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Google Same-Day Delivery Service Hits Chicago, Boston, Washington D.C.

Google has announced that it’s dramatically expanding its same-day delivery service into new cities, adding different vendors, and changing its name, too. Can you tell we’re on the run up to the holidays yet? https://gizmodo.com/google-same-day-delivery-comes-to-new-york-and-los-ange-1571817332 The service, now called Google Express rather than Google Shopping Express, is rolling out in Chicago, Boston, and Washington, D.C..…

PopcornTime Defiantly Pops Back Up After Domain Gets Suspended

The most popular way of accessing the popular “Netflix for torrents” service PopcornTime abruptly went down last week when European regulators suspended the domain registration for Time4Popcorn.eu. In a message today, the anonymous devs behind the service say it’s back—and won’t be permanently shut down ever. You can now find PopcornTime at Popcorn-time.se. (You’ll recognize…

This Chrome Extension Turns New Tabs Into Aerial Art

Want an easy way to liven up your day? Download the new Earth View from Google Mapsextension for Chrome. It shows you a striking new satellite image every time you open a new tab, and it’s delightful. There’s seriously nothing else to it. Once installed, instead of seeing the boring old white page and search…

You Can Finally (For Real) Buy an Xperia Z3 Compact in the U.S.

The availability of Sony’s Xperia Z3 Compact smartphone in the U.S. has been a point of confusion. Sony has yet to make any official mention of the small flagship, despite bringing its bigger brother to Verizon and T-Mobile. Today, though, the small wonder has silently appeared in the U.S. online store, unlocked and available for…

Google Tests Connecting Doctors With Online Patients

The web can be a precarious place to find accurate information regarding your health. With only a list of symptoms to type into a search engine, your mild headache could just be a headache…or the early stages of brain cancer. It’s always best to consult a doctor if you’re concerned and Google is trying to…

Ashton Kutcher Must Be Stopped (Before He Corrupts Our Laptops)

It’s a little-known fact that celebrity Ashton Kutcher moonlights as a Lenovo engineer. At first, it was tolerable: a kickstand here, a bigger battery there. But now, the chisel-cheeked entrepreneur has twisted Lenovo’s latest tablets to his own foul aims: the new Yoga Tablet 2 Pro has a built-in projector. And a subwoofer. And a…

HTC’s Desire Eye Smartphone Will Stare Into Your Selfie-Taking Soul

Do you take selfies? Your answer doesn’t matter because almost all smartphone manufacturers think you do. That’s why iPhones now feature front-facing burst modes and some Lumias are designed with selfies in mind. Today, HTC is joining the parade with the new Desire Eye. The main attraction? A giant 13 megapixel front-facing camera right where…

Google Strapped a Camera To a Camel To Put The Desert on Street View

How do you map a desert when it’s not exactly the best place to drive one of Google’s Street View cars? Camel-cam, that’s how. Perhaps you’ve seen one of the Google Street View cars, driving around your neighborhood with a device called a “Trekker” on top of it, with a camera inside snapping away. Google…

Google Has a Custom Search Just for the Pirate Bay

You may have noticed that Google has changed a little bit recently. If you search for a site, it includes a handy-dandy site-search right in the results. And as TorrentFreak noticed, that includes one for thepiratebay.se. Intentionally or not, Google is now running a pirate search, autocomplete included. This addition is obviously not unique to…

Remember how Samsung announced it was getting Nokia’s Here navigation software for its Android devices? Well, the app has just gone live on Samsung’s Galaxy app store so now you can try it out for yourself (if you have a Samsung Galaxy device).

Google has updated its search app—called, err, Google—for Android and iOS so that when you search for bills it will mine your email and show you what you owe. Clever.

Now You Can Use Google’s News and Weather App on iOS

Google News & Weather, a new iOS app that provides (you guessed it) updates on news and weather, is now available. The app pulls stories from 65,000 publications, and has a dashboard-style layout. You can get local weather and news based on your phone’s location, and there are 60 different country settings. Only want tech…

Google has added some extra sites to the News section of its search listings, including—brace yourself—Reddit! We though we’d seen more kittens in the news recently.

This Could Be Google’s 9-Inch Nexus Tablet

Google’s slew of fall releases is coming any time now, including the final version of Android L, a new behemoth Nexus phone, and the Nexus 9, Google’s first tablet in years. Now, thanks to upleaks, we may have gotten a glimpse of the latter. We already know a lot about the Nexus 9, But until…

SureMote Makes Your Android Phone a Remote For Any Wi-Fi Device You Own

Want to throw away your pile of remotes, but don’t want to shell out for a pricy universal remote device? It’s getting easier to just use your smartphone to change the channel. SureMote, a free app that debuted an updated version this weekend, wants you to control every appliance in your house with your phone.…

Google Glass App Gives Conversations Real-Time Closed Captioning

Georgia Tech researchers have come up with an app that turns Google Glass into a real-time closed-captioning display for the hearing-impaired, using the voice recognition in the user’s Glass-paired smartphone. Now this is a face-computer use we can get behind. Captioning on Glassuses a Glass wearer’s smartphone as a remote microphone. The Glass wearer simply…

Report: Google Is Working On Huge, Lego-Like Modular Displays

The Wall Street Journal says that a crack team of Google researchers is trying to build a modular super-screen, one that snaps together from a whole bunch of smaller displays to create a seamless image. A screen made of dozens of screens! The report, based on info from three anonymous people familiar with the project,…

Report: Google Is Making Yet Another Messaging App

The Economic Times is reporting that Google is working hard to launch a messaging service similar to WhatsApp. Because what the world definitely needs is another messaging app. While every tech company under the suns continues to try and crack messaging once and for all—without ever really seeming to know how to go about it—the…

Check Out Android L in Action on a Samsung Galaxy S5

It’s been months since Google first gave us a glimpse of Android L and the Material Design manifesto. But now, the slick-looking operating system is finally getting close to primetime. At least that’s how this new video from SamMobile of a Samsung Galaxy S5 running Android L makes it seem. This is hardly the first…

Samsung Galaxy Alpha Teardown: Lots of Glue Makes For Tricky Repairs

The master disassemblers at iFixit have applied their expertise at turning gadgets into piles of raw components to the Samsung Galaxy Alpha. And while not chock full of surprises, the lack of an official waterproof IP67 rating—like the Galaxy S5 boasts—didn’t stop Samsung from being generous with the glue, which makes repairing the Galaxy Alpha…