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That new Essential Phone you’ve been eagerly awaiting? Essential has promised preorders will start shipping within a week. The announcement, sent today via email to customers who’ve preordered the device, promises the device will ship within seven days after payment is received. It’s been a rocky road for the Essential PH-1, as it’s officially known, …

Neo-Nazi site The Daily Stormer continues its quest to find a home after having its domain pulled by GoDaddy and Google.  The site has moved onto the darknet, which can only be accessed through the Tor browser. A Twitter page associated with the site early Wednesday tweeted a link to its new temporary address. The Daily Stormer, which has been …

Now playing: Watch this: Turn your selfies into Google emojis 1:43 Google’s Allo chat app is now available on the web.  That’s right, you can put down your phone and carry on your regular conversations on your computer. Perhaps more importantly, that also means you can chat with Google Assistant on any computer through Allo. Similar to using Amazon’s Alexa …

More than a dozen prominent tech companies are urging the US Supreme Court to make it harder for law enforcement officials to obtain individuals’ sensitive cell phone data. The companies filed a friend-of-the-court brief with the Supreme Court on Monday, arguing that law enforcement officials should be required to obtain a warrant before accessing data on a phone customer’s location.The …

Samsung‘s grand reveal of the Galaxy Note 8 — scheduled for next week — will put the big questions about its rumored specs to rest. Now, Samsung is teasing us with a video that is unmistakably Note 8 (see below). The teaser video shows off plenty of vague buzzwords, but it also centers around the S-Pen stylus, the Galaxy Note …

Google added more than 20 languages to its speech recognition software Monday, including Georgian, Swahili and Amharic, among others.  According to Google’s blog post, Android customers can now dictate (rather than type) in 119 “language varieties” via the Google keyboard, Gboard, Voice Search and the Cloud Speech API. These languages will soon be available through Google’s Translate app as well.  …

Now playing: Watch this: 3 easy ways to make photos look better after you take… 2:07 No matter if you have the high-end Samsung Galaxy S8, the budget Alcatel Idol 5S or even an old iPhone 6, chances are you take photos with your phone. And whether your phone has the best camera or a modest camera, there are three quick …

The neo-Nazi Daily Stormer website appeared to be offline late Monday after Google said it would cancel the hate site’s domain registration following its migration from GoDaddy earlier in the day.  Attempts to reach the website, which has been called the “top hate site in America,” on the surface web weren’t completed and sometimes hung at a screen from Cloudflare, …

Earlier this month, I was sitting in a conventional conference room in Google’s New York office, complete with the standard movable whiteboard, an oblong gray table, a conference phone and an intercom system. This, however, was not the standard product briefing. Roughly two dozen smartwatches sat on the table, bearing the names of trendy brands such as Tag Heuer and …

It’s time to upgrade to a new phone. So what do you do with your old one? If you’re like me, you probably have a drawer full of old smartphones collecting dust. You could always trade them in for cash, but unless you have a newer Android phone or an iPhone, you probably won’t get much for it. What should …