Google is launching a new site today that brings all of the company’s open source projects under a single umbrella. The code of these projects will still live on GitHub and Google’s self-hosted git service, of course, with the new site functioning as a central directory for them. While this new project is obviously meant [...]
Apple's Family Sharing functionality has been one of the better features for parents, allowing them to approve family members' purchases and more. Now, Google has stepped things up in a big way thanks to the Family Link app. The app, targeted at children under the age of 13, allows you to monitor their app usage [...]
The Google app for Android now saves search queries when your data connect fails, returning results once a data signal is reestablished. Google said the search results will “deliver as soon as a connection is available”. “With this change, search results are saved as soon as they are retrieved, even if you lose connection afterwards or [...]
Google has updated its list of devices with access to the Google Play marketplace to include all Chromebooks releasing in 2017. The company first announced that certain Chromebook devices would support Android apps in May 2016. The support has now been expanded to all upcoming Chrome OS-powered laptops. Chromebooks are lightweight laptops built for cloud-based professional computing, [...]
Near the end of his life, Steve Biko wasn't permitted to speak to more than one person at a time, but that didn't stop him from spreading the message of equality for all. Biko was an anti-apartheid activist in the 1960s and '70s, when the system of racial segregation and discrimination was at its height [...]
Google has launched a new family of smartphones, Google Pixel, the performance and price of which, say some, labels them as the umpteenth iPhone-killer. For Google, the launch of Made by Google is certainly a very important step, and one that shows it has understood that it will never truly be able to compete without [...]
October 2014: Google announces its new smartphones via a blogpost. September 2015: A small room in Google’s offices in central London is occupied by no less than 20 tech journalists. We’re shuffled in, sat down and handed a stapled together dossier – key specs and feature overviews – of everything Google is launching that day [...]
Google revealed Wifi today — not the underlying tech, of course, but a new piece of hardware that wants to make it even easier to bathe your whole home in wonderful, soothing connectedness. Google Wifi is a new router, which basically is a tiny device that can pair up with others to create a more [...]
Google today announced a collection of updates that are aimed at helping get ‘the next billion’ internet users in India and emerging markets online. One of the more subtle yet interesting components to that push is the launch of Google Station, a project to enable free public Wi-Fi hotspots, which is now open for new [...]
Google is no stranger to creating whole platforms when it needs them, but its latest project might be something special. It's working on Fuchsia, an open source operating system that's designed to scale all the way fromInternet of Things devices through to phones and even PCs. Its kernel includes 'grown up' OS features like user [...]
