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• Google Messages will probably get iMessage-like reactions soon, including those annoying texts

  If you use an Android device, chances are you've been inundated with annoying 'reaction' texts from your iPhone-toting friends ...

  • Napier Lopez

• 4 lessons I learned after spending $6 million on Google Ads last year

  Did you know TNW Conference has a track fully dedicated to exploring how technology will shape the ever-evolving marketing ...

  • Nick Lafferty

• How to turn any long read into a fake podcast with Google Assistant

  Hate reading? Us too. But thanks to Google, you can now ask Assistant to read out pretty much anything on the web — from ...

  • Mix

• Google wants to move UK users' data to the US — here's what you need to know

  It was recently reported that Google was planning to move the personal data of its UK users out of the EU and into the US. ...

  • The Conversation

• Fuck this — you'll soon get push notification ads on iOS

  Yep, Apple's updated App Store guidelines allow developers to send you push notifications ads on iOS. Stop the world, I want ...

  • Callum Booth

• Google algorithm teaches robot how to walk in mere hours

  A new Google robot has overcome one of the fundamental challenges of locomotion by teaching itself how to walk

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Google just canceled the 'physical' portion of its I/O conference

  According to a report from 9to5 Google, the Mountain View company has officially canceled I/O, it's annual developer's conference ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Google’s self-driving biz Waymo eyes expansion with $2.25B cash injection

  In a blog post yesterday, Alphabet's self-driving project, Waymo, announced it has secured $2.25 billion in its latest funding ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• Google's second 'Pixel drop' adds better selfies, more emoji, and new gestures

  Back in December, Google released its first 'Pixel feature drop,' adding a variety of features to its phones well after launch ...

  • Napier Lopez

• Google Stadia's free tier might finally be on the way

  A new Google Stadia update and its code hints that several features users have been missing -- including the free Stadia ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• A new hack uses lasers to send inaudible commands to your Amazon Echo

  A new photoacoustic flaw in voice assistants can render them vulnerable to a number of attacks that use lasers to inject ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Google now supports five new languages on Translate

  Google today revealed it's added new languages to Translate for the first time in five years. The languages are Kinyarwanda, ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• 3 years later, Google Earth finally works on Firefox, Edge, and Opera

  After nearly three years of waiting, Google Earth finally works on browsers other than Chrome, including Firefox, Opera, ...

  • Mix

• Pentagon unveils toothless ethical principles for using AI in war

  The Pentagon has unveiled five ethical principles for the use of AI by the US military, but the ambiguous guidelines won't ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Everything you need to know about Honor’s just-launched 9X Pro

  Honor — Huawei's youth-focused brand — has just announced its new phone: the 9X Pro. In this piece we tell you everything ...

  • Callum Booth

• US: Allow tech giants to opt out of new global tax scheme, or face tariffs

  Saudi Arabia hosted a meeting for G20 members to discuss plans for a global digital services tax over the weekend, and things ...

  • David Canellis

• Android 11 lets you assign shortcuts to a double-tap on the back of your phone

  When I moved from a Pixel 3 to 4, I found myself missing the fingerprint sensor much more than expected. Not because of the fingerprint reader itself - Google's Face ID works surprisingly well - but because I used the fingerprint reader to pull down the notification shade all the ...

  • Napier Lopez

• Google removes 'nearly 600' apps from the Play Store over annoying ads

  Google is cracking down on apps on the Google Play Store with the most obnoxious ads. The company today announced it had ...

  • Napier Lopez

• Google drops gender labels from image recognition to reduce bias

  Google will no longer identify people by gender in its image recognition AI, by removing labels such as "man" and "woman" ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Google Ads is infested with investment scams that earn it millions

  Neither the UK's financial watchdog or Google seem prepared to do much about an epidemic of investment scams on its ad platform. ...

  • David Canellis

• Gmail's new search filter feature will make it easier to find an email

  Despite Google's dominance and expertise in search-related algorithms, it's often hard to find a particular email in Gmail. The company is now trying to solve this problem with a new filter feature called "Search Chips." Here's how it works: After you search for an email with a ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• New Android 11 feature suggests Pixel 5 might support reverse wireless charging

  Last night, Google dropped the first developer preview of its upcoming Android 11 mobile operating system. While the company listed some features such as floating chat bubbles and limited location data access on its blog, there are some nifty hidden features in this version too. Sleuths ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Google introduces one-time location access for apps in Android 11

  Last year, Apple introduced a new control for location tracking with iOS 13, which allowed apps to access your location data only once. Now, Google has followed its footsteps with similar location controls with its Android 11 developer preview. The preview, released today, also ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Google Stadia finally launches on phones that aren't Pixels

  Google is launching Stadia on almost 20 new phones, finally fulfilling some of the somewhat-undercooked platform's potential. ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• How a shady anti-piracy company got Google to take down posts containing the word 'did'

  A copyright watchdog service recently convinced Google to hide Search listings for websites containing the word “did,” ...

  • Tristan Greene

• How Google used AI to supercharge Maps in 2019

  Google has used new machine learning models that enable the service to recognise building shapes and handwritten numbers. ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• How to use Google image search on an iPhone

  Using Google Image search is easy on a desktop. On a phone? Not so much -- but here's how you can do it anyway.

  • Rachel Kaser

• Nope, I refuse to believe this leaked Pixel 5 prototype is real

  We've got what is allegedly our very first look at an early prototype for Google's upcoming Pixel 5 — and it's... something. ...

  • Mix

• Google's Area 120 is bringing lightweight games to low-powered devices

  Google's Area 120 has launched a new project called GameSnacks to bring HTML5 games to low-powered devices with connectivty ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Andy Rubin's Essential is shutting down

  It's been a tough few weeks in the smartphone world. First BlackBerry Mobile announced it would soon stop selling phones. ...

  • Napier Lopez

• Google Earth just released 1,000 beautiful wallpapers you can download for free

  Google has shared hundreds of beautiful wallpapers through its Earth View collection for years now. These images show off stunning sights from satellites, providing an almost surreal birds-eye view of the planet's landscapes and oceans. Today, the company added over 1,000 images ...

  • Napier Lopez

• Google brings super-handy "what's on my screen?" button back to the Assistant

  One of the most useful features Google has introduced for the Assistant is "What's on my screen?" Tapping this function lets ...

  • Napier Lopez

• Google's Meena is impressive, but AI chatbots are still 'cheap imitations' of humans

  This article is part of our reviews of AI research papers, a series of posts that explore the latest findings in artificial intelligence. This week, Google introduced Meena, a chatbot that can “chat about… anything.” Meena is the latest of many efforts by large tech companies ...

  • Ben Dickson

• MIT researchers developed a text-based system that tricks Google's AI

  There are plenty of examples of AI models being fooled out there. From Google's AI to detect images mistaking a turtle for ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Xbox exec insists that Microsoft is no longer competing with Sony and Nintendo

  Xbox head Phil Spencer said the company's two (former?) rivals aren't really part of its designs for the future, and are ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Google makes it easier to buy the latest version of Glass

  Google Glass may have been one of the biggest flops of the decade as a consumer product, but the project lives on in specialized ...

  • Napier Lopez

• YouTube claims to share billions in ad money with creators, unlike Instagram

  Google reported YouTube's earnings for the first time in a decade, and is quick to remind everyone that the "majority" of ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Here’s how much money you made Google by staring at its ads for 20 years

  A whopping 85 percent of Alphabet’s, Google and YouTube’s parent company, revenue is generated by showing you sponsored ...

  • Yaron Yitzhak

• Google Photos tests $8 feature to auto-print 10 photos every month

  Google is apparently working on a subscription service that will print a selection of your photos monthly, then deliver them ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Artist fakes Google Maps traffic jam with 99 phones

  Google Maps changed GPS navigation forever, in part by making it accessible to everyone, in part by helping provide accurate ...

  • Napier Lopez

• Google paid out $6.5 million in bug bounties in 2019

  Google says $500,000 of the $6.5 million it awarded researchers in bug bounties in 2019 went to charity — that's five times ...

  • Mix

• Google's new AI model 'listens' to killer whales to help protect the species

  Google's AI team has developed a new model to protect the endangered species of killer whales known as orcas in the Salish ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Google Translate will soon transcribe recordings in other languages

  The search giant showed off a new transcription feature in the Google Translate app during an event at its San Francisco ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Google is working on another chat app because it hasn't failed enough already

  I shouldn't be surprised I'm writing this article in 2020, but Google is preparing to release another communications app. ...

  • Napier Lopez

• You can now bother Google for tech support with #AndroidHelp

  No, it's not a scam: Google is now officially providing tech support for Android-related questions over Twitter. Just use ...

  • Mix

• A beginner's guide to the AI apocalypse: Wall-E syndrome

  This is the second article in TNW's "A beginner's guide to the AI apocalypse" series highlighting the potential existential ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Google found vulnerabilities in Apple’s Safari that allowed user tracking

  In December, Apple fixed multiple bugs found in its Safari browser that allowed third-party websites to track users' browsing ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• How to turn your iPhone into a Google security key

  Here's how you can take advantage of the latest Google update to turn your iPhone or iPad into a security key to keep your ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Scientists working with Google just published the most detailed brain scans ever created

  Google and its partners at the Janelia Research Campus today released the largest, most detailed set of brain scans ever ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Google wants to reduce your screen time with… an envelope?

  We're all probably addicted to our phones. But, Google has a notable solution to ridding you of your addiction than this: ...

  • Cara Curtis

• Sundar Pichai offers a cryptic warning against over-regulating AI

  Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google and its parent company Alphabet, wants the world's governments to regulate artificial intelligence. ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Sundar Pichai says AI should be regulated, asks governments to step up

  Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai wrote an op-ed in the Financial Times today outlining the need for regulating AI. ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Google's new AI language model can comprehend entire books

  One of the prime challenges of a language-based AI model is to understand the context of the surrounding content. To solve ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Alphabet joins the trillion-dollar club

  Google's parent company, Alphabet, is now the fourth US company to attain a market value of more than $1 trillion, after ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• AlphaZero beat humans at Chess and StarCraft, now it's working with quantum computers

  A team of researchers from Aarhus University in Denmark let DeepMind's AlphaZero algorithm loose on a few quantum computing ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Google is making it easier to browse for clothes directly in Search

  Google wants to make it easier for you to find your style and browse for clothes directly in Search. The company is releasing ...

  • Mix

• Google may soon let you record phone calls on Android

  I'm pretty sure most of have wished we could record our phone calls at one point or the other. I often interview people over ...

  • Napier Lopez

• Google update turns your iPhone into a physical account security key

  Google today updated its iOS Smart Lock app with a feature that essentially replaces a physical security key with your actual phone. Android phones have had this feature for months, but now iPhone owners can also use it. The update notes for the new version of the Smart Lock app ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Bitcoin sextortionists target Google Nest cameras in latest campaign

  Bitcoin-hungry criminals are targeting Google Nest home security camera owners in their latest sextortion campaign — but ...

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• Google topped app downloads in Q4 2019, but Facebook dominated the year

  For the first time in five years, Google has snatched the reigns from Facebook to become the world's top publisher of mobile ...

  • Mix

• Google purged 1.7K malicious 'Joker' apps from the Play Store

  No, we're not talking about the movie. Google has removed 1,700 instances of a family of billing fraud malware dubbed Bread, ...

  • Mix

• Google's improved travel search tools are great for planning trips on a budget

  Last year, when I went to Europe for a month, I spent a lot of time on sites like Hostel World before and during the trip, ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• The UAE is reportedly spying on millions of ToTok messenger users (Update: It's back on Google Play)

  ToTok, an Emirati messaging app, is being used by the government of the UAE to track users' chats and listen in on their ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• Google Assistant now lets you torment roommates with ‘household notes’

  Forget about the good ol' passive-aggressive refrigerator note: Google Assistant will let you leave "household notes" on ...

  • Mix

• Sonos says Google stole its speaker tech, asks for product ban in court

  Sonos has brought two lawsuits against Google for alleged copyright infringement, claiming Google used five of its patents ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Leak: The Pixel 4a looks better than the actual Pixel 4

  Serial phone leaker OnLeaks has a good record of creating fairly accurate renders of phones before they are released. If ...

  • Napier Lopez

• Google lifts ban on Ethereum wallet app it thought was mining cryptocurrency

  On Wednesday, Google restored Ethereum app MetaMask, after it mistakenly removed it from its Play Store for believing it ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• Google's new AI detects breast cancer just by scanning X-ray

  Google's AI team has just developed a new system to scan X-rays to help radiologists in detecting breast cancer. The model ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Social media is fast becoming your customers’ product research tool, so look beyond Google

  The content focus of social networks is making them a prime destination for researching and buying new products; an opportunity ...

