Despite providing the platform and the tools to third-party developers, allowing them too roll out their own video calling applications, Google hasn’t ported its video chat service to the Android operating system just yet. That is all about to change, if a statement made by Twitter user@MAFiA303are to be believed. The individual, who “works with Samsung” posted arevealing messageto his Twitter account, stating that he had been testing Google’s video chat on a Google Nexus S:...

“We had a great quarter, with revenue up 32% year on year for a record breaking over $9 billion of revenue,” said Larry Page, CEO of Google. “I’m super excited about the amazing response to Google+ which lets you share just like in real life.” Google had its Q2 2011 earnings call today where it announced revenues of $9.03 billion for the quarter ended June 30, 2011, representing an increase of 32% compared to last year at this time....

Deep learning shows a lot of promise in healthcare, especially in medical imaging, where it can help improve the speed and accuracy of diagnosing patient conditions. But it also faces a serious barrier: The shortage of labeled training data. In medical contexts, training data come at great costs, which makes it very difficult to use deep learningfor many applications. To overcome this hurdle, scientists have explored different solutions to various degrees of success....

Googlejust announcedthat its lovely red, green and yellowChromeicon got a redesign. The makeover features a flat, 2D version of its predecessor. Since Google is “all about making your web experience as easy and clutter-free as possible,” its new icon embodies this ethos, reflecting a “quicker, lighter, easier” icon for all. Collectively, Google says it explored many variations, trying the icon in several different contexts and refining it along the way. The browser icon is certainly simpler and easier to recreate, which is one of Google’s aims....

Google has announced the newSearch Globe platformthat will help developers visualize the way that users are searching for information around the globe. You can check out the globe now in thisdemothat Google has running but you’ll need Google Chrome or another WebGL compatible browser to do so. Here’s how Google describes the Search Globe’s operation. The Search Globe visualizes searches from one day, and shows the language of the majority of queries in an area in different colors....