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Google will announce its next-generation Pixel phones next week on Oct. 4. Quite a few leaks paint an unofficial picture of what features we’re likely to get in the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL. A headphone jack is not one of them, Android Authority reports. Now playing: Watch this: Expect new Google Pixel phones on Oct. …

The worlds of voice assistants and streaming devices are quickly colliding.  In just the past 24 hours, Amazon unveiled a new Fire TV with integration to its Alexa digital butler and the Nvidia Shield became the first TV device to get Google Assistant. For today’s episode, we invited CNET’s TV guru, David Katzmaier, to run through the details of these …

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 US can get Family Link …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …