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Google is no stranger to antitrust allegations in numerous countries, including the US. In what may be termed a tit-for-tat, the Chinese government has initiated an investigation into Google amidst claims of antitrust practices, following the US decision to impose a 10% tariff on goods from China.
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The January 2025 Android Security Bulletin is out, and it spells bad news for Android 12 to 15 users. The latest security update fixes 36 critical vulnerabilities, including five critical bugs in the System component. "The most severe of these issues is a critical security vulnerability in the System component that...
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2025 is calling and if you need a new smartphone to ring in a brand new year, we have good news—there are lot of good options out there. Granted, there will be new models coming out next year too, but there is always something newer, faster, and shinier on the horizon, no matter when you're ready to pull the trigger...
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The holidays are a time for cheer, joy, and time with friends and family. However, Google is warning Gmail users to be mindful, as grinches are looking to take advantage of people with scams and spam this time of year. The company is reporting that there has a been a significant uptick in e-mail messages since...
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OpenAI has been in the headlines as the company has been introducing several new products alongside a new pricing tier, but now Google is trying to make some noise of its own. The company’s newest model, which is referred to as Gemini-Exp-1206, is based on Flash 2.0, which is a complex reasoning model meant to tackle...
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Beware of those Google Calendar invites as they could lead to a world of hurt if you accept them haphazardly. Security researchers at Check Point warn that cyber criminals are exploiting user-friendly features in Google Calendar to try and trick potential victims into clicking on malicious links, and that they've...
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Google may be moving away from Exynos 5G modems beginning with the Pixel 10, according to a source from within Mountain View. At the moment, MediaTek's T900 seems to be the pick of the bunch to perhaps bring some stability to Google's troubled modem past while also bringing support for the 3GPP Release 17 5G...
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Hold on to your britches, because two tech giants have entered the wearable mixed reality headset space to take on the Meta Quests and Apple Vision Pros of the world. Google and Samsung have combined forces to bring a new headset that will try to change the game by 2025, bringing Gemini AI smarts and deep smartphone...
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Quite a lot has been leaked and speculated about Google's upcoming Pixel 9a—most of them, like the flusher camera bar, bigger battery, Tensor G4, and thinner design, have been confirmed by various sources. But now, a leaked spec sheet from a wireless carrier has pretty much laid the mid-budget phone bare. Thanks to...
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More photos of an actual Google Pixel 9a has emerged online, showing what the front and rear of the device look like. Overall, they confirm prior renders of a flatter and cleaner design for Google's low-mid-budget smartphone. As with all leaks and rumors, don't take this bit of news too seriously. Even if the photos...
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Anyone with an Android phone in their pocket is in for a big day—doubly so if that phone is a Pixel. Google has announced a few raft of features, some of which are coming to Android phones generally. Google's Pixel lineup, however, gets a huge number of new capabilities in the latest Feature Drop. But even if you're...
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A former NASA engineer turned YouTuber has found a round-a-bout way to give people the opportunity to snap a selfie of themselves from space. The satellite will also send an alert to a person when it is above their location on Earth, making it possible to photobomb themselves in their own selfie from space.
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Google has dropped a private preview version of Veo, its latest generative AI video tool. Generated videos will be in high-definition, about a minute in length, and infused with digital watermarks. In tow, Google's Imagen 3 text-to-image generator has graduated from testing stages to being available for Google Cloud...
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You've wisely powered through Thanksgiving leftovers and fought off the urge to spend too much on Black Friday so that you can make the most of Cyber Monday deals, right?. Well, more power to you for making it to this point and if you've on a lookout for deals on Google's latest Pixel Watch 3, do we have some good...
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We're not sure why it took so long to implement, but Google Maps users can now see Waze's (arguably superior) crowd-sourced incident report markers on their navigation routes. Don't worry, this doesn't mean a death knell for the Google-owned Waze service, but no doubt, having such rich incident report data on Google...
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Apparently Google can't decide what strategy to take with its tablet products. Word off the vine is now saying that the Pixel Tablet 3 project has been cancelled. This raises questions such as how this drives system and app support for the current Pixel Tablet (as well as the rumored 2025 Pixel Tablet 2), and whether...
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The paint on the fresh new Android 15 hasn't even dried yet, yet that hasn't stopped Google from dropping an early holiday gift in the form of an Android 16 Developer Preview build. If you're an app developer or a brave enough to try this very early (and presumably bug laden) build, then have at it. Also, we have a...
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According to a few insiders, the Department of Justice (DoJ) may be getting ready to ask a judge to make Google sell off its beloved Chrome internet browser. The latest rumors also add that the DoJ may consider requiring measures related to AI and the company’s Android smartphone operating system. If true, and it were...
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Google appears to be working on giving billions of Gmail users a new way of fighting against spam. It seems the company is preparing a new way of creating temporary email addresses within a Gmail account, possibly called ‘Shielded Email’. And with Google in the process of deleting millions of inactive accounts, there...
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Fears about AI rising up and annihilating humans are a bit premature at this point, but neural networks can still behave in some unpredictable and shocking ways at times. Case in point: Google's Gemini AI chatbot just unsubtly told a human to die—but at least it was polite enough to say "please" first.
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If you haven't already heard, Google's Gemini AI has a dedicated app for the iPhone and users can easily invoke the chatbot directly from either the lock screen or Dynamic Island. There's even deep integration with Gemini Extensions, so users can ask Gemini about their Gmail inbox, for example. The app is also open to...
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Even as Apple continues its Safari privacy push, iPhone and iPad users who use Google Chrome are about to see several new features added to their browser of choice. Chrome will be receiving an upgrade to Google Lens, integration with Drive and Photos, improved Shopping Insights, and a more seamless way of finding a...
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