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Google Finds 86,000 Unprotected Printers In the Internet

Cool new prank idea: print a bunch of pictures of butts to a random printer. Seriously, you can do it—Google has indexed somewhere around 86,800 publicly available HP printers. Google truncates the results, so you actually only get 73 rather than thousands and thousands. A little savvy searching shows that you can hit up any…

You Can Run Android 4.0 in Its Entirety Right on Your PC

Running certain Android apps on your desktop is nothing new with Bluestacks, but now you can get the whole dang OS running on your PC as a native application thanks to a little program called WindowsAndroid. https://gizmodo.com/who-doesnt-want-to-play-with-android-apps-on-windows-a-5848544 Developed by a start-up in Bejing called SocketeQ, WindowsAndroid not only lets you mess with Android apps on…

YouTube Capture can now handle 1080p uploads with improved audio—karaoke night just got a lot more menacing.

Google Images Just Got a Whole Lot More Slick

Google has just announced that it’s given Images an overhaul. Placing an emphasis on speed, metadata and slick looks, image previews will now appear in an inline panel to make it easier to browse large previews. That means that metadata will appear right next to images—handy if you’re looking for a particular size of image,…

WSJ: Google Is Building a New Kind of Wireless Network

There have been rumors floating around the internet for months suggesting Google has been considering building its own LTE network. Now, the Wall Street Journal claims that the search giant is secretly building its own new kind of wireless data network. https://gizmodo.com/rumor-google-in-discussion-with-dish-to-plan-new-wirel-5961109 The Journal report is centered on an FCC filing spotted by engineer Steven…

Good news, slideshow lovers: Google Slides now lets you create, edit and present offline. [Google]

Bloomberg: Yahoo, Dell, and Google Are Dodging Taxes In the Netherlands

You associate the Netherlands with Tulips and THC, not tax-evasion, but that’s exactly what some tech companies are using the country for. According to Bloomberg, Yahoo, Dell, and Google have set up offices in Holland in order to take advantage of the country’s lenient tax laws and funnel millions and millions of dollars into off-shore…

The No-Hire Emails That Incriminate Apple, Google, Adobe and More

A court filing has just been made public which sheds light on the “no-hire” gentleman’s agreements that have pervaded the tech industry—and reveals how Steve Jobs threatened litigation to prevent companies from stealing his staff. Notably, former Palm CEO Edward Colligan has made a statement which points out that the company was threatened with patent…

Gangnam Style has racked up enough views on YouTube to generate Google $8 million of revenue. Impressive. [Quartz]

Google’s Acquisition of Motorola Is Still a Bust And Will Be For a While

During Google’s earnings call today, Google executives made it clear that the acquisition of Motorola comes with quite a bit of baggage. More specifically, Google has “inherited a 12-18 month product pipeline” that Google CFO Patrick Pichette says the company is “still working through.” Yikes. The deal, which closed last May for $12.5 billion hasn’t…

Larry Page Sounds Very Sick and Bad

Internet deity and Google co-founder Larry Page was just speaking live to investors for Google’s quarterly earnings call, and he sounds horrible. What the hell is going on here? Page’s throat problems aren’t new. Back in July of last year, he had to sit out from Google events, because as a Google spokesperson put it,…

How to Make Sure Your Twitter Archive Is Always Up to Date

Our dreams of downloading entire Twitter archives has finally come true, but they pretty much become stale the minute they hit our hard drive. Plus, unless you have access to some sort of webhosting, there’s no real way to share your every thought, complaint, and witticism from the past 5 years with the adoring masses.…

Android Is Popular Because It’s Cheap, Not Because It’s Good

The story goes like this: The iPhone comes out, and it’s the only smartphone anyone wants, because there’s never been anything like it. It is the smartphone. Step forward a few years, and Apple is losing to Google—at least in sheer numbers of phones being sold. What happened? People without money happened. The split between…

Leaked Screenshots Suggest HTC’s Sense Skin Will Be Massively Simplified

HTC’s Sense skin for Android has long been a bloated skeuomorphic mess, with aluminum ring pulls, flip clocks and fancy weather animations. If these leaked screenshot are accurate, though, that all looks set to change—for the better. These images were posted by XDA developer mdeejay, who claims to have a working port of the forthcoming…

WinPho Users Might Be Without Google Cal/Contacts Sync for Up to Six Months

New Windows Phone users will be left out in the cold after January 30th asnewly connected Google accounts will no longer work through Exchange ActiveSync. Something we’ve known since last December, which caught Microsoft by “surprise”. But fret not, Microsoft is scrambling to push out an update that will support Google’s CardDAV and CalDAV system.…

When Sergey Brin Rides the Subway, He Does It Wearing Project Glass

Noah Zerkin spotted Sergey Brin riding New York’s downtown 3 train last night—and the man from Google happened to have a pair of the company’s glasses strapped to his face. Quite why he needs to wear them on public transport is unclear, but combined with his outfit they make him look like he should feature…

Sony’s New Xperia Tablet: An Android Slate Slimmer Than the iPad Mini

Sony has announced a new high-spec Android tablet, the Xperia Tablet Z. It offers up some meaty internals—but the most exciting news is the svelte package into which the hardware is crammed. The 10.1-inch tablet packs a 1,920 x 1,200 screen, Qualcomm 1.5GHz quad-core APQ8064 processor, 2GB RAM, 32GB storage, 8.1-megapixel camera, NFC, LTE, and…

LG’s admitted that Nexus 4 demand was 10 times higher than Google expected. That’ll explain the shortage. [CNET]

Eric Schmidt’s Daughter Recounts the Duo’s Bizarre Trip to North Korea

Eric Schmidt’s trip to North Korea in order to spread the good word about open Internet has been kind of strange from the start. Today, he posted on Google+ how he warned the country that it might be left behind. You know, Internet. Politics. All that jazz. Schmidt’s daughter, who accompanied him on the “vacation”…

Rumor: LG’s New Optimus G Pro Will Have a 5-Inch 1080p Screen

LG’s Optimus G—the boilerplate for the wonderful Nexus 4—is getting a big brother. According to a leaked image acquired by Engadget, LG has a 5-inch, 1080p monster coming. The phone’s full reported specs are a 1.7Ghz Snapdragon S4 Pro APQ8064, LTE, 2GB RAM, 32GB storage, and a 3,000mAh battery (still not quite up to the…