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TL;DR: The hands-free Google Home is the perfect hub for your smart home pick one up for just $69 at Walmart.  While not everyone can afford to hire a real-life personal assistant to follow them around everywhere and help with various tasks, the next best th…

Nowadays, a large number of browsers including Opera, Brave and even Microsoft's Edge run on Google's Chromium engine. As such, Google gets to dictate terms, and launched the Manifest V3 proposal. That would help speed up browsing by blocking an API called we…

Over the past five years, Kubernetes has grown from a project inside of Google to an open source powerhouse with an ecosystem of products and services, attracting billions of dollars in venture investment. In fact, we’ve already seen some successful exits, in…

"Ramen." That's not the usual address or business name you'd put into a navigation app, but many of us are starting to use Google Maps like we do the Google search bar. Instead of searching for "Coco's Ramen" or some other specific business or address on a m…

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Judging by the flood of notifications I get on a daily basis from Google Maps, it really likes me maybe a little too much. If you use Google Maps on Android, you might be in the same boat. Google Maps has a…

TL;DR: The hands-free Google Home Mini is all you need in a smart speaker assistant, and you can get two of them for just $58 at Walmart.  It can be totally jealousy-inducing to be over at a friends house and watch them seamlessly control their home simply b…

Google Drive’s offline capabilities are getting an upgrade. Currently, you can use Google Chrome to make your Docs, Sheets, and Slides available offline. On Tuesday, the company announced the launch of a beta test that will expand offline capabilities to othe…

Scammers and spammers have been wriggling their way into unsuspecting users Google Calendars for years now, but theres been a swell of headlines on Google Calendar phishing scams over the past few weeks. Heres why. By default, Google Calendar will add events…

Google bought Kaggle in 2017 to provide a data science community for its big data processing tools on Google Cloud. Today, the company announced a new direct integration between Kaggle and BigQuery, Google’s cloud data warehouse. More specifically, data scie…

If you thought an internet giant stole your hard work and claimed it as their own, how would you ever prove it? Well, what if you could booby trap the information first? On this spine-tingling episode of the Gadget Lab podcast, Mike, Arielle, and Lauren talk …