  • Alice Fry

• Dodgy Google Chrome extension reportedly causes $16K crypto theft

  A malicious Google Chrome extension has reportedly cost one user Ledger user around $16,000 worth of the cryptocurrency Zcash. ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• 2010 – 2019: The rise of deep learning

  No other technology was more important over the past decade than artificial intelligence. Stanford's Andrew Ng called it ...

  • Tristan Greene

• The 20 biggest tech flops of the 2010s

  Google Glass Google Glass is the embodiment of a product ahead of its time. Few in the tech world doubt that augmented ...

  • Napier Lopez

• 2019 was a huge year for quantum computing

  2019 was the biggest year for quantum computing since, well, ever. It's the year IBM put a quantum computer in a box and ...

  • Tristan Greene

• 2019 in gaming: Subscription services, controversy, store wars, and tragedy

  Another year passes into time's dustbin -- and what a year it's been. For gamers, the year's been rife with controversies ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• How I fully quit Google (and you can, too)

  Over the past six months, I have gone on a surprisingly tough, time-intensive, and enlightening quest — to quit using, ...

  • Nithin Coca

• France fines Google €150 million for abusing its ad dominance

  Google faces yet another antitrust fine as regulating pressure builds up on both sides of the Atlantic.

  • Már Másson Maack

• How Huawei powered through a tough 2019 and came out on top

  Huawei has had a tough year. The company’s fight with the US government impacted its business across the globe, but this ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• [Best of 2019] Why Google Duplex might make my design job redundant

  A year ago, Google blew the world away with Duplex, an AI assistant that can make phone calls for you. The demo went viral ...

  • Tony Aube

• iMessage-style texting is now available on Android across the US - here’s how to get it

  Google completed its rollout of RCS text messaging support on Android last week, and the service is now available on all ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• Google's Verified SMS feature will curb spam in Android Messages

  If you so much as own a cellphone, you've probably come across some kind of spam asking for personal details or linking you ...

  • Napier Lopez

• Microsoft redesigns over 100 icons, including the Windows logo

  Microsoft announced its new Fluent Design system way back in 2017, but it's only recently that we've begun to see the new aesthetic take hold of Microsoft's software. After introducing a new suite of Officeicons last November, the company today revealed it has redesigned over 100 ...

  • Napier Lopez

• Report: Palantir took over Project Maven, the military AI program too unethical for Google

  Palantir, the surveillance company founded by Peter Thiel, has unsurprisingly stepped up to fill the void left behind after ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Chrome now alerts you when someone steals your password

  Google released a new version of the Chrome browser last night with live phishing alerts and improved password protection. ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• iPhone 11 is the only gadget to make Google's 2019 top searches

  Google has shared 2019's most popular searches — and there are some surprising results. There's also a dedicated 'passings' ...

  • Mix

• Gmail now lets you send emails within emails

  Yo dawg, we heard you like emails: Google has rolled out a new feature in Gmail that lets you send emails as attachments ...

  • Mix

• Google Maps' new Incognito mode comes to iOS

  Google normally keeps a record of your rough location, which can be handy if you want to remember a place you've visited recently, or get restaurant recommendations, but kind of creepy at other times. The company recently introduced an Incognito Mode in Google Maps to assuage your ...

  • Napier Lopez

• Google is under investigation over ‘unfair labor practices’ by the Labor Board

  The US National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has officially started a new investigation into Google's 'unfair' labor practices.  ...

  • Cara Curtis

• Google's first 'Pixel feature drop' brings portrait mode to your old photos

  Google today announced some pretty neat news for Pixel owners. Starting today, the company will regularly update its Pixel ...

  • Napier Lopez

• DeepMind's Mustafa Suleyman joins Google AI

  DeepMind and co-founder Mustafa Suleyman have decided to go their separate ways. Earlier this year there were disputed reports ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Google brings the Pixel 4's amazing voice recorder app to older Pixels

  One of the Pixel 4's best features may also be its most unassuming. Not the fantastic camera or cool-but-inconsequential ...

  • Napier Lopez

• Google's developing a feature to show brightly lit streets on Maps

  It appears Google is secretly working on a feature for Maps to steer you away from trouble by highlighting well-lit streets. ...

  • Mix

• Pichai is a mistake

  Silicon Valley is still politely shrugging after the mildly interesting, but definitely important news broke yesterday that Alphabet's founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, also the founders of Google, were “stepping aside” from their leadership positions. In a company blog ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Fired Google employees will charge the company with ‘unfair labor practices’

  Fired former-Googlers plan to file labor charges against the tech giant, accusing the company of letting them go for engaging ...

  • Cara Curtis

• Google rolls out a chat feature in Google Photos — use it before it’s axed

  Google has a notorious habit of launching a new messaging app now and then. The lineup includes – both active and inactive ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin step aside as Pichai becomes Alphabet CEO

  It's a big day in Mountain View. Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin today announced they are stepping down from their ...

  • Napier Lopez

• Don’t trust Google Chrome’s incognito mode

  Privacy is fast becoming a hard-to-earn luxury. As you browse through websites, it’s hard to shake off the creepy ...

  • Ben Dickson

• Google removed over 300 Trump ads for ‘violating company policy’

  Over the summer, Google and YouTube reportedly removed over 300 ads from President for “violating company policy.”

  • Cara Curtis

• Facebook tests tool that allows users to export photos to Google

  Facebook today announced a new tool that would allow users to transfer their photos and videos from Facebook to other storage ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey uses DuckDuckGo over Google

  Unlike the late 90s and early 00s, search engines currently aren't at war with each other.. Google is a clear giant in the ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Google fires 4 activist employees over alleged ‘data-security’ violations

  Last week, over 200 Google employees protested against the company. Now, it has fired four employees for allegedly “violating ...

  • Cara Curtis

• Why you need to teach your kids about data privacy

  Google recently agreed to pay a US$170 million fine for illegally gathering children’s personal data on YouTube without ...

  • The Conversation

• Stadia users report overheating issues with bundled Chromecast Ultra

  It appears Stadia rocks a little too hard for some of the hardware its purported to work on, in this case some Chromecast ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Google employees protest suspension of two activist colleagues

  Googlers are planning a rally today over the suspension of two activist employees who were put on leave for speaking out ...

  • Cara Curtis

• Trust issues loom large over Google's ambitious healthcare plans

  Google's healthcare deal with Ascension has rightly attracted a lot of scrutiny, and now the search giant has stepped in ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Google finally takes a stance on political ads with microtargeting restrictions

  Google has announced a crack down on political ads that limits advertisers from targeting ads based on voters' political ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Google Assistant will now give you a personalized feed of the daily news

  Starting from today, if you say “Ok Google, play me the news,” it'll reply with a personalized playlist of the day’s ...

  • Cara Curtis

• Bug in Google Camera put Android users at risk of being secretly recorded

  Researchers found vulnerabilities in Google's Camera app (and other Android devices), which made it possible for hackers ...

  • Mix

• Google will sell a $15 'Claw' to attach your Pixel to the Stadia controller

  Google Stadia launched to mixed reviews, but it remains an intriguing concept for the future of gaming. If you're one of ...

  • Napier Lopez

• Czech gov wants to slap a 7% ad tax on internet giants like Google and Facebook

  If the Czech government's tax will be accepted by parliament, the Czech Republic will join EU countries like France and Italy ...

  • Már Másson Maack

• Google built a weird DJ rig to promote the Pixel 4's Motion Sense

  The Pixel 4's radar-based Motion Sense was supposed to be the phone's coolest feature. When the 'Soli' sensor inside the ...

  • Napier Lopez

• Hands-on: Google Stadia works as advertised, but lacks a killer app

  While both Microsoft and Sony are waiting until next year to release their next generation of game consoles, Google is beating ...

  • Nino de Vries

• 146 security flaws uncovered in pre-installed Android apps

  Researchers at Kryptowire have uncovered 146 security vulnerabilities in preinstalled apps across 29 Android handset manufacturers. ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Google's new feature will correct your pronunciation

  If you're a Harry Potter fan, you might know how to properly say "Leviosa." But many muggles don't know how to pronounce ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Google is rolling out RCS, text-messaging on steroids, in the US

  Rich Communication Services (RCS) has been a long time coming. Billed as the future of text messaging and the technology ...

  • Napier Lopez

• Google reportedly plans to offer checking accounts starting next year

  A report from the Wall Street Journal indicates Google is getting into the banking industry -- specifically, it'll soon ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Google is rolling out dark mode for Gmail and Maps

  Google has confirmed it's releasing dark mode for Gmail and Maps for Android 10 and iOS 11+, which leaves everyone else with ...

  • Mix

• Instagram now supports dark mode on iOS 13 — here's how to enable it

  Instagram has updated its app for iPhone with a dark mode that matches iOS 13's system-wide dark theme. Here's how to turn ...

  • Mix

• Facebook is secretly using your iPhone's camera as you scroll your feed

  iPhone owners, beware. It appears Facebook might be actively using your camera without your knowledge while you're scrolling ...

  • Mix

• Google confirms plans for a search tool that can analyze millions of health records

  Google partners with Ascension to give it access to personal health datasets that can be used to develop AI-based tools for ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Google wants to create the ultimate medical record search tool for doctors

  Google Health CEO outlines plans to make it easier for doctors to search medical records, and improve the quality of health-focused ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• A laser pointer can trick your smart devices into opening your doors, starting your car

  A thief lies in wait across the street, hiding in the bushes and waiting for the lights of your television to go dark. Once ...

  • Bryan Clark

• Google is purposefully crippling the Pixel 4's brightness to save battery life

  Is anyone feeling deja vu? It seems every year, Google makes puzzling choices with its Pixel displays. The Pixel 2 XL was ...

  • Napier Lopez

• Google updates Teachable Machine so you can train an AI without code

  Machine learning and artificial intelligence are complex subjects and while you might see them being mentioned every day, ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Google open sources Cardboard VR after killing its Daydream project

  After killing its ambitious Daydream VR project last month, Google is making the Cardboard VR project open source. The ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Alphabet is investigating Google's handling of recent sexual harassment claims

  Alphabet’s board of directors launched an investigation into how Google’s executives handle claims of sexual harassment ...

  • Cara Curtis

• Google rolls out fix for the Pixel 4's 90Hz display woes

  Google's Pixel 4 was met with some backlash when users started to figure out the phone's display hardly seemed to stick to ...

  • Napier Lopez

• Google and IBM fight for ‘quantum supremacy’ — but they’re both wrong about it

  Google claims to have demonstrated something called “quantum supremacy,” in a paper published in Nature. This would mark ...

  • The Conversation

• Report: Facebook wanted to buy Fitbit too, but Google offered more cash

  Google buying Fitbit was the big news of the day, but in an alternate universe, it might have been another tech behemoth ...

  • Napier Lopez

• CHEAP: The Google Home Hub is only $70 — buy it

  If you're on the look out for a voice activated assistant, look no further: the Google Home Hub is currently on offer. It ...

  • Callum Booth

• It's official: Google is buying Fitbit for $2.1 billion

  That was fast: Though rumors emerged earlier this week that Google was planning to buy Fitbit, we didn't think we'd hear ...

  • Napier Lopez

• The Google Pixel 4 reviewed... acrostic-ly

  Welcome, one and all, to the world's only acrostic review of the Google Pixel 4 — the content you didn't even know you ...

  • Callum Booth

• Apple and Google remove 50+ apps that served malicious ads

  Apple and Google have cumulatively removed over 50 apps from their respective mobile app stores that were found serving malicious ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Amazon prepares to strike back after Microsoft wins $10B JEDI contract

  Microsoft's been awarded the controversial Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) contract, a $10 billion planned ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Report: Google is trying to acquire Fitbit

  According to a report by Reuters, Alphabet (Google's parent company) is trying to buy Fitbit. The tech giant has made a bid ...

  • Napier Lopez

• Google accused of creating 'surveillance tool' to monitor employees' unionizing efforts

  Google employees have accused the internet giant of creating an "internal surveillance tool" to monitor gatherings of more ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Google is training an AI to predict a molecule’s smell

  With plenty of mics and cameras at disposal, AI has gotten good at 'seeing' and 'listening.' But one human sense it hasn't ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Microsoft is hawking controller clips for phones to prep you for Project xCloud

  Ahead of the launch of its Project xCloud game streaming service, Microsoft has begun talking up a gaming accessory for smartphones. ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• When you Google your company’s name — do you like what you see?

  While many invest heavily in SEO, the importance of branded search results is being overlooked… and that’s arguably the ...

  • Jon Meakin

• The Pixel 4's screen doesn't stick to 90Hz. Here's how to fix it

  Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, ...

