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The mobile world is celebrating a momentous anniversary today: Android is ten years old. The T-Mobile G1 (and Android 1.0) made its debut on September 23rd, 2008, launching both a new operating system and a new era. It didn’t look like much in those early days, but it eventually became the dominant mobile platform and […]
If you’re in the US and use Bing as your search engine on mobile, you might start coming across AMP’s lightning bolt in the results page. While Microsoft already uses AMP in some of its apps, including Bing, it’s only now that the search engine has started implementing Google’s open-source technology for its search results […]
While Google employees push back against and lawmakers ask questions about a rumored version of its search engine for China — with censorship and blacklists for terms like human rights, democracy or protest built-in — The Intercept revealed more details about how it might actually work. According to its sources, a “Dragonfly” prototype was built […]
Google A new Google product, launched on Wednesday, is worth considering for anyone who thinks they needs better protection for their personal data and files. You can now buy the Titan Security Key from Google. It’s a little dongle that you plug into your computer or pair with your phone to help keep your accounts […]
Google’s most expensive speaker option is finally available in the US. It’s certainly taking the tech giant some time to release Home Max in markets outside North America, but it’s at least making its way to more places around the globe — it also arrived in Australia a few weeks ago. Mountain View created Home […]
Google recently added Voice to its enterprise G Suite, and the revamped app has now arrived for iOS users. As suggested by the redesigned icon (which strongly resembles the Hangouts Dialer icon), its main job is to give users calling features via standard telephony over and above what you’d expect on regular apps. As such, […]
Enlarge / Fortnite‘s season five outfits and cosmetics. If XDA’s report is accurate, Epic Games won’t have to give up 30 percent of Android purchases of these outfits to Google. (credit: Epic Games) Reports estimate that Epic Games’ free-to-play shooter Fortnite racks up millions of dollars per day, and that number may continue to grow […]
(credit: Aurich Lawson) In light of the $ 5 billion EU antitrust ruling against Google this week, we started noticing a certain classic Ars story circulating around social media. Google’s methods of controlling the open source Android code and discouraging Android forks is exactly the kind of behavior the EU has a problem with, and […]
Enlarge / Hellllloooooo Chrome OS tablets. (credit: Valentina Palladino) Chrome OS took over schools with clamshells, but now Google is shaking things up with slabs. After a spring announcement, Acer has built the first Chrome OS tablet, the $ 329 Chromebook Tab 10, to give teachers and students a more flexible device to use for […]
A New York state bill that would outlaw ‘revenge porn’ has been shelved until next year, after a late lobbying effort by tech giant Google succeeded in blocking a vote in the state Senate. The bill, which existed in legal limbo since 2013, was pushed through the State Assembly after a New York Post article […]
