Google (NASDAQ: GOOGL) is continuing its integration of Google Assistant in more services as it looks to compete with Amazon’s Alexa and even Apple’s Siri when it comes to payments.

You could be forgiven for assuming that Glass, Google's head-mounted augmented-reality device, had been effectively dead since 2015. But as Google's sister company X, the Moonshot Factory, announced on Tuesday, the project has been pivoting to a business-to-business model over the past two years. The new, updated version of the device is known as Glass Enterprise Edition, and it's been put to use at companies like Boeing, DHL—and in physician's office.

When Google released a new enterprise version of Glass on Tuesday, a bevy of headlines suggested Glass was back, but It never really left. Even though the Explorer program aimed at consumers ended in January, 2015, Google has continued to sell Glass to businesses. In that context, yesterday’s release wasn’t a comeback so much as a continuation of an enterprise strategy for Glass that the company had been pursuing all along. Yesterday’s announcement simply made it official.

What's that strange feeling? Almost like I've seen a ghost. Oh, Google Glass isn't dead after all? That'll be it. There have been recent signs that the seemingly abandoned experimental wearable might be making a return in one form or another, more than 2 years after the Glass Explorer Program officially ended. The first was an update to the MyGlass app last month, after lying dormant for nearly 3 years.

Google's aging face computer gets a firmware and companion app update.

Not surprisingly, no one at the Alto Tech booth at CES wanted to call its Cool Glass a knockoff of Google Glass. Sure, it looks almost identical. The name’s nearly the same. But Alto Tech representatives said that it developed a custom fork of Android to power it, and that the applications it developed were proprietary. (There’s an SDK for developers to tap into, too.) But I’ve used Glass, and unless my memory deceives me, Cool Glass offers nearly the same experience at a fraction of...

The smartest thing about these "smart" glasses? They look just like the ones you already wear.

19 January, 2015. That's the date that Google decided to can its Google Glass Explorer program, leaving early adopters (delightfully known by many as Glassholes) wondering what to do with the expensive piece of wearable kit. The failed X Lab project is by no means dead though. Renaming its wearable division Project Aura, Google decided put Tony Fadell, the man who helped build the iPod, iPhone and Nest thermostat to go back to the drawing board with Glass.

Get ready for the rebirth of Google Glass. Details were recently uncovered that indicate Google is working on an upgraded version. However not aimed at the general consumer, but at the enterprise market. According to 9to5google, this upcoming edition will pack a larger display prism, Intel Atom CPU and the ability to connect an external battery pack — all upgrades critical for enterprise users.

"we’ve heard that the screen is “better” than the one found on the Explorer Edition.", "Battery life is definitely improved, according to sources"

Google Glass looks set to be making a comeback mere months after leaving the market following testing of a mysterious piece of Google hardware

For the last 25 years, I have looked very closely at the adoption cycle of products, and I have learned something very important. Seldom does a product — especially a hardware product — find favor quickly with the broad consumer market. Video recording devices were refined and used in professional markets for more than a decade before VCRs made it into the living rooms of consumers. PCs spent well over a decade in offices before they became cheap enough for the home and made sense for consumers.

The new version of Google Glass, the search giant's Web-connected eyewear, may be here soon. The chief executive of Italian eyewear company Luxottica, Massimo Vian, said his company is working on the new product, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal. He said it's coming soon, but did not give a specific timeline. Luxottica, the company behind Ray-Ban and Oakley, has partnered with Google since last May to make frames for the device.

When Dr. Darren Phelan started wearing Google Glass more than a year ago, he did it with some trepidation. Though the internal medicine physician thought the novel device might help him at work, he was unsure how patients would react. Now, Phelan dons the smartglasses daily in his concierge medicine practice in Menlo Park, California. A Glass app transcribes his conversations with patients and updates their records, and he no longer needs to spend up to 90 minutes a day manually typing up notes.

Astro Teller, the man who led the Google Glass program has explained exactly where he believes the company went wrong.

The announcement that Google is reorganizing its Glass division, moving it to a stand-alone space and out of Google(x) labs, a research area, is being pitched by the company as a “graduation.”

Technically Incorrect: Google insists that Google Glass is moving onward and upward. But in withdrawing it from sale, isn't the company admitting that people really didn't want it?

Do you love smart glasses? Are you proud of the device that you wear on your face on a regular basis? Well, participate in GlassAppSource’s smart glasses selfie fashion show contest. This year GlassAppSource.com is running a contest called the “Smart Glasses Selfie Fashion Show Contest” where people can …

Footage broadcast directly to Dubai Police operations room from officers on patrol. Police in Dubai are currently testing the use of Google Glass for traffic police officers to use on the scene of an accident to send live feed to the operations room. This is just the most recent use of Google Glass that Dubai Police have tested for integrating the device into traffic police work.