  • Napier Lopez

• Google Stadia pre-orders may not ship at launch

  Google's Stadia pre-orders are turning out to be a bit of a mess. Apparently, even those true believers who pre-ordered the ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Google's new live wallpaper will guilt you into using your phone less

  Last night, Google released six new Android apps under its digital wellbeing program to balance your digital diet. These ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Here's why Disney+ may not work on your phone

  Disney+ is set to launch next month with plenty of exciting titles at the offer. But you might not be able to stream all ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Google's Titan key for locking your online accounts is now available with USB-C

  Google has announced a USB-C Titan Security Key, manufactured by Yubico, that's compatible with Android, Chrome OS, macOS, ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Apple under scrutiny for sending Safari browsing data to China's Tencent (Updated)

  Apple attracts scrutiny for using Chinese internet conglomerate Tencent as a Safe Browsing provider to verify if websites ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• The iPhone Pro 11's 4k 60fps recording gives it a leg-up on the Pixel 4

  While the iPhone 11 Pro and the Pixel 4 are fighting for smartphone supremacy, Apple's device has a clear advantage over ...

  • Callum Booth

• RIP: How to stop Google from stealing all your data after you die

  Google lets you chose a truster person to handle your account and data once you die or you can automatically have your account ...

  • Cara Curtis

• Google Maps just made it easier to report traffic incidents

  Few things are more annoying than coming across an unexpected delay in traffic. Thankfully modern mapping services are generally ...

  • Napier Lopez

• iPhone spyware campaign reportedly targeted Uyghur Muslims for 2 years

  The data-stealing iPhone exploits detailed by Google last week may been used for state-sponsored campaigns targeting the ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Hey Google, why the hell doesn’t the Pixel 4's camera app have a pro mode?

  Google is goddamn good at computational photography... which makes me really angry that the Pixel 4's camera app doesn't ...

  • Mix

• PSA: You can now auto-delete your location and web history on Google

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  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• PSA: The Pixel 4 comes with neither earbuds nor dongle

  When Google revealed the Pixel 4 would start $799, I was surprised the company hadn't raised prices over the previous year. ...

  • Napier Lopez

• Pixel 4's 'Face Unlock' works even if you're asleep or dead -- and that's a problem

  Google’s new Pixel 4 smartphone doesn’t have a fingerprint sensor. Instead it relies on “Face Unlock,” a proprietary ...

  • Bryan Clark

• Rant: Google has no good excuse for the Pixel 4's missing ultrawide camera

  "Most popular SLR lenses do magnify scenes, not shrink them. So while wide-angle can be fun, we think telephoto is more important." In ...

  • Napier Lopez

• 6 revelations I had during the Oppo Reno 2's European launch

  We attended the Oppo Reno 2's launch in London and... had some inspiring thoughts about the state of the phone industry throughout. ...

  • Callum Booth

• Google's Datally app for saving on mobile data is dead

  Google’s data-saving app, Datally, has disappeared silently from the Play Store after two years since its release, noted ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Instagram now lets you control which apps can access your account data

  Instagram adding a new feature that allows individuals to "manage all of the third-party services they connect to their Instagram ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• The Pixel 4's Live Captions can transcribe any audio to text (others too, soon)

  One of the coolest new Android features Google announced at I/O this year was the ability to perform real-time captioning ...

  • Napier Lopez

• Google's Daydream VR project is no longer a reality

  Google's senior VP of hardware, Rick Osterloh, talked about sustainability on the stage last night at the Pixel event. While ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Google announces the dual-camera, notchless, & face-unlocking Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL

  Google has announced its new Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL phones, which include a range of exciting updates to satisfy the most ...

  • Callum Booth

• Here's why the Pixel 4 won't be coming to India

  Google launched its new flagship the Pixel 4 today, but sadly the phone won't be coming to India. The reason is supposedly ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Google's new Pixelbook Go is a $649 laptop with 13.3-inch touchscreen

  Google just launched its new laptop called the PixelBook Go with a 13.3-inch touch screen and runs Chrome OS. The Pixelbook ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Hands-on: Google's Pixelbook Go feels way fancy for a $649 laptop

  Leaks don't always give you the full picture. When the Pixelbook Go leaked extensively last week, I found it somewhat underwhelming, ...

  • Napier Lopez

• Every new device at Google's big Pixel 4 event

  Google held its big Made by Google event today, officially revealing the Pixel 4 and a handful of other new products today. ...

  • Napier Lopez

• Pixel 4 hands-on: I almost wish I didn't like it this much

  I'll be honest: I wasn't expecting to like the Pixel 4 all that much. So much of it had leaked that there were few surprises ...

  • Napier Lopez

• Google Stadia set to launch on Nov 19 -- but not for everyone

  Google today revealed the official launch date of its Stadia streaming service -- at least, the date when those who've paid ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Google’s leaked voice recorder app has a built-in transcription feature — hallelujah!

  Update: Google just officially launched it with the Pixel 4 As a reporter, I often need to record interviews or Q&A ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Google’s new Pixel Buds cost $179, have adaptive sound, and arrive next... spring

  Google's $179 Pixel Buds earphones feature a new design, and adaptive volume control. They also promise improved wireless ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• The Google Nest Mini sure looks a lot like the Home Mini

  It's the start of a new week, time for yet another Google leak. This time it's for Google's latest voice assistant device, ...

  • Napier Lopez

• How to watch Google's Pixel 4 launch event

  On October 15 Google will be unveiling a whole load of new gear. In this piece, we show you how to watch so you don't miss ...

  • Callum Booth

• CHEAP: Screw Google's Pixel 4 — there's 39% off the 3XL

  While the upcoming Pixel 4 will undoubtedly be a great phone, its launch means something else: big price reductions on the ...

  • Callum Booth

• Not so fast: Survey says Google's Stadia will chew through data caps

  Google's making some bold claims about how it'll cut down lag with Stadia, but meanwhile a survey suggests its data caps ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Pixelbook Go laptop leaks in hand-on video, Google is still very bad at secrets

  At this point, we'd given up on Google having any major secrets about the Pixel 4 left to reveal, but surely the company ...

  • Napier Lopez

• WhatsApp for Android has mysteriously disappeared from Google Play [Update: It's back]

  WhatsApp, one of the world's most popular privacy-oriented messengers, has suddenly disappeared from Google Play — and ...

  • Mix

• Google releases voice guidance in Maps for visually impaired people

  Google released voice navigation for visually impaired people. The feature works by continually reminding users they’re ...

  • Cara Curtis

• Data analysis: Where you should focus your link-building efforts

  Digital PR: Learn how you can use natural link syndication to your advantage when promoting your content to online publishers. ...

  • Kristin Tynski

• Google will reportedly reveal a 5G Pixel 4 next week

  Just when we thought there was nothing left to leak about the Pixel 4, more news shows up on our doorstep. The latest comes ...

  • Napier Lopez

• Here’s how you make your Google Docs secure

  Google Docs is one of the few online applications that I’m deeply dependent on for my everyday work. Like millions of other ...

  • Ben Dickson

• Google exploited homeless black people to develop the Pixel 4's facial recognition AI

  The US city of Atlanta, Georgia alleged last week that contractors working on behalf of Google used confusing, aggressive ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Google wants Android phone makers to use the same USB-C standard for fast charging

  Fast charging is quite an important feature in Android devices. Phone makers are constantly trying to outdo each other with ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Google contractors reportedly used dubious methods to train Pixel 4's facial recognition (Updated)

  Update (07/10/2019): Google told The New York Times it has suspended the research program and opened up an investigation.  In ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Google is integrating its password checkup feature into Chrome — here's how to use it

  Google is building its Password Checkup Chrome extension, which it launched earlier this year, right into Google account ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Google accused of 'privacy gaslighting' over its anti-tracking policy

  Google's watered-down anti-tracking policy for the web has invited fresh criticism from privacy experts who say the search ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Adware campaign exploits Chrome and Safari bugs to serve over 1B malicious ads

  eGobbler exploits "obscure" bugs in WebKit and Chrome browsers to serve over 1 billion malicious ads in less than two months, ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Google supercharges its mobile payment app in India with WeChat-style mini apps

  Google introduces a Spot Platform for Google Pay, allowing businesses to create branded experiences that's accessible to ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Everything we know about Google's upcoming Pixel 4

  We're just two weeks away from Google's big Pixel 4 reveal on October 15. But it's not a Pixel launch if the phone's not ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• You'll soon be able to tell your Google Assistant to forget search history

  Google announced multiple enhancements to some of its products to better protect your data — including the ability to manage ...

  • Cara Curtis

• Video

  Video: Google's budget Pixel 3a range are the phones it was born to make

  • Callum Booth

• CHEAP: Yes, I will take 54% off this Google Home Hub thank you very much

  Smart speakers are at their best when they also include a screen — something the Google Home Hub has. And, excitingly, ...

  • Callum Booth

• Google's hyperlocal news app Bulletin makes headlines as it shuts down after just a year

  Google is killing one of its products, again. This time it's the company's hyperlocal news app Bulletin. In a letter to users ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Mobile malware campaign targeting Uyghur Muslims impacted Tibetans too

  The mobile malware campaign targeting the Uyghur Muslim minority in China was also directed at senior members of Tibetan ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Google brags its Android alternative for low-end phones is now even faster

  Google is making its Android Go — a lightweight alternative of its mobile platform design to run smoothly on low-end phones — ...

  • Mix

• Amazon's new Echo Studio promises high-end, 3D sound with Dolby Atmos

  Amazon revealed an onslaught of new devices today, and among them was its first 'high-end' speaker: the Echo Studio. Amazon ...

  • Napier Lopez

• Surveillance campaign targeting Uyghur Muslims affected not just iOS, but Android too

  The Uyghur community has been targeted as part of a large-scale surveillance operation via "strategically compromised websites" ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Google’s unsurprising refusal to pay for news snippets undermines new EU copyright law

  Google will stop including snippets of news stories in France from EU publishers, and only display headlines and thumbnails ...

  • Már Másson Maack

• Google releases trove of deepfake videos to help researchers devise detection methods

  We've seen multiple instances of deepfake technology being used to harm someone mentally or financially. To fight this, researchers ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• At least 45 Google employees faced retaliation for reporting abuse, leaked documents reveal

  A leaked internal document, which includes at least 45 Google employees accounts, reveals how they faced retaliation for ...

  • Cara Curtis

• EU top court rules Google doesn’t need to apply the ‘right to be forgotten’ globally

  Google argued if search results were removed globally, it would risk abuse by authoritarian governments. Now it only needs ...

  • Már Másson Maack

• The Los Alamos nuclear weapons lab just bought a 5,000-qubit quantum computer

  D-Wave today announced its next generation “Advantage” quantum computer system. It'll pack a whopping 5,000 qubits and ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Google Play Pass isn't Android's answer to Apple Arcade

  Welp, that didn't take long. Within days of Apple launching its Arcade game subscription services, Google's responded with ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Google plans to give you more control over 'Hey Google' sensitivity

  "Hey Google, what's the weather like?" "OKAY Google, what's the weather like?" "YO GOOGLE ARE YOU LISTENING?" If ...

  • Napier Lopez

• Google and NASA let it slip that humans have achieved quantum supremacy

  NASA recently published a Google Research paper indicating the company's 'Bristlecone' quantum computer has successfully ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Google thinks it wasn't sexist to give its voice assistant a female voice

  Google always wanted to use a male voice in its voice assistants, but they didn’t because female voices are apparently ...

  • Cara Curtis

• Google has a new Tinder-style interface for finding stuff to watch, here's how to use it

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  • Ivan Mehta

• Chrome finally introduces a visual tab switcher that's easy to use on mobile

  We all have been in the situation where we've lost count the number of browser tabs we’ve opened on our phones. To help ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Google Pay will let you use your cards in India without actually carrying them

  Along with Google's announcement of an AI research center, its local language translation with Google Lens, and a phone number ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Google Assistant gets its own phone number in India

  Google is making its Assistant available to people in India via a phone call, so they don't need a smart speaker or even a smartphone to access the service. The company announced at its Google for India annual event it has partnered with mobile carrier Vodafone-Idea to enable this ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Peter Thiel's Palantir set to delay IPO under bumbling leadership of CEO Alex Karp

  Bloomberg today reported that Palantir Technologies, a Peter Thiel-founded company that builds mass-surveillance solutions ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Google will reveal the Pixel 4 on October 15

  It's that time of year. Smartphone companies are preparing their fall launches, and next on the list is Google. The company ...

  • Napier Lopez

• CHEAP: The Google Pixel 3 for just $489? HECK YES!!!

