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Iowa’s mysterious ‘Project Catapult’ data center grows bigger
There’s something mysterious happening in Iowa—a massive data center is going up, thought to be the home of a next-generation facility from Apple, Google, or another major provider. The Planning and Zoning Commission of Altoona, a suburb of Des Moines, has approved a 25 percent bump in the proposed… …
Conservatives freak out after Google honors Cesar Chavez on Easter
Conservatives reacted with outrage on Easter Sunday after seeing that the search engine Google had honored labor activist and civil rights leader Cesar Chavez, who died 20 years ago. “I thought the Chavez-google thing was a hoax or an early April Fool’s Day prank…are they just going to leave that…
Newt Gingrich joins entertainers, athletes as Google Glass ‘explorer’
Attention zoo and museumgoers: Newt Gingrich could soon be filming you without your knowledge. CNet reported on Saturday that Gingrich was among the nearly 3,900 winners of Google’s raffle to determine the first paying customers for its new “Google Glass” line of $1,500 eyeglasses. The company encouraged people to enter…
Google reveals views of Japan nuclear ghost town
Visitors to Google Maps can now roam virtually through the overgrown streets of an abandoned town where time has stood still since a tsunami crippled Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant two years ago. Half of the town of Namie, on the Pacific coast, sits within the 20-kilometre (12-mile) evacuation zone around…
Swedish language council removes ‘ungoogleable’ from list of new words
The Language Council of Sweden said Tuesday it had removed the word “ungoogleable” from its 2012 list of new words because it refused to give in to the US company’s demands to include the word Google in the definition. The list of new words in the Swedish language came out…
Google Maps adds view from Mt. Everest
Google on Monday added views from some of the world’s tallest mountains to scenes woven into its popular online map service. Arm chair explorers were invited to take virtual adventures with members of Google’s Street View team to Aconcagua in South America; Kilimanjaro in Africa, Mount Elbrus in Europe, and…
Google tosses RSS feed Reader as house cleaning continues
Google said it was tossing its Reader service and seven other products under a house cleaning campaign that has closed 70 of the Internet giant’s features in the past two years. “These changes are never easy,” Google senior vice president of technical infrastructure Urs Holzle on Wednesday said in a…
Google fined $7 million over ‘improper and unwanted’ data gathering
Google agreed to pay a $7 million fine in the United States on Tuesday for stealthily collecting data from private Wi-Fi hotspots in a mapping service slip that irked an array of countries. In a legal settlement with attorneys general in 38 states, the Internet giant also agreed to ramp…
Google fined $7 million for collecting personal data with Street View
Google struck a deal with US authorities Tuesday to pay a $7 million fine for collecting people’s personal data without authorization as it combed neighborhoods for its Street View service. In a legal settlement with 38 states, the Internet giant agreed to destroy emails, passwords, and web histories it harvested…
Google on the comeback trail as Apple endures stock slump
Google has retaken the role of superstar of the tech sector with a stunning stock rally as rival Apple flounders. Google has hit fresh all-time highs in recent weeks, and closed Friday at $831.52, capping a nearly tenfold rise from its public offering price in 2004 of $85. The stock…
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