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Google Buys Nest Laboratories
It seems that Google is scooping up more than robotics companies these days. Google announced this week that it has …
DARPA’s Robotics Challenge Narrows The Field To Eight Finalists
DARPA’s Robotics Challenge, where teams compete to design and develop disaster response robots, kicked off in June, with the software-based …
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Google Honors Grace Hopper With A Birthday Doodle
Have you been on Google today? That’s a rhetorical question, really — I know you have. If so, you may …
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NASA Will Try To Grow Plants On The Moon In 2015
In President Obama’s 2010 speech on the country’s space program, he undid the previous administration’s plan to send American astronauts …
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Darth Vader Hates The Google+ YouTube Merger
This week Google changed the settings on YouTube, one of their most popular services, to improve the platforms’ comments section. …
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John McAfee Plans To Outsmart The NSA By Making The Internet Unhackable
I’ve spent a lot of time lately thinking about privacy — or rather, the lack thereof. The NSA scandal, Google’s …
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The Large Hadron Collider Is Explorable With Google Street View
There’s no denying that Google Street View is one of the most interesting and downright amazing bits of technology that …
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18-Year-Old Invents Exoskeleton Glove To Help His Grandma
Remember a few months ago when I said I was rooting for Ann Makosinski, the Canadian tenth grader who invented …
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Google’s Next Project: Immortality
Google is nothing if not ambitious. But all of their existing products, including the futuristic Google Glass, pale in comparison …
Explore Inside Doctor Who’s TARDIS With Google Maps
Okay, Google, you’ve been having some trouble with the whole privacy thing lately, but this goes a long, long way …
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Google Admits What We All Knew Was True—Gmail Isn’t Private
Oh, Google. You’ve gotten so good at pissing people off. In a court filing, Google has admitted that anyone sending …
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Google ChromeCast Sci-Fi Easter Egg Points To The Answer To The Ultimate Question
Last Wednesday, Google hosted a “Breakfast with Sundar Pichai” event for tech journalists and bloggers in San Francisco. Sundar Pichai …
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Roswell Incident’s 66th Anniversary Celebrated With Interactive Google Doodle
Google has been kind to sci-fi in the last year, dedicating some of their popular Google Doodles to such works …
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NASA And Google Will Try To Figure Out Artificial Intelligence Together
So apparently I was way off when I thought the limits of artificial intelligence were met whenever Teddy Ruxpin made …
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Google’s Interactive Starmap Will Eat Your Day Whole
Want to wave goodbye to any chance of productivity for the rest of the day? Then step right up to …
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British Inventor Thinks The Google Generation Is Going Brain Dead
Usually, this kind of story wouldn’t make it to the pages of Giant Freakin’ Robot, because, well, it’s not even …
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Follow Santa’s Christmas Escapades With Both NORAD And Google’s Tracker Websites
As human beings living in the 21st century, it’s pretty obvious that we like to spend a lot of time …
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Ingress, Google’s New Augmented Reality MMO Is Aimed To Always Have You Staring At Your Phone
It looks like Google is getting into online gaming. Google has created Ingress: The Game, a fully functioning massively multiplayer …
Google Working To Make Sci-Fi A Reality With Their New Website Solve For X
It’s still a little surreal to me when I think about the fact that we’re currently living in the year …
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