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If you bought a 16GB Nexus from Google Play 15 days or less before the price drop, you can get $25 back. [GigaOM]

One Third of Google Employees Don’t Seem to Use Google+

Google employees don’t like to eat their own food. It seems like one third of the entire Google workforce doesn’t use Google+: 32.6% haven’t posted anything at all in the last month. A depressing stat for the Mountain View search engine and eyeglasses company. The other numbers are not much better: 20.5% of them haven’t…

Google Autocomplete Makes Wonderful Emo Poetry

Does it ever feel like the Google Search autocomplete is speaking to you? Or that there’s something a little less than random about the way the searches stack up? It’s like poetry, man. Google Poetics is a Tumblr of all the wonderful stanzas Google’s algorithm spews out. [Google Poetics—Thanks, Alyssa!]

The 9 Biggest Wastes of Google’s Time and Money

Google just put out JAM, for Chrome, which is basically Garage Band for your browser. It’s pretty cool! And after today there’s basically zero chance you’re ever going to think about it again. https://gizmodo.com/jam-with-chrome-turns-your-browser-into-a-garage-band-5958771 That seems to happen to Google a lot; it comes up with some novel ideas, throws a ton of money at…

Jam With Chrome Turns Your Browser Into a Garage Band

Sitting at a desk working is not the same as living the childhood dream of playing in a rock band. But now you can relive those adolescent ideas by jamming with your friends in Chrome, courtesy of Google. Jam With Chrome lets you pick up whatever instrument you fancy—guitar, bass, drums, keyboard, synth, drum machine—and…

Google’s Search Results Page Looks Different Now

Google search results are like the old beat up recliner of the internet. Your butt’s always there, and if anything changes, you notice. Well, Google changed the way its search results look. It’s a relatively small change, but you’re going to notice. The biggest difference is that the bar along the left hand side of…

Add Samsung’s Galaxy Note 10.1 and Android 4.1 to the list of products Apple claims violate its patents. [Bloomberg]

Help Site Confirmed Physical Google Wallet Card

After last week’s leaked news about Google launching its own physical credit card to sit alongside Wallet, a new help site seems to have confirmed the search giant’s intentions. https://gizmodo.com/google-wallet-looks-like-it-s-getting-a-physical-credit-5956330 The site—which has now been modified—contained references to the yet-to-be announced card, explaining on an “Eligible Devices” page that all Android devices with Android 2.3.3…

Is Google Voice Sending Your Text Messages from Random Numbers?

Reports are coming in from the Google Voice help forums that SMS messages sent through Google Voice are being sent from random numbers. There are multiple complaints, including for voice SMS, claiming that the incorrect numbers are random, and different for each message. There’s an update coming to Google Voice prior to Android 4.2 being…

Android Turns Five Years Old Today

Android turns five today! It doesn’t seem like all that long ago that BlackBerries ruled the world, the iPhone was brand new, and the Open Handset Alliance showed everyone its new open source software standard called Android. These days, Android phones make up a huge portion of all the world’s smartphones—75 percent of shipments last…

iPad Mini Display Shoot Out: How Does It Stack Up?

The iPad mini has finally arrived—Apple’s much anticipated response to the incredibly successful 7-inch tablets pioneered by Amazon and Barnes & Noble, and more recently by Google with its Nexus 7. So far they are the only tablets that have made a dent in Apple’s near monopoly on tablets. At first Apple declared them too…

Google: Nexus 10 Is an Experiment to Rescue an Underpowered Tablet Market

Interesting, if damning, commentary from Google suggests that the Nexus 10 is an experiment in resuscitating a tablet market which is overcrowded with expensive and underpowered 10-inch tablets. Speaking to the New York Times, Google’s director of business development for Android, John Lagerling, explained that the 10-inch tablet market is “overpriced and underpowered, and we…

Google Nexus 10 Review: It’s Pretty Pretty

Back in June, Google launched the Nexus 7 tablet. It was as fast as most high-end tablets, and it only cost $200. It was a major hit. But not everybody is sold on the seven-inch form factor yet. Which is why the Nexus 10 is here to steal your hearts. NOTE: At the time of…

Google Nexus 4 Review: Yes, You Want This Phone

Nexus devices are Google’s brand ambassadors. They’re built to show off the latest and greatest version of Android. Unfortunately, the hardware hasn’t always lived up to the software. With the Nexus 4, finally, form catches up to function. NOTE: At the time of our testing, the phone’s software was very nearly finished, but it was…

Google Wallet Looks Like It’s Getting a Physical Credit Card

We’ve been hearing on and off that this might happen, but Android Police just got a pretty real-looking tip from a leaked build of the Google Wallet that seems to confirm it: Google Wallet is getting a physical credit card. But what does that actually mean? According to the report, the card will use the…

AMBER Alerts Show Up In Google Maps Now

God forbid a child go missing, but if it happens now there’s another place you’re going to hear about it, because Google has added AMBER Alerts to Google Maps. Now, on both mobile and the desktop, when you search for something in the area where the alert was issued, you’ll also see that alert. These…

Apple Wins Google-Worrying Patent for Touch Screen Mobile Maps Interface

A patent originally filed by Apple back in 2008 has just been granted by the US Patent Office, with the tech giant somehow managing to convince the authorities it should own a patent for a method of displaying maps on a touchscreen device. It’s not the hugely apocalyptic attack on Google Maps you might expect,…

Asus Reveals Google Is Selling 1 Million Nexus 7s a Month

The Chief Financial Officer at Asus, David Chang, has told the Wall Street Journal that Google is selling nearly one million Nexus 7 tablets every month – and that figure looks set to rise, too. In an interview with the Journal, Chang explained: “At the beginning, it was, for instance, 500K units a month, then…

Google’s New iOS Search App Answers Your Questions Directly

Google just released an update to its search app for iOS. Now it has the Knowledge Graph built inside, meaning you can ask it questions and it will answer right back. So if you say “Who’s the president of South Africa?” it will just say “Jacob Zuma” rather than offering a bunch of results you…

How the Nexus 10 Stacks Up to the Competition

Google’s Nexus 10 tablet has arrived, designed to serve as Android’s flagship answer to the iPad and Surface. But is the thing worth its weight in salt? We compared the Nexus 10 to the other top new tablets to find out. https://gizmodo.com/nexus-10-tablet-everything-you-need-to-know-5955825 On the guts front, the Samsung-manufactured Nexus 10 is more or less in…