Google’s security research division is raising the alarm about a number of holes it found in Samsung semiconductors used in many Android devices, wearable tech, and cars. They are worried that the holes will soon be found and used against Google. Tim Willis, the head of Google’s Project Zero, claimed …

Google recently unveiled Open Health Stack, a brand-new open-source platform for app developers to create health-related applications. These resources, which were introduced last week at the company’s ‘The Check Up’ special event, include an Android Software Development Kit (SDK) and design standards for health apps. The Fast Healthcare Interoperability Standards …

The goal of the competition between Google and Microsoft is to use as much generative AI as possible in their productivity tools.Google just announced a big update to Workspace just a few days before Microsoft’s “Future of Work” event. The update includes new developer tools that will make Google’s foundation …

Google announced that I/O will return to Mountain View’s Shoreline Amphitheater on May 10. The company will stream the keynotes for free, but the in-person event will be small, like last year’s. Pre-pandemic I/O was a multi-day event with keynotes and workshops. This scaled-down event appears to focus on public-facing …

Google’s Pixel Watch fall detection feature is available today. Motion sensors and on-device machine learning detect hard falls and connect users to help. Since the Apple Watch Series 4 launched in 2018, Apple has offered fall detection. Google announced during Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona. Pixel Watch users can …

Google unveiled several new Android, Chromebook, and Wear OS features to boost connectivity, productivity, and accessibility. MWC, which begins today in Barcelona, was the occasion for the announcement. New features include Chromebook Quick Pair compatibility, Google Keep shortcuts for phones and smartwatches, and Wear OS accessibility modes. Quick Pair will …

Mercedes-Benz and Google formed a long-term partnership to give the German automaker control over its IP and marketplace while offering drivers navigation, maps, and YouTube. It’s a strange deal that aims to give consumers Google services without giving up control over the car’s operating system. Mercedes-Benz CEO Ola Källenius told …

Richard Socher, the founder of You.com, is aware that his business has always been a David battling Google and, to a lesser extent, Microsoft for supremacy in the search market. He likes to point out that his business developed search based on generative AI in December, well in advance of …

Google announced the launch of the first Beta for its “Privacy Sandbox” adtech stack proposal, which aims to iterate how ad tracking, targeting, and reporting is done so it appears less creepy for individual users while maintaining an interest-based, behavioral targeting capability on web users’ eyeballs. Google has started letting …

At its Live from Paris event on Wednesday, Google announced the launch of new features for electric vehicles that include Google Maps. The functions, iterations of which were added to the Maps mobile app in November, are meant to help EV drivers who experience range anxiety. It will be simple …