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Family Link, Google’s software for getting kids their own Android phones with some parental oversight, is now available to anyone in the US. The company unveiled Family Link in March as an invitation-only service that opens up Gmail accounts and other services needing a Google account to children 12 and under. Now anyone in the …

This March, I declared I wouldn’t buy a Samsung Galaxy S8. I’d pick a Pixel instead. But there was one thing I wasn’t counting on, one possibility I hadn’t even considered: Google’s new phone, expected to be unveiled next week, might ditch the headphone jack. Yeah, it’d be pretty weird. After all, wasn’t Google the one who made fun of Apple for doing that …

Owners of Nvidia Shield, get ready to hear it talk back to you for the first time. Nvidia’s streaming/gaming geek dream box is the first TV device to receive Google Assistant, Google’s voice-based answer to Amazon’s Alexa. Just like on select phones and the Google Home speaker, now you can say “OK Google” or “Hey Google” into thin air and watch …

With MacOS High Sierra and iOS 11, iCloud Drive is finally catching up with Dropbox and Google Drive in terms of sharing ability. You will need to convince your collaborators to start using iCloud Drive, however, if you want to share files on Apple‘s cloud service, a dubious proposition given the head start that both Dropbox and Google Drive enjoy. …

Ah, football season. There’s only one thing that could make it better: gadgets. Here are some tech ideas you can use to elevate a tailgate party to the next level. 1. Take advantage of Google Assistant Google Assistant at home or on your phone can get you ready for Sunday. For example, it can help you plan what to wear …

Microsoft pulled support for Windows phones earlier this summer, but you know the one-time iPhone and Android competitor is truly dead when Microsoft’s founder admits on TV that he’s now using Android. “The phone that I have, recently, I actually did switch to an Android phone with a lot of Microsoft software,” Bill Gates told Fox News Sunday host Chris …

Thanks to a major leak, we can say with 99.9 percent certainty that Google will announce the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL (in addition to other devices) next week during its Oct. 4 event When Google’s flagship first launched last year, the device impressed us with its camera prowess and introduction of Google Assistant (which is now available on …

The speed boost and new features coming to the next version of Firefox are dramatic enough that Mozilla has given it a brand-new name: Firefox Quantum. The idea, of course, is that the upcoming version 57 is a quantum leap over predecessors — or, in the words of Mozilla CEO Chris Beard, a “big bang.” Company executives acknowledged they let Firefox …

What good is a birthday without fun and games? That’s apparently the thinking at Google, which on Wednesday celebrates its 19th birthday in numeric symmetry. The search giant has pulled together some of its most memorable interactive doodles from the past 19 years and presented them to you in a carnival prize wheel. By spinning the wheel, you can relive …

When Siri can’t give you an answer, it’ll now be Google filling in the gaps in Apple’s knowledge instead of Microsoft’s Bing search service. The Siri voice assistant built into iPhones, Macs and soon Apple’s HomePod smart speaker can handle plenty of requests, like reporting a stock price or defining a word you don’t know. When it can’t, it searches …