Tone. Introducing Preemptible VMs, a new class of compute available at 70% off standard pricing. Many developers are going beyond web services and are leveraging the cloud’s scalability and pay-as-you-go nature for other compute-intensive workloads.
They’re accomplishing tasks such as video encoding, rendering for visual effects, and crunching huge amounts of information for data analytics, simulation, and genomics. These use cases are a great match for cloud computing, as they consume a large volume of compute resources but typically only run on a periodic basis. Today we are introducing Google Compute Engine Preemptible Virtual Machines, in beta for all customers in all regions. Preemptible VMs are the same as regular instances except for one key difference - they may be shut down at any time. While that may sound disruptive, it actually makes them a great choice for distributed, fault-tolerant workloads that do not require continuous availability of any single instance. Some of our customers are already saving money with Preemptible VMs:
Convservation Through Google Earth. This POODLE bites: exploiting the SSL 3.0 fallback. Today we are publishing details of a vulnerability in the design of SSL version 3.0.
This vulnerability allows the plaintext of secure connections to be calculated by a network attacker. I discovered this issue in collaboration with Thai Duong and Krzysztof Kotowicz (also Googlers). SSL 3.0 is nearly 15 years old, but support for it remains widespread. OpenRefine: Refinery for Big Data. Los Angeles planning to bring free, fiber-based internet to its 3.5 million residents.
This year has already brought Google Fiber announcements to Provo, UT and Austin, TX — and AT&T has plans to try and keep up with Google as well.
Now, it looks like Los Angeles is getting involved in the fiber-based internet game with a massively ambitious project to bring fiber to all of its 3.5 million residents and businesses. According to a report from Ars Technica, the city wants all of its residents to have free access to this network, with speeds ranging from 2Mbps to 5Mbps; that free tier might possibly be subsidized by advertising. Additionally, paid tiers will offers speeds of up to one Gigabit. The city will issue an RFP (request for proposal) for this ambitious project next month, with the buildout estimated to cost somewhere between $3 billion and $5 billion.
Los Angeles, however, will not be footing the bill for this rollout. Lmctfy: Contained Google. Google Web Designer. Google-glass-kernel-source - Google Glass kernel GPL source - Google Project Hosting. “Save what’s on your mind and remember anything... Google Reader lived on borrowed time: creator Chris Wetherell reflects. You would think that Chris Wetherell, an early creator of Google Reader (and part of the team that eventually made it happen) would be feeling sorry for himself Wednesday night — after all, Google had just decided to euthanize a product he (and others) had spent countless months building.
And yet, he was in good sprits, focusing instead on good things that were happening in his life — his new startup, Avocado (an intimacy application much like Pair and Couple) finally has a new office and is growing like a weed on the Android platform. He has ample money from investors such as General Catalyst and Lightspeed Venture Partners. So perhaps that is why he doesn’t want to dwell on the past. Wetherell, who spent four years on the product left Google and later joined Twitter, co-started Thing Labs and worked on Brizzly before arriving at his new idea.
When I asked the Beaverton, Oregon, native about his emotional state, he quietly pointed out that he has had years to prepare for today. GSF2013. Start now Sign up now for the competition.
Register I want tohelp my cousin get well. I’m good atBuilding things,I want toHelp my Grandmother. Scanning books Open Sourced. Ngram Viewer 2.0. Posted by Dave Thau, Senior Developer Advocate Google's GeoEDU Outreach program is excited to announce the opening of the second round of our Geo Education Awards, aimed at supporting qualifying educational institutions who are creating content and curricula for their mapping, remote sensing, or GIS initiatives.
If you are an educator in these areas, we encourage you to apply for an award. To celebrate the first round of awardees, and give a sense of the kind of work we have supported in the past, here are brief descriptions of some of our previous awards. Google. Building Spanner, how, why and what of this great... Spanner: Google's Globally Distributed Database. Dive into the Great Barrier Reef with the first underwater panoramas in Google Maps. Today we’re adding the very first underwater panoramic images to Google Maps, the next step in our quest to provide people with the most comprehensive, accurate and usable map of the world.
With these vibrant and stunning photos you don’t have to be a scuba diver—or even know how to swim—to explore and experience six of the ocean’s most incredible living coral reefs. Now, anyone can become the next virtual Jacques Cousteau and dive with sea turtles, fish and manta rays in Australia, the Philippines and Hawaii. Get up close and personal with sea turtles at Heron Island, Great Barrier Reef Starting today, you can use Google Maps to find a sea turtle swimming among a school of fish, follow a manta ray and experience the reef at sunset—just as I did on my first dive in the Great Barrier Reef last year.
You can also find out much more about this reef via the World Wonders Project, a website that brings modern and ancient world heritage sites online. Explore more underwater images. Google News turns 10. Google News launched on September 22, 2002—exactly a decade ago.
Inspired by the widespread interest in news after the September 11 attacks, we invested in technology to help people search and browse news relevant to them. Google News broke new ground in news aggregation by gathering links in real time, grouping articles by story and ranking stories based on the editorial opinions of publishers worldwide. Linking to a diverse set of sources for any given story enabled readers to easily access different perspectives and genres of content. Google's Javascript Leak Finder. Google Fiber Brings 1Gbps Internet Speed. Google Javascript API Playground.
Google Compute Engine, introduced at this year’s... Google Maps Made Easy and Quick. CSS3 Google Buttons. TCP Fast Open: Exchange on Handshake. TCP Fast Open[ Today’s web services are dominated by TCP flows so short that they terminate a few round trips after handshaking; this handshake is a significant source of latency for such flows.
