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I'm still not sold on gestures being a useful addition to a thermostat A new leak adds more credence to the rumours that the next Nest Thermostat will include a form of air gestures. The leak comes from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, who has a pretty solid track record when it comes…

Google started introducing Go versions of its apps to go with the lighweight version of its OS. The aim was to bring its services to lower-powered affordable smartphones, sold in developing markets where mobile data is expensive and phones with less RAM are preferred due to their lower price. However,…

Google is planning to build a gigantic new “Downtown West” campus in San Jose, and the company has shared renderings that give an idea of what that space could look like (via CNBC). Google intends to make the approximately 79-acre area feel less like a traditional corporate campus by creating…

The tech giant is a whole new kind of monopoly, but it calls for the same course of action that any monopoly would.Just one month before the Presidential election, antitrust is in the air. The House Judiciary Committee released its report on antitrust enforcement Tuesday, and Attorney General Bill Barr…

Google's early efforts to get its Chrome browser ahead of Microsoft's Internet Explorer involved a promotion on Google.com. Some employees weren't happy about it, newly surfaced emails reveal. "I find the very, very high-profile promotion of Google Chrome on Google.com quite frankly, startling," wrote one employee, in an email obtained…

Google has infused its so-called Smart Reply feature, which uses machine learning to suggest words and sentences you may want to type next, into various email products for the past several years. But with Android 11, those contextual nudges—including emojis and stickers—are built directly into Gboard, Google's popular keyboard app.…

Posted October 6, 2020 at 6:33pmDemocrats on the House Judiciary Committee said Tuesday that Congress should consider forcing Amazon, Google, Apple and Facebook, some of the country’s largest and most successful technology companies, to separate key sections of their business empires to reduce alleged market dominance.A staff report and recommendations…

GoogleGoogle is rebranding its productivity app suite from G Suite to Google Workspace. The new branding encompasses Gmail, Docs, Meet, Sheets, and Calendar, and includes a few new features as Google focuses on working from home. Along with the rebrand, Google is overhauling the Google Workspace interface. The idea is…

Google is rolling out the security updates for the Pixel phones from the 2 series to the 4a, but this is one of the last times for the company’s 2017 flagships. The tech giant promises three years of security patches for each of its smartphones. So, as of today, the…

Google has rolled out the October 2020 security update for the Pixel 2 series, Pixel 3 series, Pixel 3a series, Pixel 4 series and Pixel 4a. The updated fixes several bugs, including a Pixel boot issue as well as an auto-brightness response problem in certain lighting conditions for the Pixel…