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Google aims for 100% renewable energy

December 6 2016

#Google has a big goal for 2017: all the energy used for its operations around the world, from offices to data centers, will come solely from renewable sources. A 100% "green" Google, therefore. The company announced that the goal will be reached next year: "The fight against climate change is an increasingly urgent global priority." Google was one of the first companies to create, on a large scale, long-term contracts for the purchase of renewable energy, as Urs explains… Read more

Google Jacquard: “smart” clothes that do it all

March 30 2021October 20, 2016

What is Jacquard? A fabric that has a decorative process integrated into the fabric itself. Google has made it a symbol of wearable technology.

Google Wifi will make life easier at home

July 24 2020October 6, 2016

Google presented its latest creation to the world, Google Wifi: it is a modular router that can function as a single access point or on a network of multiple connected units. It is a very simple tool, designed for a home network; the system can automatically optimize network parameters, such as channels, to avoid interference. The different access points can cover an entire house, despite walls and various interferences. In this way, the Wifi… Read more

The Google Car triggers an accident

27 September 2016

One of the #Google Cars being tested was hit by a second car that had run a red light. Unfortunately, the software does not conceive of "wrong" human choices, such as running a red light. Who's wrong? This is the worst #accident ever recorded for a Google car and the fault, says the company, lies with a human. The autonomous car, a Lexus SUV, was crossing an intersection when it was hit by another car that ran a red light. For … Read more

Will we all use Google Allo sooner or later?

March 26 202221 September 2016

Google Allo promises to add a lot of spice to cell phone use. Indeed, it stands out: that of its artificial intelligence.

Google Assistant is born: other computers to talk to!

April 11 2022May 19, 2016

Google decided to talk to us. After the first voice assistants, such as Siri or Cortana, Google Assistant and Google Home are now arriving in one fell swoop. And from now on we will control our devices only with our voice. “The assistant converses with you, it's a two-way dialogue between you and Google, it understands the world around you and helps you do what you need. He makes it easy to buy movie tickets while you're on the street, he finds the… Read more

Science against Google

February 24 2016

Problems ahead for the most famous and used search engine in the world, as the scientific community has lashed out against the US giant, accusing it of not being neutral in the propagation of search results and of offering only commercial ones in the scale of results, which often they do not rhyme with quality results. There are many problems that Big G has to face these days, from the complaint of abuse of a dominant position by the European Community, ... Read more

Google is the virtual reality viewer

February 8 2016

Will 2016 be the year of virtual reality, or augmented reality? Many analysts believe so. And Google doesn't want to miss the opportunity. Already in mid-January the company announced the launch of a new division, which will focus exclusively on the development of projects related to virtual reality. In fact, the strong competition from Facebook and its Oculus should not be forgotten. Google CEO Sundar Pichai has named Clay Bavor to head the division, which previously ran Gmail and Drive. Being… Read more

Alphabet starts to move: in the Google Loon test phase, the web goes on a hot air balloon

February 3 2016November 26, 2015

Alphabet, the Google super-holding founded in August which unites innovative companies in the field of new technologies and medicine, is about to enter the testing phase with its first project, Google Loon. It is a series of sounding balloons that travel at high altitudes creating a global internet transmission network. The web giant has asked the Federal Communications Commission for a license to test experimental radio mechanisms in 50 states of American soil and in Puerto Rico, attaching a ... Read more

Google Glass to cure Autism

October 23, 2015

The Autism Glass Project is a laboratory at the School of Medicine: in a small office in the administration building, researchers Catalin Voss and Nick Haber are bringing together facial recognition technology and artificial intelligence to create new autism treatments. The second phase will involve 100 young people to evaluate the effectiveness of the treatments, which can also be carried out at home. The goal is to create a sort of "translator of emotions" capable of providing children with a "dictionary" of moods in real time... Read more

And Google goes on TV

November 5, 2022October 7, 2013

Days ago, in the long wake of the farewell to Steve Jobs and while waiting for his biography, many experts discussed Apple's strategies in the communications sector, indicating how Cupertino was ready (or almost) to revolutionize, after music and telephony, also the television market. Jobs' death has not slowed down the plans of an Apple TV ready to provide content and services by exploiting its distribution channels (iTunes) and simple and successful interfaces (aiming to eliminate the ... Read more