Communications Major

Gmail attempts to make life easier by scanning your messages and reminding you of pending events, but you can pick what you want to be nagged about.

Traveling without easy access to wi-fi is problematic. Google has a new  tool that allows users to be in a place without Internet access — whether on a sidewalk in New York City or a back road in Tuscany — and pull up a map that lets them get directions and use turn-by-turn voice navigation, as well as search for places (art galleries, restaurants, hotels, museums) and see details including hours, phone numbers and reviews.

In case you thought you were missing out...you're not.

Wondering who that woman on your Google search page is this morning? It's Shakuntala Devi, astrologer, child prodigy and mental calculator. Who would have been 84 years old today. Devi passed away in 2013. 

Book critics are divided over the quality of Dave Eggers’s highly anticipated novel “The Circle,” which has started a debate on whether technology is invading our lives.

"Boomers in particular like to call my generation entitled, narcissistic, and basically useless Internet addicts who are too distracted by Tumblr to get a real job (or at least, they would say that if they knew what Tumblr is). It's true that we are attached to the Internet, although so are many boomers. But the omnipresence of the Internet in many millennials' lives is shaping how we react to the world around us. And that's not necessarily a bad thing."

Nielsen has released their report about the most widely used mobile apps in 2016. The top 8 apps were all owned by just two corporations: Google and Facebook. And even though 88% of Americans now…

In Google’s first public statement about its barges floating near California and Maine, it said they would be used as showrooms for people to learn about new technology.

Google Maps Street View has provided a man in Portland, Ore. with what may be the last photograph of his deceased grandmother.

Made ya think, huh!

To mark 151st anniversary of French composer's Claude Debussy's birth, a Google Doodle/animation on Thursday was set to Clair de lune, one of his best-known pieces.