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You know how sometimes when you Google a store, you get a pop-out sidebar containing info about products that store currently has in stock? Well, in a deal announced today, Google has agreed to purchase the startup responsible for making those sidebars possib…

The browser battles are about privacy more than marketshare Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google will join Safari and Firefox in blocking third-party cookies in its Chrome web browser. However, unlike those browsers (which have already started blo…

Google has been on a long-term mission to build inroads into the world of e-commerce by working more closely with brick-and-mortar retailers, and now it looks like it plans to extend that work a little further. The search giant is acquiring Pointy, a startup …

Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp asks a journalist to find out Jose Mourinho's playing position during the press conference for Sunday's fixture against Tottenham. WATCH MORE: Klopp not distracted by potential European points record Follow text commentary of Tot…

And as usual, Google had a handful of enhancements to Assistant to announce, from making it easier to protect your privacy and natural language reading of websites to sticky notes and speed-dial contacts on Assistant smart displays. But despite the long lines…

Accusing the tech giant of blatantly and knowingly infringing on its technology patents, smart-speaker maker Sonos on Tuesday filed two lawsuits against Google after years of quiet talks between the pair apparently fell through. Sonos has filed complaints in…

Delta is keynoting CES today and launching a slew of updates to its digital services. Its competitors don’t want to be left behind, of course, so it’s probably no surprise that American Airlines also made a small but nifty tech announcement today. In partners…

It should sound more natural than most screen readers Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google is previewing a new feature here at CES for the Google Assistant on Android phones that turns it into a supercharged screen reader. When you say Hey Google,…

Google is adding a bunch of other new features, too For the past few years, Google and Amazon have tussled to get the most attention for their respective digital assistants at CES. But while Amazon mainly focuses on partner announcements, Google aims for con…

Weather technology company ClimaCell, which is taking a number of innovative approaches for gathering weather data and building forecasting models, today announced that it is partnering with Google Cloud to launch a new high-resolution forecasting model. The …