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Today marks the 155th anniversary of the Pony Express. The Pony Express was a mail service that started in 1860. It is how our mail service got started. Google thought that it would be fun to have a game about the Pony Express when you log in. It is fun but I kinda suck at it!

Wow! There are a ton of social media hangouts around our lives now. Pinterest, MySpace, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter ...

If you have a tablet or smart phone, then you have probably downloaded the free game 'Flappy Bird'. If you want to keep the super basic, yet couch-slappingly-frustrating game, make sure to not delete it from your device! As of Sunday, Feb. 9, it is no longer available in either the Apple or Google app stores. Now, iPhones that have already installed the most thumb cramping game ever are being sold

My mom recently purchased a Google Chromecast streamer in her efforts to cut the cable cord. It allows her to stream services like Netflix, Hulu, and NHL Gamecenter. Knowing what's new on Netflix is really helpful to people who spend a lot o time using it, but don't know what they want to watch. Hopefully, this will help you sort through your instant que!

If you're anything like us, you probably have no idea what day it is. Well, it's Monday, April 1st. Yes, it's April Fool's Day, which means that Google is planning to pull the wool over our eyes all day long. Here are some of the pranks they're pulling, in case you are super-gullible...

Washington is one of 37 states sharing a fine paid by Google for alleged privacy violations during mapping for its "Street View" feature.

As news reports come out of Newtown, Connecticut this morning we keep hearing residents say they can't believe it happened there. Indeed, this 300-year-old town of 27,000 residents is indeed "sleepy" and rural by most standards. The game Scrabble was invented there and it is, or was, home to both the author and illustrator of the Magic School Bus series, author and illustrator Steven Kel

I've seen a couple friends on Facebook and Twitter saying they have see a car rigged up with some weird cameras. It is the Google Maps Street View car and it is currently taking photos in Benton, Kittitas and Yakima counties.

On Thursday, Google changed it's front-page logo to a playable 10 stringed instrument to mark late guitar legend Les Paul's birthday. Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello decided to see what he could play on it. Check out the video after the jump.

Today, Google is paying tribute to the late guitar pioneer Les Paul with a guitar-themed doodle that allows users to play it and record songs of their own. The doodle, which was designed by engineers Kristopher Hom and Joey Hurst and doodle team lead Ryan Germick, will be up for 24 hours, and was released to celebrate what would have been Paul's 96th birthday. (Paul, a leader in the development of