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Samsung Galaxy S III Will Be Out This Month for $200 (Updated)

The Samsung Galaxy S III, third of its name and new king of Android phones, will be out in the US this month on all four major carriers (plus US Cellular). It’ll start at $200 for the 16GB version, and scale up from there. The 4.8-inch Galaxy S III arrives a bit after the HTC…

Tech News Kyle Wagner Jun 4

Instapaper Is Finally on Android

Android’s getting all the pretty toys lately. A few weeks after finally getting in on Instagram, Android finally has its own official Instapaper client. It’s available for $3 in the Google Play store, and looks a whole lot like the iOS version, though your purchase doesnt seem to carry over if you own the app…

Tech News Kyle Wagner Jun 4

Google Preemptive Attack May Confirm Apple’s New 3D Maps at WWDC

The Google-Apple War continues: the Android company is going to introduce their next generation of maps on June 6, just a few days before Apple is supposed to unveil iOS 6, which allegedly would include a new in-house map app. We know that Apple is dropping Google maps in favor of their own 3D-based location…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Jun 1

Ex-Employee: The Worst Thing About Google Is Google+

Spencer Tipping left Google about a month ago. We know this because he’s written a blog post saying as much, and listing all of the pros and cons about working for Google. Juicy! Kind of. If you’re into programming, mostly. But the money shot’s the number one negative of Google culture: Google+. To be fair,…

Tech News Kyle Wagner Jun 1

How Hackers Nearly Took Down Google’s reCaptcha System

Last weekend a group of hackers unveiled Stiltwalker, a hack that subverts the reCaptcha system Google uses to protect its services from bots with 99 percent accuracy. But just hours before the group was set to present their hack at the LayerOne conference Google patched it up so it wouldn’t work anymore. Stiltwalker is an…

Tech News Mario Aguilar May 31

Whiny RIAA Demands Even More Google Censorship

An RIAA bigwig just laid a blog post smackdown on Google, claiming the search giant doesn’t do enough to remove links to copyrighted material. Apparently, processing more than one million requests for removal per month isn’t enough. Last week Google started highlighting copyright issues in its Transparency Report, which contains statistics on just how many…

Tech News Mario Aguilar May 31

Google’s Letting Companies Pay for Search Results

At one point, Google was proud to offer up its search results and services without any sponsored content. That seems to be changing in a pretty aggressive way, though. Google is apparently compensated by the vendors that appear in its Flight Search and Hotel Finder vertical search engines. So here’s what that means: Last year,…

Tech News Kyle Wagner May 30

Google Tablet Spotted in Benchmarks, Running Android 4.1 ‘Jelly Bean’

The long-rumoured Android tablet supposedly being made for Google by Asus as we speak has been discovered in some tech benchmark results, revealing the 7″ Nexus tablet to be running on Nvidia’s Tegra 3 chipset. The benchmarks reveal a 7″ Android tablet running at 768×1280 resolution, with the software onboard described as being based around…

Tech News Gary Cutlack - gizmodo uk May 30

Sergey Brin Finally Lets Someone Else Wear Google Glass

Sergey Brin has once again hit the town with Project Glass – but this time he let someone else wear Google’s augmented reality headset. California Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom wore the specs on The Gavin Newsom Show, and later told Wired about his brief experience with one of the world’s most rarefied pieces of technology.…

Tech News Roberto Baldwin - Wired May 29

Google Chrome OS Meta-Review: Faster and Better, but Still Falls Short

The first reviews of Google’s latest version of Chrome OS are out. Several publications took the cloud-based OS for a test drive on the new Samsung Series 5 Chromebook and Series 3 Chromebox. https://gizmodo.com/google-drops-revamped-chrome-os-on-newer-faster-chrome-5914040 The consensus so far? Chrome OS Verion 19 is fast and takes some important strides towards delivering a fully-functional, browser-based OS.…

Tech News Mario Aguilar May 29

Google Drops Revamped Chrome OS on Newer, Faster Chromebooks

If you haven’t paid attention to Google’s Chrome OS in awhile, you might not recognize it after today’s update: the cloud-based OS UI has been revamped and new functionality like multitouch trackpad support was added. Coinciding with that release is an updated Samsung Series 5 Chromebook, and a Series 3 Chromebox. The emphasis here is…

Tech News Leslie Horn May 29

There Is Now a Phone That Combines Pantone and Radiation Detectors

Gimmicky or not, Sharp is not averse to wedging weird and new(ish) technologies into their phones. As such, they’ve teamed up with Japanese cellphone peddler Softbank to release a phone that not only has a radiation detector, but comes in eight Pantone-certified colors. The “Pantone 5 107SH” is a 3.7-inch, Android-based phone that apparently is…

