Google App Engine finally supports PHP, the language that runs 75% of the web

The biggest web company on the planet just added support for the most widely used programming language on the planet.

How cognitive science and user empathy powered Google’s design breakthrough

Google has gone from a company that approached design through cold, hard algorithms to one that's employing gorgeous, user-centric interfaces.

Google’s I/O experiment unites sensors, ‘big data,’ and the cloud

Google used 400 custom-built data-sensing "motes" to collect 150 million database records during Google I/O. Here's how the team built the devices and collected the data.

GamesBeat weekly roundup: Google’s game service, EA axes online passes, and a look at The Last of Us

If you follow VentureBeat but don’t regularly check our GamesBeat site, here’s a list of the best video game stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed.

Check out this early Glass prototype & the upcoming prescription Glass [PICS]

"I will never forget the first day on the team. I walked into a room full of people wearing these crazy things on their heads. ... It was like a cell phone strapped to a scuba mask."

What hardware is Google making after Glass? Mary Lou Jepsen knows

"Google X is the hardware division of Google," Jepsen said. And while she couldn't say too much about the hardware follow-up to Glass, she gave the I/O audience a few clues.

Google Glass apps are easy to develop, but brutally difficult to design well

The screen size is more limited than any other modern screen, so what is presented on the display must be drop-dead simple. Compared to these challenges, building the tech is a cakewalk.

Apple hits 50 billion app downloads, just ahead of Google

It's a good thing Apple hit the number today, because if they waited even another week, the Cupertino company might have been second-best to Google's Android

Larry Page is sad, hopeful, and frustrated in his heartfelt Google I/O speech

Google CEO Larry Page delivered a heartfelt speech at Google I/O today, saying the we've only accomplished 1 percent of what we can in technology.

‘OK Google,’ your conversational search is awesome as hell (video)

Normally, when a company claims that it's bringing the helpfulness of a Federation starship's onboard computer to everyday technology, I sort of roll my eyes and prepare to be disappointed -- except this time that didn't really happen.

Google Play for Education could kill the iPad in schools

Google announced a new education program that will help teachers manage and push out apps and other educational content to classroom Android tablets.

Google Glass is for dorks — and doctors

Don't let its enormous dork factor blind you to the real-world possibilities of Google's augmented-reality glasses.