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Today’s Google Doodle celebrates Jerry Lawson, the ‘father of the video game cartridge’
Google is honoring gaming pioneer Gerald "Jerry" Lawson with an interactive Doodle that lets you play as Lawson and create your own levels.
You can help two lovelorn hamsters reunite with Google's Valentine's Day doodle
Winning this mini-game will lift your spirits and (almost) make you forget you're single.
Google Doodle pays tribute to Stephen Hawking
To pay tribute to Stephen Hawking for what would've been his 80th birthday, Google worked with his family to create a Doodle using his famous voice.
Today's Google doodle is an anime-infused sports game
Google's latest doodle marks the start of the Tokyo Olympics with an interactive sports game that lets you play table-tennis and skateboarding.
Google marks Juneteenth with a video doodle and historical information
Along with many other corporations suddenly moved to demonstrate a deeper understanding of issues facing Black people in the US, Google is, for the first time, posting a doodle for Juneteenth.
The latest Google Doodle celebrates the Apollo 11 anniversary
Google wouldn't let the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing go by without a Google Doodle. The company released its commemorative video Doodle today. The nearly five-minute animated clip follows Apollo 11 from launch, to the Moon and back, and it's narrated by someone with firsthand knowledge of the mission: Apollo 11 command module pilot Michael Collins.
Google's first AI-powered Doodle is a piano duet with Bach
Google has created its first ever AI-powered Doodle to celebrate Johann Sebastian Bach's birthday, and it can turn your tunes into masterpieces in the Baroque composer's style. Starting on March 21st, you'll be able to play with the interactive Doodle, which will prompt you to compose a two-measure melody or pick one of the pre-existing choices. When you press the "Harmonize" button, it will use machine learning to give you a version of your melody that sounds like it was composed by Bach himself.
Make time for Doctor Who's birthday Google Doodle puzzler
Today's Google Doodle is of the wibbly-wobbly variety, namely a Doctor Who-themed game celebrating the British TV show's 50th anniversary tomorrow. It's an isometric puzzler reminiscent of 80s Atari classic Crystal Castles, and in it you guide a pixelated Doctor past traps and obstacles as you hunt for letters that spell out, funnily enough, Google. For a five-minute distraction, there are plenty of references to the cult sci-fi show's half-century of history, from the terrifying statues of "Blink" to the eleven different Time Lords you can play as - each time you die, you of course regenerate as another Doctor. Don't be fooled by the timer in the image above; The game really does take just a few minutes or so to complete, but it adds a minute to that clock each time you die, as a penalty. Suffice to say, the final of the five levels is not the easiest; more Time Lords died in my playthrough than in the Last Great Time War. To play the game, head over to Google's UK front page.
Roswell incident's 66th birthday celebrated with interactive Google Doodle
Depending on your point of view, today's either the 66th anniversary of an Air Force experiment gone awry or an alien landing. With tongue firmly in its cheek, Google is celebrating the Roswell incident, the most (in)famous of alien encounters with one of its interactive doodles, in which you help an extra terrestrial rebuild his spaceship after it breaks apart in New Mexico. Once you've done that, you can then kick back with an X-Files box set or two -- assuming you're not into the adventures of doe-eyed alien teenage romance.
Happy 540th Birthday, Copernicus, have a Google Doodle
It may be obvious now, but when Heliocentrism was cooked up by Nicolaus Copernicus, he was branded a heretic. The idea that the Earth orbited the Sun, conceived without the aid of any equipment, would only be proved half a century later, when Galileo built a telescope and pointed it heavenward. Fortunately, ol' Nick's contribution hasn't been forgotten, and so today's Google Doodle shows the planets all gently orbiting our nearest star.
Google Doodle celebrates Ada Lovelace, the world's first computer programmer
Today's Google Doogle celebrates the 197th birthday of Ada Lovelace, the pioneering mathematician who is regarded as the world's first computer programmer. Responsible for the first algorithm designed for Babbage's Difference Engine, even if the machine wasn't built in her lifetime, she envisaged a future where computers could create music and images. Every October, a day of celebration is held in her honor, designed to raise awareness for women's achievement in the fields of science and technology. If you'd like to know more about her story, head on over to Google and click on her portrait.
Google pays tribute to Star Trek with latest doodle, red shirts still can't catch a break
Dammit, Jim, I'm a doctor not a Google logo.