In this paper we describe the design, implementation, and deployment of the TCP Fast Open protocol, a new mechanism that enables data exchange during TCP’s initial handshake. In doing so, TCP Fast Open decreases application network latency by one full round-trip time, decreasing the delay experienced by such short TCP transfers. We address the security issues inherent in allowing data exchange during the three-way handshake, which we mitigate using a security token that verifies IP address ownership.
Thialfi: Notification Service at Google. Thialfi[ Ensuring the freshness of client data is a fundamental problem for applications that rely on cloud infrastructure to store data and mediate sharing.
Thialfi is a notification service developed at Google to simplify this task. Thialfi supports applications written in multiple programming languages and running on multiple platforms, e.g., browsers, phones, and desktops. Applications register their interest in a set of shared objects and receive notifications when those objects change. Things, not strings. Cross-posted on the Inside Search Blog Search is a lot about discovery—the basic human need to learn and broaden your horizons. But searching still requires a lot of hard work by you, the user. So today I’m really excited to launch the Knowledge Graph, which will help you discover new information quickly and easily. Take a query like [taj mahal].
For more than four decades, search has essentially been about matching keywords to queries. To a search engine the words [taj mahal] have been just that—two words. Google BigQuery: Running SQL-like Queries Against Very Large Datasets. Introducing Google Drive... yes, really. Just like the Loch Ness Monster, you may have heard the rumors about Google Drive. It turns out, one of the two actually does exist. Today, we’re introducing Google Drive—a place where you can create, share, collaborate, and keep all of your stuff. Whether you’re working with a friend on a joint research project, planning a wedding with your fiancé or tracking a budget with roommates, you can do it in Drive.
Thialfi: A Client Notification Service for Internet-Scale Applications. TCP Fast Open. Visit the Amazon on World Forest Day with Street View. Google Publishes Portions of a Search Quality Review Meeting. In what I’ve noticed to be an about-face for Google, the entire company has become more open and social in the past six months. These changes have happened ever since Larry Page was named CEO and Google+ was released. There’s more than meets the eye to these changes, and it has nothing to do with trying to compete with Facebook. Today, the search team at Google did something for the first time.
It published an eight minute excerpt of a “Quality Launch Review” meeting that took place on December 1st last year. The video, which might not be entertaining to most, is the first time we’ve gotten a behind-the-scenes look at how decisions are made about Google’s search algorithm. Inside Google and Facebook’s India Courtroom - India Real Time. Research Blog. Posted by Dave Thau, Senior Developer Advocate Google's GeoEDU Outreach program is excited to announce the opening of the second round of our Geo Education Awards, aimed at supporting qualifying educational institutions who are creating content and curricula for their mapping, remote sensing, or GIS initiatives.
If you are an educator in these areas, we encourage you to apply for an award. To celebrate the first round of awardees, and give a sense of the kind of work we have supported in the past, here are brief descriptions of some of our previous awards. The next stage in our redesign. Six months ago we started rolling out a new look and feel for Search, News, Maps, Translate, Gmail and a bunch of other products. Our goal was to create a beautifully simple and intuitive user experience across Google. We’re now ready for the next stage of our redesign—a new Google bar that will enable you to navigate quickly between our services, as well as share the right stuff with the right people easily on Google+.
Instead of the horizontal black bar at the top of the page, you’ll now find links to your services in a new drop-down Google menu nested under the Google logo. We’ll show you a list of links and you can access additional services by hovering over the “More” link at the bottom of the list. Click on what you want, and you’re off. Google chronicles the evolution of search (video) Interview with google's founder Sergey Brin. Increasing transparency and choice with ads on search and Gmail. Our advertising system is designed to show the right ad to the right person at the right time. Because ads should be just as useful as any other information on the web, we try to make them as relevant as possible for you.
Over the coming weeks, we’re making improvements to provide greater transparency and choice regarding the ads you see on Google search and Gmail. Soon, you’ll be able to learn more about these ads by clicking the "Why these ads" link next to ads on Google search results and Gmail. “Why these ads” gives you transparency The perfect search ad answers your query and gets you what you’re looking for quickly. Restaurant Ratings. Making local online advertising easy with Google AdWords Express. Today, we're officially introducing AdWords Express, a faster and simpler way to start advertising online in under five minutes. How Google+ is built. Offer in Portland, OR - $7.50 for $15 of vintage clothing and goods. Hats off to the winners of the inaugural Google Science Fair.
What Do You Love? Tonight, watch the Google Science Fair final event live. The young scientists of the world have proven themselves truly impressive people—inventing technologies to improve the accuracy of prosthetic devices, developing video-audio memory aids for dementia patients and improving switch designs to prevent train derailments. “Download map area” added to Labs in Google Maps for Android. (Cross-posted from the Mobile and Lat Long Blogs)
Google+ contributor and Mac pioneer talks with CNET (Q&A) Thirty years ago, Andy Hertzfeld was a young computer engineer working at Apple Computer on the first Macintosh under the leadership of Steve Jobs. As Jobs had repeatedly promised the small team, their creation would change the world, and he was right. Google, Virgin America partner to push ChromeBooks, free WiFi in the clouds (the real ones) The Google+ Story and Backstory. United States vs. Google (revisited) « Who invented e-mail? | Main | Another study points to advantages of printed textbooks » An update on Google Health and Google PowerMeter. Google Translate welcomes you to the Indic web. Go Inside Search to get the most out of Google. Knocking down barriers to knowledge. Leaked specs for beastly Google Nexus 4G may win carriers' hearts. Helping publishers get the most from display advertising with Admeld.
Google I/O in a Nutshell: All the News You Might Have Missed. Chromebook. Google Translate. Google Fiber And Creating the Next Generation ISP: Broadband News and Analysis « Google APIs Now Support OAuth 2.0. Gmail accidentally resetting accounts, years of correspondence vanish into the cloud? (update)