Will Google’s new Nexus Q, the H2G2-42, be the answer to life, the universe, and everything?

In Douglas Adams' book The Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy, a vast computer named Deep Thought spends several eons constructing an answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything.

Technology 2012: The year’s winners and losers

In every year, there are winners and losers: companies, devices, operating systems. Here's our look at some of the biggest successes and failures of 2012.

YouTube Android app update adds second screen features to Google TV

Google has added some awesome new features to its YouTube Android app today that greatly increase the Google TV experience.

Google wisely delays Nexus Q consumer launch

Tech giant Google is holding off on launching its expensive streaming media bowling ball, the Nexus Q, to the public, the company announced today.

Google first announced the streamer nearly a month ago at its Google I/O developer event. The …

Limited to limitless? Nexus Q hack adds support for Netflix and other apps

Thanks to the hacker community, Google’s new media streamer, the Nexus Q, isn’t just an expensive Tron bowling ball with limited functionality.

In a developer forum, hacker kornyone revealed today that he was able to unlock the Nexus Q, install …

Google Nexus Q teardown reveals a big ball of boring

We’re still not sure what Google hopes to accomplish with its $300 Nexus Q media streamer (I suspect even Google isn’t sure), but that’s not stopping the folks at iFixit from ripping Google’s  bowling ball apart.

But if you were …

Nexus Q hides secret ‘Magic 8-Ball’ voice recognition feature

By now, everyone has heard about Google’s shiny new media streamer sphere, the Nexus Q, but not everyone has seen what it has to offer.

It seems that the company has embedded a cool little Easter egg feature in the …

Can Google’s Nexus Q media streamer play games? Sort of

Google’s freshly announced Nexus Q media streamer may be designed for music and movies, but developers have already used the device for something different: games.

Philippe Hausler, a developer at software company Apportable, managed to get the Android game Swords …

Nexus Q hands-on: The “Q” stands for “que the heck?”

We had some time to unbox and set up our Nexus Q from Google I/O, and the results were what they were.

Basically, it allows you to use a Jelly Bean Android device to control videos, movies, music, and images …

‘Airplay’ for Google TV? You need a $300 TRON bowling ball for that

Today, Google announced its slick-looking media streamer the Nexus Q, which allows people to share the digital media from their Android devices on a television. This is a feature that Apple began offering nearly a year ago via the Apple …