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Cheap airfares: Google Flights helps you snag the best by predicting price changes
Cheap airfares: Everyone wants them, and Google Flights will help by telling you when prices are expected to go up—or down.News Analysis
I switched from an iPhone to Google’s Pixel phone and survived
Google tried to simplify the process of moving to a Pixel from the iPhone. Here's how that shook out for one Apple die-hard.News
Facebook adds Apple TV and Chromecast support as video push ramps up
Facebook recently added the ability for iOS users to cast to an Apple TV or Chromecast, and Android support is coming soon.News
Google News battles era of spin with fact check label
Google News is cutting through noise and spin with a new "Fact Check" tag.
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Samsung TVs will integrate Steam Link’s PC game streaming technology
The $50 game streaming box that could will now reportedly be included inside (at least some) Samsung televisions.News
Spotify ads slipped malware onto PCs and Macs
Ads played to Spotify listeners tried to install malware on PCs and Macs.News
Five questions about taking Google’s new phones to work
Google unveiled a massive strategic shift on Tuesday, announcing that it is officially getting into the business of designing and releasing its own smartphones. Here are the five key questions about using the new Pixel phones for business.News
Google launches two Pixel phones, the showcase for Google Assistant
Google ushered in the next wave of Google smartphones with the Pixel and the Pixel XL, both of which will be powered by Google's new interactive Google Assistant.News
Fujitsu’s Ontenna could be a big deal for the deaf
Among the robots, big screens and fast computers of Japan's Ceatec electronics show, a small prototype being shown off by Fujitsu is probably one of the lowest tech gadgets on the show floor, but it could be one of the most important.News
EU gets ready to fine Google in Android antitrust suit
The European Commission is preparing to fine Google for paying smartphone makers to exclusively use its search engine on their mobile devices, according to Reuters.News
Google rebrands Apps for Work as G Suite, adds intelligent features
Google rebranded and enhanced its productivity suite Thursday with new intelligent capabilities that help it better compete with Microsoft Office 365.
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Researchers make progress toward computer video recognition
Researchers are trying to make video recognition a reality, and using some image recognition techniques to make that happen.News
Google will shore up one of its biggest cloud weaknesses next year
Google announced a major change to its cloud platform infrastructure on Thursday that will help shore up one of the company's biggest weaknesses relative to competitors like Microsoft and Amazon. The company will be launching 8 new regions around the world next year.
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New USB-C audio standard joins the iPhone 7’s quest to kill the headphone jack
USB Type-C audio is finished, and the 3.5 mm headphone jack's days are numbered.
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Mozilla is stopping all commercial development on Firefox OS
Panasonic will have to maintain those Firefox OS smart TVs on its own.News
Andromeda inbound? Google’s long-rumored Android/Chrome OS merger may debut Oct 4
Are Chrome OS and Android on a collision course?News
Vint Cerf’s do-over: How a father of the Internet would’ve made it differently
Vint Cerf is considered a father of the internet, but that doesn't mean there aren't things he would do differently if given a fresh chance to create it all over again.News
Hands-on: Google Assistant’s Allo chatbot outdoes Cortana, Siri as your digital pal
First there was Google Now. Next, Google's new Allo app includes Google Assistant, a capable digital personality that is eager to assist.News
Chrome OS gets cryptographically verified enterprise device management
Companies will now be able to cryptographically validate the identity of Chrome OS devices connecting to their networks and verify that those devices conform to their security policies.News
Twitter’s new Apple TV, Fire TV, and Xbox One apps are all about video, not tweets
Twitter's new Apple TV, Fire TV, and Xbox One apps focus on live video—including free NFL games—in a bid to lure new users to the social network.News Analysis
Could machine learning help Google’s cloud catch up to AWS and Azure?
Google is lagging behind in the public cloud market. Could leadership in machine learning tools help it catch up to Amazon and Microsoft?World Beyond Windows
Spotify mails it in on Linux app
Spotify just updated its Linux app, but the streaming service has been without a Linux developer for more than a year.News
Here’s why Microsoft and Google have the same competitor as a partner
It sounds like the start of a bad joke: executives from Microsoft, Google, Amazon and IBM walk into a conference with one thing in common. But all of those companies are appearing on stage at BoxWorks in San Francisco, in part because they all work with the cloud storage and content services company in one capacity or another.
