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Google Chrome And Mozilla Firefox Browsers Block The Pirate Bay
Big browsers take another shot at the tormenting website
Google Play ‘Tracking Android Users 24/7’
Users may be surprised to know that Google is tracking users' every move - even if Google Maps is switched off, says a researcheradvertising, Google, Android, privacy, security, regulation
Public Cloud Market Will Hit $208 Billion In 2016 Says Gartner
Security concerns remain but they cannot stifle cloud adoption
Google DeepMind WaveNet Mimics Human Speech
DeepMind has used neural networks to create a computer model that generates natural sounding speech and music
Google Will Shame Websites Without HTTPS Encryption Starting January 2017
Google will warn Chrome users away from insecure HTTP websites
Google Snaps Up API Firm Apigee To Boost Cloud Offering
The buy is aimed at boosting enterprise cloud offerings for web and mobile apps, Google says
Google And Box Team Up For Docs Integration And Springboard Search
Boxworks 2016: Google and Box strike up partnership so users can create and edit Docs natively and use Springboard enterprise cloud search
Google To Release Huawei-Made Nexus 7 This Year
Huawei could be making the next Google Nexus 7 tablet
Google Abandons Project Ara Modular Smartphone Concept
Google vision of upgradable smartphone is abandoned as Project Ara is canned
Report: Google Could Win PayPal Cloud Business
Sources claim Google is fending off AWS and Azure to sign up PayPal as cloud customer
Google Agrees To Privacy Shield Framwork
Google is latest giant to adhere to new rules about data transfer between Europe and the US
The Essential Download: Android N, iOS 7.3.5, Opera VPN
The essential apps and updates for your iOS and Android device. This week sees operating system upgrades, free VPNs and Deus Ex Go
Google Hits Back At ‘Intrusive’ Pop-Up Ads
New algorithm will demote mobile websites using interstitial adverts from January 2017
Ford Plans Self-Driving Cars By 2021
Ford's autonomous car fleet will be sold to ride-sharing companies such as Uber
Google Begins Development Of Fuchsia Open-Source OS
Unlike Android and Chrome, Google's new operating system will not be based on the Linux kernel. The new OS will use a new kernel called Magenta
Google Releases Duo Video Chat App
Duo launches with 'Knock Knock' feature for live preview of caller
The Essential Download: Google Docs, FAST, Premier League
Tech Quiz Of The Week: Web Browsers
What do you know about Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Safari and others? Test your web browser knowledge!
Google Ventures CEO Bill Maris ‘Quits’
More high-level departures at Google as man in charge of Alphabet investment arm steps down
Google Buys Cloud Services Startup Orbitera
Google said it plans to continue supporting Orbitera's existing customers across multiple clouds
Google Research Finds Nuisance Software Deluge
Users are being targeted by more than 60 million download attempts per week
Google Works With Facebook To Release First OCP Designs
Google shares plans for its data centre space-saving 48V rack Open Rack 2.0 Standard
Google Releases Customer-Supplied Encryption Keys For Cloud
Google's CSEK moves into GA, meaning all customers can now bring their own encryption keys for Compute Engine
GlaxoSmithKline Teams With Alphabet To Create Galvani Bioelectronics
GSK is to draw on Alphabet's electronics and data analytics know-how for a new spinoff
Apple’s Swift Language ‘Levelling Off’
Swift has quickly become one of the most widely used programming languages, but has reached a plateau just behind Google's Go
Google Cloud Grows But AWS Shines Again
Google Cloud Platform helped push a 21 percent revenue gain while AWS posts £2.2bn quarterly sales
Google’s Made Its Biggest Move Yet For OpenStack Users
Google has worked with Mirantis and Intel to enable OpenStack on Kubernetes
Google Will Tell 999 Responders Where You’re Calling From
Google launches Emergency Location Service in the UK, allows higher accuracy during mobile 999 calls
Google Launches Betas Of New Machine Learning APIs
Cloud Natural Language API and Cloud Speech API opened as betas for analysing large chunks of text and speech