Since launching the original Pixel and Pixel XL, Google has released a number of exclusive apps to customize the user experience. The latest is a Pixel Sounds app that was just uploaded to the Play ...

But with the Google Maps location data from Android smartphones, something else is possible: You can see at a glance where you have been particularly often and where you rarely go. This is made ...

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I haven’t seen a cool music visualizer since Milkdrop landed all those years ago, but today Google’s dropped a surprise HTML5 visualizer for its music service. If you’re a Google Play Music user, ...

Visualizers were the sort of thing that I kind of assumed had died with Windows Media Player and Winamp. But Google says no. Google says you must have motion with your music. If you needed another ...

A few months ago, Google Earth Blog wrote about some attempts to produce some basic anaglyphic (red-blue glasses required) stereoscopic screenshots so you could see “3D” in Google Earth. However, ...

Every year Google creates a summary Zeitgeist feature to sum up the year in search data, showing what has been the most popular among its users. Now, it’s rolling out Top Charts, a new monthly series ...

Augmented Reality (AR) applications are all the rage right now and the consumer future of the technology looks to be much brighter than that of virtual reality. But, that’s a debate for another time.

Google’s been logging data about hot trends ever since you started tip-tapping search terms into its front page, but now it’s gone and made it look damn pretty with it. The new full-screen ...