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Facebook will run ads to attract participants to the Study from Facebook app. When someone clicks on the ad, they can apply to register. If they qualify, they'll be able to download the app from the Google Play Store -- it's not currently available in the App…

Waze users will now have another way to issue voice commands on the navigation app: the Google Assistant. For now, it's only rolling out to Android phones in the U.S. But it will let Waze app users ask the navigation app to do things by uttering the prompt p…

Every big game publisher is getting into the subscription business, and the latest entrant is Ubisoft. Today at the company’s E3 2019 press conference, Ubisoft announced UPlay Plus, a PC game subscription service sporting more than 100 titles and coming out o…

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Since Google acquired Waze back in 2013, the company has been slowly adding Waze features into Google Maps, including Wazes traffic reporting functions and real-time speed limits. This relationship is reciprocated, as Google is integrating Assistant into the…

For years, the US government stood by as big tech companies like Facebook and Google growth hacked and gobbled up competitors on their way to dominance, with barely a mention of anticompetitive concerns. But that lax attitude is changing. Word continued to le…

A Google employee who helped organize last years 20,000 worker walkout left the company this week and said shes faced professional retaliation as a result of her speaking out. Claire Stapleton, a YouTube marketing manager, helped organize a worker walkout af…

You know the deal: a console is nothing without games. Same goes for streaming plans. Google jumped the gun on E3 this week with its Stadia Connect, a livestream that takes more than a page or two from Nintendos Direct offering. The event offered a little mor…

It’s not quite a “Netflix for games” but Google Stadia is making an aggressive sell for their service that’s aiming to kill game consoles. We got the full rundown on Google’s Stadia game-streaming platform this morning in the company’s livestream launch ahea…

Tomorrow, ahead of E3 2019, both Bungie and Google are hosting live-streamed presentations, where they’ll talk about the future of Destiny 2 and Google Stadia, respectively. But it sounds like the events will have more in common than just timing. According to…