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Google’s Pixel 4 wants to deliver on privacy and security

Google’s new Pixel 4 phone includes a motion sensor, allowing people to make commands through simple swipes through the air. It’s powered by radar on the front of the phone that can detect motion — and that can lead to privacy concerns. At its “Made by Google” event in New York on Tuesday, the tech giant promised that people would …

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Introducing Pixelbook Go, a premium Chromebook laptop that’s more affordable

Slim metal body, large touchpad, expansive 13.3-inch screen. Is it a MacBook Air? Or, a Surface Laptop? No, it’s a Google Pixelbook. Next to Google’s newest Pixel 4 phones, Pixel Buds earbuds and Nest products at Google’s fall hardware event, there’s also a new made-by-Google Chromebook in town. It isn’t a convertible tablet-hybrid or a snap-on-keyboard solution like last year’s Pixel …

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Google’s 5G Pixel 4 is a no

Google has packed a lot of new features into its latest smartphones, but superfast 5G connectivity isn’t one of them. On Tuesday at an event in New York City, the company took the wraps off its Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL, the latest versions of its Google-branded phones. The new gadgets come with a slew of goodies, such as …

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Wait, there’s a dual

You thought Samsung was first to market with a folding dual-screen phone? Nope: That honor goes to the Kyocera Echo, which dates all the way back to 2011. Along the way, a handful of other manufacturers tried their hands at it, with varying degrees of success (mostly zero). However, about two years ago, ZTE unveiled the Axon M, without question …

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Say goodbye to Google’s Daydream VR experiment

What began as a way for Google to compete against Facebook’s high profile Oculus Rift virtual reality headset, Sony’s PlayStation VR and Samsung’s Gear VR came to an end Tuesday, when the search giant admitted its Daydream VR program wasn’t popular among consumers and would be ending. Google’s original vision for Daydream was to let people take high-end phones like …

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Inside Google’s Pixel 4 photography: Overhauled portrait mode, dual cameras and more

Over the last three years, Google’s Pixel phones have earned a well-deserved reputation for photographic strength. With the Pixel 4, the company is flexing new camera hardware and software muscles. The new flagship Android smartphone, which the search giant unveiled on Tuesday, gets a second 12-megapixel camera, a key component in an overhauled portrait mode that focuses your attention on …

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Google investing $150 million in renewable energy efforts

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