Agile Enables Google Developers to Find Success in FailurePatrick Copeland, senior engineering director at Google, explains how the company uses their own version of agile-based methodologies to drive their teams to be more creative and unafraid to fail. From the speed of delivery to the quality of the finished product, agile is working at Google.
Are Data Centers Harming the Environment?Since The New York Times’s explosive piece on data centers and their apparent harmful effects on the environment came out, members of the tech media and industry have voiced their concerns about what the article got wrong.
Making the Environment Pay for the InternetThe world's largest companies have built massive data centers that use—and waste—an unbelievable amount of electricity. What steps are being taken to reduce the energy usage of these companies without disrupting the constant service that we've all come to rely on?
Mixed Feelings on Facial Recognition Software AdvancementsThe advancements in facial recognition software are being met with excitement and skepticism. While companies and even the US government are claiming to be upfront with the technology's abilities, it's the way it will be used in the future that worries some people.
Google Goes High Tech at New York Fashion WeekGoogle recently introduced its latest technology product, Google Glass, at New York Fashion Week. The reviews are now in for this wearable computing and augmented reality glasses technology that Google hopes we will be wearing in the form of half-glasses next year.
A Roundup of iPhone 5's New Software FeaturesAlthough critics in the tech media seem to have turned their backs on Apple with the release of the newest iteration of the iPhone, the general public apparently can’t get enough of the new super phone. Here’s a roundup of a few of the iPhone 5’s new software features.
Three Cases of Hacking You Should Know AboutIn this roundup, we learn that hackers either have—or don’t have—millions of Apple user IDs, how to protect your company's precious data, and Google is hosting an upcoming hacking competition in which the winner will take away $60,000.
Google’s Go—A Scalable Programming LanguageChuck Allison shares his thoughts on the newly released Google Go programming language, which is a lightweight, systems programming language designed with concurrency, scalability, and the web in mind.