  Welcome to CHEAP, our series about things that are good, but most of all, cheap. CHEAP! There has been plenty of chatter ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Apple denies favoring its own apps in App Store search results (Updated)

  A new investigation by The Wall Street Journal has revealed that the company's own mobile apps are often first in App Store ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Google Docs now shows word count as you type (thank god)

  I dig Google Docs a lot. There's one thing that I passionately despise about it though – its crappy word count feature. ...

  • Mix

• Google purges 24 malware-ridden apps that were downloaded 500,000 times

  A new malware campaign called Joker targeting Android has been found to engage in ad fraud at least since early June 2019. ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Leak: Google's Pixel 4 could include an astrophotography mode

  Our phones get better at capturing images in low light every year, but as far as I know, no phone has been good enough to ...

  • Napier Lopez

• Samsung says Galaxy Fold will run 'hundreds' of optimized apps at launch

  Samsung's Galaxy Fold was delayed so much we were beginning to think it wouldn't even come out this year. Luckily that all ...

  • Napier Lopez

• Google’s supersized Nest Hub Max lands September 9 (Update: now available at $229)

  Update (09/09/2019): Google Nest Hub Max is available now at $229. Google's Nest Hub (formerly the Google Home Hub) is ...

  • Napier Lopez

• Google’s Parrotron AI helps people with speech impediments talk freely

  Google's AI division has developed new speech-to-text software for people with verbal impairments which reduces word error ...

  • Mix

• Apple claps back at Google for spreading FUD in iOS exploit report

  It was just last week that we covered a report by Google's Project Zero security researchers claiming they'd identified a ...

  • Napier Lopez

• The Sonos Move is its first Bluetooth speaker, and it's a little beast

  Portable Bluetooth speakers are probably the most common product pitches I receive, and therefore some of the products I ...

  • Napier Lopez

• Brave browser catches Google tracking users with hidden web pages

  Brave, the budding browser with its own native cryptocurrency, is going after Google for allegedly tracking users using secret ...

  • David Canellis

• Android 10 is out on Pixel phones and more - here's how to get it

  Android 10 has finally landed, despite my reservations that it's not named after a dessert. After several betas introducing ...

  • Napier Lopez

• Malware found in CamScanner's document scanning Android app, which has over 100M downloads

  Kaspersky Lab finds that CamScanner app contained a malicious module that pushed ads or downloaded apps surreptitiously onto ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Opinion: Facebook's brain computer interface will be the instrument of society's collapse

  Anyone else think giving Facebook literal access to our brains is a catastrophically stupid idea? If you missed it: Facebook's ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Android phone brands ranked by OS update frequency: Nokia is #1

  One of the major concerns when you buy an Android device is the frequency of updates you’ll receive over the years.. Google ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• What is a knowledge graph and how does one work?

  Even though it probably affects our lives every single day, most of us have no idea what a "knowledge graph" is. Asking your ...

  • Julian Aijal

• Google will discontinue Google Hire by 2020 — just 2 years after launch

  Another Google service bites the dust, and this time it's Google Hire. The company said it'll shut down the job tracking ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Developer who started a church to worship AI indicted for stealing AI

  Anthony Levandowski, a former employee at Google sister company Waymo, today was charged with 33 counts of theft and attempted ...

  • Tristan Greene

• How Mozilla is crowdsourcing speech to diversify voice recognition

  Voice assistants like Amazon’s Alexa and Apple’s Siri represent their overwhelmingly white, male developers leading to ...

  • Cara Curtis

• Google Maps now lets you combine subway directions with cabs and bikes

  There are few applications a city dweller will use as much as Google Maps, but for all its utility, the app doesn't often ...

  • Napier Lopez

• Google's Nest Hub is the perfect smart screen for my kitchen

  When Google was briefing a bunch of journalists including me about the Nest Hub at its India launch last week, it described ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• How China’s Baidu outsold Google in the smart speaker market

  Yesterday, market research firm Canalys published a report stating Chinese search giant Baidu has surpassed Google in terms ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Google's new policy forbids employees from having 'raging debates' over politics

  Google used to be the epitome of young, smart, techy culture. Its offices have always been lauded as a workplace where free ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Google’s betting on SMS 2.0 to get its messaging groove back

  Google’s gotten a lot of grief for its messaging strategy, and rightly so. While Facebook and Apple have seen their messaging ...

  • Dan Levy

• Google plays politics with China as it quietly bans state-sponsored YouTube accounts

  Google yesterday announced it'd banned 210 YouTube accounts “related to the ongoing protests in Hong Kong” and the discovery ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Why reCAPTCHA is actually an act of human torture

  Like many things that start out as a mere annoyance, though eventually grow into somewhat of an affliction. One particular ...

  • Nils Gronkjaer

• Android goes keto with a radical new rebrand

  We're going to miss the dessert Android codenames

  • Matthew Hughes

• Google listed the wrong number for its product hotline, nobody noticed

  Don't take it personal if Google wasn't picking up when you called its product consultation hotline: it had listed the wrong ...

  • Mix

• France sticks to its unilateral ‘Google tax’ — even though Trump is pissed

  French President Emmanuel Macron called the current taxation of big tech "crazy" ahead of the G7 summit, and plans to levy ...

  • Már Másson Maack

• Google, Apple, and Mozilla won't budge on Kazakhstan's sneaky plot to spy on citizens

  Google and Mozilla are deploying a technical solution to block the use of Kazakhstan root CA certificate Qaznet Trust Network ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Gmail will soon automatically correct your typos and grammar goof-ups

  Google is rolling out a new update for Gmail (only G suite for now) that'll point out basic spellings and grammar mistakes ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Anti-abortion groups found a way around Google's new ad policy

  A report from the Guardian found that Google’s policy has a loophole. This means anti-abortion centers are able to continue ...

  • Cara Curtis

• Google disproves Trump’s accusation of vote manipulation

  Last night, President Donald Trump tweeted in his signature style accusing Google of manipulating 2.6 to 16 million votes ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• This Chrome plugin removes search bias to give women the visibility they deserve

  A new Google Chrome plugin S.H.E. — Search, Human, Equalizer — transforms the way we search by removing bias and putting ...

  • Cara Curtis

• Google has removed 7 'stalkerware' apps from its Play Store

  Google has pulled seven tracking apps from the Play Store after Avast found they allowed people to stalk on their employees, ...

  • Cara Curtis

• Google tweaks algorithm to show less porn when searching for ‘lesbian’ content

  Just last month, if you were to type ‘lesbian’ into Google, you’d be faced with a wall of pornographic imagery. However ...

  • Cara Curtis

• Google stops sharing your network data with carriers over privacy concerns

  Google shuts down Mobile Network Insights service over concerns that "sharing data from users of its Android phone system ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• NotJordanPeterson lets you generate uncannily realistic Jordan Peterson sound bites

  NotJordanPeterson is a mind-boggling voice AI that lets you say anything you'd like in the voice of Canadian psychologist ...

  • Mix

• Project Veritas and 'whistle-blower' published bullshit 'data-leak' to dox Google employees

  Project Veritas, a non-profit conspiracy theory outlet, today dropped the 'bombshell' that it'd obtained hundreds of leaked ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Google and Apple are courting the education sector with new tools for students

  With the new semester weeks away, Google and Apple are wasting no time to target the education sector with a swathe of new ...

  • Mix

• Google Assistant can now nag your family with assignable reminders

  Reminders are one of the most useful features of AI assistants. Pick up some groceries, take out the trash, set up a dentist ...

  • Napier Lopez

• LGBTQ+ creators file lawsuit against YouTube for discrimination

  A group of LGBTQ+ YouTubers this week filed a federal lawsuit against Google, claiming the site has engaged in discriminatory practices that deliberately suppress their ability to make money. Part of the problem is that YouTube has kept its algorithms so mysterious, there's no way ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Huawei is building its own Google Maps (and Yandex and Booking.com are already on board)

  Huawei is quietly gearing up to take on Google Maps with its own mapping service – and it's already got Yandex and Booking.com's ...

  • Mix

• Over 50% of Google searches result in no clicks, data shows

  Google is hungry for your clicks. But it turns out that more than half of all Google Search queries now result in no clicks. ...

  • Mix

• 23 job sites to report Google’s job search for EU antitrust violation

  Google might be hit with yet another antitrust case as rival job search companies have reported the tech giant to the EU ...

  • Már Másson Maack

• Chrome for Android will now let you log in to some services without password

  Google announced today that you can use the fingerprint sensor to sign in to some of its services when you're using Chrome ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Samsung's Note 10+ has the best camera and display, say DxOMark and DisplayMate

  The Galaxy Note 10 may not have quite the hardware lead over the competition as its predecessors did, but that doesn't mean ...

  • Napier Lopez

• How to use Google to find podcast episodes on a specific topic

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  • Ivan Mehta

• Students can snag 3 free months of YouTube Premium right now

  Google’s new back to school deal offers students a three-month trial membership of either YouTube Music Premium or YouTube ...

  • Bryan Clark

• Dutch police accidentally mass-texted fire witnesses a link to an 'adult video'

  In an unfortunate mishap, Dutch police accidentally texted a link to an adult video to 1,900 witnesses of a house fire in ...

  • Mix

• CHEAP: Good goddamn, Google's Pixel 3 is only $499 — THAT'S 37% OFF, YO

  Google's Pixel 3 is one of the best Android phones on the market and now it's got 37% off, it's also one hell of a deal. ...

  • Deals on TNW

• Google updates Image Search with new scrolling UI... within a scrolling UI

  Google has revamped Image Search with a new side panel that lets your scroll through images as you, eeerm, scroll through ...

  • Mix

• Google will help you get aid from 911 without speaking

  While we all hope to never be in a situation where we need to call 911, being able to relay the right information to emergency ...

  • Napier Lopez

• Google Play hosted 205 harmful apps with over 32M installs last month alone

  It seems Google is losing the battle against sketchy Android software big time: there were 205 harmful apps with over 32 ...

  • Mix

• Google researchers disclose ‘interactionless’ iOS exploits valued at $5M

  A duo of Google researchers have disclosed several "interactionless" vulnerabilities in iOS that allowed hackers to hijack ...

  • Mix

• CHEAP: Begone, cable — $50 for 2 Samsung wireless charging pads have damned thee to hell

  Wireless charging is everywhere, so why haven't you set it up in your home? Well, luckily for you there's a great deal on ...

  • Deals on TNW

• Google ad confirms the Pixel 4's face unlock and handwave-y gestures

  If you can't beat 'em, join 'em. Google seems to be following this old adage of late, showing off the Pixel 4's design early ...

  • Napier Lopez

• LinkedIn fixed a flaw that let someone post a job opening for Google's CEO position

  LinkedIn has closed a loophole that allowed almost anyone to post fictitious job listings on company pages without any authorization. ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Google will remove shady data-stealing Chrome extensions starting October 15

  Google has said its new policy for Minimum Permission and updated User Data policy will be enforced starting October 15, ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Russians caught peddling spyware disguised as legit Google and Pornhub apps

  Researchers say a Russian software firm fined by Obama for meddling in the 2016 US elections is making spyware disguised ...

  • Mix

• Android vulnerability lets hackers hijack your phone with malicious videos

  A vulnerability in Android ( found in versions between 7.0 and 9.0) enables hackers to hijack your phone by tricking you ...

  • Mix

• The AI community's reaction to Microsoft's $1BN 'investment' in OpenAI is priceless

  Microsoft recently announced plans to invest $1 billion in OpenAI, an AI startup co-founded by Elon Musk (no longer involved) ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Google confirms Search results are broken for ‘some’ Android users

  No, you're not the only one: a bunch of Android users are complaining they're unable to load Google Search results in full ...

  • Mix

• Google’s Gallery Go is a lightweight Photos alternative that works offline

  Google has boosted its app lineup for Android Go with Gallery go – a lightweight version of Photos that uses machine learning ...

  • Mix

• CHEAP: A Philips Hue starter kit (with white & color bulbs) for $110? SÍ, DA, JA, YES!

  If you've been looking to get some smart lights in your house, now's the time — there's a great deal on this Phillips Hue ...

  • Deals on TNW

• Pixel 4 leaks show the notch will be replaced for a chunky forehead with a neat trick

  By now the Pixel 3 XL's giant notch has become something of a meme in the tech world. The most egregious example of an unfortunate ...

  • Napier Lopez

• Everything Google revealed about Stadia during the Reddit AMA

  Stadia, Google's attempt to enter the gaming industry via the cloud, has been teased several times through the last few months. ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• We've surrounded the Earth with surveillance satellites, but who is that good for?

  It was only on the fourth orbit, when the spacecraft’s orientation had changed, that they ...

