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Google Now Has Analytics-ish Reports for Your Personal Accounts

Curious how many emails you sent last month? What your most frequent search term was? What countries you logged in from? If you use Google for everything, it can now tell you all of those things. Google’s new Account Activity feature not only serves to answer your curiosities about how you use Google’s services, it…

Tech News Adrian Covert Mar 28

Microsoft Unveils New Plan to Speed Up the Web

Microsoft wants in on the drive to speed up the web. The company plans to submit its proposal for a faster internet protocol to the standards body charged with creating HTTP 2.0. Not coincidentally, that standards body, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), is meeting this week to discuss the future of the venerable Hypertext…

Tech News Scott Gilbertson-Wired Mar 28

Google Shut Down Gmail For Two Hours to Demonstrate Its Immense Power*

According to The Onion, Google reportedly shut down its Gmail servers for almost two hours today. Maybe the company is getting tired of its ‘nice guy‘ image? When anyone tried to sign on, they were greeted with the following message instead of access to their email: https://gizmodo.com/the-case-against-google-5895010 Tremble before Google! With the mere flip of…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Mar 27

A Lot of Android Phones and Condoms Share the Same Name

Android phones, lovable as they may be, are idiotically named. Crap like Wildfire Incredible Sensation Vigor Touch Skyrocket Z E Pro taint otherwise decent phones. Where do Android phone makers come up with this stuff? Why from condoms! Turns out, condoms and Android phones share more than just intimate utility, they’re actually named the same…

Tech News Casey Chan Mar 26

Courts Say Google’s Autocomplete Feature Might Be an Invasion of Privacy

Google has been ordered by the Tokyo District Court to stop its autocomplete search feature because a man is claiming that it’s an invasion of privacy. According to the court, the man has been fired from his job because Google autocompletes his name with crimes he has never committed. You know Google’s autocomplete, it’s the…

Tech News Casey Chan Mar 26

The Fanboy and the Phone: A Love/Hate Story

In the ‘90’s, no nerd-debate was more contentious than that over the “Best” computer operating system. Were you Windows or were you Mac (or Linux)? Rifts formed in communities, hateful epithets were hurled, and friendships were destroyed. It was the geek equivalent of the abortion rights debate. This war is still being fought, but its…

Tech News Brent Rose Mar 25

The Instagram for Android Signup Page Is Live

Android users: are you tired of your iPhone toting friends using Instagram as their go-to “You don’t have this app on Android so nany-nany poo-poo” argument? I know you are. Well, you’re one step closer to finally shutting them (the fuck) up about it. If you head on over to Instagr.am/android you’ll be greeted with…

Tech News Brent Rose Mar 25

Millions of People Are Still Using Old Ugly Versions of Android for Some Reason

Here’s something depressing and slightly horrifying: roughly 1.2 million people are using Android 1.5—a three year old operating system that looks like a Chinese bootleg of itself. How? Why? It gets worse. In addition to the 1,000,000+ souls using Android “Cupcake” 1.5—which at its debut had just introduced state of the art features like auto…

Tech News Sam Biddle Mar 23

Google Patent Would Listen to Background Noise in Your Calls to Personalize Ads

Whatever you think about the way Google handles privacy these days, the course it’s on mandates that to offer better, more futuristic services, it’s got to gather more information. And one way Google’s considered is actually listening to your calls for audio clues about where you are and what you need. https://gizmodo.com/the-case-against-google-5895010 The Orwellian patent,…

Tech News Kyle Wagner Mar 23

A Bunch of AT&T Android Phones Are About to Get an Ice Cream Sandwich Update

Ice Cream Sandwich is pretty swell, but like all Android updates, it’s not on all phones. Well guess what? The HTC Vivid is getting the update on AT&T today and other phones will see the update “in the coming months.” Here’s the full list: LG Nitro Motorola ATRIX 2 Motorola ATRIX 4G Pantech Burst Pantech…

Tech News Kyle Wagner Mar 22

The Case Against Google

For the last two months, you’ve seen some version of the same story all over the Internet: Delete your search history before Google’s new privacy settings take effect. A straightforward piece outlining a rudimentary technique, but also evidence that the search titan has a serious trust problem on its hands. Our story on nuking your…

Tech News Mat Honan Mar 22

Google Street View is now available for the Amazon rainforest

Last summer, Google took its Street View cameras to the Amazon, looking to capture the same 360-degree vistas that have made the technology so useful in cities all over the world. Yesterday, the project went live. There goes the rest of your week. You can now wander around the Amazonian jungle — exploring its rivers,…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Mar 22

