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Android creator Andy Rubin early Tuesday unveiled his vision for the future of consumer devices: Phones with software that’s not consumed with bloatware or extra features from carriers like AT&T or Verizon. Devices in your home that all connect and communicate with each other, regardless of whether they’re made by Apple or Samsung or Google. …

Google published its first Street View images on Google Maps back in May 2007, making this the 10th anniversary of that important feature. Since then, Google says in a celebratory blog post Tuesday, the company has published Street View images of 83 countries, and its mapping vans, equipped with 360-degree cameras, have covered 10 million miles. “Larry [Page] kicked off …

Now playing: Watch this: The Essential Phone is almost all screen 1:57 Creating Android wasn’t enough for Andy Rubin. He needed the right phone to go with it. That’s why, on Tuesday, he introduced the Essential Phone. It’s a high-end Android device that could keep alive the hopes for modular phones — an idea that failed to take off with …

Now playing: Watch this: The Essential Phone is almost all screen 1:57 Remember Andy Rubin, the creator of Android? Since leaving Google, he’s been busy creating a new company, Essential. It’s making an entirely new phone called the Essential Phone — its model name is PH-1. The Essential Phone has some slick features like being made out of titanium and …

This is Henry. He’s a miniature pinscher who loves walking diagonally across crosswalks and treats lapsitting like an extreme sport. For the past couple of months, Henry has also had a very important job — keeping secrets for Essential, a new smartphone company from the father of the Android operating system. Henry is one of 82 employees listed on Essential’s …

Google has officially put its Nik photo-editing suite on ice. The tech giant, which last year made the popular collection of photo-editing tools free to use for Mac and Windows, quietly let users know Tuesday that it had gone as far as it plans to go with the suite. “The Nik Collection is free and compatible with Mac OS X …

Three years ago, Google debuted Cardboard, a clever sub-$20 DIY kit that turned nearly any phone into a VR viewer. It was brilliantly simple — so cheap and universal that The New York Times eventually gave it away for free to its print subscribers. And it worked as a smart counterpoint to the high-end PC-based VR hardware from Oculus, which …

Apple’s iOS is a real walled garden. With the exception of those brave enough to “jailbreak” their phones, Apple controls which apps get into its App Store, and which don’t. Related stories ZDNet: Amazon’s app store puts millions of Android devices at risk On Android, it’s not so simple. Google similarly vets its own Play store, but there’s a huge …

The UK wants tech leaders to play their part in putting a stop to terror. Following Monday’s Manchester attack, British Prime Minister Theresa May will urge tech giants including Facebook and Google to ramp up efforts in combatting terrorism and removing extremist content from the world wide web at the Group of Seven (G7) summit, reports Reuters. The meeting will …

Andy Rubin, the creator of Google‘s Android OS, teased us back in March with a mysterious new company, called Essential. Thursday it teased us more on Twitter. In the first tweet posted on its account, Essential said “something big is coming May 30”. Could this be the Essential phone we saw pictured in Andy Rubin’s hand back in March? Or …