Google revealed a cascade of exciting innovations to its Google universe this week at the annual I/O developer conference. Apple should be quaking in its boots. The search and software giant is making tremendous strides in AI through Assistant; image search and detection through Google Lens; web search through Instant Apps; and search through Jobs …

Let’s all give Google a pat on the back. With a project to bring AR to classrooms, the tech giant has found a way to make selfie sticks cool. But even more than that, Google Expeditions — an educational initiative that’s so far touched over 2 million students in two years — wants to make learning cool. Google is just …

Last year after Google announced Android N (which became Android Nougat), I wrote that Android had blown past the iPhone and iOS. Granted, it was deep in the iOS 9 era, just a few weeks before Apple unveiled iOS 10 at its own developer conference. But with N, Google wowed me with its better search, better AI than Siri and …

Google wants to improve Android apps, and it’s not afraid to call out the bad ones. Crashing, slowness and battery vampirism enrage Android device owners and make the appmaker look bad. A whopping 50 percent of 1-star apps are slammed because they’re unstable, the Google Play team said at the annual I/O developer conference. And that’s not great for a …

Now playing: Watch this: Go from Google Search straight into an app 1:56 It’s been a year since we first heard about Instant Apps, a neat-sounding feature that launches a slice of an app you don’t have, instead of making you download the entire thing from the Play Store. Consider it App Light. Diet App. Now, Google is making Instant …

What if, instead of touching your phone, tablet or TV and feeling glass, you felt fur? “Touch is the one sense you can’t turn off,” said Greg Topel, the CEO of Tanvas, a company working to make glass feel like cotton, paper or anything other than glass. “That’s what we’ve been doing in the digital world. We’ve been touching and …

Over the course of two years, Google and Facebook wired $100 million to an imposter as victims of a long-con phishing attack, Fortune found. In March, the US Department of Justice published an indictment against a Lithuanian man, Evaldas Rimasauskas, for “orchestrating a fraudulent business email compromise scheme that induced two U.S.-based internet companies” to send more than $100 million …

K-e-y-b-o-a-r-d. That’s the main difference between the BlackBerry KeyOne, which has just acquired a North America release date, and every other Android phone. The QWERTY phone goes on sale May 31 in both the US and Canada, with preorders for Canadian carriers revving up May 18 (it’ll cost CAD $199 for a two-year contract). In the US, the KeyOne will …

Samsung is back on top. Even before the Galaxy S8 went on sale, the Korean electronics giant took back its place as the No. 1 smartphone maker, ahead of Apple, according to IDC’s quarterly report on smartphone market share. Samsung dominated the charts at 22.8 percent. That was despite the disastrous setback of its worldwide Galaxy Note 7 recall, which …

I had about an hour to make the decision. I was packing my bags for a three-week trip to Asia when the call came. My grandmother — Mom’s mom and our family’s shining light — had undergone emergency surgery. Doctors addressed one problem only to discover more. My grandma’s frail body was riddled with so many tumors that even if …