Food and water security are among the most pressing problems facing the world today. According to the United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the world will see a 60% increase in demand for food by 2050. And according to the World Health Organization, since 2019, an additional 122 million people are experiencing hunger, due […]

In 2006, Mike Wiacek stepped into Google’s Mountain View offices, beginning an almost 14-year journey. He founded Google’s Threat Analysis Group and co-founded Chronicle, an Alphabet cybersecurity venture now a part of Google Cloud. Today, Mike summarizes how his experiences as a Googler shaped the way he built Stairwell, his new company. While cybersecurity may […]

Editor’s note: Today we hear from Space and Time, whose decentralized data warehouse and novel zero-knowledge (ZK) proof for SQL operations was recently integrated into BigQuery. Read on to learn more about how Space and Time is working to improve Blockchain-based smart contracts for the Web3 space, and how to use their technology within the […]

Do you wonder about the carbon footprint of that Mexican mango you bought in a New York bodega to brighten your winter day? What about a Normandy Camembert for sale in a Parisian cheese shop? If you answered yes, keep reading. Agriculture contributes to 30% of global greenhouse gas emissions, consumes 70% of the world’s […]

The World Economic Forum has ranked biodiversity loss as the fourth largest global risk over the next ten years, driven in large part by climate change. Recently, companies have been increasing their commitments to nature and biodiversity. However, decision makers don’t fully understand how business decisions impact nature. Geospatial technologies, combined with AI and analytics […]

Every year the world loses around 10 million hectares of forest, while deforestation alone accounts for 11% of greenhouse gas emissions. As world leaders convene at COP28 to discuss today’s theme of nature preservation, it’s important to focus on legislation — an essential factor in combating climate change. And to realize significant impact, it’s also […]

To operate a thriving business, it is important to have a deep understanding of your customers’ needs and extract valuable insights from their feedback. However, the journey of extracting actionable information from customer feedback is a formidable task. Examining and categorizing feedback can help you discover your customers’ core pain points with your products, but […]

Managing and auditing data access can be very complex at scale, in particular, for a fleet of databases with a myriad of users. Today, we are introducing IAM group authentication for Cloud SQL. With this launch, you can take advantage of better security, simplify user management and database authentication at scale, and empower database and […]

In October, we partnered with Hack2skill to conduct the </Code> with Maps Hackathon in India. The challenge to hackathon participants was to build or expand an existing app to incorporate rich location experiences using Google Maps Platform APIs and SDKs to solve a problem relevant to India. More than 7,500 developers registered and their innovative […]

For the sixth consecutive year, Gartner® has named Google a Leader in the 2023 Gartner Magic Quadrant™ for Strategic Cloud Platform Services. Over the past year, we have continued to invest in platform and go-to-market capabilities that have an immediate impact on the speed and simplicity of building solutions on Google Cloud. We are focused […]