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A long time ago, before Snapchat Spectacles and Microsoft HoloLens, there was Google Glass. Google’s bold vision of headsets wasn’t as futuristic as it seemed back in 2013 — it was more head-mounted display than augmented reality — and its design as a personal device put most people off. Google Glass is back Wired: Google …

Hey Bixby, nice to finally talk to you.   Samsung on Tuesday officially launched voice capabilities for its Bixby smart sidekick in the US, about three months after the artificial intelligence technology first became available on its new Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8 Plus phones. The company had delayed the launch and missed its own promised “later this spring” deadline, …

If you’re used to getting the bulk of your news from Facebook, your news consumption habits may be about to change. The world’s largest social media platform is testing the waters for a subscription-based news product, Campbell Brown, the head of news partnerships at Facebook, said Tuesday at the Digital Publishing Innovation Summit in New York. Plans for the service, …

Did you love the look of last year’s Google Pixel? You’re not alone. While the sequel phone is still under wraps, digital designer Concept Creator has given us an interpretation of what the Google Pixel 2 may look like. If you can’t wait for Google’s next big Android phone, take a look at this concept video from Concept Creator (above, …

Google Fiber is without a chief executive for the second time in less than a year. Gregory McCray has stepped down as CEO of Access, the Alphabet unit that houses Google Fiber, a Google spokesperson said Monday. McCray was tapped in February to run Google’s broadband and cable business after the departure of Craig Barratt in October. While the exit …

Last week, Google announced the new desktop version of its Backup and Sync app, and it got me thinking: What does desktop backup even mean in 2017? Not so long ago, there was one and only way to protect the precious data riding around in your laptop: Connect an external drive (or, if you were really fancy, a network drive), …

A judge handed Google a victory in its spat with the US Department of Labor over employee salary data.  The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP), an agency of the US Labor Department, has been investigating Google’s salary records for any signs of gender inequality. The government agency in January sued Google to compel it to hand over certain compensation data …

Telegram may have escaped Russia’s threats to ban it, but in Indonesia that wasn’t the case. On Sunday, the founder of the free encrypted messaging app, Pavel Durov, posted on his Telegram channel that the company has removed “all terrorist-related public channels” previously reported by Indonesia’s Ministry of Communication and IT. The move comes after Indonesian authorities banned the messaging service …

Now playing: Watch this: Alexa, do these things on my phone 1:42 Amazon’s Alexa is coming to phones. We’ve seen it on the Huawei Mate 9 and now it’s here for the HTC U11, the phone you can squeeze. But the Alexa voice app works a little differently on the U11. There are still some things you can’t do on the …

The Google Pixel 2 is coming later this year — and we’re hearing it may have a “squeezable” frame.  What the heck does that mean? Enlarge Image You can squeeze the HTC U11 for an extra layer of functionality. CNET It’s like a phone you can squeeze With a squeezable frame, you can literally grip the sides of your phone tightly …