The world’s most popular search engine is all grown up. With its Motorola Mobility acquisition set to be approved any day now, it’s finally ready to “be evil.” Sources indicate the company is finally ready to build its own hardware, as opposed to having OEMs build Google-approved mobile devices.

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Google ready to build hardware, preps wireless music system

Nowadays, we don’t need to worry that our smartphones, tablets and laptops don’t come with enough storage because we’re getting more comfortable storing our data in the cloud . Google’s reported to be close to launching its own massive cloud storage service tentatively called “Drive.”

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Google to launch its own cloud storage soon, undercut Dropbox

It’s hard to believe that just seven months ago Japan was rocked with an earthquake and tsunami . In good taste or not, Google had its Street View team drive over 27,000 miles through the torn up region to update its panoramic maps. The views remind us all just how catastrophic a natural disaster can be.

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Google Street View updated with Japan’s tsunami-damaged ‘hoods

The central fixture in many of our favorite spy movies are those massive displays that allow you to peek in on any part of the world. Well, thanks to a group of designers in France , such a display now actually exists.

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Paris creates the largest Google Earth display ever

It probably won’t surprise you that Google has a fleet of eight private jets. And as anyone with a fleet of eight private jets knows, finding a good place to stash them is never easy. Google has its eye on borrowing an old hangar at NASA’s Ames Research Center, and not just any old hangar. It’s the big one.

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Google may rent out massive NASA hangar for private jet fleet

Forget about next-gen Xboxes or PS4, the next console most gamers will play on might just be one that’s free. Google is planning to add gamepad support to its Chrome Web browser, essentially turning it into a game console.

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Google turning Chrome browser into a console with gamepad plug-in

All aboard the YouTube movie rental train! Disney’s the newest YouTube movie passenger and its bringing a handful of classic and new movies in exchange for a small fee.

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YouTube gets Disney movie rentals starting today

For today’s image we ask — what’s your Google-ing style? Do you keep to the first few pages of your search? Or do you stray into the dark nether regions of the Google ooooooo’s?

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Image of the Day: are you a Googlephile?

There’s nothing we like better than the words “secret lab.” So when we learned the secret lab is at Google — tasked with coming up with 100 big ideas that could radically change the way we live — we got positively giddy.

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Google has a secret lab tasked with thinking up 100 crazy ideas

Google is planning to test out a new cable service, complete with high-speed internet and TV, in Kansas City. Could the rest of the country be next?

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Google plans cable TV services in Kansas City