The Best Tech Gifts For 2017
A review of the best gifts to get for the techie in your life this holiday season.
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A review of the best gifts to get for the techie in your life this holiday season.
There's plenty to love about Thanksgiving – family, food, football – but if there's one downside, it's the traffic.
Google's self-driving car spin-off is accelerating efforts to convince the public that its technology is almost ready to safely transport people without any human assistance at all.
Target Corp. joins Walmart and Home Depot among others in partnering with Google on voice shopping.
Google says it's canceling the registration of neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer for violating its terms of service, after it posted an article mocking the woman who was run over and killed at a white nationalist rally in Virginia.
A memo written by a male engineer at Google about gender differences sparked a quick rebuttal from Google after it circulated widely online.
Online expert David Erickson shares who's Googling you, and how you can better control what pops up first.
After a seven-year legal battle, European authorities came down hard on Google on Tuesday for taking advantage of its dominance in online searches to direct customers to its own businesses, fining the tech giant a record 2.42 billion euros ($2.72 billion) and raising the prospect of more.
While Minnesotans often boast about the beauty of our lake-dappled state, we apparently have trouble spelling the word "beautiful."
Several schools have already sent out notifications to students, including the University of Minnesota and University of Wisconsin.
Some students in Wisconsin took a break from reading, writing and arithmetic for a lesson on internet safety. On Thursday morning, Google's Online Safety Roadshow made a stop at Hudson Middle School in Wisconsin.
Julio Ojeda Zapata, the tech writer for the Pioneer Press, joined Esme Murphy on WCCO Sunday Morning for an annual tradition: going through his top gift picks for the holiday season.
Google is changing its operating structure and will become part of a holding company called Alphabet.
A group of tech-minded teens from the Twin Cities is on the summer trip of a lifetime this week. It's an all-expenses paid, hands-on field trip to Silicon Valley.
Some Twin Cities ninth graders are headed to Silicon Valley in California for an intensive technology camp. They were selected by a husband-and-wife team that work for Google. Steve Grove grew up in Northfield but now lives in the San Francisco area.
Larry Page of Google has something to brag about to his CEO friends. A new survey from "Glassdoor," an online job and salary review site, listed CEOs of major companies based on their approval rating.
The University of Minnesota has been named one of the top employers in the nation. The list by Forbes consists of 500 employers out of 200,000 companies nationwide. They ranked the U of M as the 10th best in education and 65th best overall.
How smart do you think you are? Because you may not be as intelligent as you think. A new study from the American Psychological Association suggests that instant, online access to information may be inflating people's sense of their own intelligence.
Move over grape salad! Minnesotans apparently love their salmon dishes, according to data from Google Trends. The Huffington Post has compiled a list of the most-Googled recipes by state, and it seems we just can't get enough of that leaping fish.
Any parent knows how tough it to shop with young children. And every retailer knows how tough it is to lure shoppers into their brick-and-mortar stores. Target and Google have teamed up to create an in-store interactive video game that will attract shoppers with kids. That game is being rolled out Thursday in only four Target stores nationwide, including one in Roseville.
Patting his notes for emphasis, Sen. Al Franken made an impassioned case: The Internet needs to be free for all, he said, not customized so that big corporations can optimize it.
On average, we send and receive more than 100 emails every day. One study found 28 percent of our work time is spent on emails. Even with all of that time, those messages can quickly pile up.
The only things Minnesotans are interested in as much as sports like rollerblading and football are personal injury lawyers, according to a new map created by the real estate website Estately.
In a couple of weeks, college students will be graduating -- and hopefully interviewing -- for jobs in their chosen fields.
Thursday morning, Twitter became a publicly traded company. Stocks soared and put the value of the social-media company at more than $30 billion. So with Twitter in the news, we wondered about one of its most well-known symbols -- the hashtag.
