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Google published a support article on Friday clarifying that was still working with Huawei to provide security and app updates to older devices. New devices, however, would not have access to Google apps and services.Photo: Fred Dufour (AFP via Getty Images)Google wants to clear things up for Huawei device users:…

Photo: Alex Cranz (Gizmodo)It wasn’t too long ago that Google announced it had plunked down $2.1 billion to acquire Fitbit. While the news was welcomed by some, many others raised the question of what would happen with all that health data Fitbit had collected. You can count the European Data…

Google has buried a major change in legal jurisdiction for its U.K. users as part of a wider update to its terms and conditions that’s been announced today and which it says is intended to make its conditions of use clearer for all users. It says the update to its…

The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) has intervened to raise concerns about Google’s plan to scoop up the health and activity data of millions of Fitbit users — at a time when the company is under intense scrutiny over how extensively it tracks people online and for antitrust concerns. Google…

Early voting in Nevada is app-free, but that'll change come Saturday. Image: Mario Tama / Getty Images By Marcus Gilmer2020-02-19 17:25:41 UTC The Nevada Democratic Caucus has unveiled its system to avoid an Iowa-like app meltdown. The solution? Google Forms.  On Wednesday morning, the state party shared a link to…

As Makani's Fort Felker said, this doesn't necessarily mean that Makani is shutting down. Its recent investor Shell is "exploring options" to continue work on wind kite technology, although Felker didn't elaborate on what that meant. The team did make some progress while under Alphabet's wing, launching a 20kW demo…

Google announced today that Stadia will work on some Android phones from Samsung, Asus, and Razer starting on February 20th. Up until this point, Stadia only worked on certain Pixel phones. Here’s the full list of the 19 newly supported phones, which includes the Samsung Galaxy S20 line that’s releasing…

In early December, Spotify launched its annual personalized Wrapped playlist with its users’ most-streamed sounds of 2019. That has become a bit of a tradition and isn’t necessarily anything new, but for 2019, it also gave users a look back at how they used Spotify over the last decade. Because…

Google has removed the chat app ToTok, which is allegedly an espionage tool for the United Arab Emirates, from the Play Store for a second time. The app was previously pulled from Apple’s App Store and the Google Play Store in December, shortly before The New York Times published a…

"You're currently subscribed to YouTube TV through Apple in-app purchases, so we're writing to let you know that, starting March 13th, 2020, YouTube TV will no longer accept payment through Apple in-app purchases," reads the company's email. "You'll be billed for one final month of service and then your in-app…