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Now playing: Watch this: Google’s Android Wear 2.0 is here, starting with LG Watch… 2:37 There are a lot of new features tucked away in Android Wear 2.0, the OS running on the LG Watch Sport ($245 at Best Buy). From Android Pay, to Google Assistant, to stand-alone apps on your wrist, Android Wear can …

If you’re shopping for a piece of wearable tech in 2017, you’re facing compromises. Smartwatches and fitness trackers aren’t really the must-have devices many companies hoped they would be. And no, you don’t really need one. But if you’re looking for a piece of tech for your wrist, here are the best choices right now, followed by a list of …

The next Apple TV could finally get a feature that’s been available on competing devices for almost two years. That feature is 4K resolution output, also known as Ultra High Definition, which would likely allow the device to stream the highest-quality video available from services like Netflix and YouTube to compatible 4K TVs. A new Apple TV box with 4K …

This may be the first time the word “sexting” has been included in an SEC filing. Snap, the parent company of Snapchat, has released its IPO filing, and included that tidbit about how it was first dismissed as an app for sending nudes. There’s plenty of other juicy information Snapchat shared about its business as the 5-year-old company prepares to …

Gabe Newell, CEO of game developer Valve, says he’s not going to lose any sleep if VR doesn’t take off. “We’re optimistic. We think VR is going to be great,” Newell stated in an interview with Polygon. “We’re also pretty comfortable with the idea that it will turn out to be a complete failure.” One of VR’s biggest hurdles right …

Wanna play a piano duet but nobody’s around? No worries. You still can, courtesy of Google’s new interactive experiment called A.I. Duet. Basically, you play a few notes and the computer plays other notes in response to your melody. What’s special about A.I. Duet is that it plays with you using machine learning, and not just as a machine that’s …

Google sweated the small stuff for the Pixel, its first homemade phone. We dive into some of the design and aesthetic decisions the search giant made to create the device, including its slight wedge shape to get rid of a camera bump and its unadulterated Android software. Also on today’s show, we talk about Verizon’s bid for Yahoo, which now …

Now playing: Watch this: Google is committed to Android Wear, says VP 1:16 With the launch of Android Wear 2.0 Google added support for its mobile payment platform, Android Pay. The only hiccup with the feature right now is the number of Android Wear watches with NFC support is, well, limited. So limited, that as of this writing, only the …

After showing signs of emerging from last year’s funk with Fiber 2.0, Google has appointed a new CEO to lead the Fiber unit. Google’s parent company, Alphabet, tapped broadband veteran Gregory McCray to take over the Access unit, the Alphabet team primarily focused on Fiber. McCray comes to Google from Michigan’s Aero Communications and fills the roll left vacant after …

Now playing: Watch this: Start chatting with Google Assistant 3:33 First spotted by Android Police, the new voice commands make it easier to view your search history, change account settings, adjust privacy settings and adjust security settings. According to a Google support document, the four new commands are: Change your account settings: “Open Google account settings.” See your search history: …