A Big Leak Just Revealed Google's 4 Most Important Devices 2 Weeks Early
Even though Google’s big October 4 event is still a couple weeks out, it seems we’ve just gotten a really good look at…
Waymo Wants to Delay Its October 11th Court Date With Uber
Waymo, the self-driving car company spun off of Google’s parent company Alphabet in 2016, scored a major win earlier…
Chrome Will Soon Mute Autoplay Videos With Sound—Here's Why You Should Be Worried
Google has surveyed the advertising landscape that it dominates and determined that it’s time for a change. Beginning…
Former Employees Are Suing Google Over Alleged Gender Discrimination
Three former Google employees have filed a class-action lawsuit against the company for allegedly discriminating…
Google Employees Organize Their Own Study of Gender Pay Gap
In April, the US Department of Labor accused Google of gender pay discrimination. The tech behemoth denied the…
What’s Really Going On With Google Drive
On Thursday, Google made a confusing announcement that could easily scare the crap out of 800 million people: Google…
The Founder of Opera Accuses Google of Being Dicks
As calls for increased regulation on the all-consuming power of Google grow louder, the founder of the Opera browser is…
Yes, Google Uses Its Power to Quash Ideas It Doesn’t Like—I Know Because It Happened to Me [Updated]
The story in the New York Times this week was unsettling: The New America Foundation, a major think tank, was getting…
Google-Funded Think Tank Fires Google Critic
Politicians on both sides of the aisle are starting to wake up to the enormous power that tech companies wield, and…
Google's Got a Plan to Put Its Splashy AR Powers on Millions of Android Phones
This isn’t hyperbole. Between Apple’s ARKit and the new ARCore tool announced by Google, a viable form of augmented…
11 Things You Can Do in Android Oreo That You Couldn't Before
Android Oreo has at last been fully baked, and given a name, and is now rolling out to those of you with a Pixel, Pixel…
Ugh, Today's Google Doodle Is Really Good
As the world continues to freak out over that (now former) Google employee’s offensive memo, Google went and did…
Google Cancels Meeting Intended to Address Anti-Diversity Memo
Google was reportedly scheduled to hold a company-wide town hall meeting Thursday evening to address the controversy…
FOIA: Fired Google Employee's Labor Complaint Against Alphabet Alleges a Week of 'Threatening Employees'
As reported yesterday by Recode, former Google engineer James A Damore filed a complaint against the search giant’s…
All the Secret Stuff That Happens When You Visit Google.com
From snapping photos with a cellphone to streaming music through a browser, much of the tech trickery we take for…
Alt-Right Activists Call for Google Boycott After Employee Is Fired for Anti-Diversity Paper
Google fired a software engineer yesterday in response to public outrage over the man’s 10-page screed against women …
Google Reportedly Fires Author of Anti-Diversity Screed
James Damore, the Google software engineer who authored a 10-page anti-diversity manifesto, has been fired, Bloomberg…
How To Block Super Annoying Website Notification Requests In Chrome
Nowadays every other goddamn site does it. You’re browsing the web, open a tab here, click a link there, and wham:…
How to Clean Out Your Gmail Account and Start Again From Scratch
When Gmail showed up in 2004 with its overwhelmingly generous 1GB of free space for everyone, we never thought we’d…
Tech's Biggest CEOs Are Too Chickenshit to Defend Net Neutrality
Last week, the House Energy and Commerce Committee invited the CEOs of Netflix, Facebook, Amazon, and Google’s parent…
