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Theyll show up directly in search Google is adding personalized TV and movie recommendations to search, in hopes of solving the age old question: what do you actually want to watch? Now, when you search Google for things like good shows to watch or what to …

Google is slowly closing the feature gap between Google Maps mobile and desktop versions, and a recent update finally made it as easy to play around with Street View on the Android app as it is on a computer. The mobile version of the feature now works almos…

The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here. 1. Childrens privacy costs just $170 million for Google in settleme…

The Federal Trade Commission has set a price on children’s privacy online and the going rate is $170 million. That’s how much Google will have to pay under the terms of a settlement agreement to end investigations by the Federal Trade Commission and the New …

If you opened up Google Calendar sometime in the last few weeks only to find your schedule filled with things like “WIN A FREE iPHONE!” or “CHEAP RAYBANS HERE”, you’re by no means the only one. Spammers have found a way to trick Google Calendar into adding t…

Google has just released the final version of its new operating system for Android phones. Though its been available as a beta release under the name Android Q, the new version is named well, it has nothing to do with the letter Q. Its just Android 10, which …

On its official support forum, the company writes it's "aware of the spam occurring in Calendar," and notes that it is "working diligently" to resolve the issue. At the moment, however, there's no estimated timeline for when people can expect a fix. In the m…

The company uses a massive contractor workforce Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge A group of Google contractors in Pittsburgh is moving to unionize, according to a statement released on August 29th. 66 percent have signed union cards About 90 em…

Security researchers at Google say they’ve found a number of malicious websites which, when visited, could quietly hack into a victim’s iPhone by exploiting a set of previously undisclosed software flaws. Google’s Project Zero said in a deep-dive blog post p…

Anyone wondering if Alphabet might reprimand its chief legal officer, David Drummond, for a long-ago extramarital, inter-office affair that continues to be a distraction to the company, the answer seems to be . . . not right now. Though a former subordinate o…