Chrome was developed using Apple's open-sourced WebKit rendering engine, but now Google's popular browser is branching out.

Typing out 140 characters is even faster now that Twitter for Android has features like username and hashtag suggestions

The dominant Chinese search engine, Baidu, has confirmed that it is following in Google's footsteps by working on an pair of futuristic specs.

Google Nexus 7, take 2. Rolling... we could see the budget slate sport a better screen, more power and a new low price soon.

Google crossover between Android and Chrome OS may come in the form of an Androidbook laptop.

It's D-day for Google, which will be investigated by six European countries over the way it collects data between services.

Updated You've seen the YouTube closure jape, but that's just one of many tricks to emerge from Mountain View.

Clerks director, actress Alyssa Milano, actor Neil Patrick Harris and rapper Souljia Boy among first to get AR specs.

In Depth Speech tech goes way beyond Apple's Siri. Here's a bunch of cutting-edge developments in speech recognition tech.

Google has begun offering same-day local delivery in San Francisco with Google Shopping Express, and Bay Area residents can help test it.

The iPad mini 2 is surely coming down the pipes, but does that account for Apple cutting shipments of the first mini?

Google Maps Engine Lite has gone into beta, letting amateurs create and share all their local need-to-know info with the rest of the world.

Hey you! Yes, you with the hashtag! You've won a Google Glass as long as you can cough up a thousand bucks! Oh wait, not really - you haven't won squat.

The Play Movies app for Android tablets is getting a boost, with a new feature that can identify actors on screen and display information about them when movies are paused.

Those expensive Google Glass Explorer Edition glasses may be assembled in the U.S., where Google can oversee production.

Blip What ideas will get to join Project Glass' Explorer Program? A lucky few will know soon enough.

Blip The Language Council of Sweden has had to remove the "word" "ungoogleable" from a list of new words because it refused to cite Google in the definition.

Blip Motionless images? Pah! Google laughs at you.

The wait for the super-connected new Chromebook is almost over...or at least less vague as Google offers a solid ship date.

Mail, Calendar and People for Windows 8 will be more useable this time tomorrow, as Microsoft plans to update its core apps.

There's no escaping photo filters, with Google+ the latest social network to tout trendy tinges for uploads.

Based on user feedback, Digg now has a solid plan for the foundations of its Google Reader replacement.

Steve Kondik was generous with his praise of the Galaxy S4, and even teased CyanogenMod support for the new device.

The latest Nexus 5 talk pegs the Google-made handset as going small on the screen but big on battery life and snapper.

Google isn't the only one with an eye on wearable head tech, with Sony seemingly eyeing up a double lens competitor of its own.