Doodle friday: End your week with a penalty shootout
Relive the nail-biting insanity and inherent unfairness of soccer's penalty shootout over at Google right now, as you try to match our first-attempt score of 18 points and two gold stars. (We'll update this post as soon as an Engadget editor gets a result we can be proud of.) It's a ballistic way to end a run of Doodles that has already involved canoeing, hoops, hurdles and all-round Olympic work avoidance. Post your scores here at your own risk. Update: Did we say 18? We meant 81, but forgot to take a grab, so officially we'll have to make do with a top score of 34.
Latest Google Doodle rides the rapids
Google continues its flirtation with the Olympic Games in London today, with another playable Google Doodle. Today's Doodle threatens productivity everywhere by challenging searchers to clear a rocky, frog-infested canoe slalom course.In case you missed them, previous Olympic Doodles took to the court with basketball and conjured up a little Track & Field with a hurdles race. Unfortunately, you can't ... erm ... boost your odds with an NES Advantage this time around.
Hit the rapids with Google's latest Olympic doodle
It's time to pound the arrow keys again for Mountain View's latest Olympic doodle game, a whitewater slalom canoe challenge. The idea is to speed through the course with the left/right keys in the best time while using up/down to avoid rocks and the riverbank. Our intrepid web paddlers managed a time of 18 seconds so far, and you can post your own time in the comments below -- if you dare.
Google keeps the interactive Olympic doodles going, tests your spacebar with a game of hoops
If your keyboard survived yesterday's track & field test, the folks in Mountain View have posted another interactive doodle to satisfy your Olympic dreams. This time around, you can give arcarde-style basketball your best shot by tapping on your spacebar to get into a rhythm from the charity stripe. Once you hit that blue play button, you'll have 24 seconds to give the main search page your best Kevin Durant. A chance for Google+ bragging rights awaits your fingers via the source link below.
Google's Olympic doodles get interactive with button-mashing hurdles
Google has already churned out quite a few of its trademark doodles for the Olympics, but it's upped its game considerably today for its depiction of the hurdles. Pressing that red play button on the search engine's front page will let you test your Track & Field skills (and your keyboard's sturdiness) in an interactive event -- one where you can, naturally, also share your results on Google+ when you're finished. Hit the source link below to give it a go yourself.
Today's Google Doodle takes to the Track and Field
We can totally push buttons faster than you, and today's Google Doodle proves that. It's basically a web-based take on NES favorite Track & Field, paying homage to the currently-in-progress 30th Olympiad in London, and we scored a gnarly 15.4 seconds. Can you run down a virtual track and leap hurdles faster than our convention-grizzled blogger hands? Go ahead and try us, punk! Spoilers: You probably can.
Google's Turing doodle celebrates his genius, reminds us how dumb we are (video)
This week sees many corners of the globe celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of Alan Turing. A man whose contribution to the worlds of tech and gadgets is immeasurable -- a sentiment not lost on Google. Today, geeks and norms worldwide will be waking up to possibly the most complex doodle to date. Can you set the machine and spell out "Google"? If you can, you'll be sent off to lots more information about the man himself. This isn't the only thing Mountain View's done to keep his legacy alive, having previously helped Bletchley Park raise funds to purchase (and display) Turing's papers, and more recently helping curators at London's Science Museum with its Codebreaker - Alan Turing's Life and Legacy exhibition. If you haven't already, head to Google.com and pop your logic hat on, and if you get stuck, head past the break for a helpful video.
Google goes Moogle, celebrates Moog's birthday with interactive doodle
It's time to surrender another afternoon to an interactive Google doodle. The search engine has outdone itself in celebration of the late-Bob Moog's birthday. The electronic music pioneer was born on May 23rd, 1934. Seeing as how the anniversary isn't until tomorrow, the doodle hasn't actually hit our Google front page. Thanks to the magic of timezones, however, you can check it out on some of the company's many international sites, as our colleagues at Engadget Japanese pointed out. Google's really outdone itself here, you can play the synth doodle by tapping on the keys with your cursor, or by hitting the numbers on your keyboard. Naturally, there are plenty of knobs to fiddle with, and you can also record your musical experiments for posterity. Get switched-on with the music awesomeness in the source link below.
