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Enlarge / The Sonos One SL. (credit: Jeff Dunn) In a move that has become the top talking point of CES and a flashpoint for an industry's pent-up frustrations, smart audio company Sonos has sued Google for infringement of five of its patents, The New York Times reports. The publicly traded...

The Fitbit Versa 2 smartwatch. [credit: Valentina Palladino ] It's official: Google is buying Fitbit. The company announced the move in a blog post this morning, and reports say the deal is...

Enlarge (credit: Jim Salter) Google says its new Nest Wi-Fi isn't just Google Wi-Fi plus a smart speaker—it's new, improved, and with better coverage. This is good news—despite the impressive sales numbers Google says it has for the original Google Wi-Fi, the product never ranked very well in...

The Google Pixel and Pixel XL [credit: Ron Amadeo ] Update: The Google Pixel is scheduled to have its support ended this month, but Google told The Verge the OG Pixel will actually get one last...

Enlarge / Lzplay.net. I don't speak Chinese, but that's "Something, something Google Play..." You know what, I'm just going to click the blue button and install whatever this is. As you probably know, the Trump administration banned US companies from doing business with Huawei several...

Enlarge / Some people need Password Checkup more than others. Back in February, Google introduced a Chrome extension called Password Checkup—a plug-in that tapped into Google's collection of account breach data and warned users of exposed passwords. Now, Google has directly integrated...

Enlarge / Malicious apps discovered by Symantec Threat Intelligence popped up full screen ads, and hid the app title even in the App Switcher view—making it difficult for users to know where they were coming from. (credit: Symantec) This week, Symantec Threat Intelligence's May Ying Tee and...

Camera 7.0 looks to have a much-improved and more accessible way to manage shot settings. Camera 6.x obscured these settings in several separate menus behind a bunch of tiny, unintuitive icons at the top of the viewfinder. [credit: xda-developers.com...

Enlarge Google Fi, Google's MVNO (Mobile Virtual Network Operator) cellular service, is launching a second plan for users today. Besides the original pay-per-megabyte plan with unlimited calls and text, Google Fi is now launching a full blown "Unlimited" plan (with throttling after 22GB) for...

Enlarge / The first-gen Google Wifi. (credit: Google) With Google's big 2019 hardware event set for October 15, we're starting to zero in on what exactly to expect from the show. Besides the heavily leaked Pixel 4, we're also expecting a new Google Home Mini, maybe a new Pixelbook, and...

Enlarge / A Vizio TV seen at CES in 2011. (credit: Ethan Miller | Getty Images) Modern TV, coming to you over the Internet instead of through cable or over the air, has a modern problem: all of your Internet-connected streaming devices are watching you back and feeding your data to...

Here you can see the bottom speaker and USB-C port, and you can also see that the screen wraps really far around the sides. [credit: Huawei ] Huawei has officially taken the wraps off its next...

Enlarge / Coming soon to a Nest near you: Your Google account. (credit: Google Nest) The smart home company Nest is currently in the middle of a rocky transition from standalone Alphabet company to a full-on merger with Google's hardware team, where it will exist as a Google sub-brand. The...

The new Play Store. It is very white. [credit: Ron Amadeo ] Google seems to be rolling out a major new redesign of the Google Play Store. We've seen this design slowly take shape through...

Enlarge / Google offers a suite of cloud collaboration services, but Drive is at the heart of it all. (credit: Google) Soon, Google will add one of the most commonly requested features to its Drive file hosting, sharing, and collaboration service: shortcuts. These will allow users to create...

Enlarge / Get paid for your defective Google microphones. Back in May, Google settled the defective Pixel 1 lawsuit brought against it in 2018 for $7.25 million, and now owners can file a claim at a new Pixel Settlement website. Owners of a first-generation Pixel could get up to $500 if...

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Enlarge / Mountain View, Calif.—May 21, 2018: Exterior view of a Googleplex building, the corporate headquarters of Google and parent company Alphabet. (credit: Getty Images | zphotos) Google says it is embarking on new plans to make its hardware greener. Anna Meegan, head of sustainability...

Enlarge / Android Development: It can be a messy process. (credit: Google) We are quickly approaching launch day for Android Q, Google's 29th release of Android. At some point in the near future we should see a statue-unveiling, official confirmation that this is "Android 10," and the highly...