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Do you sometimes have to nag your significant other to take out the trash on Monday night? Now, you can do so in a more passive-aggressive way by sending them a reminder through the Google Assistant instead of in person. “Hey Google, remind Alex to take out …

Google is making it easier for teachers to crack down on cheaters this year, as well as for students to make sure theyre not accidentally copying someone elses work. Wednesday Google announced Assignments, an updated version of its CourseKit software. On a …

Workers are circulating a petition Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Google employees are demanding that the company not bid on a cloud computing contract with US Customs and Border Protection in the latest act of protest inside the tech industry.…

You probably know your Android phone or iPhone can pinpoint your location for GPS, local search, or the weather. Hopefully, you also know that means your phone keeps track of everywhere you go, all the time. Dont be alarmedits the trade-off you make for the f…

But gestures are more efficient and show more content, so they won out Photo by James Bareham / The Verge One day after releasing the final beta of Android Q, Google is making its most direct case yet for why Qs new gesture navigation controls are an improv…

There have been plenty of rumors about the upcoming Pixel 4 and 4 XL, which are all but confirmed to be making their first official appearance at the Made by Google 2019 event later this year. One of the most convincing pieces of evidence is that last years P…

Starting early next year Google will present Android users in Europe with a search engine choice screen when handsets bundle its own search service by default. In a blog post announcing the latest change to flow from the European Union’s record-breaking $5B …

How do you train a facial recognition AI reportedly sophisticated enough to rival Apples Face ID technology? Simple: You offer strangers $5 if they lend you their faces. At least thats how Google employees went about collecting face scans, according to stor…

The two companies supposedly spent at least a year working on the speaker, which would have been powered by Google Assistant. And according to The Information, they also discussed how to make Huawei phones compatible with Android Auto. It's not entirely surp…

US trade restrictions against Huawei doomed the speaker project Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Huawei was planning to follow other tech giants in releasing a smart speaker, according to The Information, but then the US government threw the companys…