That’s according to the Google Chrome team, which is teaming up with LEGO to bring those beloved colorful bricks to the web via a new Build with Chrome application. You can access the site through a computer, tablet, or smartphone.
Google will buy London-based artificial intelligence company DeepMind. The Information reports that the acquisition price was more than $500 million, and that Facebook was also in talks to buy the startup late last year. We’ve emailed Google and DeepMind for comment. The acquisition was originally confirmed by Google to Re/code.
Google just took its wearable project to a much smaller level — like, your eyeball smaller.
The company announced today that it is creating a contact lens packed with sensors and an antenna that will help those with diabetes. Google hopes that the contact lens may one day be able to replace the action of pricking your finger in order to measure your blood glucose level — a necessity for those living with the disease. Knowing the glucose levels in a diabetic person’s body helps them to otherwise regulate how much insulin they have to take as they eat throughout the day.
Google and German auto maker Audi plan to announce that they are working together to develop in-car entertainment and information systems at the Consumer Electronics Show next week in Las Vegas, according to the WSJ.
The companies plan to collaborative with chip maker Nvidia and other partner to establish Android as an important technology for future vehicles, the report said, to allow people to access music, navigation, apps and services within their cars.
The couriers delivered the packages one by one to my San Francisco office on Halloween. First came the bag of jelly beans, followed by candy corn, then a bottle of sparkling lemonade—each in a crisp, white bag decorated with a hot-air balloon—and finally a pack of bubble gum, tucked neatly into a matching plastic envelope.
I had ordered the goodies from Google Shopping Express, the same-day delivery service that the search giant launched in California’s Bay Area this September. My goal: to understand why major Internet companies are again spending millions in order to deliver just about anything inside a couple of hours.
Google is no longer the best-kept secret in education — that is, if Google’s presence in any market is ever “a secret.” Over the last year or so, the search giant has been quietly expanding its footprint in education and is moving quickly to capture a greater share of the K-12 market.
Google is notorious for launching innovative products and technology. Recently the company has been in the press for everything from Google Glass to Google Shopping Express.
Each additional product or service is aimed at solving a problem for a particular audience. On Monday, Google reached out to help the web design community when they announced the beta Google Web Designer product.
Once again, Google is apparently working on its own version of hardware at the same time that it’s partnering with mainstream manufacturers of the same kind of device. But this time, it’s a car.
