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Human Body

In this photo taken Thursday, Nov. 20, 2014, Shirin Vala, who is an essential tremor patient, uses a Liftward Spoon to eat without spilling at her home in Oakland, Calif. Just in time for the holidays, Google is throwing it’s money, brain power and technology at the humble spoon. Not surprisingly, the company that has brought the driverless car and Internet glasses is bringing a unique improvement to the utensils. Built with hundreds of algorithms, these specially designed spoons make it much easier for people with tremors and Parkinson’s Disease to eat without spilling. The spoons sense a shaking hand and make instant adjustments to stay balanced. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

Google’s next big thing is … spoons?

FORGET world conquering robots, driverless cars and fancy computer glasses. Google is investing in the humble spoon.

Business Technology

Europe’s love-hate affair with Google

THE Europeans have Google squarely in its sights, threatening to break up with company. All because people love it too much.

Online

Sorry Google Maps, that’s not quite right

GOOGLE Maps isn’t perfect at the best of times — and in this particular case, it’s engaged in a blatant piece of wishful thinking.

Mobile Phones

This handout photo taken on June 15, 2013 and received from Google on June 16 shows a Project Loon high altitude ballon sailing over Tekapo in Southern New Zealand after its launch. Google revealed top-secret plans on June 15 to send balloons to the edge of space with the lofty aim of bringing Internet to the two-thirds of the global population currently without web access. AFP PHOTO / GOOGLE

Google testing internet via balloons in Oz

GET ready for some Wi-Fly. Google will be testing internet delivery via hot air balloons over western Queensland in December.

Mobile Phones

Google starts new fight with Apple

GOOGLE’S latest update to Android is rolling out today, taking the fight to Apple’s iPhone with a slew of new features.

Business Technology

This NASA image taken in 2013, shows Hangar One at Moffett Field, California. Ever-growing Google now has an airport to its name: the Internet giant has signed a 60 year lease to run a NASA airbase that comes with massive hangars for dirigibles. Google subsidiary Planetary Ventures plans to use the historic Moffett Field in Silicon Valley for research and development in space exploration, aviation, robotics and other emerging technologies, according to a NASA statement. The company already uses Moffett for its top executive's jets: the field is located on the southern end of San Francisco Bay just a 10 minute drive from the Googleplex headquarters. Last year Google put on hold a project for a new set of offices at the NASA Research Park, halfway between the airport and Google's headquarters. Now it has pledged to pay $1.16 billion to run the entire 405 hectare (1,000 acre) facility for 60 years, and spend $200 million to upgrade it and restore three huge pre-World War II wooden blimp hangars, with the largest one covering 3.2 hectares. AFP PHOTO/ NASA Ames Research Center/HANDOUT = RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE / MANDATORY CREDIT:

Google’s billion-dollar space adventure

GOOGLE has forged a new path in its space exploration and robotics ambitions. The tech giant has just splashed over $1 billion to fulfil its dreams.

Wearables

Tech Expo at the Darwin Convention Centre, Amanda Martin tried out Google Glass at the 2014 Tech Expo.

How Google failed to sell glasses

THEY were hyped as the latest thing in hi-tech wearables, but sales have been lacklustre. What will it take for Google Glass to go mainstream?

At Work

The toughest gig in Silicon Valley

RUNS every morning, workshops all day and dorm beds at night. Welcome to Blackbox. One Aussie takes us inside Silicon Valley’s exclusive bootcamp .

Careers

Five Google results that can destroy you

PLAIN and simple: you are going to be Googled. Here are the five most common search results that can destroy your career.

Security

Abdullah Elmir, a 17-year-old who told his family that he was going on a fishing trip with a friend before leaving Australia to join the conflict in Syria and Iraq, is fighting with Islamic State and is now front and centre in the fourth episode of the series entitled Message of the Mujahid. The video, released by Islamic State just hours ago, sees Elmir — identified as “Abu Khaled from Australia” — clutching an assault rifle while delivering a 90-second diatribe with between 70 and 100 heavily armed fighters stand behind him. (Schliebs)

Google responds to Jihadist video

THEY have a zero-tolerance policy for footage of radicals spouting terrorist threats but what are Google and YouTube actually doing about stopping the spread of them?

Climate Change

Google images show scary truth

DEFORESTATION, construction, climate change. It can be hard to see just how much of an impact these things are having on our planet – until now.

Gadgets

People look at the new iPad Mini 3 (L) and iPad Air 2 (R) on October 16, 2014 during an event unveiling the company's new iPad line in Cupertino, California. Apple released the new iPads and introduced updated operating software and announced that its new mobile payments system, Apple Pay, will launch on October 20. Apple, which popularized tablets with its iPad, remained the largest single global vendor in the second quarter but its market share fell to 26.9 percent from 33 percent in 2013. AFP PHOTO/GLENN CHAPMAN

Apple provokes Google with price cuts

APPLE’S new iPads aren’t the only thing designed to challenge Google, as the company slashes prices on its older tablets by up to $169.

Mobile Phones

Google ups the fight with Apple

GOOGLE has ramped up its fight with Apple, announcing a new tablet, smartphone, TV and Android ‘Lollipop’.

Face & Body

Generic pic of a young teenage girl filming on a digital camcorder.

Why thinking you’re ugly is bad for you

ABOUT 10,000 people a month Google the phrase, “Am I ugly?” This is what Dove Self-Esteem Project’s Meaghan Ramsey said about that when she took to the coveted TEDTalks stage.

Small Business

Sega. Wii. Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games

Has Nintendo finally lost its cool?

THE glory days of Super Mario and Zelda appear to be well and truly over. The once-great Japanese gaming giant is in trouble.

Celebrity Life

MUNICH, GERMANY - APRIL 07: Actress Kate Upton attends the German premiere of the film 'The Other Woman' (German title: Die Schadenfreundinnen) at Mathaeser Filmpalast on April 7, 2014 in Munich, Germany. (Photo by Hannes Magerstaedt/Getty Images)

Google responds to $114m hacking suit

FACED with a $114 million lawsuit over hacked celebrity photos, Google says they’re trying hard to delete the nude snaps from sites and search engines.

Kids