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Google Cloud made two significant pricing announcements today. Those, you’ll surely be sad to hear, don’t involve the usual price drops for compute and storage. Instead, Googe Cloud today announced that it is extending its committed use discounts, which give …

Open source has become the de facto standard for building the software that underpins the complex infrastructure that runs everything from your favorite mobile apps to your company’s barely usable expense tool. Over the course of the last few years, a lot of …

The Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel and AI reporter James Vincent discuss AI ethics and bias, and, specifically, what companies like Google are doing to tackle such challenges. Earlier this year, James spoke to Google’s head of AI, Jeff Dean, about these qu…

Apple unveiled a range of India-specific features in iOS 13 at WWDC this week as it begins to adapt its software for the worlds second largest internet market. But if you want to see how far an international service can be customized for the Indian market, lo…

Apple has long touted its approach to privacy as a selling point, and at WWDC, it revealed more privacy-oriented features. It's offering a Sign in with Apple option for apps and services it says provides "fast, easy sign in without the tracking" that other lo…

Back when Apple Maps debuted, it was often derided for lacking a lot of detail, especially when compared to Google Maps. Now, with iOS13, that appears to be changing. At WWDC, iOS lead Craig Federighi showed off a new Apple Maps that is much more detailed, mo…

Smart home products are among some of the most coveted in this fully-connected age smart lighting kits, speaker setups, and even smart scales now all have capabilities that can upgrade your life in big ways. Now, those things may sound fancy and expensive (an…

Don't panic, but two of The Youths biggest sources of entertainment are down. Snapchat and YouTube, as well as Gmail, G Suite, Discord, and other services, are down in some eastern regions of the U.S. and Europe. A Google Cloud outage, which powers logins fo…

After weeks of sporting Coming Soon screens, the New York City MTAs OMNY pilot finally launched today. The system augments the citys MetroCard swipes with new contactless screens that work with contactless prepaid credit and debit cards and a variety of diffe…

On Wednesday, Google href=" rolled out new policies around kids’ apps on Google Play following an FTC complaint claiming a lack of att…