Google Stories for 2015

The Winner-Take-All Trend In Tech 124
Tech Companies Face Criminal Charges If They Notify Users of UK Government Spying 152
Publisher Is Pretty Sure Google Could End Piracy 216
Google Confirms Next Android Version Won't Use Oracle's Proprietary Java APIs 215
Google Glass For Work Is Sleeker, Tougher and Foldable 71
On the Coming Chatbot Revolution 94
Did Google and the Hour of Code Get "Left" and "Right" Wrong? 107
Before Google There Was the Chemical Rubber Company 143
Google Planning New Messaging App With AI Chatbots 52
Google Tests Signing Into Accounts Using Your Phone, No Password Required 108
Report: Google Partners With Ford To Make Self-Driving Cars 143
Google Joins Mozilla, Microsoft In Pushing For Early SHA-1 Crypto Cutoff 115
Facebook, Google Top Year-End App List 30
VLC Launches On Chrome OS Thanks To Android Port 44
Facebook, Google and Twitter Agree To Delete Hate Speech In Germany 259
Google Favors Less-Regulated UK For Self-Driving Car Development 82
Untangling the Tale of Ada Lovelace 124
Google Hosts Special Demo Day For Female Entrepreneurs 220
Google Bans Symantec Root Certificates 84
Airbnb Dethrones Google As the Best Tech Company To Work For In the US 89
Google Fiber Targets Chicago and Los Angeles 37
Google Finds D-Wave Machine To Be 10^8 Times Faster Than Simulated Annealing 157
Google Santa Tracker Is Back 68
Google 360 VR Patriots Experience Puts You In the Pocket With Brady 36
Google Proposes 'Needle-less' System For Drawing Blood 91
Google Calls Out EFF Over Claims That It Snoops On Students With Chromebooks 100
Chrome 47 Released 61
Google Accused of Tracking School Kids After Promising Not To 131
Google To Drop Chrome Support For 32-bit Linux 175
Israel Meets With Google and YouTube To Discuss Censoring Videos 529
Google Scours 1.2 Million URLs To Conform With EU's "Right To Be Forgotten" Law 67
Google Previews Android Studio 2.0 40
YouTube Defending Select Videos Against DMCA Abuse 56
Manhattan DA Pressures Google and Apple To Kill Zero Knowledge Encryption 291
Google+ Redesigned 91
Google's Chromebit Micro-Computer Launches 60
Google Car Pulled Over For Driving Too Slow, Doesn't Get a Ticket 350
Google's New About Me Tool Is the Anti-Google+ 54
Google Will Retire Chrome Support For XP, Vista, OS X 10.6-8 In April 2016 140
With TensorFlow, Google Open Sources Its Machine Learning Resources 37
Open Source Anniversaries: 6 Years of Go, 11 of Firefox 65
Google's Robotics Group Lacks Leadership 43
The FCC Says It Can't Force Google and Facebook To Stop Tracking Their Users 127
Before Barbie's Brainy Makeover, Mattel Execs Met With White House, Google 125
Report: Google Wants To Design Its Own Smartphone Chips 90
Google-Supported CodeGirl Documentary Makes "Exclusive YouTube Premiere" 289
Google Hackers Expose 11 Major Security Flaws In Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge 61
Google Tries To Guess Your Email Responses 131
Google Patches More Stagefright Vulnerabilities In Android 56
Could Go Community's Threat of Public Shaming, Lifetime Bans Make Go a No-Go? 358
Amazon Follows Through: Drops Apple TV, Chromecast 233
Report: Google To Fold Chrome OS Into Android 104
Google Wants To Monitor Your Mental Health 105
Google Project Loon Balloons To Blanket Indonesia With Internet 40
Google Threatens Action Against Symantec After Botched Investigation 95
Google Fiber Goes Down During World Series, Credits KC 2 Days of Service 183
How Tesla's Autopilot and Google's Car Are Entirely Different Animals 142
Interviews: Ask Alan Donovan and Brian Kernighan About Programming and Go 185
Google 'Rethinking Everything' Around Machine Learning 65
Google, Facebook, Microsoft Deliver K-12 CS Demands To Congress 120
Google Snapping Up Top Biomedical Talent 76
Google Wants Online Ad Improvement Within Months, Not Years 227
"YouTube Red" Offers Premium YouTube For $9.99 a Month, $12.99 For iOS Users 236
