Amazon’s Big Bet on New Devices and AI
At Amazon’s Fall Devices Event, the pressure was on to come up with a hit product that would stun the world the way Alexa and the Echo speaker did a…
Fitbit’s Facelift Is Rolling Out Now, and It Is Very Much a Google App
Screenshot: Fitbit/Google Fitbit’s much-anticipated app redesign is officially rolling out today. You can grab the update directly from the Google Play Store if you’re on a Google Pixel Watch or…
Google Adds Bard to Its Biggest Apps
Google announced a supercharged update to its Bard chatbot Tuesday: The tech giant will integrate the generative AI into the company’s most popular services, including Gmail, Docs, Drive, Maps, YouTube,…
Activision Hashed Out Details on a Nintendo Switch 2 In Closed-Door Meeting
The ongoing FTC v. Microsoft court battle over the tech giant’s $68.7 billion Activision merger isn’t going the way the Federal Trade Commission nor antitrust activists would necessarily like it…
TikTok Employees Recoil at Return-to-Office Tracker App
Photo: Martin Meissner (AP) TikTok is reportedly deploying a new employee badge monitoring app as part of a renewed effort to pressure its workers to spend more days in the…
Google Quietly Removes ‘Written By People’ From Suggestions for Website Owners
Illustration: Moor Studio / Shutterstock.com (Shutterstock) Google quietly removed the suggestion that the text of a website should be “written by people” from its guidance for site owners who want…
Samsung May Have Leaked Its Upcoming Galaxy Ring in Its Wearables App
Photo: Jack Skeens (Shutterstock) Samsung may have given away its “one more thing” too soon. Korean Samsung users found icons depicting what looks like a ring you’d wear on your finger…
Don’t Break Your Pixel Watch Screen, Google Won’t Offer Parts to Replace It
Don’t drop your Pixel Watch. Just don’t, because if you do, Google won’t offer any kind of help fixing it if your screen cracks or the watch breaks in any…
Google Expands the Lifespan of Chromebooks With Promise of 10 Years of Software Updates
The Acer Chromebook 516 GE is among the Chromebooks that will receive automatic updates for ten years.Photo: Florence Ion / Gizmodo If you bought a Chromebook recently, you can now…
The Usual Suspects of Big Tech Claim AI Will Kill Us All or End World Hunger
The U.S. federal government is still swimming in circles trying to form some sort of plan to regulate the exploding AI industry. So when the usual suspects of big tech…