  • W. Wayt Gibbs

• Google expected to achieve quantum supremacy in 2019: Here’s what that means

  Google's reportedly on the verge of demonstrating a quantum computer capable of feats no ordinary classical computer could ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Met Police website hacked, tweets 'F*CK THE POLICE'

  It appears hackers took over control of Metropolitan Police's website, posting a series of bizarre messages on its press ...

  • Mix

• Google used 107,000 solar panels to create a portrait of Apollo 11 pioneer Margaret Hamilton

  To celebrate 50 years since NASA's moon landing mission, Google made a massive portrait of Apollo 11 pioneer Margaret Hamilton ...

  • Mix

• Google and Facebook are tracking your porn preferences – even in incognito mode

  It turns out Google and Facebook are tracking your porn consumption habits – and even incognito mode can't save you from ...

  • Mix

• TikTok is testing a WhatsApp shortcut to let you share videos with your best friends

  TikTok is testing a bunch of new features, including a new Discover tab, account linking with Facebook and Google, and a ...

  • Mix

• Google officially ends its Chinese search engine project

  Google's VP of public policy, Karan Bhatia, told the US Senate earlier this week that it has abandoned Project Dragonfly.  ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• CHEAP: Stop reading, start buying — the latest Chromecast is only $25

  The Chromecast is one of the best bits of household tech available today. Even better, you can currently get the media streamer ...

  • Callum Booth

• 'Agent Smith' malware replaces legit Android apps with fake ones on 25 million devices

  Researchers from Check Point uncover new "Agent Smith" malware that replaces legitimate installed apps with malicious versions ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Google Translate's camera feature now detects and translates a whopping 88 languages

  Google has updated its Translate app with faster on-device translation, support for 60 more languages, and automatic language ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• How to play Google’s addictive Wimbledon game on your phone or desktop

  July means the tennis world is abuzz with action and drama, as the Wimbledon final approaches. As a nod to this epic sporting ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Google declutters its news tab on desktop search pages with a fresh look

  Google News for desktop has a new look with redesigned cards format to show each link clearly instead of a cluttered bunch. ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Google contractors are secretly listening to your Assistant recordings

  Not only is your Google Home device listening to you, a new report suggests there might be a Google contractor who’s listening ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Amazon Prime Video now works with Chromecast, and YouTube comes to Fire TV devices

  You can finally stream Amazon Prime Video using Chromecast dongles, and YouTube support has returned to Amazon's Fire line ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• CHEAP: Show your smart house who's boss with a Google Home Hub for only $79

  Voice-activated assistants are cool, but ones with screens are even better. Just like the Google Home Hub, which is currently ...

  • Deals on TNW

• Android creator Andy Rubin accused of running a 'sex ring'

  New documents reveal Andy Rubin left the company after having an "inappropriate relationship" with a subordinate, and allegedly ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Google Walkout organizers publicly accuse Google of punishing them

  Two of the women who helped organize last year’s global Google Walkout have accused the tech giant of retaliating against ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Google 3D-prints replica of historic Assyrian statue destroyed by ISIS in 2015

  This heritage isn't lost forever

  • Matthew Hughes

• Google wants to make the 25-year-old robots.txt protocol an internet standard

  Google has outlined plans to turn robots exclusion protocol (REP) — better known as robots.txt — into an internet standard ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• After Europe, Google under fire for 'Android dominance' in India

  The Indian antitrust watchdog has found that Google "appears" to have misused its power to prevent device manufacturers from ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Google is readying an AirDrop-style competitor for fast file transfers

  Google is reportedly readying an easy way to share files across a variety of devices, including Android and Chromebooks, ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Moonday Mornings: Facebook scammers target UAE investors with fake Bitcoin ads

  Welcome to another week and another Moonday Mornings. It's Hard Fork's wrap-up of the weekend's top Bitcoin, cryptocurrency ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• How to simplify your shopping routine with these handy apps

  This edition of TNW Basics takes a look at three different shopping lists that you can use to take your shopping game to ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• Google Maps will now warn you about crowded trains and late buses

  Public transportation is the circulatory system of any urban area, and it's a better choice for the planet than driving your ...

  • Napier Lopez

• Google’s LGBTQ+ employees unsuccessfully demand SF Pride to remove company from parade

  Google’s LGBTQ+ employees are petitioning to remove Google as a sponsor from San Francisco’s Pride celebration this weekend. ...

  • Cara Curtis

• Google's staff banned from protesting YouTube under the company's banner

  Google warned its employees that those planning to ride the company's sponsored float will not be allowed to protest against ...

  • Cara Curtis

• Full moon patents: Futuristic airplane ‘slingshot’ and Google’s painted solar panels

  Ugh, the Gregorian calendar is so boring. That’s why we’re disrupting monthly series with a lunar cycle-based series ...

  • Dhiraj Jindal

• Report: Google Maps hosts 'millions' of fake business listings

  But not all the listings on the app are reliable. Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal reported that Google Maps have over ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• We ranked Google's new search icons by how evil they look

  Google recently unveiled new icons for its search function, so we did what the public demanded: ranked them by how evil they ...

  • Callum Booth

• Bought a used Nest security cam? The previous owner can spy on you (Update: Fixed)

  A new report by Wirecutter finds some users who sold their Nest cam devices are able to access images from their old cameras ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Google will no longer make tablets, but Chrome OS lives on

  Google just killed off its plans to make two tablets to follow the Pixel Slate, and its chief of hardware noted that its ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• CHEAP: Pretend you live on a spaceship with this Google Smart Light Starter Kit for $35

  One of the coolest things about modern technology is simple: controlling lights with your voice. This Google Smart Light ...

  • Deals on TNW

• Google's new extension will help you report dubious sites with a click

  Google's just rolled out a new Chrome extension called Suspicious Site Reporter, that'll help you report sketchy sites with ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Google wants to be a 'good neighbor' by pledging $1B to Bay Area housing

  Google will help build 20,000 homes in the Bay Area over the next ten years by pledging $1 billion toward the goal, including ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• CHEAP: Photograph your loved ones' SOULS with $200 off the Google Pixel 3 XL

  Google's Pixel 3 XL is one of the best phones on the market. Now it's got $200 off its list price, it's an even better deal ...

  • Deals on TNW

• Google is rolling out RCS messaging without waiting for carriers - here's what that means

  Google is rolling RCS out without waiting for carrier support. The company is rolling out RCS support for Android users in ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Google Play hosted phishing apps impersonating Turkish cryptocurrency exchange

  Malicious apps impersonating Turkish cryptocurrency exchange BtcTurk are circumventing Google’s recently adopted security ...

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• Google Chrome 76 will make it easier to bypass paywalls

  Google disables Flash by default, and makes it easy to bypass pawalls in the beta version of Chrome 76 browser that was released ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• PSA: Your Android phone is now a security key for signing in to Google on iOS

  Google has announced that it's now possible to log into your Google accounts from your iPhones and iPads using your Android ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Google’s Game Builder lets you create 3D titles without coding — for free!

  On its blog today, Google talked up Game Builder, its sandbox for desktops that lets you create 3D games without having to ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• ‘YouTube recommendations are toxic,’ says dev who worked on the algorithm

  Google is notoriously cryptic about how YouTube's recommendations work, that's why Guillaume Chaslot is fighting for increased ...

  • Már Másson Maack

• This Google sister company showed you can buy a troll campaign for $250

  A new report from Wired reveals that Google's sister company Jigsaw bought a Russian troll campaign as an experiment for ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Google just revealed the Pixel 4's design, including two rear cameras

  In a surprise announcement, Google posted a tweet showing off the design of the upcoming Pixel 4. The tweet shows a square ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Leak: Pixel 4 renders suggest Google is finally using multiple cameras

  Fresh off of giving us our first good look at Samsung's Galaxy Note 10, @OnLeaks is now showing off what the Pixel 4 and ...

  • Napier Lopez

• Google resolves cloud outage that took down YouTube, Snapchat, and Discord (Updated)

  A number of Google services were disrupted for more than four hours on Sunday by what the company blamed on "high levels ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Gmail will now let you interact with messages just like web pages right in your inbox (Update: rolling out widely July 2)

  Google is bringing an upgrade to Gmail that will let you interact with emails in your inbox just like you would with the ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• Google’s cloud gaming service requires a $129 bundle to play at launch

  Google revealed more details about its cloud gaming service, Stadia -- including that you'll have to pay $129 upfront in ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Killed By Google is a digital graveyard of the company’s dead products

  Killed By Google is an obituary for all those products including soon-to-be dead inbox. Google has killed many products in ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• It’s the end of the road for Google's excellent Trips mobile app

  Another day, another Google product being shuttered. This time, it's Trips, the travel app that automatically created plans ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• Google Maps' new features for India just made my commute a lot less painful

  Google rolls out a bunch of India specific updates for Google Maps, including bus travel times based on live traffic, and ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• WiFi alliance and SD Associates’ ban won’t affect Huawei (badly) (yet)

  Now, over the weekend, WiFi alliance and SD association have broken up with Huawei. The Chinese giant won't be able to use ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• These are the top 10 programming languages in blockchain

  It turns out that Ethereum's Solidity, JavaScript, and Java are the most popular blockchain development languages, according ...

  • Mix

• Google data shows 2-factor authentication blocks 100% of automated bot hacks

  Two-factor authentication is annoying. Getting flustered because you have to find your phone and tap on a prompt every time ...

  • Napier Lopez

• Meet Karen Wickre, the editor who helped Twitter and Google find their voice

  We often think of tech companies as faceless platforms; social networks where we imprint our personalities, empty documents ...

  • Georgina Ustik

• Microsoft removes Huawei laptop listings from its online store

  Microsoft has stopped selling the Huawei MateBook X Pro in its online store in the wake of the US Government's blacklisting ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Google Search has a new design -- see if you can spot the difference

  Google today announced it's making a visual change to Search on mobile devices. Behold: Can you spot the difference? The ...

  • Napier Lopez

• Report: Female-sounding voice assistants fuel gender bias

  AI-powered voice assistants from Google, Amazon, Apple, and others could be perpetuating harmful gender biases, according ...

  • Bryan Clark

• Google searches for how to cancel HBO spiked after Game of Thrones’ finale

  After widespread disappointment at the Game of Thrones finale, there was a spike in the number of people searching how to ...

  • Callum Booth

• Google’s new policy update cracks down on misleading anti-abortion ads

  This week, Google announced its plans to crack down on misleading advertisements from anti-abortion groups that present themselves ...

  • Cara Curtis

• How an engineer at a crypto-security startup lost $100K in a SIM-swapping hack

  BitGo engineering lead Sean Coonce suffered a debilitating $100,000 loss in a SIM-swapping attack on his Coinbase account. ...

  • Mix

• Trump delays Huawei ban by 90 days

  The U.S. Commerce Department has given Huawei a 90-day extension to provide support for existing handsets and network components.  ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• After Google, Qualcomm and Intel reportedly stop dealing with Huawei

  Huawei is being shunned by the US companies one after another. Last night, Google banned it, now, Intel and qualcomm have ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Google breaks up with Huawei, blocking it from Android apps and services

  Google has blocked Huawei from accessing its apps and services on Android devices, following the Trump administrations blacklist. ...

  • Napier Lopez

• I'm walking Huawei: here are 4 great Android phones you can buy instead

  Now Huawei phones have been banned from Android and other Google services, you might be on the hunt for a new handset – ...

  • Callum Booth

• Google tracks nearly all your online (and some of your offline) purchases -- see it for yourself, here

  For years Google has been keeping track of nearly every online purchase we’ve made. A CNBC report today reveals that, thanks ...

  • Bryan Clark

• Designing products for people with disabilities has never been so important

  Google and Microsoft have designed a variety of assistive tools and services that allows differently abled people lead a ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Google's new AI can help you speak another language in your own voice

  Google Translate is one of the company’s most used products. It helps people translate one language to another through typing, ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Google's new free app teaches kids to read by listening to them

  Google has just ripped the beta label off Rivet, its free mobile app designed to help young children learn to read. It's ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• Foldable phone race heats up as Google enters the fold

  Now, according to a report by CNET, Google is working on a foldable device. Mario Queiroz, said that the company is experimenting ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Google launches its cheaper Pixel 3a and 3a XL phones with flagship cameras

  Google today launched its much-awaited mid-range Pixel phones – the Pixel 3a and the Pixel 3a XL – at its developer conference ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Here’s the coolest stuff announced at Google I/O 2019

  Here’s the coolest stuff announced at Google I/O 2019

  • Ivan Mehta

• Google's new Assistant is so fast that 'tapping to use your phone would seem slow'

  Google Assistant is pretty fast, but it's hardly as conversational as a real person. That's in large part because using the ...

