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BeyondWords Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk’s alleged affair with the wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin prompted the couple’s divorce earlier this year, according to a report published Sunday. The Wall Street Journal reported that Brin, who along with Larry Page co-founded Google in 1998, filed for divorce from his wife of nearly four years, Nicole Shanahan, in January just weeks after learning that she had a brief affair with Musk in December.

Google opted against highlighting the 78th anniversary of D-Day on its search engine’s “Google Doodle” on Monday, choosing instead to present an animation celebrating the birthday of Angelo Moriondo, the investor of the espresso machine. “Today’s coffee-stained Google Doodle is in honor of Angelo Moriondo, the Italian innovator who created the espresso machine,” noted 9to5Google of the search engine’s accompanied espresso-themed animation. The Masters of the Universe completely ignored that June 6 is also the anniversary of the D-Day invasion, a pivotal moment of World War II

The Rumble app on my Android phone is downloading slow and won't play video. Same thing when I go to their website through the Opera browser. But it works fine through Roku. Anyone else having this issue?

Is this satire or a documentary?

Yesterday Google launched Google Hotel Finder, a "search tool specifically designed to help you find that perfect hotel," explains Google software engineer Andrew McCarthy on Google's blog. This isn't exactly innovative on Google's part, plenty of hotel search sites exist--Expedia, Priceline, Orbitz, to name a few. And it's not like they're even the first search engine to integrate travel plans into their site. Bing has a travel section, where users can search for ideal lodging. What makes Google's new site different or better than what you're already using? We're here to help you figure that out, parsing the differences between...

The popular hard hitting I Love South Africa but Hate my Government blog at: iluvsa.blogspot.com was pulled by Google in another Google act of censorship. The blog took a critical look at the policies of the government as well as publicizing the escalating genocide against White & minority farmers as publicly noted by the President of Genocide Watch Gregory Stanton. It also occasionally took a look at the valid distinction of Boer identity from the bulk of the non-Boer descended [ Cape Dutch ] Afrikaners & their long struggle for independence & self determination. The blog was opposed to violence...

With Chrome OS, Google aims to make the Web the primary platform for software development. Google (NSDQ: GOOG)'s plan to release its own operating system based on its Chrome browser is at once audacious and laughable. Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) Windows represents slightly less than 90% of the personal computer operating system market, a position it has held for years. Google's industry ally, Apple, has managed to steal a few percentage points of market share away from Microsoft in the past twelve years under the singular leadership of CEO Steve Jobs. But Windows remains the dominant operating system, more dominant even...

Google is learning that $704,000 in political donations to Obama doesn't buy protection ......four federal probes are looking into how Google does business with investigations into its hiring practices and questions by the FTC about directors who also sit on the board of Apple Inc.........several key Google execs have taken jobs in the Obama admin.....Andrew McLaughlin, was Google's high-powered lobbyist and head of its global public policy. And Schmidt has appeared at Obama's side as a star member of the President's Council of Advisers on Science and Technology. One probe focuses on a deal between Google and authors over putting...

The google logos for today (June 6) D-DAY a solemn day of American sacrifice and courage to rescue europe from the grips of the most evil dictator of our times are: 25th Annivesary of Tetris (A Video Game) Alexander Pushkins Birthday (Super Lib Poet!!!) Swedens National Day Pathetic....

It was June 6, 1944 that the crucial Normandy Landings occurred that formed the spearhead of the Allied invasion of Nazi held Europe. D-Day ultimately led to the victory of the Allies over the despotic Nazi regime. Now here we are on June 6, 2009 and, in its inimitable way, Google has decided to memorialize the important occasion by adding an image on its homepage depicting... the computer game Tetris. Yes, it's far more important to Google to celebrate the anniversary of the invention of the video game Tetris than to memorialize D-Day. It just warms the heart, doesn't it?Read...

The rumor mill is in full gear today over speculation that Google may acquire Twitter. The news comes from two separate and unnamed sources that claim talks between Google and Twitter are in the late stages, according to TechCrunch's Michael Arrington. However, Arrington says he has spoken to a third source that says talks are just in the early stages. Arrington says his third source claims the talks may only result in the two companies collaborating on a real-time search engine for Google. There's no word on how much a Google-Twitter deal could be worth, but most estimates put it...

For more than a year, Google has been able to provide an answer to the question "Where am I?" Now it can also answer "Where are the people I care about?" On Wednesday, Google announced an upgrade to its mapping application that lets people track friends and family members in 27 countries around the globe, using a PC or a mobile phone. While some people might find this development a bit creepy or intrusive, others say such location-tracking services are surprisingly useful and fun. More than a million people have signed up for Loopt and Where.com, two of the most...

Google's rumored "GDrive," a service that would enable users to access their PCs from any Internet connection, could kill off the desktop computer, The Guardian has reported. The GDrive, unconfirmed by Google, is reported to launch this year, with tech news sites calling it the "most anticipated Google product so far." The Google drive would shift away from Microsoft Window's operating system, in favor of "cloud computing," where storage and processing is done in data centers. Users would no longer have to rely on their computers' powerful hard drives. Home and businesses have been turning toward web-based services, such as...

Go to Google, type "failure" and hit "I'm feeling lucky". Jerks.