Today, Google is showing off auto-translation on smart display speakers, letting you naturally talk to each other with the speaker acting as the translator automatically. It has announced integrations with dozens of well-known brands. It will put Google Assistant on millions more iPhones with a Trojan horse play: integrating it into Google Maps. Google is...Read More
For example, instead of saying “Alexa, tell Moen to turn on the shower,” you can now say “Alexa, turn on the shower” for the command to take effect. It works similarly with Siri and Google too; simply swap “Alexa” with either “Siri” or “Google.” That’s definitely a lot easier to say, especially when you’re groggy...Read More
Volvo’s futuristic performance brand Polestar released the first teaser image of its second car this week (seen above). The aptly named Polestar 2 will be Volvo’s first all-electric car, and has specs (on paper, at least) that match up with some of the best EVs that are about to hit the road. It will also...Read More
These days, it’s impossible to look anywhere in the tech world without seeing Google’s fingerprints. This was definitely still true throughout 2018 – even Microsoft conceded to Chrome’s web browser dominance. However, with all the news that’s constantly flying around the internet about Google, it can be hard to pinpoint the year’s most pivotal moments....Read More
Google has come under mounting scrutiny for its promotion of children’s apps in its Play store. In April, cybersecurity researchers reported that more than half of about 6,000 free Android children’s apps they tested shared personal data in ways that may violate the children’s privacy law. In September, the attorney general of New Mexico filed...Read More
Google has expanded quietly and has not asked for public subsidies. “We’ve been growing steadily for the past 18 years without heralding trumpets, or asking for support from the government,” William Floyd, Google’s head of external affairs in New York said this month. “We’ve done it by the dint our own work.” Still, Google has...Read More
A vigil for Grace Millane, a British backpacker that went missing in early December in New Zealand.Photo: Hagen Hopkins (Getty Images) The government of New Zealand “admonished” search giant Google for publicizing the name of a man charged in the killing of backpacker Grace Millane in Auckland, with justice minister Andrew Little demanding that the...Read More
Google strengthens its Family Link controls on Chromebooks. (Photo: Google) Hey parents, Google is strengthening parental controls on Chromebooks. The company announced updated Family Link features to help you get a better handle on what your kids are doing on Google’s cloud-based computers and to impose time limit and bedtime restrictions on when they can use the...Read More
“This committee is very interested in what justifies filtering,” Mr. Goodlatte said. “Given the revelation that top executives at Google have discussed how the results of the 2016 elections do not comply with Google’s values, these questions have become all the more important.” Mr. McCarthy is among several Republican members who have made online political...Read More
<!– –> MENUSEARCH QUOTES Tech Google just revealed its vision for a massive development in its home city of Mountain View, California, outlining plans for a combination of office, retail, public and residential space. The documents, published late Friday, center on the North Bayshore area of Mountain View, and include 3.12 million square feet of...Read More
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