  • Napier Lopez

• How to watch Google's I/O 2019 developer conference

  Google io the company's developer conference is finally here and we have prepared a short guide for you to watch the event ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Can we trust Ireland to enforce GDPR on big tech?

  GDPR is complicated business; even people like me who try to keep up with all its developments struggle to understand this ...

  • Már Másson Maack

• Google's nifty 'Endgame' Easter egg wipes out half your search results with a snap of Thanos' fingers

  Avengers: Endgame is smashing box office records, pulling in more than $60 million yesterday alone. And while the internet ...

  • Bryan Clark

• CHEAP: $128 off a Philips Hue starter kit to get Star Trek-style smart lights

  Normal light switches are the past – we're in the future now. That means you need to get a Philips Hue starter kit to live ...

  • Callum Booth

• Google/Amazon deal sends YouTube to FireTV and Prime Video to Chromecast (finally)

  Google and Amazon appear to have buried the hatchet, and are now offering their video streaming apps on each other's devices. ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• CHEAP: Scrumptious 128GB Google Pixel XLs are now just $270, yum

  Welcome to CHEAP, our series about things that are good, but most of all, cheap. CHEAP! Boy, do we have a wonderful deal ...

  • Callum Booth

• How to set a monthly budget for your Google Play purchases on Android

  Google has updated its Play Store with a handy new feature that lets you set a monthly budget to help keep your app and digital ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• Google will reveal a new Pixel product on May 7

  Google's Pixel phone are getting midrange treatment. The company has just announced a launch date for its midrange devices ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Jumbo is an iPhone app that clears your old tweets and Google searches

  There’s an insane amount of news every day about social networks screwing up and compromising user data. So, it’s advisable ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Big tech’s ‘ethical guidelines’ are no substitute for real regulation

  Data ethics is now a cause célèbre. “Digital ethics and privacy” shot into research and advisory company Gartner’s ...

  • The Conversation

• How tech giants can strangle transformative tech at birth — and how to stop them

  Google is digesting its third whopping antitrust penalty from the European Commission, having been fined €1.5 billion (£1.3 ...

  • The Conversation

• Alexa, Siri, and Google Assistant are changing how we interact with the world by doing it for us

  Innovation shapes our daily experiences, offering us the chance to seize the convenience offered by modern technology. Since ...

  • Adrien Schmidt

• Hallelujah! Google Assistant finally has access to your G Suite calendar

  Google yesterday announced Calendar support via Google Assistant for G Suite customers at its Google Next event. This means ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Google takes a break from being evil to announce AI Platform

  Weather alert: be on the lookout for flying pigs. Google's new AI Platform looks to make good on the company's promise to ...

  • Tristan Greene

• YouTube TV's looking more like a cable package every day

  As the price and channel count on YouTube TV increases, Google's streaming service looks more and more like that which it ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Ian Goodfellow's hiring hints at what Apple's next 'one more thing' could be

  Apple recently scored the hottest free agent in AI when it managed to lure Ian “The GANfather” Goodfellow away from his ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Average life of a dead Google product is just four years

  Google shut down Google+ and Inbox last week, and and we’re still in mourning (for the latter). Recently, we've seen sites ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Google accidentally revealed its mid-range Pixel 3a phone is on the way

  Google's new Pixel 3a and Pixel 3a XL should be launched really soon as over the weekend the company listed them accidently ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Android Q Beta 2 is now available, including new 'bubbles' for multi-tasking

  Well, that was fast. Less than a month after it released the first beta of Android Q, Google has now released Beta 2. While ...

  • Napier Lopez

• Google kills off Google+ and Inbox in ritual slaughter

  If Google were a TV show, it'd undoubtedly be Game of Thrones. Like Game of Thrones, it'll introduce a prominent new character ...

  • Napier Lopez

• Google's India lead, Rajan Anandan, is leaving the company

  Rajan Anandan, Google's vice president for South East Asia and India, is leaving the company after eight years with the firm. ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• Facebook announces a long-overdue transparency tool for News Feed

  Over the weekend, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg sounded the alarm, calling for increased government regulation for internet ...

  • Bryan Clark

• Here’s why Cuba has painfully slow Internet – and what Google’s doing to fix it

  It's all about the cables.

  • Matthew Hughes

• It shouldn't take a tragedy for tech companies to fight hate on their platforms

  Shortly after the terrorist attack in New Zealand, Facebook has committed to clamping down on white nationalism and white ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• Google accidentally promoted a malicious Bitcoin wallet on YouTube

  Google-owned YouTube inadvertently advertized an illegitimate version of the Bitcoin wallet Electrum.

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• Microsoft's Bing blocked 5,000,000 cryptocurrency ads in 2018

  Microsoft's Bing has boasted it successfully blocked more than 5 million cryptocurrency-related ads, after it imposed a strict ...

  • David Canellis

• Google Maps' first try at AR navigation is janky but exciting

  Google released its AR maps in January in alpha version. But now it's rolling out to more cities in India to selected users. ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Machine learning academics are flocking to tech giants and that might be a problem

  The die is very much cast when it comes to the growth of machine learning. With the expansion of tech companies like Google, ...

  • Binary District Journal

• Why we should trust Apple and Google more than our governments

  When I was younger, I was taught that the ridges and patterns found on my fingertips are so unique, that no other person ...

  • Keren Shlomi

• After Google, Walmart is reportedly building a game streaming service

  Walmart is reportedly working on a game streaming service, hopping on the bandwagon that already includes Google, Nvidia, ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• Google's AI-powered Doodle to celebrate Bach's birthday is its best ever

  Google is celebrating the 334th birthday of Baroque composer extraordinaire Johann Sebastian Bach with its first-ever AI-powered ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• Why designers create products that are never meant to be real

  Humans are great at telling stories. We use them to teach our children, to learn about ourselves, and to plan paths to the ...

  • Naomi Jacobs

• EU fines Google €1.49 billion in AdSense antitrust case

  The EU has announced the third big antitrust fine against Google. The EU found Google's AdSense abused its market dominance ...

  • Már Másson Maack

• How to be a better boss, according to Google

  Being a great leader is important for many reasons: your team gets more work done, your staff are engaged and enthusiastic, ...

  • Aleksandra Milewicz

• Stadia’s Google Assistant integration is the gaming feature I never knew I needed

  The use of the Assistant to help gamers get past difficult parts of games is probably the best part of the Google Stadia ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Google announces Stadia, its cross-platform game streaming service

  Google unveiled Stadia, its all-you-can-play game streaming service. It's launching sometime this year, first in the US, ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• Android Q's hidden 'bubbles' suggest Google is rethinking notifications

  Despite multiple redesigns and fundamental changes, one thing has remained true since the very first Android phone: you swipe ...

  • Napier Lopez

• Google helps South Africa combat fake news ahead of its general election

  Can South Africa really hold a general election on the 8th of May in a way that it really represents the views of its people? ...

  • The Conversation

• Google's reportedly making the cheaper Pixel 3 I've always wanted

  Google is working on a cheaper version of its Pixel 3 handset from last year, with some compromises to bring down the price ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• Google distributed malicious Chrome app designed to steal your cryptocurrency

  Be wary if you come across ads for an airdrop, distributing tokens for cryptocurrency exchange Huobi: someone might be trying ...

  • Mix

• Google’s foldable patent hints at a compact clamshell phone

  Foldable phones are certainly the talk of the town this year. We've already seen devices from companies like Samsung and ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Teens are using Google Docs as a sneaky messaging app right under their parents' (and teachers') noses

  Google’s cloud-based tools provide a lot of bang for the buck. Apps like Docs, Sheets, and Slides are a collaborative dreamscape, ...

  • Bryan Clark

• Why is Google adding Nintendo controller support to Chrome?

  All clues point to Google adding Joy-Con support to Chrome -- so what could this mean for that Project Stream gaming service ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Google Earth and Carmen Sandiego is the best combo since PB & J

  Carmen Sandiego has invaded Google Earth, and it's such a perfect combination we can't figure out how no one has thought ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Android Q makes sharing your WiFi password with friends super easy

  Google rolled out Android Q's first beta version for all Pixel phones last night. I've installed it on my Pixel 3 XL, and ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Android Q’s new camera features will make shutterbugs happy

  Android Q is putting out more features related to cameras to support better portrait photos and support for monochrome cameras ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Google releases Android Q Beta 1 for all Pixels - here's what we know so far

  As rumored earlier this week, Google has released the first beta for the next version of its mobile os, Android Q. Google ...

  • Napier Lopez

• Google squeezed an offline dictation AI into its keyboard app

  Google says it's effectively miniaturized a cloud-based neural network system for speech recognition into an 80MB mobile ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• Google’s Pixel 3 XL grows another notch lmao

  Yes, you've heard it right: the most disliked feature on the Google Pixel 3 XL has been multiplying. Users are reporting ...

  • Callum Booth

• Google’s gamepad patent hints at its plans for Project Stream

  Yanko Design has discovered a patent detailing a controller that Google designed; it could give us some clues about what ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• Google built a free app to teach Hindi and English to kids in India

  Google just released a new Android app called Bolo (‘speak’ in Hindi) that's designed to help children learn Hindi and ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Deepmind teaches AI to follow navigational directions like humans

  Deepmind paves the way for a better driverless car experience. Because, what good are taxis if you have to be sober enough ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Report: Facebook ad clicks tumble, but the internet keeps on growing

  The new 2018 Q3 Global Digital Statshot report from Hootsuite and We Are Social shows that there was plenty of change in ...

  • Simon Kemp

• Google’s two-pronged plan to dominate consumer-to-business messaging

  At the end of last year, Google announced it was officially pulling the plug on Allo, its latest in a long list of failed ...

  • Dan Levy

• Sorry, I’m too busy planning our smart home to help pack

  A smart outlet review from a guy who is shopping for smart gadgets on the internet instead of helping his family pack for ...

  • Tristan Greene

• How to free up space on your phone with Google Photos' unlimited backup service

  Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Why tech giants are interested in regulating facial recognition

  Last week, Amazon made the unexpected move of calling for regulation on facial recognition. In a blog post published on ...

  • Ben Dickson

• Pinterest takes the lead in the fight against online misinformation

  The battle against misinformation just signed up a powerful, albeit unlikely ally: Pinterest. Earlier this week, the social ...

  • Bryan Clark

• Why online service providers shouldn’t partner with big tech

  Hosting providers like GoDaddy, 1&1 Ionos, and even Wix and Squarespace, started out offering a single service to business ...

  • Dvir Ben-Aroya

• I ranked mobile gesture-based navigation systems, and the iPhone is still winning

  In 2017, Apple introduced gesture-based navigation for iOS on the iPhone X, and kick-started the trend of phones offering ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Angel/Devil: Should I buy Apple Airpods?

  Ever wondered if you should buy some Airpods? Us too. Luckily for you, we got an angel and a devil to weigh in and solve ...

  • Callum Booth

• Full moon patents: Apple hints at new ‘smart ring’ and glass-covered iPhone

  Ugh, the Gregorian calendar is so boring. That’s why we’re disrupting monthly series with a lunar cycle-based series about the best patents of the last synodic month, picked by the PatentYogi team. Get ready when that moon gets gibbous, y’all. This January-ish roundup lands ...

  • Dhiraj Jindal

• EU’s proposed upload filters suck and YouTube’s ‘child pornography’ snafu shows why

  YouTube just backtracked its inexplicable decision to delete three popular Pokémon Go channels -- Trainer Tips, Mystic7, ...

  • Már Másson Maack

• Google Maps' AR navigation feature could solve the app's biggest little problem

  Google is set to roll out an AR-based navigation feature to Maps - and I'm looking forward to it fixing one of my main gripes ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• Google warns news sites may lose 45% of traffic if EU passes its Copyright Reform

  The EU's controversial Copyright Refrom edges closer to becoming law, making opponents of the legislation worried about its ...

  • Már Másson Maack

• Google’s new extension tells you if your passwords have been compromised

  Google's just launched a Chrome browser extension that's designed to help protect your online accounts from intruders. Hopefully, ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• Why doesn’t Google make Gmail more like Inbox?

  Often in cheesy rom-coms they say “All good things must come to an end.” Except it doesn’t in movies. But, if it's ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Google has quietly dropped ban on personally identifiable web tracking

  This article was originally published by ProPublica on October 21st, 2016. When Google bought the advertising network ...

  • Julia Angwin, Pro Publica

• Google’s new shadow puppet game is just what you need this Monday

  Yeah, I know it’s Monday again, and you’re thinking, “Why am I at my office desk instead of in bed?” But I’ve got ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Why I hatefully love Apple Music’s Android app

  I've been using Apple Music since it launched nearly four years ago - even after I subsequently switched to Android devices. ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• If tech companies are hurting journalism, can they also help save it?

