October 22, 2015 Google's virtual assistant invades Siri's turf Google is trying to upstage Siri, the sometimes droll assistant that answers questions and helps people manage their lives on Apple's iPhone and iPad.
October 22, 2015 Google clears another step in EU antitrust case, submits remedy proposals to EU antitrust body Google has taken another step toward settling a European antitrust investigation focusing on whether the Internet giant is abusing its dominant position of online search and advertising markets.
October 22, 2015 Google to avoid massive legal battle with FTC, sources say Google is close to emerging largely unscathed from a two-year federal probe of its Web-search business, a result likely to disappoint rivals that were hoping the Internet giant would become mired in antitrust litigation.
October 22, 2015 Google suffers data loss after four successive lightning strikes Google is reporting that a data center serving European customers of Google Compute Engine, located in Belgium, lost data after the local electrical grid was struck by lightning four times in succession.
October 22, 2015 Google Translate can now instantaneously decipher text across 27 languages As far as computer-powered translation apps go, Google Translate's pretty holistic -- Google's digital Babel Fish will happily decipher any number of dialects for the unabashedly monolingual.
October 22, 2015 Google, Yahoo, Facebook unite to fight US gov’t The big three joined together to file suit against the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, protesting the restrictions of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and National Security Letters.
October 22, 2015 Google's Waze accused of stealing data from rival traffic app There's possible trouble in the road ahead for Google and Waze, the traffic and navigation startup it acquired in 2013.
October 22, 2015 Google built a working hoverboard of its own, but scrapped it Lexus isn't the only company with a hoverboard.
October 22, 2015 Apple, Google tell Obama he's wrong about encryption A who's who of Silicon Valley tech giants, computer-security experts and advocacy groups asked President Barack Obama to reject police "backdoors" for smartphone and computer encryption in an open letter sent May 19. "We urge you to reject any proposal that U.S. companies deliberately weaken the security of their products," said Â
October 22, 2015 Tweets fly back into Google search results after four years of exile It's been a long time coming, but tweets are finally viewable on Google (again).