Yoky Matsuoka in 2011. Image: Flickr, University of Washington Office of News and Information Yoky Matsuoka, a cofounder of Google X, will be passing on a top job at Twitter after recovering from a life-threatening illness. Having a second chance at life hasContinue reading

Image: Google Google+ is getting a Pinterest-style facelift. Google's social network is adding Pinterest-like collections to its platform, the company announced Monday. Collections allow Google+ users to group similar posts into topic-based sections, which appear in the new "collections" tab on Google+ profiles.Continue reading

It seems Google is trying to bring an end to all the fake "diagnoses" resulting from folks searching for their symptoms and arriving at the wrong conclusions — or at least alleviate the problem.An image posted to Reddit shows a Google search for kneeContinue reading

MakerBot CEO Jenny Lawton Jenny Lawton took a somewhat circuitous route to the helm of 3D printing leader MakerBot. Before joining the company as “Head of People” in 2011, Lawton spent ten years in retail, running her own bookstore in Greenwich, Connecticut. AndContinue reading

Google's new privacy policy went into effect Thursday, and after hacking through the document and comparing it to the old policies, two things are apparent — the document has been re-crafted with a strong emphasis on mobile and cross-platform sharing. In order to take fullContinue reading

Is Android fully open? Well, no, but quasi-open gets most developers to exactly where they want to be. The gooey center of Google's pitch to developers to make apps and services for Android is a series of terms easily misunderstood, but central toContinue reading

Google is working on technology that would deliver data at speeds of 10 gigabits per second, 10 times the bandwidth of current Google Fiber connections, according to a new report in USA Today. "That's where the world is going. It's going to happen,"Continue reading