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Arriving Soon: Your Personal Helicopter

Flying cars. They never really took off, despite dozens of attempts. Still, the concept is really appealing. Could we build a vehicle that can bypass the busy roads, and fly us directly to our destination? I believe that by 2030 (probably earlier), there will such a product, but it won’t look like every other attempt over the past 60 years. Here’s why, and how we’ll...

Google's self-driving car

Living With a Self-driving Car [Video]

What’s it like to carry out your life in a self-driving car? A Google video crew rode along with one of Google’s early testers, to document what it’s like. Watch a Google employee get groceries, and more (it’s more interesting than you think). Also about [secret] Google Technology Learn about Project Loon (Videos). Learn about Google’s ambitious effort to blanket the world in Wifi....

The new 7 inch Project Tango tablet with 3D mapping technology

Meet The Google Lab That Is Changing Mobile

Right now, we live in two worlds. We have our digital world, with photos, messages, and news, and our physical world, with things like food, cars, and exercise equipment, and washing machines. The past decade has been about expanding our digital world, and making it more capable. The next decade will be about combining our digital and physical worlds. We’ve seen this shift in...

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Pick Up a Chromebook for $130!

I like Chrome OS. It’s simple, and great for browsing the web on the go. Unfortunately, at $200+, it’s impractical as a primary computer (a Google employee I spoke to, agreed with me, by the way). But for a short time, Groupon is selling Chromebooks at a very reasonable price! The 11.6 inch Acer Chromebook is on sale for $130, or about the price...

[Quiz] Real Google Acquisition, or Fictional Company?

A lot of the companies that Google acquires sound a bit…fake. I mean, half of them sound like an evil corporation from a Marvel comic. But can you tell the difference between big, Google-acquired companies, and fictional companies from famous movies? That’s the challenge in our new quiz. Give it a try with our new quiz. [playbuzz-game game=”http://www.playbuzz.com/michaels11/google-acquisition-or-fictional-company-from-a-movie”] Sign up for our weekly newsletter,...