  As professions go, journalism isn’t exactly known for its stability. The last half of January only served to highlight ...

  • Matthew Hughes

• This week's Facebook-Google-Apple drama, explained

  With so much happening in the tech world, this week feels like it’s 21 days long. The highlight of the week has been the ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• After Facebook, Google apologizes for running a user data collection program on iOS

  Last night, just when we were trying to get our heads around Facebook's data collecting program, TechCrunch reported that ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Amazon, Facebook, and Google don’t need to spy on your conversations to know what you’re talking about

  If you’ve ever wondered if your phone is spying on you, you’re not alone. One of the most hotly debated topics in technology ...

  • The Conversation

• Microsoft's Bing search engine is the latest victim of China's 'block and don't tell' (Update: it's back)

  Update (January 25):  After a day-long outage, Microsoft's Bing search engine is now accessible again, the company confirmed. ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Why does Google show mysterious art when searching two random 4-letter words!

  If you type in two strings of random 4-letter words (like "fjdu apld"), Google Images shows some mysterious art. We tried ...

  • Callum Booth

• Google's head of account security has fix for cryptocurrency SIM-swapping

  In light of the SIM-swapping epidemic, we spoke with Google's head of account security about what cryptocurrency investors ...

  • David Canellis

• Here's what Google says search results will look like when EU copyright laws kick in

  Google has shared screenshots illustrating how its search results could be crippled by the upcoming EU Copyright Directive ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• Leak: The Pixel 3 'Lite' brings back the headphone jack and keeps the camera

  We've been hearing rumblings of a midrange Pixel 3 'Lite' for a few months now, but a new leak by Andro News seems to all ...

  • Napier Lopez

• WordPress announces a toolkit to kickstart small to mid-sized newsrooms

  WordPress, the open source CMS that powers nearly one-third of the web, is now looking to streamline newsrooms around the ...

  • Bryan Clark

• 5 of the worst security missteps by major tech companies in 2018

  2018 marked the year that governments, businesses, and other organizations around the world started implementing GDPR — ...

  • Daan Pepijn

• How to review and delete your Google search history

  Your Google search history includes the queries you've entered into Google search when you're signed in. Here's how to wipe ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• Google killed the Chromecast Audio, so now's a great time to buy one

  Google just discontinued one of its best and most underrated products, the Chromecast Audio. On the plus side, the company ...

  • Napier Lopez

• Don’t overestimate AI’s understanding of human language

  This article is part of Demystifying AI, a series of posts that (try to) disambiguate the jargon and myths surrounding AI. It’s ...

  • Ben Dickson

• Google's Doodle contest for kids returns with $80K in prizes

  Google's annual "Doodle For Google" contest for school-aged children returns with more than $80K in prizes for the winner. ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Google twists Samourai Wallet's arm to disable privacy features

  Samourai Wallet, a bitcoin wallet provider, is temporarily disabling some of its privacy-related features following a request ...

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• Hackers take over Chromecasts to warn owners about security risks

  A couple of dutiful hackers have been hijacking thousands of Chromecasts to warn users the devices can be taken over remotely. ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• Google could have avoided the Pixel 3 XL's notch

  From the Pixel 3 XL's first leak, all the way through to using the device, I've been thinking about its big and ugly notch.  ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Pixel 3 Lite XL renders show a headphone jack and no notch

  Google's Pixel 3 Lite XL made its way to the internet thanks to 91 mobiles and OnLeaks renders. The phone shows no notch ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• December in Africa: Ghanian healthcare drones and Cameroonian separatist cryptocurrency

  December is an expensive month for anyone, and tech companies across Africa went on a fundraising spree in advance of the ...

  • Tom Jackson

• This is the future of authentication, according to security experts

  Passwords may not have been much of an annoyance back in the 1960s, when they were first believed to have been introduced ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• A recap of tech's crazy 2018

  2018 brought us incredible robots, data theft, callous CEOs, errant self-driving cars, and yet another cryptocurrency crash. ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• The fascinating evolution of the Bitcoin giveaway scam on Twitter

  2018 saw a new scam epidemic that gradually took over Twitter – and eventually the entire cryptocurrency and blockchain ...

  • Mix

• 2018: The year Congress and social media collided

  One of the biggest, and most unwelcome revelations of the past few years is just how much social media platforms can be -- ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• TNW's top 11 women making waves in STEM from 2018

  You've heard it a million times before — in the science, technology, engineering, and math industries, women are still ...

  • Cara Curtis

• How you can teach AI to speak Welsh (and other minority languages)

  Pioneering smart home technologies and voice assistants don’t, as a rule, speak Welsh – although the Welsh government ...

  • The Conversation

• We stopped using these apps in 2018 — here’s why

  To stop using an app is easier said than done. Still, TNW's incredible staff writers mustered the strength to do so -- you ...

  • Már Másson Maack

• 3 game-changing phone trends we can expect in 2019

  2018 is winding down, and we’ve witnessed a number of significant events this year as far as mobile tech is concerned: ...

  • Christopher Porteous

• Day 9 of TNW’s Advent Deals: Bose headphones and a Nest thermostat

  This holiday period, Plugged is running a very special advent calendar. Over the course of 12 days, we’ll be sharing a ...

  • Deals on TNW

• Google reportedly shuts down its Chinese censored search project

  Google has stopped key data analysis needed for its highly contested China project, the censored search engine 'Dragonfly' ...

  • Már Másson Maack

• All I want for Christmas: Folders for Google Docs

  This is perhaps the saddest article I’ve written: I’m opening myself up to endless ridicule by admitting how deeply I care about something so incredibly mundane and objectively boring. But I don’t care. I’m a champion of the people, and I’m prepared to sacrifice myself for ...

  • Már Másson Maack

• You can take Google's Machine Learning Crash Course for free now

  Google really wants you to learn how to develop AI. It's offering the same course it gives to company engineers free to everyone ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Google employees want to teach you to code for free with their cute new app

  A bunch of Google employees participating in the company's Area 120 internal incubator have launched Grasshopper, a free ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• Tumblr's porn ban slams the door on women and other marginalized communities

  After graphic images of child sex abuse appeared on Tumblr in November, the app was quickly removed from Apple's App store ...

  • Bryan Clark

• Google Search Trends show off the emotional rollercoaster that was 2018

  Google today released its data on search trends in 2018. While these always reflect the state of the world over the course ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Google+ to shut down early after second major security incident

  After another data leak, its second such leak in a year, Google today announced it was shutting down its beleaguered social ...

  • Bryan Clark

• The future of authentication

  Passwords may not have been much of an annoyance back in the 1960s, when they were first believed to have been introduced ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• Watch: Google CEO Pichai explains to Congress that Google doesn't make iPhones

  Google's chief executive Sundar Pichai today appeared on Capitol Hill to answer questions about a number of issues. Most ...

  • Bryan Clark

• Monopoly man watches disapprovingly as Congress yells at Google's CEO

  Today in the US, our political leaders are yelling at Google's CEO, Sundar Pichai. The topic? The President's conspiracy ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Google+ will die 4 months sooner thanks to new bug affecting 52 million users

  After announcing in October it would be shuttering Google+, its little-loved social media site, Google today announced that, ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Report: Apple considered making a low-cost streaming TV dongle

  For years, Amazon, Google, and Roku have been battling it out in for the top spot in the video streaming market with their ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• This is the fastest way to start a new Google doc, sheet, or presentation

  Need to fire up a new document, spreadsheet, or slide deck? Google's suite of tools is great for those, and it's easier than ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• DeepMind's AlphaZero AI is the new champion in chess, shogi, and Go

  DeepMind, has developed an AI named AlphaZero, which can learn and master games like chess, Go, and shogi just through basic ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Hello Big Brother: EU wants to manage your digital identity on the blockchain

  Blockchain promised us freedom and liberation from centralized authorities like governments, but in the latest report from ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• France will tax tech giants in 2019 if EU doesn’t step up

  France hasn't given up on creating a tax on digital revenue to prevent the likes of Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple, and ...

  • Már Másson Maack

• Waymo unveils first operating US driverless taxi service

  Waymo today unveiled "Waymo One," the company's first official commercial driverless car taxi service. It's currently only ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Phone makers, stop lying about how good your cameras are

  Phones aren't as good at taking photographs as standalone cameras - yet. It's time to stop misleading customers about what ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• November in Africa: Spotify expands and drones protect wildlife

  Too often in these monthly wraps we look at the negative side of tech in Africa, usually what governments are doing to milk ...

  • Tom Jackson

• Google removes 2 popular Android apps that enabled click fraud

  Google finally The search giant removed CM File manager and Kika keyboard apps after an internal investigation for ad fraud ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Marvellous Cyber Monday deals to splurge your wages on

  It's here. It's back again. And it'll never stop. Welcome everyone to Cyber Monday. While a lot of people loathe the event, ...

  • Deals on TNW

• How to prepare your business for voice search

  By 2020, 30% of search is voice-conducted. Here's how you prepare.

  • Jamie Tolentino

• Forget Siri: Here's how to use Google Assistant on your iPhone or iPad

  It's safe to say the digital assistant wars are over. Siri, arguably, is awful, and the clear-cut favorite in the space is ...

  • Bryan Clark

• 7 EU countries accuse Google of violating GDPR by tracking users

  Consumer groups in the Netherlands, Poland, Czechia, Greece, Slovenia, Sweden, and Norway have asked regulators to look into ...

  • Már Másson Maack

• To achieve ethical AI, we need better training and boundaries

  Autonomous decision-making systems are in place already today, including ones that support life-critical scenarios and travel. ...

  • Nikita Lukianets

• Google’s underrated Discover feature can change how we surf the web

  In October, Google made an important change to its mobile homepage. In place of the traditional page, with a search bar and ...

  • Manish Dudharejia

• Here's how we take back control over our digital identities

  The data reckoning has arrived. We’re already too familiar with the breach headlines: Equifax, Under Armour, Target. But ...

  • Charles Race

• Fabulous Black Friday deals for under $50

  Want to get involved in Black Friday, but don't want to splash a lot of cash? We've got a guide filled with the best products ...

  • Deals on TNW

• Full moon patents: MIT creates glowing plants and Amazon gets better drones

  Ugh, the Gregorian calendar is so boring. That’s why we’re disrupting monthly series with a lunar cycle-based series ...

  • Dhiraj Jindal

• Google shares which Thanksgiving food tutorials are most popular by state

  For all the Americans out there, food-heavy holiday Thanksgiving hits tomorrow. To commemorate the occasion (and perhaps ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Your Chromecast can now sync and stream audio along with Google Home speakers

  If you've got audio playing on a Google Home speaker, you can now sync that up with anything connected to your Chromecast ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• Shark S87 robotic cleaning system: A great vacuum with bad AI

  I remember a time not so long ago where robot vacuums would set you back $1,000 or more and prove more work than they were ...

  • Bryan Clark

• Latin America joins EU in considering a new digital tax

  Mexico and Chile, Uruguay, Peru, and Argentina are the current Latin American countries who are considering the EU Digital ...

  • Jordan T. Jones

• EU’s investigation into Google AdSense is coming to a close

  Margrethe Vestager, EU's Competiton Commissioner, confirmed at Web Summit in Lisbon that the probe into Google AdSense would ...

  • Már Másson Maack

• Marketing the TNW Way #13: Supporting Schema.org

  When we noticed that Google and other search engines were putting more weight on structured data we realized it was time ...

  • Julian Aijal

• Our lack of interest in data ethics will come back to haunt us

  When was the last time you saw a creepy ad on Facebook, which seemed to know about a product you were discussing with a coworker? ...

  • Jayson DeMers

• Spotify is giving away free Google Home Mini speakers to some paid subscribers

  Spotify today announced a partnership with Google that doles out free hardware to certain paid subscribers. As of today, ...

  • Bryan Clark

• Thousands of Google employees walk out to protest harassment, inequality

  Google employees today took to the streets in a massive protest. At 11:10 a.m., in every time zone in which the staged walkout ...

  • Bryan Clark

• October in Africa: Egypt stifles tech innovation, Google gets busy

  The Egyptian government has had a busy time of late, shutting down taxi app mergers, taxing e-commerce platforms, and enforcing ...

  • Tom Jackson

• 3 handy features in Google For Jobs to measure your hiring campaign’s success

  Google For Jobs has made a great impact on the jobs market ever since it was released by the search giant in June 2017. There's ...

