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Google+ Is Down, Due To Neglect Probably

Google+ is apparently experiencing an outage. If a social network falls on the internet and nobody’s on it, has it actually fallen at all? G+ is down at least in the U.S. We’re getting a 503 server error when we try to pull up the site. The reason for the outage is unclear, but we’ve…

Looking to pick up on of those hard-to-find Nexus 4s right now? Google has a retail store locator to help you out.

Google Doodles aren’t just for the desktop anymore. The festive pics are rolling out to Google Now. [Android Central]

When Facebook and Google staff are doing the Harlem Shake, you know it’s time for that meme to die.

Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson Are in a Movie About Being Google Interns

Looking to recapture the magic of the first half of Wedding Crashers, Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson are teaming up to become Google interns in their upcoming movie The Internship. It’s a classic tale of Vince Vaughn trying to talk his way out of ridiculously unfortunate situations by overtalking and stringing words together because it…

Why Even Almighty Google Couldn’t Keep Track of the Flu

The flu, as many are unfortunately aware, hit especially hard this year, and Google’s Flu Trends map only confirmed and then heightened our mucus-coated fears. Or so we thought. As Nature points out, a comparison between Google Flu Trends (which bases its map off flu-related searches) and traditional surveillance data showed that our beloved search…

HP Is Making a High End Android Tablet (And Maybe a Phone)

HP hasn’t had the best go of it the past few years. According to a report from ReadWrite, though, it’s trying to get off the mat with a new premium tablet, powered by Android. The reported tablet would run Nvidia’s new Tegra 4 processor, and has been in development since before Thanksgiving. HP’s business side…

Android Google Search app updated for Jelly Bean users. Adds Google Now widget, Fandango tickets, and more.

9 Reasons to Root Your Android Device

To root or not to root? That is the question. Rooting your Android device definitely pushes you up a level or two in your geekdom. It requires a certain level of commitment, at least a little savvy, and even a modicum of risk. So, why would you want to bother? We’ve got nine good reasons…

Googlers Reported More Than Half of the Vulnerabilities in Microsoft’s Latest Patch

Microsoft just released a giant “Patch Tuesday” bulletin for the month. Weird thing about this update? More than half of the bugs found in Microsoft products were reported by none other than Google engineers. It’s not unusual for Googlers to uncover security flaws in Word, Office, Internet Explorer, and so forth. Mountain View’s finest found…

Google Reportedly Pays Apple $1 Billion To Be the Default iOS Search Engine (Updated)

A leaked report from Morgan Stanley seems to suggest that Google will pay Apple a cool $1 billion dollars in 2014 to remain the default search engine in iOS. TechCrunch reports the leak, explaining that Google only paid $82 million for the same privilege in 2009. That’s got analysts suggesting that the payment is on…

Vertu’s New Android: Handmade in England, Dog Ugly and $10,000

Vertu, the purveyors of luxury cell phones, has announced its latest waste of money. Called the Ti, it’s handmade in England and can be yours for the princely sum of $10,000. What do you get for your money? Ooh, a titanium case (hence the name), a sapphire crystal display, and the reassurance of quality that…

The Nexus 4’s Charging Orb Is Now On Sale in Google Play

The Nexus 4 has been around for a few months now, but the Android phone’s pretty wireless orb charger is just now available in the Google Play store. The accessory costs $60 and is supposed to ship in less than a week. And while $60 seems like a lot to spend on a charger, the…

Google Street View Could Be the Best Road Crew Ever

Potholes are not a joke. They get in your way, damage your car and make you spill a Big Gulp’s worth of Grape Fanta on your already-dingy upholstered seats. But new research shows that Google Street View may be all municipalities need to correct the problem. The U.S. has about 4 million miles of road…

Google Chrome Is Blocking a Bunch of Major Sites for Malware, Even YouTube

If you were just cruising around the web today and got hit smack in the face with a Google Chrome malware error, you weren’t the only one. A whole number of sites from such as imgur, DeviantArt, The San Francisco Chronicle, and YouTube were blocked for many users citing malware from us.bernerverein.ch. Reports started bubbling…

These Weird Searches Make Google Return Nothing But Porn

In a way, Google already is a porn machine; it is what you make of it. But it turns out that a handful of bizarre, technically impossible search queries turn the raunchiness up like 20 notches and cause the engine to return porn results almost exclusively. The searches themselves aren’t dirty in the slightest, either.…

Apple Builds a Spaceship, Google Gets an Airport

Apple may be building new headquarters that look like a spaceship, but Google is getting a goddamn airport! According to Mineta San Jose International Airport, Signature Aviation and Blue City Holdings are going to build a 29-acre private owned $82 million facility that will house Google’s airplane fleet, among other private jets, I would suppose.…

You can now Google]”>share hosted websites using Google Drive, by storing HTML, JavaScript, and CSS files on the cloud. [Google]

The Ouya Console Will Be Available at Best Buy For $100 in June

The open source, Android-powered games console Ouya will, according to the company’s CEO Julie Uhrman, be available from Target, Best Buy, and Gamestop for $100 as of June. The console will also be sold by Amazon and through Ouya’s website. Sale of the console through major retailers will commence in June, three months after the…

Are Google Ad Results Racist? (Updated)

It’s tough to imagine computers and robots and electrical wiring being racist but a Harvard study has found “significant discrimination” in advertising results depending on the perceived race of the name you search for. Names typically associated with black people produced more ads related to crime. Searches for white names would be harmless. That would…