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Google Chrome to start marking HTTP connections as insecure
To push more websites to implement encryption and to better protect users, Google will start flagging plain HTTP connections as insecure in its popular Chrome browser.News
Google just blew up its all-in strategy for productivity software
For a very long time, Google has focused on building its own productivity software to serve everyone from consumers to massive enterprises, and then locking people into its core experience. That all changed on Wednesday.News
Chromebooks may add fingerprint scanning, following Android and Windows
A thread on Google's Chromium code repository suggests fingerprint scanning is being built into future Chromebooks, which would help the platform catch up with Android and Windows.World Beyond Windows
Google’s Fuchsia OS is out in the open and shrouded in mystery
Because Fuchsia is open-source, anyone can take a look at its code, even though Google isn't saying much about its new operating system.News
How to control your privacy in Chromebooks vs. Windows 10
Both Chrome OS and Windows 10 help themselves to similar usage data by default, but in different ways.News
Sony previews prototype Xperia gadgets
Sony is looking at taking the Xperia brand beyond smartphones and is showing off some prototype gadgets at the IFA trade show in Berlin.News
Google Analytics just got a new AI tool to help find insights faster
Services like Google Analytics are great for amassing key data to help you make the most of your web efforts, but zeroing in on the parts that matter most can be a time-consuming challenge. On Friday, Google added a new feature to its analytics service that taps AI to surface insights automatically.News
Panasonic’s new 4K camcorder does better in low light
Panasonic will soon introduce a prosumer 4K camcorder with better low-light performance, faster autofocus and a wider viewing angle than its predecessor.News
Facebook’s new algorithm will help save VR movies from shaky-cam
Facebook wants to make sure that any VR home movies shared on its social network won't make people puke. That's why the company is building a new video stabilization algorithm that will help smooth out all of the bumps and shakes that come from wielding a 360 degree camera.News
Bang & Olufsen’s Dalek-esque BeoSound wireless speakers project music 360 degrees
Audiophiles may roll their eyes at the very idea of portable Bluetooth speakers, but high-design hi-fi firm Bang & Olufsen just unveiled two of them in Berlin.News
Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 821 will power Google’s VR-capable Daydream phones
The first smartphones to use Google's Daydream virtual reality platform are coming later this year, and many could have Qualcomm's latest processor, the Snapdragon 821.News
Okta partners with Google to secure cloud identities
Okta and Google have announced a partnership aimed at getting enterprises to secure their users' identities in the cloud.News
Google quietly discontinues the Chromebook Pixel 2 without replacing it
The Chromebook Pixel 2's reign is over, and it's not clear what will replace it.Updated
Google bakes Chromecast support directly into Chrome
Google is finally adding a built-in option to Cast open tabs to your Chromecast-enabled television. The extension will still work, but it's no longer needed.News
Uber, Alphabet autonomous car rivalry heats up
The race to develop autonomous cars is making rivals of old friends as is evident from the exit of Alphabet’s senior executive David Drummond from the board of Uber Technologies.News
Now you can play Solitaire and more in Google search
Now you can play Solitaire, tic-tac-toe, and flip a coin directly inside Google searchNews
Google is using artificial intelligence to compress images better than JPEG
Small is beautiful, as the old saying goes, and nowhere is that more true than in media files. Compressed images are considerably easier to transmit and store than uncompressed ones are, and now Google is using neural networks to beat JPEG at the compression game.News
Samsung Milk Music closes its virtual doors September 22
Samsung will discontinue the streaming service to instead focus on partnerships with other music streaming companies.
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Google is killing Chrome apps on Mac, Windows and Linux
Three years after introducing special apps that run inside the Chrome browser, Google announced Friday that it will be removing them from Windows, Mac and Linux by early 2018.
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Intel praises killer USB-C audio features in war against traditional headphone jacks
Ditching analog headphones for USB-C audio opens up a world of new features, Intel says.World Beyond Windows
Firefox for Linux will soon support Netflix and Amazon videos
In order for Firefox for Linux to play encrypted HTML5 video, some closed-source code is required, which could rankle open-source purists.News
Google says its databases are enterprise ready
Google is continuing its campaign to entice enterprises to its public cloud platform by rolling out database services stable enough to serve businesses in production.News
Hangouts on Air disappears from Google+ on September 12
Google+ Hangouts on Air is dropping the "plus," and Google's flailing social network.News
Meet Fuchsia, a new operating system in the works at Google
Nobody quite knows what it's for (yet), but according to Android Police, it can run on just about any kind of device.News
Microsoft buys Beam’s livestreaming tech to grab a chunk of the e-sports market
Microsoft said Thursday that it has acquired game livestreaming service Beam, a deal that allows the company access to the lucrative streaming and e-sports markets.News
Google buys Orbitera to improve its cloud app deployment services
Google has acquired Orbitera, a startup that's supposed to make it easier for software vendors to sell cloud-based products to businesses.News