  • Andrew Akesson

• Understanding quantum computers: The noise problem

  Quantum computing doesn't have to be harder than getting drunk. That's why we explain one of its biggest problems with beer. ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Tim Cook supports EU’s strict privacy laws — but thinks taxes are 'crap'

  Apple's CEO, Tim Cook, gave a keynote at ICDPPC where he called for better data policies in tech and lauded EU's GDPR. Unfortunately, ...

  • Már Másson Maack

• This Google project visualizes the global effect of #MeToo's first year

  The #MeToo movement is one year old and Me Too Rising, a Google product, visualizes the movement's global effect from October ...

  • Cara Curtis

• Germany wants a global 'minimum tax' for tech giants' revenue

  Germany's finance minister, Olaf Scholz finally supports global minumum tax on tech giants. France and Germany push for the ...

  • Már Másson Maack

• 50% of American WhatsApp users don't know it's owned by Facebook

  Research from the search engine DuckDuckGo has revealed 50 percent of American WhatsApp users don't realize Facebook owns ...

  • Callum Booth

• Philips will challenge tech giants to bring blockchain to healthcare

  Data breaches are among the most damaging security incidents, and they happen everywhere. What makes the healthcare industry ...

  • Ben Dickson

• Amazon gets patriotic while Google embraces censorship

  Wired 25 was attended by some of the biggest names in tech, and Amazon and Google's bosses both took the opportunity to get ...

  • Tristan Greene

• 5 quick tricks to improve your Amazon listing’s ranking on Google

  There are some quick and easy tricks you can use to get your Amazon listing to rank quickly on Google and drive your sales ...

  • Imran Tariq

• How will AI affect my faith and religion in general?

  It's thought that AI could have three possible effects on religion: it enhances religion, it becomes religion, or it invalidates ...

  • Debrah Lee Charatan

• Google’s new Chromecast looks suspiciously similar to its old Chromecast

  Google's new Chromecast – its video streaming device – looks similar to its old one. But is that a bad thing? No, not ...

  • Callum Booth

• Here's everything Google revealed at its Pixel 3 event

  Google today held its annual Made By Google event, where it showed off its newest toys. While it's true we got a glimpse ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Google updated its wireless earbuds with a bold new feature — a wire

  Google's made a bold move with its wireless Pixel Buds – it's put a wire on them. But, this actually might be a winning ...

  • Callum Booth

• The Pixel Slate is Google's first Chrome OS tablet and costs $599

  At today's Google hardware event, Senior VP of Hardware Rick Osterloh announced the company was making a new tablet, dubbed ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Google wants its Pixel Stand to set the standard for wireless chargers

  Google today introduced its new wireless charger, the Pixel Stand. The idea behind the hardware is to turn an inert object ...

  • Callum Booth

• Google announces Home Hub – its Echo Show and Facebook Portal competitor

  Google announced at today's hardware event it was creating a smart home display called Google Home Hub. This device marries ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Google+ is dead because of a security flaw [updated]

  Google+, the social media site that never quite made it, is going away thanks to a security issue. Google could fix it, but ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Rapid scaling can ruin your startup — so fix these technical problems now

  In the grand scheme of things, everything has been going perfectly to plan. Your product or service launch has been a success, ...

  • Francisco Otazo

• Facebook is using your personal data, here’s why it’s fine

  When the Cambridge Analytica scandal came out, it did more than just shake up Facebook, it stirred the conversation about ...

  • Daniel Rosenfeld

• EU’s new copyright law will cement the dominance of tech giants

  The new European Union Copyright Directive, passed recently by the European parliament after a vociferous campaign both for ...

  • The Conversation

• Here’s how you can painlessly integrate voice in your business

  A digital voice strategy that will end up proving lucrative for businesses and useful for consumers is one that places customer ...

  • Andy Zimmerman

• 12 most important pillars of an effective SEO strategy

  When done right, SEO can help you improve SERP rankings, increase targeted traffic to your website, and drive more sales. ...

  • Shane Barker

• Without coaching our privacy, does Google even have a business?

  Google is on a seemingly-ceaseless crusade to turn every one of its users into an open book that it can exploit for valuable ...

  • Gary Eastwood

• Full moon patents: Alphabet isn’t giving up on Google Glass

  Ugh, the Gregorian calendar is so boring. That’s why we’re disrupting monthly series with a lunar cycle-based series ...

  • Dhiraj Jindal

• Animation reveals what could be Google's new 'Pixel Stand'

  A new accessory for the Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL could give Alexa devices a run for their money. The Pixel Stand, as its reportedly ...

  • Bryan Clark

• How your media buying agency is screwing you over

  Since your digital media buying agency charges you a percentage of the ad buy spend, they have no intention of saving you ...

  • Ishtiaque Hossain

• YouTube merges Gaming with main site after standalone app fails to impress

  YouTube is transforming Gaming from a standalone site to a page on its main site. It's also admitted sticking games into ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Google allegedly working on censored search engine for Chinese market

  Recently leaked documents reveal Google might be ready to make a government-friendly, censored version of its search engine ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Google to kill Inbox early next year

  According to a report by Fast Company, Google is giving its popular bundled email client service, Inbox the axe early next ...

  • Bryan Clark

• Twitter CEO's comments will ignite the right, context be damned

  Stripped of context, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's comments sound a bit like an admission. Speaking to members of congress, Dorsey ...

  • Bryan Clark

• Now we know everything about Google's Pixel 3 XL, the only option left is to make a movie about it

  Once again, Google's Pixel 3 XL has been photographed ahead of the announcement of its launch date. There's only one option: ...

  • Callum Booth

• Google releases tools for probing Ethereum's blockchain

  Google has added Ethereum support to its BigQuery database tool, giving us a new method of analyzing data stored on its blockchain. ...

  • David Canellis

• Google and Mastercard are secretly tracking your offline purchases

  Google has quietly been providing select advertisers a "stockpile" of offline credit card transaction data. After a four ...

  • Bryan Clark

• Apple makes a splash in the AR space with its newest acquisition

  Apple's newest acquisition leaves little doubt that long-rumored augmented reality glasses are on the horizon. Details are ...

  • Bryan Clark

• Google's definitely biased, but not in the way Trump thinks

  In two tweets early Tuesday morning, President Trump reignited the debate about censorship on America's most popular tech ...

  • Bryan Clark

• Anti-semitic vandals rename Manhattan ‘Jewtropolis’ on Snapchat

  New Yorkers using apps including Snapchat, Citi Bike, or The Weather Channel will have noticed that this morning New York ...

  • Cara Curtis

• Don’t worry, Alexa and Google Home won’t take away your regional accent

  Hey, Google. Can you understand my accent? Of course. You have an incredibly pleasing dialect. So began my Saturday morning ...

  • The Conversation

• Now is the perfect time for foreign developers to focus on the Chinese app market

  Although there are issues with China's tech scene — like its harsh censorship. Now is the perfect time for us developers ...

  • Matej Michalko

• Censorship machines removed my article warning people about censorship machines

  A few days ago, about a dozen articles and campaign sites criticizing EU plans for copyright censorship machines silently ...

  • Julia Reda

• Securing web sites with HTTPS made them less accessible

  In the middle of last month — July 2018, I found myself staring at a projector screen, waiting once again to see if Wikipedia ...

  • Eric A. Meyer

• Google is reportedly building its own Assistant-powered smart display

  Google is said to be working on a smart speaker with its own Home label on the tin this year, reports Nikkei Asian Review. ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• How app store policies allow the Infowars app to survive -- and thrive

  The Infowars app has shot to the top of the charts on both app storefronts, despite both companies ostensibly washing their ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Google's new Q&A app lets celebs personally answer your most boring queries

  Google Cameos, a new app specifically for public figures, allows them to answer your most-searched questions, no matter how ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Inside Google's plan to stalk your social media accounts

  Google, once again, is excited about social media. But not in the ways you might think; this isn't about another in a failed ...

  • Bryan Clark

• Alexa isn't the shopping behemoth Amazon hoped it would be

  Voice shopping was supposed to be the future. Remember? Both Amazon and Google touted a world where barking a simple command ...

  • Bryan Clark

• All Android phones should run stock OS (including you Samsung!)

  Countless consumers around the globe cherish the customization options available to them when it comes to their smartphones, ...

  • Gary Eastwood

• I tested this kid-friendly phone to see if it could protect me from pervs

  Being a kid in today's world is tough. When I had a rough time at school, it generally stayed there. Yeah, there were chatrooms, ...

  • Callum Booth

• EU fines ASUS, Philips, Pioneer, and Denon & Marantz €111M for breaching EU antitrust rules

  The European Commission has fined four major consumer electronics manufacturers €111 million for illegally pushing up prices ...

  • Már Másson Maack

• Instagram influencers almost duped me into using ineffective fertility apps

  Instagram influencers are promoting fertility apps as a way to prevent pregnancy with no added hormones. But the irresponsible ...

  • Cara Curtis

• Parents are shelling out $20/hour for Fortnite tutors and the internet is losing its goddamn mind

  In what surely constitutes a sign of the coming apocalypse, parents are shelling out up to $20 an hour for coaches to help ...

  • Bryan Clark

• Google wants to bring free Wi-Fi to Nigeria next year

  Google has announced that it will be providing free high-speed Internet access via Wi-Fi hotspots Nigeria. Known as Google ...

  • iAfrikan News

• Google’s AR design guidelines: baby steps — but a good starting point

  When Google and Apple announced their mobile augmented reality (AR) platforms last summer, they rocked the 3D world. Almost ...

  • Paul Reynolds

• Google bans cryptocurrency mining apps from the Play Store

  All cryptocurrency miners are now banned from Google's Play store. The new ruling came with new updates to Google’s Developer ...

  • David Canellis

• The ancient story of Spartacus offers a great example for better online anonymity

  The Third Servile War was over. The slave army had been defeated, and their Roman captors offered the survivors a pardon. ...

  • Mike Kiser

• These satellite images show how much damage climate change has caused

  Ian Whittaker, Nottingham Trent University The average rainfall for the first two weeks of July in England was 6mm, while ...

  • The Conversation

• WORLDSTAAAR: Watch if Google gets whacked with an $11B fine by the EU

  Google will most likely be hit with a record fine from the EU today. This is set to be focused around its Android operating ...

  • Callum Booth

• Data shows people want serious long-form content — and brands need to take note

  You probably noticed the recent video that asked people whether they heard “Yanny” or “Laurel.” It would have been ...

  • Brandon Geary

• June in Africa: Google balloons, ICOs, and internet shutdowns

  Google is actively seeking partnerships to roll out Project Loon in Kenya, which will involve beaming internet in rural areas ...

  • Tom Jackson

• Marketing the TNW Way #9: A/B Testing with Google Tag Manager

  One of the most important parts why we’re using Google Tag Manager is that for now it allows us to run A/B testing at large ...

  • Simon Vreeman

• Google's new tool helps test your website's speed and mobile-friendliness

  Speed testing services seem to be the new thing tech companies are dabbing into on their free time – just weeks after Netflix ...

  • Natt Garun

• Marketing the TNW Way #14: Calculated metrics in Google Analytics, 24 examples from The Next Web

  In this blog series, we shed some light on our marketing approach at The Next Web through Web analytics, Search Engine Optimization ...

  • Martijn Scheijbeler

• Google Maps for Android adds a one-tap shortcut to view traffic around you

  Google has updated its Maps mobile app for Android with a handy new shortcut to help you spot traffic jams near you in real-time. ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• Google Photos now creates shareable GIFs from your videos

  Google has updated its Photos service with neat new features today - most notably, the ability to automatically generate ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• You can now log into Gmail without a Google account

  You can now use Gmail as your email client for a Yahoo or Hotmail account

  • Nate Swanner

• Google Drive is now better at managing duplicate files for you

  Today, Google Drive is getting a handy tool to better manage revision history when you re-upload files that were previously ...

  • Nate Swanner

• New Google Docs panel lets users access thousands of fonts

  Check how to add fonts to Google Docs. Available as a free add-on via Google Docs, Extensis Fonts lets you can browse, preview ...

  • Jackie Dove

• Google Drive now lets you prevent others from downloading, printing and copying shared files

  Google wants to help keep your files a little more secure thanks to new Information Rights Management tools in Drive. Simply ...

  • Napier Lopez

• Marketing the TNW Way #17: 50+ Custom Dimensions in Google Analytics

  Want to know how you can leverage custom dimensions in Google Analytics. We're providing an overview of 50+ custom dimensions ...

  • Martijn Scheijbeler

• Marketing the TNW Way #19: Site speed, a publishers dilemma

  How do we optimize for site speed at TNW? What do we look at, how do we measure improvements and what's next for TNW in measuring ...

  • Martijn Scheijbeler

• Proving the real value of Google AMP

  You don't need Google AMP, right? You might actually be wrong.

  • Martijn Scheijbeler