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Judge Brett Kavanaugh faces the Senate Judiciary Committee for the first day of confirmation hearings starting at 7 a.m. PT/10 a.m. ET today in Washington, DC — and you can watch it live right here. Kavanaugh is President Donald Trump’s second nomination to the Supreme Court. He seeks to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy, who announced …

Google wants to fix one of the web’s oldest and deepest technologies: the uniform resource locator, or URL, used to give every website a unique address. “People have a really hard time understanding URLs,” Adrienne Porter Felt, an engineering manager on Chrome’s security team, said in a Wired interview published in conjunction with Chrome’s 10th anniversary on Tuesday. “We want to …

The Google Pixel 3 XL is everywhere these days. That is, everywhere except in stores. The unreleased Google phone has shown up on trains in Toronto, all over Russia, on the Ukrainian black market and now in the backseat of someone’s car. An anonymous Lyft driver reportedly found a preproduction Pixel 3 XL in the back of his car after …

For Chrome’s 10th anniversary, Google has given its web browser its first redesign in a decade. Get ready for a new look with lots of rounded corners and some new features. The new version keeps Chrome’s tabs on top for the personal computer version, a defining feature on the relatively bare-bones interface Google debuted on Sept. 2, 2008. But the …

Definitive Technology has designed two new sound bars — the Studio Advance ($1,299) and Studio Slim ($899) — that can support Google’s Chromecast built-in standard, opening up access to apps and the Google Assistant. The sound bars are designed to exist alongside the existing W Studio and the W Studio Micro. The main difference between the two is the wireless …

Do big tech companies need more government oversight? That’s the question Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai pondered in a blog post Tuesday, just as Congress prepares to grill executives from Facebook and Twitter on Wednesday. Specifically, Pai said companies like Google, Facebook and Twitter need to be more transparent about how they operate their social media platforms. “Currently, the FCC …

Google is planning to restrict ads for third-party tech support services following an increase in “misleading” experiences. The search company will limit such ads globally while it prepares a verification program to make sure only “legitimate providers” can offer their services, according to a weekend blog post. “For many years, we’ve consulted and worked with law enforcement and government agencies …

Huawei will launch its next flagship phone, the Mate 20, at an event in London on Oct. 16, CEO Richard Yu announced at IFA on Friday. In an image for the event, the company teased the outline of a phone that looks as though it has almost no bezel. The Mate range is the larger of Huawei’s two flagship phone …

With all the recent updates to Google’s smartwatch platform and Google’s new phones expected Oct. 9 — not to mention a rather specific report — the company was widely expected to have its first Google-branded Pixel Watch in tow. But according to Tom’s Guide, Google has officially confirmed that it has no plans to release its own watch in 2018. Google …

Sitting in a corner of the Mobvoi’s booth at this week’s IFA tech conference in Berlin, Jason Zheng offers a colorful pitch for his company’s smartwatches. “You don’t want to be that douche who pulls out your phone,” Zheng, Mobvoi’s international head of PR, said jokingly. “We think smartwatches can reduce those douche pain points in your social life.” While …