Google is set to unveil a host of new hardware and software products, including the Pixel Fold, Pixel Tablet, and Pixel Watch 2 at its upcoming developer conference.
It's been a tough year for tech, but even as Google laid off 12,000 employees, CEO Sundar Pichai got a substantial pay raise, earning him the nickname "Lord Farquaad."
Ahead of World Password Day, Google now allows users to use passkeys to sign into their Google Accounts on all major platforms.
Apple and Google are partnering to make it harder for tracking beacons like AirTag to be used for stalking, by proposing a standard to prevent misuse.
Google has updated its security app for two-factor authentication to sync passcodes across devices, but users without a Google account can still use the app.
As Google's fortunes have fallen, the company appears to have backed off construction of a San Jose, California "mega-campus" that it lobbied hard for, starting in 2019.
Google is rolling out its Matter support for the 2020 Nest thermostat, meaning that it can be controlled over any Matter-certified smart home system, including HomeKit.
Bard is ostensibly designed to leverage Google's massive advantage in search with an AI chatbot. The problem is, Google's offering is worse in nearly every regard versus Microsoft's Bing.
Amazon has been warned by both Apple and Google about children being able to find pornography on the Kindle app through the App Store and Google Play Store.
As a result of Microsoft's recent success with artificial intelligence, Samsung is now thinking about replacing Google as the default search engine on its devices.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai says the company will integrate AI chatbot technology into its regular search features, though won't say if it will use its error-prone Bard system.
On top of a US Department of Justice suit, and another in the UK, more publishers are accusing Google of using its dominance to limit what revenue they could make from online ads.
ChatGPT, Bard, and all AI tools are trained on existing work, and quote that work without the originators being paid or cited in most cases — and publishers say this can't continue.
Google's large language model tool named Bard says that it was trained with Gmail — but Google has denied that is the case.
Google is starting to roll out access to Google Bard, its AI chatbot competitor to ChatGPT that aims to use machine smarts to provide intelligent responses to queries.
Google is bringing AI tools to users in Google Workspace and opening up its AI language model called PaLM for developers and businesses.
Google is expanding access to its VPN for all Google One subscribers, but will limit its new dark web monitoring tool to the US.
Google has made under-the-hood improvements to Chrome, which have resulted in lighter memory use, improved speed, and better battery life for MacBook owners.
Users of the highly-subscribed Gmail may not be able to access their emails on Monday, with an outage making access to the Alphabet communications service intermittent.
A decade after its launch, Gmail is a feature-rich productivity tool and one of the most popular email services worldwide. It is free to use, but only if you are willing to pay with your privacy.
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