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Did You Actually Buy Google Glass Today?

For one day and one day only, Google decided to open the Glass floodgates to anyone living in the US. Yes, your opportunity to hand Google $1500 of your hard-earned cash for a faceputer has finally arrived. Up until now, Google’s been doling out Glass™-portunities through Twitter, making each new Explorer feel like the special…

Get The Brand New Samsung Galaxy S5 For Half Off [Verizon]

Samsung’s new flagship Galaxy S5 just went on sale today, and Verizon users can grab it for $100 from Amazon. Based on the Gizmodo review, this is the new best Android phone for a lot of people, especially if you value battery life and picture quality, which you should. [Amazon] Amazon is currently out of…

Samsung Galaxy S5 Review: Less Is So Much More

If you can say one thing about Samsung’s Galaxy S line of smartphones, it’s that they consistently pair some of the best hardware with inexplicable software. The S5 scales back Samsung’s bells and whistles, which helps make it easily the best Galaxy phone yet. If only they’d gone even further. What Is it? Samsung’s new…

Anyone Can Buy Google Glass Today, Starting Now

If you’ve long lusted over a pair of the world’s geekiest glasses, today all your Christmases come at once. For one day only, Google is allowing any United States resident to buy Glass. The folks at Mountain View still expect you to become a Glass Explorer—which means ponying up $1,500 for the privilege—but you will…

How to Check If Your Android Device Could Be Hacked via Heartbleed

Heartbleed is causing heartache on hundreds of servers all over the internet, but security researchers have also warned that the bug could allow direct hacks of Android, too. Here’s how to check if your device is at risk. While researchers at security firm Symantec happily report that the major browsers don’t rely on the OpenSSL…

Microsoft’s Office Online—the free, web-based version of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote—is headed for the Chrome Web Store as a series of apps.

Latest Update Brings KitKat to Google Glass

It’s been a while since we last heard of a software update for Glass and now I guess we know why. The team over at Mountain View has been busy updating the face-computer to run on the latest version of Android (4.4.2 a.k.a. KitKat). It sounds like it won’t be a very obvious change, but…

Google Bought a Drone Company, Which Isn’t At All Creepy, Nope

The Wall Street Journal has just confirmed that Google will be purchasing Titan Aerospace, the same high-altitude drone startupthat Facebook had been in talks with earlier this year. While we can’t be sure yet what Google plans to do with its new high-flying toys, it’s hard not to worry that, in addition to connecting the…

Before the iPhone Launched, Android Didn’t Support Touchscreens

It’s virtually impossible to imagine now, but back when the iPhone was launched in 2007, Google wasn’t planning to make Android for touchscreen devices. Revealed in court documents that form part of the current Apple-Samsung legal argument, a Google report explains that Android “was designed with the presence of discrete physical buttons as an assumption.…

Google is reportedlygearing up to let anyone in the United States buy Glass—for a single day. In other words, on April 15th, you won’t have to be a fancy Glass Explorer as long as you have the $1500 to pay for the specs. The full consumer rollout of Glass is supposed to hit later this…

Android Now Offers Routine Malware Surveillance For Your Phone

It’s no secret that Android apps can get a little shifty, but having the freedom to explore that is part of what makes Android great. Now Google is helping you stay even safer by keeping a constant eye on whether or not any of your apps are doing anything they shouldn’t be. This security-minded move…

Are Robot Waiters Joining Google’s Automaton Army?

Google’s continued push into the robotics industry continues, with its latest investment being a stake in Silicon Valley’s Savioke—which focuses on service industry machines. The nature of Savioke’s current work remains undisclosed, with the company only being formed last year. So what’s caught Google’s eye in order to secure a mystery amount of seed investment…

Google Reveals the Crazy Modular Phones Ara Will Let You Build

Google has already been very open when it comes its modular Ara phone, and now a Module Development Kit for the phone reveals more about the device than ever. As you might expect, a lot of the information in the document is necessarily technical, but it’s interesting for all of us because explains how the…

Nikon Coolpix S810c: Samsung’s Galaxy Camera Finally Has Competition

An Android-powered point-and-shoot camera sure sounds like the future even if it’s yet to be proven, which is why nearly two years after Nikon pushed its first Android experiment into the world, the company is trying again. How does the Coolpix S810c measure up against Samsung’s very successful Galaxy Camera? The new Nikon Coolpix S810c…

Could This Be the Clean New Look For Android’s Built-In Calendar App?

The folks over at Geek.com got this sneak peek at a significantly updated test design for Timely, Google’s stock calendar app. If this is the final version that Android users will see, it’ll be a nice update. Over at Geek.com, Russell Holly got the chance to play with an Android device running this purported new…

Google Glass Livestream App Makes Broadcasting Your Vision Even Easier

The new Livestream app for Google Glass makes showing the entire world exactly what you’re looking at easier than before. Though you’ve already been able to broadcast directly from the specs using Google Hangouts, the new app underscores what makes people most uncomfortable about Glass: It’s creepy! The new app does exactly what you’d expect…

Oh Hey, Android TV Was All Over CES Three Months Ago

Google TV has been dead in the water for a while now, but rumor has it that a flashy new successor, Android TV, is on the way. There are rumors, and also it was hiding in plain sight atCES three months ago. Turns out that while Android TV hasn’t been officially announced or acknowledged by…

Report: Android TV Is the New Google TV

Not content with millions of Chromecast dongle sales, a new report suggests that Google is preparing to take on the Apple TV, Roku range and newly-released Amazon Fire TV with a smart TV streaming platform of its own. The Vergehas unearthed details of a new television offering called Android TV, which looks like Google’s most…

Report: Android TV Will Be Google’s Next Big Set-Top Box Push

The Verge just revealed that Google may venture into set-top TV devices with the as-yet-unannounced Android TV. Quoting internal documents, the report indicates Google is planning a device like Roku or the new Amazon Fire TV to put Android in your living room. Judging by the documents The Verge quotes (which so far have not…

One of Google’s Project Loon balloons has completed a journey around the globe in just 22 days. That exceeds the expectations of the Mountain View engineers—they thought it would take 33 days—and puts Phileas Fogg to shame. [Google]