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For this week’s 9to5Rewards, we’re partnering with tech21 to give away five pairs of cases for the Samsung Galaxy S8 or S8+. If you win, you’re going to get a total of 2 different cases from the same company that made the Evo Check cases for Pixel that we gave away in March…
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Google Photos has long been able to intelligently (and automatically) create artsy videos from the photos and videos you upload to the service, but for Mother’s Day this year Google is letting you make something even more special. With just a few clicks, Google Photos can make a video based on your library to share with your mother next week (it’s coming up soon on May 14th!)…
We told you back when Allo 5.0 started rolling out that Google was working on an interesting new custom selfie-generated sticker pack feature. Now, version 10.0 of Allo is rolling out publicly and we’ve managed to enable the feature to see just how it works…
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In the latest chapter of Waymo and Uber’s ongoing legal battle, a lawyer for Waymo alleged during a hearing today in San Francisco federal court that Uber conspired with Anthony Levandowski to create a “cover-up scheme” in order to steal Waymo’s self-driving car technology…
According to a report out of Bloomberg today, Alphabet’s relatively-recently-departed Nest CEO Tony Fadell has joined a new technology advisory council at Magna International Inc., a Canadian auto supplier headquartered in Ontario…
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Project Sunroof, Google’s initiative to make it easy for homeowners to determine whether or not their roof is viable for solar panels, is expanding beyond the United States. Starting today, homeowners in Germany will be able to get in on the fun of finding out just how much money they might be able to save by switching to renewable solar…
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Google Korea has announced today that a new Science Playground at the Gwacheon National Science Museum in Seoul is now open thanks in part to a grant from Google.org.
Starting this week, families visiting the Gwacheon National Science Museum in Seoul can drop by the new Science Playground to dabble in activities and experiments where the young—and young at heart—can get a glimpse of what it’s like to be a scientist or an engineer.
A number of iOS apps are suddenly pulling support for the Apple Watch, and the latest to have its Watch app suddenly disappear is Google Maps. While one might see this as a sign that a major player has abandoned development of an Apple Watch companion for one of the most-used apps on the App Store (currently sitting at #9 on the free charts), Google says support will be coming back later…
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Motorola got serious about building out a community of hardware makers for its Moto Mods platform last year, and there have been a few standout ideas so far: Amazon Alexa hardware, gamepads, and of course the trusty physical keyboard mod. Now, that last concept has hit its goal on Indiegogo, suggesting that maybe it will actually come to fruition in time for the 2nd gen. Moto Z…
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For this week’s 9to5Rewards, we’re partnering with MobileFun to give away a couple case bundles for the Samsung Galaxy S8 and S8+. If you win, you’re going to get a total of four different cases from various well-known makers of high-quality cases…
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According to a report this afternoon from Business Insider, Anthony Levandowski, the subject of a dramatic legal battle between Alphabet’s Waymo and Uber over alleged stolen self-driving car technology, has stepped aside from his role as lead of Uber’s Advanced Technologies group. Levandowski will reportedly continue overseeing operations and safety, however…
Google+ is a niche community in the bigger picture of online social networks, but it’s one that’s filled to the brim with Google fans. Now, those super-fans — yes, some of us included — have a new way to find content from Communities and Collections: Topics…
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An upcoming release of Google Chrome will fully support animated PNGs, a Googler has said in the comments of a bug report ticket on the Chromium website.
Bloomberg reports that David Foster, a Google VP of Product Development, Hardware, has left the company after just 6 months. Prior to joining Google, Foster worked as a VP of Hardware Engineering at Amazon’s Lab126 and played a key role in the development of the Kindle line of tablets…
Lenovo has today published the Android Nougat change log for the Moto X Pure Edition, marking the first big update to the phone since all the way back in December of 2015 when the phone started getting Android Marshmallow. Now, with a change log published, Nougat is likely just around the corner…
The Google Play Store app is notorious for its countless A/B tests, and today we’re seeing yet another. New “Similar apps” and related developer apps sections that some are beginning to see have been revamped to allow for easier, smoother left-to-right scrolling…
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