctuation-based... Read more

Google has won a major 6-year long court battle in the US against Java owner Oracle. A jury found Google had not unfairly appropriated code associated with the Java programming language. Oracle had argued that Google had infringed its copyright by using 11,500 lines of code from Java when it... Read more

Google has made the announcement that its AdWords is getting a makeover, and has been rebuilt from the ground up, in order to fully accommodate the fact that for most of us, mobile devices are the way we access the World Wide Web. Essentially, they’ve decided to make a bunch... Read more

Google has gone to France’s highest court in a bid to overturn a decision by the French Data Protection Authority over the ‘Right to be forgotten,’ to all of its domains. Google has filed an appeal with France’s equivalent of the Supreme Court, the Conseil d’Etat, to reverse the ruling... Read more

“Siri, give me directions to the stadium.” “Hey Cortana, what time is the movie playing?” “Alexa, turn up the lights.” When it comes to voice-activated virtual assistants, there are a few top dogs that are not only meeting tech consumers’ every whim (sort of), they’re also helping to build a... Read more

Web giant Google has taken a proactive step forward in its goal to make the internet a safer and more secure environment for people by using HTTPS to encrypt everyone on their homegrown blogging network, blogspot. The company has announced that every blogspot domain will now use the Hypertext Transfer... Read more

Google Chrome has officially overtaken Internet Explorer to become the world’s most used web browser. The news finally ends Microsoft’s default Windows browser’s almost two-decade long dominance as the leading internet browser. Haven’t I heard this one before? Probably. Over the last few years, quite a few tech analytics firms... Read more

From last week, Microsoft has ended what many people consider the easiest way to search the internet; by blocking third party searches that go through Bing and the Cortana digital personal assistant. The move was announced late last week in a blog post by the General Manager of Search and... Read more

On Monday, the US Supreme Court on Monday decided not to hear a challenge from the Authors Guild and other prominent writers who claimed that Google’s digital scanning of their work was in effect a mass copyright issue and intrinsically unfair. In a brief written explanation, the current justices decreed that... Read more

With the high rate of technological advancements that are permeating our everyday lives, it’s all too easy to overlook some of the less than ideal conditions that are still prevalent even in countries who seem to be making 21st century strides. India, a country that has long experienced a sharp... Read more

April Fool’s day jokes for the world’s most popular web browser Chrome, seemed to go horribly, horribly wrong. Yes, that’s right, this year Google’s efforts on April 1st ended up backfiring on the tech company in something of a spectacular fashion, and as Google had to admit in a blog... Read more

The French data protection authority, the Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertes (CNIL), has said it has fined Alphabet subsidiary, Google, €100,000 for failing to scrub search results widely enough to comply with an EU privacy ruling. The US based tech firm has been in a long running dispute... Read more

News has emerged from several different sources that Apple has struck a deal with what some might see as its arch rival, Google, to store some users iCloud data on Google’s own cloud storage servers. The deal is being reported as a real coup for Google, which is seen to... Read more

It took four matches, but a human has finally done what many experts first thought was a certainty, then fairly impossible, and now mind-boggling: world champion Lee Sedol has finally beaten Google’s AI software AlphaGo in the ancient Chinese strategy game Go. In the five-match scheduled event, the first three... Read more

In the Netherlands, browser giant Google has been ordered to take down the false and abusive reviews that have been linked to attacks on a Dutch nursery. The child care business, which hasn’t as yet been named in court papers, has won a legal case against Google, forcing the US... Read more

Google’s DeepMind division has pulled off an unforeseen victory that goes far beyond the rules and strategies of any game. Its AI software AlphaGo, which made headlines for its pending match-up against the reigning world champion of the ancient Chinese strategy game Go, has now defeated its human opponent in... Read more

Google has made the unexpected move of hiring Christopher Poole, the original creator of the infamously controversial internet image-board 4chan. Poole, made the news public in a Tumblr post on Tuesday. “Today I’m excited to announce that I’ve joined Google.” Commonly known as “moot” online, Poole began building the 4chan site... Read more