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Google Search updates features to keep you on the platform

Google Search is updating a few features to provide users with even more relevant information, and well, to keep them on the platform. Each of…

First coding Google Doodle is a fun game that celebrates kids coding

Today’s Google Doodle is the first ever “coding doodle” and it is nothing short of adorable. In celebration of 50 years of kids coding…

Google app Datally to help us save while waiting for data to fall

South Africans have long been clamouring for cheaper data and it often feels like our complaints are falling on deaf ears. But if you’re anxiously awaiting…

Google to announce merchant support on SA Play Store? [Update: yes]

Update: It didn’t take place on Monday, but Google nevertheless announced support on Thursday, issuing a press release. “Starting today, developers in South Africa…

10 things we learnt at #GoogleAfrica10

It seems like Google has been around forever, but the company actually marked its tenth anniversary of opening an African office last week. The…

More of South Africa’s national parks, tourist hotspots available on Google Street View

You can now explore even more of South Africa’s famous landmarks, national parks and tourist attractions courtesy of Google’s Street View and Drive South…

Reasonable response? Google Glass fans fight restaurant ban with bad reviews

Imagine for a moment that you’ve just become a proud Google Glass owner. Now imagine that you’ve gone to a restaurant, your mind filled…

Google brings in the big guns to help make Glass look cool

Google’s most ambitious wearable tech device has had something of an image problem ever since its release. It was famously not helped by Robert…

Procrastination warning: today’s Google doodle is a functioning Rubick’s Cube

Oh no. There goes your productive Monday. The team over at Google has put together an interactive doodle for the 40th anniversary of the…

Glass gets travel friendly as Foursquare, Tripit, Opentable get apps

If you’re a Google Glass explorer and you think that the device hasn’t really, well, allowed you to properly explore the world then the…

Want to disappear from the web? EU rules that Google must allow you to

Ever wished you could make an unsavory incident in your past disappear from the web before it can come back to haunt you? Well,…

Here’s everything you need to know about Gmail’s massive redesign

The web’s most popular email client is testing its biggest overhaul since 2011, and it’s gone back to basics with a focus on email….

Google and NASA’s floating space robots are all kinds of awesome

“The future is awesome,” brags Google. NASA and Google plan to launch floating robots with 3-D mapping technology into our orbit, this will allow…

Google launches South African election hub

This is pretty neat. Google has launched a South African elections hub as the country prepares to go to the polls on 7 May….

LiveStream app lets you broadcast live with Google Glass

There are probably a lot of Glass users out there who’ve been waiting desperately for this app. Built by Livestream.com, the app lets you…

Of GOOGs and GOOGLs: getting to grips with Google’s stock split

If you’re Google stock holder, you may recently have found yourself wondering what’s going on with the internet giant’s share price. Well first off,…

Google sent an internet balloon around the world in 22 days

Around the world in 80 days? Pssh. Google did it in 22… with a solar-powered balloon. Yep, the Project Loon team provided an update…

Gotta catch ’em all: the best of Google’s April Fool’s jokes

When it comes to April Fool’s day, Google doesn’t just sneak in a few half hearted jokes into its many services — it goes…

7 really impressive ways people are using Google Glass

The thing about new technologies is that we can’t really be sure how people will use them until they actually, well, get to use…

Google defends Glass (again), says it’s not just used by creepy geeks

It began as a seemingly crazy rumour, then became a real-life product that is now in the hands (and on the heads) of eager…

Attention Fandroids! You can now take photos, video from Google Search

“OK Google, take a photo”. Expect to hear that sentence from dedicated Android lovers around you over the next couple of weeks. That’s because…

Android Wear could be Google’s killer weapon in the wearable arms race

With the launch today of Android Wear Google has made what could be its most important move to date in the wearable space. Sure…

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