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Google employees stand outside the companys London offices during last years protests. Photo by Stefan Rousseau/PA Images via Getty Images A Google employee who helped lead protests over the companys work for the military, its handling of AI ethics, and it…

You might not even need that keypad anyway if you're calling contacts you get in touch with often. When you hover over a contact's name in your call list, a phone icon will now show up -- just click it to call that particular contact. Finally, a new audio ico…

Google has never made a successful social network, but you have to give the company some credit for never giving up. After the shutdown of platforms like Orkut, Google Buzz, and Google+ (and the shuttering of messaging services like Allo and Google Wave) it a…

Google, Amazon, and Apple say their AI-powered virtual assistants make it easier to get things done on smartphones or at home. Last month, a couple in the Waasmunster area of Belgium got an unexpected lesson in how these supposedly automated helpers really wo…

Starting today, when you search for Apollo 11 on an augmented reality-enabled device, there'll be an AR option in the Knowledge Panel. If you tap it, you'll get to explore a 3D recreation of the command module. You can zoom in and out, and look at it from jus…

Both Democrats and Republicans have been concerned that just a handful of companies not only have control of the internet (and technology at large), but might be abusing their power to squeeze out competition. The investigation won't necessarily lead to actio…

To use the feature, go to the Google app on your smartphone and open up Lens. Then point the camera at the artwork you're interested in and tap the blue dot. This brings up a slider with information about the work, which you can tap to see a biography of…

While Chrome has let users mute audio in individual tabs for some time, Google is currently testing a new media control feature in the browsers latest Canary build. When enabled, users can play, pause, and skip/rewind audio and video content directly from the…

Google is preparing to introduce a new feature to Chrome in the form of a general purpose play/pause button located on the web browser's toolbar. With so much of our entertainment and services now accessed through a web browser, we're all used to having seve…

Plenty of us rely on public transportation, but there are times when your local transit system is anything but reliable. Those of us who use it to commute are used to being packed into buses and subway cars, but sometimes there are just too many passengers an…