During the course of Thursday proceedings in the ongoing legal scuffle between Google and Oracle, Larry Page -- CEO of Google and its parent company Alphabet -- testified in federal court, defending Google's development of the Android mobile operating platform.

In a recent blog post, distinguished Google hardware engineer Norm Jouppi has shared details about an 'accelerator chip' called Tensor Processing Unit (TPU), which the company has been using since April 2015, to speed up its machine learning systems.

The Google TPU accelerator chip is named after the TensorFlow software which is used by the company for its machine learning programs.

In a Thursday post on the company blog, Alphabet Inc. subsidiary Google announced the launch of a new open-source neural network framework called SyntaxNet, along with a new English language parser -- Parsey McParseface -- which has been trained using SyntaxNet.

A proposal has been put forth by a team of Google employees to the Unicode Consortium this week, suggesting the creation of "a new set of emoji that represents a wide range of professions for women and men." Unicode Consortium is a non-profit group which approves new emojis.

Tech giant Google has joined forces with automakers Ford and Volvo, as well as ride-sharing service Uber and Lyft, to form a new coalition which will seek faster action from lawmakers and regulators in bringing self-driving vehicles to the market.

On Wednesday, European competition authorities unveiled charges against Alphabet Inc.'s Google subsidiary over its widely-used Android mobile operating system. According to the authorities, the strategies which enable Google to make money from its Android OS are anti-competitive.

In an announcement made on Monday, tech giant Google has revealed that it presently has tests underway of a new Android app which will enable users to control some primary functions on their device with the help of voice commands.

The new accessibility software which is currently being tested by Google is dubbed ‘Voice Access’; and it is in beta, as of now.

Google has officially released its Nexus Security Bulletin for the month of April. The bulletin marks the rollout of the latest monthly security update by Google for its Nexus mobile devices.