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Awhile ago, Volvo spun off a company called Polestar that seems dead set on competing with Tesla and electric offerings from other companies. While the Polestar 1 is a hybrid that's already been crash tested and seen out in the wild, the more mysterious Polestar 2 is set to be Polestar's first...

AFP reports that Nest, a smart camera manufacturer founded by former Apple engineers and owned by Alphabet, is urging customers to use two factor authentication for their home systems. The plea comes after local media near San Francisco reported on a couple's trouble with a Nest camera mounted...

YouTube TV Program Manager Ben Moores has announced that the TV streaming service has expanded nationwide with added coverage in 95 more markets. After launching the service 2 years ago, YouTube TV now covers 98% of the United States. The company has signed deals to provide "complete local...

Waymo has chosen to expand its vehicle integration operations in Southeast Michigan. The Alphabet subsidiary seeks to work with OEM partners to integrate its self-driving systems into their vehicle platforms. Private investments into the project are expected to generate $13.6 million and create...

Google has entered into a deal with Fossil Group to purchase its smartwatch technology that is still in development. The internet giant has also purchased the R&D teams directly involved with developing the secretive technology. Fossil Group will retain 200 members of its R&D team that aren't...

Google Pixel 32gb black, got this as a refurbished unit late last year for a backup phone with Project Fi, and only used it a couple times since. No need for it now that Fi supports non Google phones. Pretty good condition, no major scratches, will come with a case but no charger/cable. $140...

The FCC has approved higher radar operating levels for Soli sensors in "Project Soli"; a gesture based system that can capture touchless motion commands from users with mobility, speech and tactile impairments. Project Soli allows the previously mentioned users to operate computers, tablets...

The fact that Facebook shares data from Android phones, even when users aren't logged in, is no secret. Facebook, Facebook Messenger and Instagram are all baked into my HTC's system image, and it takes work just to keep them disabled. But Privacy International recently tested a wide range of 3rd...

According to the Wall Street Journal, Epic Games is working on an mobile app store to compete with the Google Play app store for Android users in 2019. As a consequence of competing with Google, Epic Games will also be competing with Apple and its App Store for iOS. The Epic Games app store will...

AMD has released a video that showcases the new streaming capabilities of its AMD Radeon lineup. With the release of the AMD Radeon Software Adrenalin 2019 Edition drivers, AMD Radeon users can utilize their hardware to stream their games to mobile devices, and most VR headsets with the...

JoshuaJB, who Neowin says is really former Microsoft employee Joshua Bakita, made a post on Hacker News claiming that the Edge development team is switching to Chromium because Google "broke other browsers." While Joshua claims he isn't convinced Google intentionally sabotaged Edge, he says that...

The Intercept initially broke the report claiming that Google was working on a censored Chinese search engine with the code name "Dragonfly," and now, the publication claims that work on the project has "effectively ended." The report says that the Dragonfly team mined data from the Chinese site...

Google has announced that it is expanding its presence in New York City with a new $1 billion campus. The 1.7 million square-foot Google Hudson Square will be home to the company's Global Business Organization. These investments into New York City will double the numbers of Googlers in New York...

Google CEO Sundar Pichai has told a U.S. congressional panel Tuesday that it has no plans to relaunch its search engine in China. "But he added that internally Google has 'developed and looked at what search could look like. We've had the project underway for a while. At one point, we've had...

Google chief executive Sundar Pichai testifies before the House Judiciary Committee on Alphabet Inc. unit's social media practices. After a year of avoiding the spotlight -- and the political scrutiny that's befallen his peers at Facebook and Twitter -- Pichai is set to deliver his first-ever...

Intel has dominated the server market with a 96.6% market share even after AMD reentered the competition. Intel seems secure, but the landscape of the server market is different from conventional tech markets as 10 corporations have the purchasing power to command 35% of the total sales in the...

Google's DeepMind has already produced systems that can beat the world's best Go players, as well as systems that can compete with humans in Starcraft II. But according to IEEE Spectrum, DeepMind's AlphaZero system is in a league of its own. AlphaZero can allegedly "crack any game that provides...

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In the following video, John Stossel interviews Peter Schweizer who is the writer of the documentary "The Creepy Line." The documentary takes a hard look at Google and Facebook to determine if they are crossing ethical lines when they track and data mine every moment of our lives to sell the...

Waymo has officially launched its commercial self-driving vehicle service called "Waymo One" in the Metro Phoenix area which includes Chandler, Tempe, Mesa, and Gilbert. Initially the service will be available to former testers called "early riders" who will use an app to call the self-driving...

