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Google has partnered with mobile security firms ESET, Lookout and Zimperium to combat the scourge of malicious Android apps that sneak into the Google Play app store. The announcement came Wednesday, with each company confirming their part in the newly creat…

At last months big hardware extravaganza, Google finally showed off an update to its three-year-old mesh wifi system that now lives under the companys Nest smart home brand. Despite a lack of support for the new WiFi 6 standard, Google Nest Wifi includes othe…

The same update also brings unspecified "camera quality improvements" to Pixel 4 owners, while those with older models also see improvements for Google Assistant's hotword, Xbox Bluetooth controller mapping and problems with getting stuck during the boot proc…

With the preview of Azure Arc, Microsoft today announced a major step in the evolution of its hybrid cloud story. Azure Arc takes the work the company has done on projects like Azure Stack, throws in containers and Kubernetes, as well as new infrastructure ma…

What can Fitbit do to help Wear OS?Google buys Fitbit for $2.1 billion The search and advertising giant will swallow up the wearable device company -- pending approval by shareholders and regulators -- making Fitbit a part of its hardware team. According to …

Earlier this week, we speculated on some of the ways in which Google's purchase of Fitbit would be bad for wearables. However, there are a lot of things Google could learn from Fitbit to make Wear OS a compelling platform. The important thing here is that Goo…

When it launched, Europe's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) became bigger than Beyoncé. Since then, some of the hype around the law has waned, but there's still one thing that gets people excited: fines. This story originally appeared on WIRED UK. …

Pebble, of course, was eventually acquired by Fitbit, which makes Googles purchase today a kind of wearable turducken, as CNETs Scott Stein put it on Twitter. Jawbone failed, badly. Basis Science sold itself to Intel. Misfit went to Fossil. Lark become a soft…

Google has often added features it debuts on its latest flagship handsets to its older devices and even its iOS apps, so the news it'd make Recorder more broadly available was somewhat expected from the jump. The app is useful for people who hate taking notes…

For a long time, its felt like Google has left the fate of its smartwatch and wearable platformWear OSto third-party device makers like Fossil. But thats all about to change now that Google has agreed to acquire wearable giant Fitbit. In a press release, Fit…