In a recent announcement made via a Google+ post, tech giant Google said that it will stop running Flash ads in January 2017; and, thereafter, all display ads run by the company will be 100 percent in HTML5.

According to recent documents filed by Google's parent company, Alphabet, with the US Federal Communications Commission
(FCC), the company evidently plans to test wireless charging on its self-driving cars.

On Wednesday, Google Fiber announced the launch of a new program under which free gigabit-Internet service will be offered to residents of some select affordable public housing projects which are connected to the fiber optic service in US cities.

Google's parent company Alphabet has revealed in a Wednesday announcement that the testing of the company's self-driving cars will be expanded to Kirkland, Washington, towards the end of February.

The announcement implies that Kirkland will soon become the third city in which Google will be testing its self-driving cars.

In an announcement made on Wednesday, tech giant Google said that it has rolled out an updated version of its Chrome browser for the Apple iOS mobile operating system, in an effort to deliver substantially improved performance and reliability as compared to the earlier browser version.

During the course of an interview with German weekly Welt am Sonntag, Daimler CEO Dieter Zetsche said that his recent trip to the Silicon Valley has revealed that the progress made by Apple and Google on their automotive projects is much more than what he had anticipated.

American multinational technology company Google could soon announce its new online-based photo sharing and storage service. According to reports, the Google’s service could be announced at the upcoming I/O event. The Mountain View headquartered company has been rumored for some time to be working on a separate service focused on photos.

Two of the 18 surviving teams contesting for the Google Lunar Xprize said that they are all set to have their interesting race against each other on the dusty plains of the moon. The winner of the race will claim for the top prize award money of US$20 million.