Our current understanding of Alphabet's layout. (credit: Ron Amadeo)
It's that time of the year again—welcome to the Google Tracker! This is a bi-annual series where we recap every ongoing project (that we know about, at least) inside of Google's sprawling empire.
Though from now on, perhaps we should say, "Every ongoing project inside of Alphabet's sprawling...
The coming of the new year gives us an opportunity to both look back wistfully and look forward with hope. It also offers a chance to look back with anger and toward the new year with a sense of cynicism and schadenfreude. So, in the interest of curdling your eggnog a bit, we're dusting off Ars' tech...
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It has now been 2.5 years since the first Snowden revelations were published. And in 2015, government surveillance marched on in both large (the National Security Agency) and small (the debut of open source license plate reader software) ways.
Within the past year, Congress voted to end Section 215 of the Patriot Act—but then...
Oculus' latest Touch controller image doesn't look much different than the model we tried out in June. (credit: Oculus)
Want to simulate waving your hands around in virtual space? 2016 should be a very good year for you, with burgeoning VR hardware makers HTC, Oculus, and Sony all gearing up to launch motion-tracked VR options by way...
