Google Photos will soon make animated photos from your still shots
Google Photos will soon have a cool new trick: if you take two similar images with your phone’s camera, the app will be able to create an animated, moving shot…
Google Maps’ Live View feature now offers more useful information about restaurants and businesses
Image: Google Google announced a bunch of new features for Google Maps at its 2021 I/O developer conference today, including upgrades to its handy Live View tool, which helps you…
Google and Samsung are merging Wear OS and Tizen
In yet another sign of the growing alliance between Google and Samsung, today both companies announced that they are essentially combining Wear OS — Google’s operating system — and the…
Android 12 will turn your Pixel phone into a car key — assuming automakers bother
The BMW iX, which will support seamless unlocks with UWB tech. | Image: BMW Nearly a year after Apple announced the iPhone would become your digital car key, Google is…
Amazon Brings Its Shady Anti-Union Tactics to Staten Island Unionization Effort
Just over a month after Amazon successfully shut down its Bessemer, Alabama, warehouse workers’ attempt to unionize, reporters have already found evidence of the company using its shady union-busting tactics…
Android 12 preview: first look at Google’s radical new design
Photo composite by Amelia Holowaty Krales and Vjeran Pavic / The Verge There are new features, but it’s the biggest design update in years Continue reading…
There are over 3 billion active Android devices
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge There are over 3 billion active Android devices in the wild now. Sameer Samat, VP of product management at Google, announced the news…
Businesses & Officials Are Concerned Anti-Maskers Won’t Honor CDC’s New Guidance
While many have celebrated the newly announced guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that say those who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 no longer have to…
Google Photos is adding a locked folder for your private images
Image: Google Google is introducing a new feature to Google Photos that lets you hide specific pictures so they won’t show up in your photo feed or in other apps.…
This is Ford’s electric F-150 pickup truck
Image: CNBC Ford has revealed the all-electric F-150 pickup truck one day ahead of schedule. The truck, dubbed F-150 Lightning, was on display Tuesday at Ford’s Rouge Electric Vehicle Center…