Google Makes Full-Disk Encryption Mandatory For Some Android 6.0 Devices 150
The Google Employee Who Opted For a Truck Over Bay Area Rents 492
Nexus 5X and Nexus 6P Reviews Arrive 190
Google Drops Desktop Voice Search In Chrome 51
Google Books Wins Again 120
Google Is Removing the Desktop Notification Center From Chrome 116
Why Self-Driving Cars Should Never Be Fully Autonomous 397
Google Releases Improved Cardboard SDK and Adds Street View 20
There Is No .bro In Brotli: Google/Mozilla Engineers Nix File Type As Offensive 781
Google Helped Cause the Mysterious Increase In 911 Calls SF Asked It To Solve 166
Google's Effort To Speed Up the Mobile Web 95
Privately Funded Lunar Mission Set a Launch Date For 2017 50
Porsche Chooses Apple Over Google Because Google Wants Too Much Data 423
Google Lets Advertisers Target By (Anonymized) Customer Data 58
Google As Alphabet Subsidiary Drops "Don't Be Evil" 247
How Someone Acquired the Google.com Domain Name For a Single Minute 70
Amazon To Cease Sale of Apple TV and Chromecast 223
Stagefright 2.0 Vulnerabilities Affect 1 Billion Android Devices 123
Google and Microsoft Agree To Stand Down In Patent Wars 43
Apple, Microsoft Tout Their Privacy Policies To Get Positive PR 103
Google Shows Off 2 New Nexus Phones, a New Pixel, and More 208
Google AdSense Click Fraud Made Possible By Uncloaking Advertisers' Sites 50
FTC Begins Investigating Google For Antitrust Violations Over "Home Screen Advantage" 151
Curbing the For-Profit Cybercrime Food Chain 19
Google Launches Cloud Dataproc, a Managed Spark and Hadoop Big Data Service 18
Google DeepMind's AI Beats Humans At Even More Computer Games 96
Google Launches Brotli, a New Open Source Compression Algorithm For the Web 215
The Difficulty In Getting a Machine To Forget Anything 79
France Tells Google To Remove "Right To Be Forgotten" Search Results Worldwide 381
Symantec Subsidiary Thawte Issues Rogue Google Certificates 103
Google Releases Open Source Plans For Cardboard V2 Virtual Reality Viewer 26
Google Found Guilty of "Abusing Dominant Market Position" In Russia 126
Philosophical Differences In Autonomous Car Tech 247
Google Partnering With Indian Railways To Provide Wi-Fi Hotspots 26
Hackers' Latest Targets: Google's Webmaster Tools 19
What Ever Happened To Google Books? 70
Benchmark Battle, September 2015: Chrome Vs. Firefox Vs. Edge 137
Google's Android Pay Mobile Payments Service Arrives In US 101
Wikipedia's Viewing Statistics Could Provide Better Web-Trends Data Than Google 19
Google To Deliver Groceries 92
Law Professor: Tech Companies Are Our Best Hope At Resisting Surveillance 115
YouTube Reportedly Bypassing Ad Blockers On Google Chrome 296
Why AltaVista Lost Ground To Google Sooner Than Expected 172
Google Donates €1 Million To Help Refugees In Need 320
Report: Google Will Return To China 82
$415 Million Settlement Approved In Tech Worker Anti-Poaching Case 117
Some Uber Ride Data Publicly Accessible Through Google 28
Connecting the Unwired World With Balloons, Satellites, Lasers & Drones 15
Google Changes Logo 132
How Autonomous Cars' Safety Features Clash With Normal Driving 451
Browser Makers To End RC4 Support In Early 2016 40
Chrome 45 Launches, Automatically Pauses Less Important Flash Content, Like Ads 92
Mozilla, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Others Form 'Alliance For Open Media' 99
Google Facing Fine of Up To $1.4 Billion In India Over Rigged Search Results 152
OnHub Router -- Google's Smart Home Trojan Horse? 123
Abusing Symbolic Links Like It's 1999 54
Chrome To Freeze Flash Ads On Sight From September 1 190
Google May Try To Recruit You For a Job Based On Your Search Queries 182
Many Drivers Never Use In-Vehicle Tech, Don't Want Apple Or Google In Next Car 417
Why Modular Smartphones Are Such a Nightmare To Develop 111
Meet YouTube Gaming, Twitch's Archenemy 94
