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Google’s Doctor Who Platform Game Doodle: A Perfect Friday Time Sink

This weekend is the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who’s first appearance on the small screen, and Google has chosen to celebrate it with a wonderful multi-level platform game. Choosing to play as any of the 11 Doctors, you can roam around space (and, um, time?) dodging Daleks and completing small puzzles. It’s wonderful, juvenile fun,…

The Most Unbelievable Part of The Circle? The Architecture.

Dave Eggers’ new book The Circle is a creepy tale about a tech company—which is proving to be annoying to people who actually work in tech. It’s also overhyped and may have even ripped off another Silicon Valley story. But there’s one thing Eggers gets the most wrong in The Circle, according to design critic…

Google’s Tour of Middle Earth: LOTR From a Great Eagle’s POV

Middle Earth is an amazing fictional world, but if you want to really get to know it, you’ve got to read a lot of words. So if you’re in the mood for a little Tolkien fantasy without hunkering down for a serious reading session, Google’s brand new tour of Middle Earth is a beautiful (and…

You can now stream HBO Go on your Chromecast, woo! And that brings your number of options to a whopping total of four. Come on Chromecast, keep up that streak.

Photoshop Contest: Make Microsoft’s Sad Anti-Google Merchandise Better

Microsoft is revving up its campaign against Google with a whole slew of merchandise. Most of which is pretty unfortunate. This campaign needs help — the kind only Photoshop-wielding internet heroes can provide. So here’s the deal: you’ve got from now until Monday, November 25th to whip up smarter, funnier anti-Google merchandise for Microsoft. Stuff…

Google’s New Wallet Card Brings It One Step Closer to Being a Bank

Over a year after rumors first surfaced, Google has finally unveiled the Google Wallet Card, a physical debit card that you can use to spend money from your Wallet account. The Mastercard-powered piece of plastic works just like a regular debit card and is available right now. As the company explains in its announcement, the…

Google Play Newsstand Is Your Personalized Feed of Stuff to Read

Google is overhauling its approach to serving you articles and news. With “Newsstand” Google’s taking another shot at building a one-stop app for all the different stuff you might want to read online. It’s a bit like Flipboard meets your magazine subscriptions in a single application for your phone. Google Play Newsstand replaces the existing…

Nexus 4 users have started seeing an over-the-air update to Android 4.4 KitKat today, giving them the brand-new Android OS experience enjoyed on the Nexus 5. [AndroidCentral via Ubergizmo]

You Can Get a Moto X on Amazon For Just a Penny Today

How much is customization worth to you? Because if you can forego a personalized palette, you can grab a Verizon Moto X on Amazon in black or white for one penny right now. https://gizmodo.com/moto-x-review-the-android-phone-for-everybody-1034784286 Moto X prices have been dropping across the board lately. The phone is on that crazy cheap unlimited plan from Republic…

Google’s neat, new wireless charger—for the Nexus 4, Nexus 5 and Nexus 7—is now available in the Play Store. $50 to you, my friend.

Starting today, Google will begin to roll out Android 4.4 KitKat to Verizon versions of the Moto X.

Google only has to pay $17 million for tracking people without their knowledge. The search giant just agreed to the sum to settle allegations from 37 states (and DC) that it added cookies to users’ computers without consent. Google stopped short of admitting to wrong-doing, though.

Shelved Android Code Hints That Way Better Camera Apps Are Coming

Android has come a long way as a platform in the last couple of years, but one drawback of the phones is that for the most part their cameras lag behind what’s available for Windows Phone and iOS ). A batch of comments discovered in the Android source code hints that the cameras might be…

Google Announces Massive New Restrictions on Child Abuse Search Terms

Following no small amount of pressure from the UK’s Prime Minister David Cameron, Google has announced a new initiative which will see it clean up search results for queries relating to underage sexual abuse. https://gizmodo.com/the-uk-moves-to-block-all-internet-porn-by-default-866811082 Taking to the pages of the UK’s Daily Mail, Eric Schmidt announced that Google has put together a team of…

The Google Play Music iOS App Is Finally Here

Google Play Music has always sort of been available on iOS through your favorite HTML 5-enabled browser app, but today, the service is available as a native iOS application. Rejoice! The new Google Play Musi app includes both the standard, free Google Play Music service that allows you to match and upload your music collection…

Travel Back to the Nonexistent Past With a Functional Google BBS

Back in the day, the internet was hard. There weren’t search engines or pretty HTML5 websites. There weren’t address bars or social networks. You had to dial up other computers and make connections yourself. At least that’s what they tell me. My earliest internet memories involve AOL, but for those real internet pioneers, this fully-functioning…

Google Wins the Right to Keep Scanning Millions of Books for Free

Nearly a decade after it started, the lawsuit between the Authors’ Guild and Google over its book-scanning program has been thrown out. This means that Google can keep digitizing millions of books for free distribution, and more importantly, that fair use is in the public’s best interest. On Thursday, U.S. Circuit Judge Denny Chin in…

Looks like HP and Google are putting the brakes on Chromebook 11 sales due to complaints of overheated chargers getting damaged. If you’ve already gotten your hands on the laptop, hold off on using it or switch out your charger for another micro-USB charger. [Verge via Engadget]

Motorola Moto G: $180 (Off Contract!) of Android KitKat Goodness

For all the super-powerful flagship Android handsets out there, the OS gained popularity because it’s traditionally been a cheaper alternative to the priciness of Apple’s iPhone. With that in mind, here’s the Motorola Moto G, a solid Android phone that’ll be available off-contract for just $180. https://gizmodo.com/android-is-popular-because-its-cheap-not-because-its-g-5977625 So here’s the spec breakdown: $180 gets you…

Android 4.4 KitKat headed to the Wi-Fi versions of the Nexus 7 and 10 starting today, according to Google.