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Paul Lilly - Fri, Apr 29, 2016
Once again, The New York Times is planning to distribute Google Cardboard viewers to its "most loyal digital subscribers." It's the second time NYT has collaborated with Google to hand out Cardboard viewers to subscribers—the first time...
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Brandon Hill - Fri, Apr 29, 2016
Rick Osterloh is returning home, so to speak, to Google to head the company’s newly hatched hardware division. Osterloh originally arrived at Google by way of the search giant’s purchase of Motorola in 2011. While under the Google...
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Brandon Hill - Thu, Apr 28, 2016
Hewlett-Packard is fully committed to Google’s Chrome OS, and that dedication to the platform extends to today’s announcement of the Chromebook 13. The Chromebook 13 is quite the looker with sleek styling, premium materials (like a brushed...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Apr 27, 2016
One of the neat things about Android Wear is that manufacturers have stepped to the plate with different physical designs to suit a variety of style preferences. Android Wear smartwatch owners also have access to a host of watch faces...
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Brandon Hill - Wed, Apr 27, 2016
If you’re a Waze user, listen up! A new exploit has been found that could make it easy for hackers to track your location whenever you’re using the popular Google-owned navigation app. The exploit uses an HTTPS proxy to carry out a...
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Rob Williams - Fri, Apr 22, 2016
It used to feel like Microsoft did whatever it could to not bring its technologies and software solutions to Android, but today, there are literally dozens of Microsoft apps available for the platform. Thankfully, many of them continue to...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Apr 22, 2016
Google's doing something a bit unusual with Android N, the next version of its mobile operating system. Ahead of its final coat of polish and subsequent release to the masses, Google's partnered up with Sony to make available the Android N...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Apr 21, 2016
Google today announced that it's adding live TV listings to search. That means when you perform search for a TV show, such as Lucifer or Billions (both highly recommended, by the way), you'll not only see apps and sites where you can catch...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Apr 21, 2016
Just over a year after its debut, Exploding Kittens remains the project with the most backers in Kickstarter history, tallying nearly 203,000 supporters who pledged a combined $8.7 million (and change) to the card game. Since then...
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Rob Williams - Thu, Apr 21, 2016
In case it hasn't proven obvious enough up to this point, Facebook cares a lot about its Messenger platform. When the company decided to force migrate people over to its standalone Messenger service two summers ago, it was a hint of what...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Apr 20, 2016
Sometimes you wake up not feeling real confident in yourself or your abilities and it seems as though Google might have been in that sort of mood yesterday. Had you used Google's own Safe Browsing Tool on Tuesday morning to check...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Apr 19, 2016
It just over a year ago when YouTube launched support for 360-degree videos, giving content creators a neat way to further immerse viewers in their world. Taking it a step further, YouTube has added live streaming and spatial audio to the...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Apr 12, 2016
As part of a concerted effort to improve the accessibility features of its various online services, Google now allows you to edit documents in Google Docs using your voice. Whether it's typing out a sentence or paragraph, editing text, or...
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Brandon Hill - Sun, Apr 10, 2016
Google Fiber is making some changes to its much ballyhooed high-speed internet service packages, and the changes are affecting those users that have been enjoying the “free” tier. Google Fiber customers in Kansas City, the first location...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Apr 06, 2016
The whole smart home movement is very much in its infancy in terms of product maturity and mainstream adoption. It's likely to stay that way for some time to come, in part over fear of buying into soon-to-be obsolete technologies. That's...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Apr 05, 2016
Time are tough for BlackBerry, as they've been for an uncomfortably long stretch now, but the Canadian handset maker isn't throwing in the towel. BlackBerry continues to have high hopes that supporting Android will reinvigorate the firm...
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Rob Williams - Sat, Apr 02, 2016
Is there anything Chrome can't do? In addition to helping us browse the Internet with our desktops and mobile devices along with streaming content to our televisions, Google has added "meetings" to Chrome's growing repertoire. This venture...
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Brandon Hill - Tue, Mar 29, 2016
Two months ago, we first learned the Google Fiber was entertaining the possibility of expanding its gigabit Internet and TV packages to include home phone service. This would in effect make Google Fiber a true triple-play service to better...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Mar 29, 2016
The ultra-limited 14-inch Chromebook category grew by a single model today with the introduction of Acer's CB3-431, one of just two 14-inch Chromebook models on the planet (HP owns the other) and the only one to boast up to an impressive...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Mar 29, 2016
Oracle is hoping to score a major damages award from Google in court. Specifically, Oracle wants Google to fork over $9.3 billion, the amount Oracle claims Google now owes it for injecting certain parts of its Java platform into Android...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Mar 24, 2016
One of the newest fads in mobile is live streaming. The idea itself isn't brand new, but with Twitter (via Periscope) and Facebook both pushing live streaming functionality, users are taking notice and jumping on board. The same goes for...
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Rob Williams - Sun, Mar 20, 2016
Thought the Stagefright saga was all behind us? Think again. In a new paper published by Israel's NorthBit, we're shown that Stagefright can still prove to be a serious threat to older devices, with some able to be cracked in as little as...
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