Get ready for more of your favorite watch brands to start peddling smartwatch alternatives. Movado Group has announced its own line of smartwatches compatible with Android Wear 2.0, Google’s newly-updated smartwatch software. Movado previously made a line of smart analog smartwatches via a collaboration with HP. It looks like Movado Group’s making a leap to …
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Chromebooks are built with cloud storage in mind and offer a pittance of local storage — usually only 32GB or 64GB. So, instead of storing a bunch of Word docs and Excel files on a Chromebook, for example, you are meant to use Google Drive or Dropbox. Instead of a large music library stored locally in iTunes, you are meant …
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There’s a rumor floating around 9to5Google that the 2017 version of Google‘s Pixel phone will drop the standard 3.5mm headphone jack. To its credit, 9to5Google specifies that the story comes from a single source, and that its staff hasn’t been able to verify it with any degree of secondary confirmation. In fact, the site didn’t even publish it as a …
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Women really have come a long way, despite that expression’s association with a sexist cigarette ad campaign from the 1970s. That message is important enough to Google that it published an International Women’s Day doodle on Wednesday to celebrate some of the female pioneers who’ve helped women get where they are today. Granted, there’s still significant gender inequality in the …
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It’s time for a trip down memory lane. On Monday, Google Play, the search giant’s online store for apps, movies, music and books, turns five years old. To commemorate the anniversary, Google is releasing lists of the store’s most popular content of all time in the US. Some of the top titles aren’t surprises. Candy Crush Saga, the addictive game …
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Just last week, Google announced its Google Assistant feature was making its way to Android devices running Android 6.0 Marshmallow and Android 7.0 Nougat. According to Google’s announcement, the personal voice assistant that launched on the Pixel phone will slowly make its way to all devices in the US with English set as the device language. Awesome! Right? Yes, except …
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Now playing: Watch this: Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 is a classy and glassy Android… 1:25 With all due respect to the Google Pixel C, the new Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 ($160 at Amazon) is one of the best Android tablets we’ve seen. The slim 9.7-incher stands out next to the Pixel C and Apple iPad Pro 9.7, with a luxe …
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Now playing: Watch this: Google Home spouts crazy talk with fake news in answers 2:10 Don’t believe everything you read on the internet. Google acknowledged Monday reports that it inadvertently allowed false information to spread over the weekend. “Unfortunately, there are instances when we feature a site with inappropriate or misleading content,” a Google spokeswoman said in a statement. On …
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What do you really know about Komodo dragons? That is the question posed by Google, which published an interactive doodle quiz to commemorate the 37th anniversary Monday of Komodo National Park in Indonesia. Don’t worry, this isn’t an episode of “Jeopardy.” (Unless, of course, you have the bad fortune to get caught flat-footed by one of these enormous reptiles.) The …
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The most important feature for many laptop shoppers is battery life, and rightly so. We carry these devices to meetings, to class, on airplanes and even just from room to room at home. Maximizing time away from the power outlet keeps you mobile and lets you move around without lugging a power brick. Buying the best laptop Laptop buying guide …
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