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All of today’s best deals are now headlined by the Assistant-enabled Wyze Floodlight Cam at $70. It’s joined by the Hisense 65-inch Google TV and its 144Hz gaming capabilities at the $720 low, not to mention this ongoing $400 off Galaxy Z Fold 5 promotion. Hit the jump for all…

Google has implemented earthquake notifications within Android for the past few years and they’ve worked well in many cases, but those precious few seconds of warning apparently failed ahead of the devastating earthquake in Turkey early this year. The BBC reports that when Turkey was hit by a 7.8 earthquake…

Back in May, Google and Apple jointly announced that they were teaming up to prevent unwanted tracking through AirTags and similar devices. Today, Google is announcing that the rollout of unknown tracker alerts is now beginning on devices running Android 6.0 and later. Right now, this only works with AirTags,…

        | Published: Thursday, July 27, 2023, 15:49 Google has finally launched a dedicated version of the Android Play Store that is designed and optimized for large-screen devices. The apps listed in the new virtual marketplace are intended for foldable smartphones, tablets, and Chromebooks. There are millions…

Larry Page, the co-founder of Alphabet Inc., Google’s parent company, has seen a major rise in his net worth, gaining a whopping $5.4 billion.   As of the time of writing, Larry Page’s total net worth stands at an impressive $109 billion. This surge in wealth has catapulted him to the…

Alphabet rallied nearly 7% on Wednesday on signs its dominant Google Search business was faring well in an uncertain advertising market and remained unscathed in the face of competition from an AI-powered Microsoft Bing. The world's fourth most valuable firm was set add more than $100 billion to its market…

Google parent Alphabet Inc.’s stock jumped 6% in after-hours trading Tuesday after the company beat estimates on the top and bottom line, and announced the transition of Chief Financial Officer Ruth Porat to president and chief investment officer in September. Fueled by strong advertising sales, Alphabet GOOGL, +0.56%   GOOG,…

One of the sweetest Google OS updates, the Android KitKat 4.4, will no longer be supported by Google Play Services. The message came from the Android Developers Blog, where it was revealed API levels 19 and 20 will not receive APK versions beyond 23.30.99, starting August 2023. This means devices…

A new vulnerability has been discovered in AMD’s Zen 2 processors—one that allows data like passwords and encryption keys to be stolen from the CPU. Disclosed publicly this week by Google security researcher Tavis Ormandy, this bug affects consumer chips as well as server, including Ryzen 3000 series parts. As…

While shopping for back-to-school deals, it can be easy to focus on the discounted price, ignoring all else. A recent change to Google’s Chromebook support page meant that we briefly considered a back-to-school Chromebook deal when it was a bad bargain instead. Here’s how to avoid making the same mistake.…