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Google has, over the years, increased its restrictions for installing third-party Chrome extensions to help protect Chrome users from malicious code. A few years ago, you could simply install an extension from a developer’s site without any hassle. Last year, you needed only to enable Developer mode before installing a CRX (Chrome extension) file. Now, …

Folks on tight budgets may get another Android option to choose from if Google brings a supercheap Android One phone to the US. The report comes by way of tech blog The Information, whose original story lives behind a paywall. With the launch of the $650 Google Pixel and $770 Pixel XL, the tech giant is making a name for …

Everything old is new again. That applies not just to bell-bottoms and cassette tapes (seriously, tapes are staging a comeback), but also your old tech. You’ve already learned how to repurpose an old tablet; now let’s focus on that laptop you’ve kept in the back of your closet these many years. Even if it’s a slow, virus-infested mess, you might …

The always-on, always-listening “smart speakers” made by Amazon and Google, the Echo and Google Home, sound great when asked to read news headlines or the weather. But if you care about audio quality when playing back music, both kind of suck. Solutions exist today for music-centric Alexa and Google Home users who want better sound. You can hook an Echo …

Though it’s Tuesday, Google Drive is making people feel like it’s a Monday. A number of Google Drive users are experiencing slow load times while others can’t even access their documents. The slow down seems to be largely isolated to US users. The issues seem to have started around 8:41 a.m. PT, with problems affecting less than 10.3 percent of …

The next version of Google‘s smartwatch operating system will arrive on February 9, according to known and generally reliable leaker Evan Blass. Android Wear 2.0, which was originally announced last May, looks to completely revamp the operating system and help make watches less reliant on phones. In addition to a revamped user interface, the update will add an on-watch app …

One of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s major themes was unity. That message is underscored Monday by a Google doodle highlighting the achievements of the civil rights leader, whose birthday is honored each year with a national holiday in the US. Monday isn’t King’s real birthday — that was Sunday — but a federal holiday signed into law in …

She pushed down hard on the rectangular phone and, like a slap bracelet, it cinched around her wrist. The audience gasped; the internet went wild. CNET tries on Lenovo’s bendy CPlus concept phone. Jessica Dolcourt/CNET This articulated wraparound phone — known as the CPlus — was a concept device Lenovo used to wow the crowd as part of a larger …

The man who created Android, the most popular mobile software on the planet, is preparing his follow up act and it involves going after his longtime nemesis: Apple’s iPhone and its iOS rival software. Andy Rubin, who left Google more than two years ago after selling his startup to the search giant in 2005, is starting Essential, a consumer hardware …

It’s fun to mock image-processing impossibilities where “Blade Runner” or CSI investigators zoom into photos to see far more detail than a photo could possibly have recorded. But guess what? Not only does Google have technology that can do something like that kind of photo enhancement, it’s also using it to keep you from gobbling through your mobile phone data …