Europe and Africa code weeks: 136,000 students learn to code
Within the next 10 to 15 years, 90 percent of all jobs in Europe will require some level of technology education, and now is...
Improving real-time data for newsrooms everywhere
Earlier this year, in close collaboration with local news publishers, we created Realtime Content Insights (RCI) to help newsrooms around the world make quick,...
How ultrasound sensing makes Nest displays more accessible
Last year, I gave my 74-year-old father a Nest Hub for Christmas. Over the following months, I noticed he would often walk up to...
Minimize distractions and get things done with Android’s Focus mode
It’s that time of the year again—the home stretch before the holidays. It’s when we rally to make end-of-year deadlines or put our heads...
How I’m making Maps better for wheelchair users like me
If you visit a city and don’t see anyone using a wheelchair, it doesn’t mean they’re not there. It means the city hasn’t been...
11 ways Google is making life more accessible
On December 3, 1992, the United Nations founded the International Day of Persons with Disabilities to promote the well-being of people who have disabilities....
Google Disability Support now includes American Sign Language
There are 466 million people in the world who are deaf and hard-of-hearing, and products like Live Transcribe and Sound Amplifier help them communicate...
Psh, think you can guess the top GIF expressions of 2019?
LOL. Yasss. SMH. The internet has long been where words (and of course, acronyms) solidify their place in the English language. But the web’s...
Google Play’s Best of 2019
2019 took us to distant worlds and brought us together with new apps, games, movies and books. We answered the Call of Duty, made...
Creating stargazing apps and the perfect loaf
Editor’s note: Maurizio Leo is a software engineer-turned baker, and co-founder and developer of SkyView, a stargazing app that uses your camera to identify...