Pre-Order Acer’s Quad-Core Tegra 3 Tablet

The Acer Iconia A510 is coming. We got some hands-on time with it at CES and we were impressed. A 10.1-inch 1080p screen, a Tegra 3 quad-core processor, and Ice Cream Sandwich sounds mighty good, and now you can pre-order one. https://gizmodo.com/acer-iconia-tab-hands-on-one-tasty-ice-cream-sandwich-5874128 In addition to the banner features mentioned above, the whole thing starts at…

Tech News Brent Rose Mar 22

Armchair Adventurers Can Now Take a Street View Tour of the Amazon

Sure, you can already explore exotic locales like Detroit, San Francisco, and the dark heart of Florida from your desk but now, in honor of World Forest’s Day, you can wander around in the Amazonian rainforest. You’re welcome. This project has been in the works for months and is a collaboration between Google and the…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Mar 21

YouTube Auto Fix Makes Bad Video Suck Less

YouTube is expanding its video manipulation options with a new feature that will automatically fix up your crappy video footage. The edits include color correction and image stabilization. But there’s a catch: Any time video is manipulated digitally, it is degraded to some extent. Automating the manipulations, as opposed to making adjustments as the user’s…

Tech News Michael Hession Mar 21

Man Flies Like a Bird Flapping His Own Wings (Update 6)

I’m really amazed by this video, because I always dreamed about doing this. Watch Dutch mechanical engineer Jarno Smeets take off and fly just by flapping wings of his own invention—like a real bird! It’s uncanny. Smeets developed the wings over an eight-month period. They use a special motion mechanism built around an Android phone…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Mar 21

Google Calls Shenanigans on MPAA’s DMCA Interpretation

The MPAA has a well-earned reputation for, shall we say, “molding” their facts. But with its latest lawsuit against Hotfile, the group has apparently gone too far for Google’s tastes. The search giant has just filed an Amicus brief objecting to the MPAA’s “distortion” of the DMCA. An Amicus brief is a court document filed…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Mar 20

What, Exactly, Will Kevin Rose Do at Google?

Kevin Rose is Google’s newest employee. If you don’t know Kevin Rose, he’s the mastermind behind the rise (and fall) of the social news site, Digg. But for the last year, he’s been wrapped up in Milk, a mobile app incubator that has hatched a grand total of one app: the now-defunct social review app…

Tech News Adrian Covert Mar 19

Educational Apps’ Advertising Introduce Kids to Scientology, Guns, Casinos and Sex

If you have kids, better watch out for free educative apps with ads in them. Apparently, they can be a backdoor for R-rated messages about hot dating, guns and, even worse, scientology. Check out the image for a small sample. The first case was caught by a man living in Austria. His 6-year-old son was…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Mar 19

Google Investigated by the FTC Over Safari Privacy Debacle

Last month it came to light that Google had been bypassing privacy settings in Safari, by installing cookies to track the browsing habits of millions of users who didn’t know what was happening. Now, the FTC is examining whether the incident violates a legal settlement in which Google pledged not to “misrepresent” its privacy practices…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Mar 16

Google Now Has Analytics-ish Reports for Your Personal Accounts

Microsoft Unveils New Plan to Speed Up the Web

Google Shut Down Gmail For Two Hours to Demonstrate Its Immense Power*

A Lot of Android Phones and Condoms Share the Same Name

Courts Say Google’s Autocomplete Feature Might Be an Invasion of Privacy

The Fanboy and the Phone: A Love/Hate Story

The Instagram for Android Signup Page Is Live

Millions of People Are Still Using Old Ugly Versions of Android for Some Reason

Google Patent Would Listen to Background Noise in Your Calls to Personalize Ads

A Bunch of AT&T Android Phones Are About to Get an Ice Cream Sandwich Update

The Case Against Google

Google Street View is now available for the Amazon rainforest

Pre-Order Acer’s Quad-Core Tegra 3 Tablet

Armchair Adventurers Can Now Take a Street View Tour of the Amazon

YouTube Auto Fix Makes Bad Video Suck Less

Man Flies Like a Bird Flapping His Own Wings (Update 6)

Google Calls Shenanigans on MPAA’s DMCA Interpretation

What, Exactly, Will Kevin Rose Do at Google?

Educational Apps’ Advertising Introduce Kids to Scientology, Guns, Casinos and Sex

Google Investigated by the FTC Over Safari Privacy Debacle

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