Google’s new messenger app is stirring up a debate about whether companies should make strong encryption a default feature for users. (Reuters) Google this week announced a new messaging app with strong encryption, meaning that your communications can’t be wiretapped. But there’s a catch: You have to turn on that feature yourself. The tech titan’s plan […]

Home It’s a reflection of Google’s Search and AI advances, an answer to Alexa, an imitation of nothing else precisely and an echo of Amazon’s home assistant ambitions. Google introduced it during I/O 2016, and it’s what the company simply calls Google Home. Already doing battle in cloud and advertising, Google’s Home and Amazon’s Echo

Enlarge Image The new $250 Simplehuman Sensor Mirror Pro will work with Alexa, IFTTT, and Nest. Simplehuman Simplehuman, a manufacturer of everyday household items ranging from a $26 paper towel holder to the $400 Wi-Fi Wide-View Sensor Mirror, just released a new product — the $250 Sensor Mirror Pro. The Sensor Mirror Pro has a

Google I/O 2016 Google’s I/O Conference will not conclude without revealing new details about the upcoming new Android mobile operating system, currently only known as Android N. As many have expected, Google has announced new features that will be found in Android N, along with other details. Here are some of the features Android fans

These were some of the biggest announcements at I/O this year. / © Google Android N and VR Android N is set to be a worthy evolution in the lineage of Android releases. With new features like Seamless Updates promising a better overall experience with Android in the future, the Android N announcements at Google

This week, at Google I/O, the search giant revealed a number of new projects they’re working on, including Google Assistant to refine search and compete with the likes of Siri and Cortana, Google Home, an Amazon Alexa competitor, and a new messaging app, Allo. But just before the conference kicked off, Google announced another new