Tech News Adrian Covert May 29

Take a Trippy Google Maps Road Trip Around This Tiny World

Looking to get away this Summer but your budget won’t take you farther than a couple of blocks from your apartment? Just do what artist ‘A Ghost Train’ did with their music video for Chemin Vert and let Google Maps take you on a mind-warping trip around the world. The frenetic pace of the video…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski May 29

Picture Dictionary Replaces Definitions With the First Image Returned From a Google Search

It won’t help you improve your vocabulary, but Ben West and Felix Heyes‘ Google dictionary will keep you up to speed on internet fads and memes. That’s because instead of definitions, the book’s pages are populated with Google Image search results. Now, replacing the definitions with images for 21,000 popular words sounds incredibly tedious. Which…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski May 28

Report: Google’s Supercheap Nexus Tablet Will Be at Google I/O

According to TechnoBuffalo, Google’s forthcoming cheap, 7-inch Nexus tablet will be announced at Google I/O, which starts June 27th. And, like, why wouldn’t it be? https://gizmodo.com/report-super-cheap-google-tablet-coming-in-july-5899752 The tablet was reportedly pushed back from its original May estimate in order to trim the price down to $200, which puts it in direct competition with the Kindle…

Tech News Kyle Wagner May 25

HP’s WebOS Team Is Moving to Google

Poor little webOS, it just can’t catch a break. Now, the Verge is reporting that a large chunk of HP’s webOS team is leaving the company and moving on to Google. https://gizmodo.com/hp-insiders-claim-webos-was-doomed-from-the-start-5872395 According to the Verge, most of the team responsible for Enyo, the HTML5-based framework which lies at the core of webOS, are apparently…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe May 25

This Is the First Video From Google’s Glasses

We’ve seen pictures taken using Google’s new glasses and, while some were ropey, others were fairly impressive. Now, Google has released the first video footage recorded using the device. https://gizmodo.com/proof-google-glasses-can-take-non-shitty-pictures-5908991 The clip lasts just 15 seconds, is shot in 720p, and is a first-person view from someone bouncing around on a trampoline. The quality’s not…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe May 25

Oracle v. Google Juror: ‘Wanted Steak. Got Parsley’

Jury duty! The worst. Civic duty? Oh please. And since we can’t avoid serving, it better be good. One unnamed juror from the high-profile Oracle v. Google case was described by Jury Foreman Greg Thompson, 52, as dissatisfied with Oracle uber-lawyer David Boies’s attempts to prove Google had infringed on both its patents and its…

Tech News Molly Oswaks May 25

Google Purges 1.2 Million Links a Month from Its Searches

Google just released a report today showing just how many links the search giant rips down from its searches a month because of copyright complaints and it’s a doozy: 1.2 million a month. That comes from over a 1,000 copyright owners who’ve targeted 25,000 web sites. What’s especially interesting is that, according to Google, “these…

Tech News Casey Chan May 24

Developer Explains Why Android Sucks for Some Audio Apps

Oh, how we wish we could divulge the source of this information, because A) It comes from the developer of a pretty nice app; B) It’s fairly juicy information, if music apps are your thing; and C) We hate quoting anonymous sources. Nonetheless, we’re going to publish this anyway, because it’s so interesting, and the…

Tech News Eliot Van Buskirk - Evolver.fm May 24

Samsung Galaxy S III Will Be Out This Month for $200 (Updated)

Instapaper Is Finally on Android

Google Preemptive Attack May Confirm Apple’s New 3D Maps at WWDC

Ex-Employee: The Worst Thing About Google Is Google+

How Hackers Nearly Took Down Google’s reCaptcha System

Whiny RIAA Demands Even More Google Censorship

Google’s Letting Companies Pay for Search Results

Google Tablet Spotted in Benchmarks, Running Android 4.1 ‘Jelly Bean’

Sergey Brin Finally Lets Someone Else Wear Google Glass

Google Chrome OS Meta-Review: Faster and Better, but Still Falls Short

Google Drops Revamped Chrome OS on Newer, Faster Chromebooks

There Is Now a Phone That Combines Pantone and Radiation Detectors

Take a Trippy Google Maps Road Trip Around This Tiny World

Picture Dictionary Replaces Definitions With the First Image Returned From a Google Search

Report: Google’s Supercheap Nexus Tablet Will Be at Google I/O

HP’s WebOS Team Is Moving to Google

This Is the First Video From Google’s Glasses

Oracle v. Google Juror: ‘Wanted Steak. Got Parsley’

Google Purges 1.2 Million Links a Month from Its Searches

Developer Explains Why Android Sucks for Some Audio Apps

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