Google Virtual-Reality System Aims to Enliven Education

As part of a class last year on “Romeo and Juliet,” 

Jennie Choi, an English teacher at

 Mariano Azuela Elementary School in Chicago

 took her sixth-grade students on a tour

 of Verona, the

 Italian city where Shakespeare’s play transpires.

“It’s not always about the most spectacular

 images,” said Jennifer Holland, 

program manager for Google Apps for

 Education. “It’s also about being able to 

see different things

 that you otherwise wouldn’t.

Google Gets Set for a Product Event

Apple hosted an event to introduce its latest iPhones,

 iPad and Apple TV. On Tuesday,

 Google plans to hold its own such event

Yahoo decided to go ahead with spinning off its 

Alibaba stake into a separate entity, despite

 uncertainty after federal tax authorities declined 

to rule in advance on whether the transaction

 would mean huge capital gains taxes for Yahoo 

or its shareholders. Yahoo shareholders

 had been looking forward to the spinoff

so by keeping it on track, Marissa Mayer, the

 company’s chief executive,

 gets to keep those shareholders happy

Mars Shows Signs of Having Flowing Water

Scientists have for the first time confirmed

  liquid water flowing on the surface of present-day

  

Mars, a finding that will add to speculation

 that life, if it ever arose there, could persist now.

Facebook and Google

Facebook and Google, two digital advertising

 powerhouses, took the stage to introduce services 

meant to lure 

an even bigger portion of digital marketing dollars

Facebook and Google are behemoths in

 online advertising. In the United States, Facebook 

is projected to have $7.7 billion in total digital

 ad revenue in 2015, and Google is projected

 to have $23.3 billion, according 

to the research company eMarketer