Google's Play Store is coming to Chromebooks. In the battle for the future of the PC, Google just notched a win and opened the door for further gains later this year. Chromebooks topped the Mac for the number two spot in PC shipments for the first quarter of 2016, becoming the second-most popular PC platform in the US behind Microsoft's Windows. The news, made public by tech website The Verge, which quoted an analyst from research firm IDC, was shared by Google CEO Sundar Pichai. The company also laid out plans to improve its Chrome OS line of computers, announcing at its Google I/O developer conference that Android apps will be coming to the platform.

Going by the headlines, it often seems as though the future of transportation is already within our grasp. Depending on which experts you ask, self-driving cars are just five to 10 years from hitting the roads. The rise of ride-hailing apps such as Uber and Lyft point to a world of super-mobility, where on-demand software combined with driverless technology will enable teens, seniors and the disabled to get around without ever needing a car of their own. Airborne drones will revolutionize shipping and logistics, while the Hyperloop promises to cut long-distance commutes down to a matter of minutes. And yet, data still suggest this future is much, much further off than media reports project.

The ability of video games to entrance people for hours on end have made them the stars of Sony's balance sheet. Now, the company's embattled film studio is hoping a movie based on a mobile game can change the score at the box office. Rovio Entertainment's "Angry Birds" was released in 2009 and has since been downloaded more than 3 billion times, but seven years is a long time in the world of pop culture. Sony Pictures Entertainment hopes there's still enough magic in the video game to make it the foundation of a true and much-needed children's film franchise for a studio still reeling from a high-profile computer hacking incident and some tepid recent movies. But Sony's been on a hot streak with its console gaming business, and it may be a game-based film that has enough worldwide appeal to reset its box office performance.

Nasa has announced that it has found evidence of flowing water on Mars. Scientists have long speculated that Recurring Slope Lineae -- or dark patches -- on Mars were made up of briny water but the new findings prove that those patches are caused by liquid water, which it has established by finding hydrated salts. Several hundred camped outside the London store in Covent Garden. The 6s will have new features like a vastly improved camera and a pressure-sensitive "3D Touch" display

Everything IT professionals, IT managers, and businesses need to know about Google I/O 2016. Below you can find a summary of what was announced, along with a live blog of the event and our predictions prior to the event. Google stopped short of unveiling a new VR headset, as many had predicted, but one of the most eye-catching announcements was Daydream. Arriving this autumn, Daydream is billed as the VR platform for Android. Google is working with Android manufacturers to create devices that can run a high-end VR experience.

THEY don't drink, they don't get tired and they don't go on strike. To hospital managers, the idea of robots operating on patients without human intervention is an attractive one. To patients, though, the crucial question is, "are they better than human surgeons?" Surgery is messy and complicated. A routine operation can become life-threatening in minutes. Such considerations have meant that the role of robots in operating theatres has been limited until now to being little more than motorised, precision tools for surgeons to deploy--a far cry from the smart surgical pods and "med-bays" of science fiction.

The self-driving car is far more imminent than people realize. Think of all the truckers who will be out of a job, if you thought Taxi drivers had it rough. It's also going to change Uber and transportation in general. That's a lot of work-hours spent in commuting, valuable time which we will be able to be more productive. Can you imagine what driverless cars will do to the automobile insurance agency?

With a bulky camera eye and spindly hydraulic arm, this medical robot looks like it could fit in on an automotive production line. It carefully scans soft, sticky intestinal tissue and delicately weaves stitches with unmatched surgical precision. Indeed, with no guiding hand from its fellow doctors, it is the best in the world at performing the medical operation it was designed for. It is performing surgery all by itself. The surgical bot is named STAR, or Smart Tissue Autonomous Robot, and it just performed the world's first autonomous, soft-tissue surgery.

Google diving deeper into virtual reality and artificial intelligence during an annual conference that serves as a launching pad for its latest products and innovations. Virtual reality and artificial intelligence, or "machine learning," will be among the focal points at the Google I/O developers conference, kicking off Wednesday. That has spurred speculation that Google is getting ready to release a virtual-reality device to compete with Facebook's new Oculus Rift headset, as well as the Samsung's Gear VR and the Vive from HTC and Valve. "2016 is already the year of VR," writes CNET's Sarah Mitroff. "[Google] has shown off Cardboard, its low-cost portable VR viewer initiative, for the last two years, and this year we're certain to see new developments."

It is hard to miss the warnings. In the race to make computers more intelligent than us, humanity will summon a demon, bring forth the end of days, and code itself into oblivion. Instead of silicon assistants we'll build silicon assassins. The doomsday story of an evil AI has been told a thousand times. But our fate at the hand of clever cloggs robots may in fact be worse - to summon a class of eternally useless human beings.