Google Relaxes Handset Makers' Requirements for "Must-Include" Android Apps 80
Why Google Wants To Sell You a Wi-Fi Router 198
Now Google Must Censor Search Results About "Right To Be Forgotten" Removals 179
Lightning Wipes Storage Disks At Google Data Center 141
Google Releases Version 1.5 of Its Go Programming Language, Finally Ditches C 221
Google Targets Low-Cost Android One Phone At African Markets 43
Google Announces a Router: OnHub 278
Google's Project Sunroof Tells You How Well Solar Would Work On Your Roof 105
Android M's Official Name Is Marshmallow 92
The Realities of a $50 Smartphone 141
Google Research Leads To Automated Real-Time Pedestrian Detection 57
Stagefright Patch Incomplete and Zero Day in Android Google Admin App Found 42
Massachusetts Embraces Philanthropy-Funded K-12 CS Education 38
Prosecutors Op-Ed: Phone Encryption Blocks Justice 392
Severe Deserialization Vulnerabilities Found In Android, 3rd Party Android SDKs 105
Google Is Restructuring Under a New Company Called Alphabet 235
Google, Facebook and Twitter To Block "Hash Lists" of Child Abuse 177
Cortana Can Now Replace Google Now On Android Devices 155
Google Fi: Simple Until It's Not 51
Google Pressured To Police Stolen Webcam Videos On YouTube 62
Internet Search Engines May Be Influencing Elections 67
Zimperium Releases Stagefright Detection Tool and Vulnerability Demo Video 54
Google: Poor Kids Might Grasp Macbeth If They Code Like Kids At $43K/Yr School 144
Inside the Failure of Google+ 279
Google Rejects French Order For 'Right To Be Forgotten' 330
Google Straps Aclima Sensors To Street View Cars To Map Air Pollution 73
The New Google Glass Is All Business 45
Google Is Dropping Its Google+ Requirement Across All Products Including YouTube 172
Google Studies How Bad Interstitials Are On Mobile 259
Gmail Messages Can Now Self-Destruct 204
Plan To Run Anti-Google Smear Campaign Revealed In MPAA Emails 256
Google Will Block Access To Its Autocomplete API On August 10 59
YouTube Is Adding VR Video Support To Streaming Videos 23
Google Staffers Share Salary Info With Each Other; Management Freaks 430
Chrome 44 Launches With Tweaks To Push Messaging and Notifications 67
Woman Recruited By Google Four Times and Rejected Now Joins Age Discrimination Suit 634
Google+ Photos To Shut Down August 1 153
Gmail Spam Filter Changes Bite Linus Torvalds 136
Silicon Valley Still Wrestling With Diversity Issues 398
Popular Torrent Site Disappears From Google After Penalty 165
Google Self-Driving Car Rear-Ended In First Injury Accident 549
Google To Provide Free Internet For Public Housing Residents To All Fiber Markets 84
Google Accidentally Reveals Data On 'Right To Be Forgotten' Requests 51
Google To Reopen Maps To User Edits, With an Anti-Abuse Plan 28
Encryption Rights Community: Protecting Our Rights To Strongly Encrypt 140
Automakers Unwilling To Share Driver Data (Yet) 151
NYC Asks Google Maps For Fewer Left Turns 363
Google Applies For Patents That Touch On Fundamental AI Concepts 101
Google Photos Uploading Your Pics, Even If You Don't Want It To 217
Google Launches Gmail Postmaster Tools To Eliminate Spam 55
Google's Driverless Cars Now Rolling In the Heart of Texas 114
Chromecast Gets a Hardwired Ethernet Adapter 133
Study: Women Less Likely To Be Shown Ads For High-paid Jobs On Google 233
Google's Waze Jumps Into the Ride-Sharing Business 90
Japanese Court Orders Google To Delete Past Reports Of Man's Molestation Arrest 271
Google's Niantic Labs Sorry Over Death Camps In Smartphone Game 135
Google: Stop Making Apps! (A Love Letter) 110
Google Hangouts and SMS Integration: A Mess, For Now 62
Google Apologises For Photos App's Racist Blunder 352
SCOTUS Denies Google's Request To Appeal Oracle API Case 181
New Study Accuses Google of Anti-competitive Search Behavior 133
Chromecast Update Bringing Grief For Many Users 142
BBC Curates The "Right To Be Forgotten" Links That Google Can't 146
