October 21, 2015 Google, Yahoo hacked by US government The National Security Agency has broken into the highly secure data centers where Google and Yahoo store vast troves of data on their users by hacking an unencrypted weak point in the data pipeline linking the enormous centers, according to a new report.
October 21, 2015 Apple on the sideline while Google and Samsung duke it out over watches and goggles Apple's announcement today was that it's refining its smartphones rather than introducing any amazingly great new gadgets. So all eyes in the tech industry are turning elsewhere for the next big thing and that looks to be in the area of so-called wearable computing.
October 21, 2015 Appeals court affirms that Google's data collection with 'Street View' cameras overreached A federal appeals court is affirming a judge's decision that Google overstepped its bounds by enabling its vehicles to collect emails, Internet passwords and Web surfing behavior while photographing neighborhoods for the search giant's popular "Street View" mapping feature.
October 21, 2015 Apple's Siri gets sassy in trash-talking Google Glass Apple's Siri is the talking voice in your iPhone ready to answer anything. Just don't ask her about Google Glass.
October 21, 2015 Google Glass release date pushed back to 2014, sources say Those hoping to find a Google Glass headset under their Christmas tree this holiday season will be sadly disappointed.
October 21, 2015 Google Glass: Quadriplegic shows how device means ‘paralysis doesn’t have to be paralyzing’ While Google Glass continues to be viewed with a degree of skepticism in some quarters, for quadriplegic Alex Blaszczuk it’s opened up a bundle of possibilities, allowing her to “do things I thought I wouldn’t be able to do anymore.”
October 21, 2015 Google Glass: Quadriplegic shows how device means ‘paralysis doesn’t have to be paralyzing’ While Google Glass continues to be viewed with a degree of skepticism in some quarters, for quadriplegic Alex Blaszczuk it’s opened up a bundle of possibilities, allowing her to “do things I thought I wouldn’t be able to do anymore.”
October 21, 2015 Hands-on with Chromecast, Google's $35 streaming gizmo Google’s new Chromecast gadget is one of the easiest ways you’ll ever find to pump videos, photos and whatever from a cellphone, tablet or laptop onto that ultrahigh-definition HDTV you plunked all that cash down for.
October 21, 2015 How a fake island landed on Google Earth Last year, a group of Australian researchers "undiscovered" an island the size of Manhattan in the South Pacific
October 21, 2015 Google chairman address the state of North Korean technology, Internet policy Google chairman Eric Schmidt is back from North Korea and he’s detailing the current state of the country’s technological capabilities and the way it limits access to the Internet.