Chrome 71 arrives today, and comes the usual slew of fixes and improvements. Among other things, Chrome will now block websites that abuse the Speech Synthesis dictation API, and the devs added support for relative times in websites. But the most major change is probably the update to Chrome's...

Google's parent company, Alphabet, says they're launching a drone delivery service in Finland next year. Using drones developed in their their long running "Project Wing" experiment, Alphabet's drones will supposedly be able to autonomously deliver "food, medicine and other items just minutes...

The Google AI Blog has an article explaining how Pixel 3 smartphones predict depth in Portrait Mode with Machine Learning algorithms. The Portrait Mode feature in Pixel 3 smartphones creates a depth-dependent blur of the background to draw attention to the subject. By using TensorFlow, Google...

Project Fi, which previously only worked on a narrow selection of Android phones, has been rebranded to "Google Fi." The service now works on a wide range of phones from Apple, HTC, Samsung, Motorola, LG and others. However, Google still recommends that customers use phones that are "designed...

The United States Department of Justice has arrested three foreign nationals and charged a total of eight people with running an international cybercriminal ring called 3ve that bilked over $30 million from the digital advertising industry. The charges in the 13-count indictment include wire...

Mirroring a similar protest by Amazon employees last month, Google employees have published an open letter on Medium protesting Google's censored search engine project for the Chinese government. The employees say many of them joined Google back when the company openly protested China's...

The FCC revealed the existence of Google Glass Enterprise Edition 2 earlier this year, but other than some EM tests suggesting Bluetooth 5.0 support, the information was light on technical details. But Mysmartprice managed to spot a Geekbench listing featuring the upcoming Google glasses. The...

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Even though Google is rejecting and removing Play Store apps at a furious pace, some malware is still getting through with relative ease. Forbes reports that more than 560,000 users have downloaded at least one of 13 malicious apps from a developer called "Luiz O Pinto." These apps masqueraded...

Google has created new, exciting patents to eavesdrop on your home environment. One patent will scan your home and identify items in your home. So if you have a shirt from a favorite artist in your closet, it will recommend tickets to see them live. It can scan your closet to learn your taste in...

According to UploadVR, Google has filed a patent application for motorized VR walking shoes. Apparently, Google is trying to tackle the issue of VR "playspaces" requiring large indoor areas or expensive, bulky hardware to be effective. By adding physical feedback to the "infinite redirected...

The BBC reports that Vision Direct, a European contact lens store, suffered a data breach that exposed the financial info of over 6,600 customers, as well as other personal data of 9,700 more customers. Some of the leaked data includes credit card numbers, expiration dates and CVV codes...

A design sketch for the successor to the enterprise version of Google Glass was leaked through the FTC, and Mysmartprice managed to spot it. While this more or less confirms an update, the FTC listing didn't list actual specifications for the product. While the consumer-oriented Google glasses...

Google recently bought DeepMind, an artificial intelligence firm that developed the healthcare app Streams. According to the company's blog, they want to turn the app into an "AI-powered assistant for nurses and doctors everywhere - combining the best algorithms with intuitive design, all backed...

According to Bloomberg, anonymous sources say that Waymo is going to launch the world's first commercial driverless car service in early December 2018. The name of the service is a closely guarded secret at this time and will serve the Phoenix, Arizona area where Waymo has been testing...

According to Android Police, Google has added speed trap and crash reporting to Maps. This is similar to features found in the Google owned Waze app. Right now it is limited to only navigation mode and not everyone has access to the reporting features. Take a peek at the Maps UI the next time...

Samsung has revealed its new foldable smartphone technology at the 2018 Samsung Developer Conference in San Francisco. The Infinity Flex Display allows the smartphone to open and close like a book. The phone reportedly weighs 200-grams and sports an 7.3-inch ultra thin display. The display on...

Smart Speakers have the "strongest growth momentum among all categories of consumer electronics," according to a recent report by Trendforce. Shipments are expected to reach 62.5 million units in 2018, and 95.25 million units in 2019, which is significantly more than the 27.66 million units that...

20th Century Fox has teamed up with Google Cloud to leverage the power of the Cloud Machine Learning Engine and the TensorFlow deep learning framework to analyze film attributes as data. This allows 20th Century Fox to predict audience preferences in movies. Merlin Video used datasets...

A recent post on the Google Security Blog says that the internet giant will require that users enable JavaScript to use the Google sign-in page. This will allow Google to run a risk assessment and only allow a sign-in if nothing looks suspicious. The blog post also discusses new Google account...