WSJ Overstates the Case Of the Testy A.I. 230
Google Will Reduce Accidental Mobile Ad Clicks, With Mandatory Borders and More 70
Why Is Google Opening a New Data Center In a Former Coal-Fired Power Plant? 40
Google Asks Android Developers To Show Sensitivity To Disasters and Atrocity 96
Google Tests Code Repository Service 44
Google, Apple, and Others Remove Content Related To the Confederate Flag 818
New Google and CMU Moonshot: the 'Teacherless Classroom' 89
Virtually Climb El Capitan With Google's First Vertical Street View 32
Google Takes Over NYC's Free WiFi Project 68
IT Pros Blast Google Over Android's Refusal To Play Nice With IPv6 287
YouTube Algorithm Can Decide Your Channel URL Now Belongs To Someone Else 272
DOJ Vs. Google: How Google Fights On Behalf of Its Users 78
Turning Neural Networks Upside Down Produces Psychedelic Visuals 75
Google Launches YouTube Newswire To Verify Eyewitness Videos 22
Google Pulling Back the Veil On Its Custom-Built Data Centers 47
Ask Slashdot: Are There Any Search Engines Left That Don't Try To Think For Me? 424
Google Expands Security Rewards To Bugs In Android Devices 20
France Claims Right To Censor Search Results Globally 337
Google Announces YouTube Gaming 50
Google Launches Sidewalk Labs To Develop Smart Cities Tech 38
Google and Facebook Cancel Satellite Plans 33
Why Apple and Google Made Their Own Programming Languages 260
Google Releases Report On Autonomous Vehicle Accidents 74
Chrome Beta Now Automatically Pauses Less Important Flash Content 98
Dealing with Google's 'Mobilegeddon' Algorithm Changes (Video) 88
Investors Ask How Much Google Spends On Lobbying 81
Egyptian Repairman Outranks Google 47
Google Diversity Report Straight Out of 'How To Lie With Statistics' Playbook 287
Google Calendar Ends SMS Notifications 101
Google Chrome Tops 1 Billion Users 102
NVIDIA SHIELD Android TV Reviewed: Gaming and Possibly the Ultimate 4K Streamer 54
Google Photos Launches With Unlimited Storage, Completely Separate From Google+ 175
Android M To Embrace USB Type-C and MIDI 106
A Tool For Analyzing H-1B Visa Applications Reveals Tech Salary Secrets 124
The Tricky Road Ahead For Android Gets Even Trickier 344
Creationists Manipulating Search Results 445
Google Developing 'Brillo' OS For Internet of Things 227
Cute Or Creepy? Google's Plan For a Sci-Fi Teddy Bear 102
Chrome For Android Is Now Almost Entirely Open Source 51
NSA Planned To Hijack Google App Store To Hack Smartphones 94
Inside Google's Loon and Wing 0
Tweets To Appear In Google Search Results 91
Google Offers Cheap Cloud Computing For Low-Priority Tasks 59
Report: Google To Add 'Buy' Buttons To Mobile Search Results 35
European Telecoms May Block Mobile Ads, Spelling Trouble For Google 198
Baidu's Supercomputer Beats Google At Image Recognition 115
Academics Call For Greater Transparency About Google's Right To Be Forgotten 57
Google Shuts Down Map Maker Following Hacks 37
Self-Driving Cars In California: 4 Out of 48 Have Accidents, None Their Fault 408
How To Set Up a Pirate EBook Store In Google Play Books 90
Superfish Injects Ads In 1 In 25 Google Page Views 91
Google Can't Ignore the Android Update Problem Any Longer 434
Ask Slashdot: Most Chromebook-Like Unofficial ChromeOS Experience? 99
Researchers Detect Android Apps That Connect to User Tracking and Ad Sites 74
AI Experts In High Demand 78
Chrome Passes 25% Market Share, IE and Firefox Slip 240
Researcher Bypasses Google Password Alert For Second Time 35
Google Announces "Password Alert" To Protect Against Phishing Attacks 76
How Google Searches Are Promoting Genocide Denial 216
Google Launches a Marketplace To Buy Patents From Interested Sellers 40
Google Officially Discontinues Nexus 7 Tablet 160
Google Insiders Talk About Why Google+ Failed 359
Google Executive Dan Fredinburg Among Victims of Everest Avalanche 164

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