Google's Hangouts group chat and video feature now supports one-to-one chats and a full history feature to go back in time. more »

The new version of Google Maps includes user-generated street views and live images of Earth's cloud patterns. According to Google: "The map is the user interface." more »

Etsy has closed down a custom synth maker on the grounds that his wares were not "handmade", in spite of evidence to the contrary. more »

On a daily basis, 15 per cent of queries submitted have never been seen before by Google's search engine. more »

Anti-piracy lawyers are telling suspected pornography pirates that they'll be contacting neighbours and family to "investigate" the downloads. more »

Google has announced just ahead of its I/O conference that free storage across Google services — Gmail, Google+ and Drive — is leaping from 5GB to 15GB. But why? more »

This intriguing, but extremely buggy, service lets you link multiple accounts for potentially unlimited storage for your files and music, all free of charge. more »

With the Nbar extension, Firefox will understand what you mean when you make a typo while entering a URL into its Awesomebar. more »