Google has always aimed to integrate everything it can, from apps to features, across whatever devices it can. Now, the Nest Learning Thermostat is getting the integration treatment. On Monday, December 15, Google updated the Google app, Google Now, to include Nest integration. With it, Google Now users can control their Nest Learning Thermostat with just the Now app, including voice controls. The first step to get it up and running takes giving Nest authorization with Google Now....

After Hangouts, Android Messages and Allo, Google is now launching another messaging service: Chat. But it is not an app that you can install on your phone. Instead, Google is learning from its past mistakes, and doing things differently this time around. It is using the momentum of Android Messages — its most successful messaging app with over 100 million users — to build a better messaging system. Using the “Universal Profile for Rich Communication Services” a....

Stringing together a few words to get something done with a smart speaker is pretty easy, but keeping up that conversational track does make it a bit easier. As such, Google wants to make getting things done with Google Home a bit easier by allowing owners string together more than one command at a time. CNET reports that Home now officially supports handling two commands at the same time. So, if you’ve got the smart speaker in your own home, you can say things like, “Okay Google, turn on the TV and what’s the weather?...

While Google shows every month just how the variants of Android are dispersed among those using the platform in the real world thanks to distribution numbers, it seems that many users out there will have to miss out on potential fixes based on the version of Android they’re running on their daily driver. According to a report published by the Wall Street Journal, Google is limiting its scope of software fixes for Android, including a big security flaw within the standard Internet browser on devices running Android 4....

The tech giant Google has put a special emphasis on artificial intelligence in order to facilitate interaction between the user and the device. At the same time, it seeks to integrate it with everyday objects, in a discreet way. Last year the tech giant Google had already filed its first foray into personal assistants with the Google Home presentation. Now to reinforce its bet on this type of devices, after knowing the Google Home Mini, the tech giant Google presented the Google Home Max....

The Cloud Search is tailor made for enterprises and apart from acting as a tool to search it also doubles up as a directory to search for colleagues information. Furthermore, users will also be able to check the files and events they have in common. Needless to say, the tool will allow users to fire up a conversation with the colleague in either email, call or a Hangout. Since it is an Enterprise product the Google Cloud Search will offer a lot of privacy settings and will honor the file sharing permissions....

Google also wants to join the race and has been working to spread the reach of the internet across the globe. Google was already providing free internet at railway stations in countries like India. We all know that right now fiber is the fastest form of internet connection. However, it wasn’t possible to lay wires everywhere. So, Google is working on Project Loon. Google has filed a patent (US 20170005719) which was spotted by Patent Yogi....

Google announced the Nexus 5X on September 29 and began taking pre-orders via the Google Store on the same day, but the company did not tell customers exactly when they could expect to receive their device. All it said was that it would begin shipping in October. Now an update to the Nexus 5X product page on the Google Store confirms that the handset’s release date is October 22, which means we now have less than two weeks to wait for the device....

Google started scanning emails of its users to offer them more ‘personalised’ ads. While there was quite a bit of an uproar about this when Google initially announced this move, the company went ahead with the move. Now though, the company has announced that from later this year, it will stop scanning email contents for Gmail users to offer them personalised ads. The move has been taken by the company so that G Suite — the paid version of Gmail for enterprise customers — is able to attract more enterprise customers....

In this tiny tutorial I’ll show you how to get by the Android pattern lock if you had set it up on your Android smartphone and now it’s now working or if you forgot your pattern (the face unlock feature, as you saw can be very easily bypassed). Keep in mind that this method is only experimental and so, it might not work for some devices. What do you need?...

We’re less than a week away from Samsung’s September 4th press conference in Berlin. An executive has already confirmed that the Galaxy Note III will be unveiled there, along with a smart watch called the Galaxy Gear. Earlier this week, photos of the front panel of the Note III leaked, in black. Today, the front panel has leaked again, though this time in white. Black or white, it really doesn’t matter which color you end up going with, but here’s what’s “known” about the device thus far: 5....

Many of the games featured within have been updated to incorporate holiday graphics or added content, while others are permanent festive creations that only seem relevant for a few short weeks each year. atever the case, these Android offerings can help you capture the seasonal spirit. City Rush shakes up the traditional Crazy Taxi formula by implementing swipe tap-based controls, which are used for dodging traffic, turning, braking at your passengers’ destinations....

Google patched the bug in February but it was being exploited a month earlier. At the time, Google said it knew of reports that hackers were exploiting the Chrome bug CVE-2022-0609. The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) mandated federal agencies to patch the Chrome bug in February. Google’s Threat Analyst Group (TAG) says the exploit kit was being actively deployed from January 4, 2022. According to Google, the North Korean hacking groups who were using this exploit are linked to Lazarus, the North Korean hacking group accused of both the Sony Pictures hack and massive theft via an attack on the SWIFT international bank-messaging system....

As the FCC has authorized a Google product, this means the commercial release will be soon. The listing doesn’t include many details except the name (not confirmed) and the model number. Google’s New Wireless Streaming Device GJQ9T However, there are chances that this secret device by the search giant is a new Chromecast dongle as the model number of this device is much similar to the model number used last year....

The person behind this new technology inside Google’s Campus is Tobias Weyland, who is a computer vision scientist at Google. He has helped Google to make a neural network supported by over 91 Million Geo-Tagged Images captured across the world, hence making it possible to determine the location of almost any image. Moreover, it can also determine flora and fauna, typical objects and even different landscape in the images. PlaNet examines the pixels in Images and after that it cross reference’s images with the millions of images present in its database and then check its resemblances....

While its media event had plenty of attention on the new Nexus-branded smartphones, that’s not all that Google has up its sleeve. While on stage, the company also unveiled the Chromecast 2, the successor to the popular streaming stick that was launched some time ago. As was expected, the second-generation Chromecast is more colorful than its predecessor, and packs plenty of improvements under the hood. That includes faster and more improved Wi-Fi, and even a new home screen that offers “Feeds,” which will show content while the device is in standby mode....

Google I/O is underway right now, and on stage the company unveiled a brand new messaging app called Allo. The new app, which as mentioned above, is called Allo, and Google say it’s meant to not only make communications easier, but also make it even easier to express one’s self. With a feature called “Whisper/Shout,” you can actually change the size of your content to big or small — with a slider....

Not everyone wants to pay for entertainment, which has led some people to turn towards shadier means of content delivery. But this approach is extremely dangerous, and Microsoft is now warning users that illegal streaming and downloads can put their computers in grave danger. Here’s what it said, and why you should heed its warning. Dangerous downloads and streaming sabotage Microsoft is issuing a grave warning to Windows 10 users regarding the recent uptick in cybercrimes and hacking incidents....

Windows Safe Mode is a very common method to operate a PC without using a password. In Safe Mode, we can’t access everything, but hackers found out that they can access AnyDesk. With AnyDesk, hackers got continuous remote access to computers. Sophos revealed that AvosLocker attackers have installed AnyDesk, so it works in Safe Mode. They have disabled the security services that run in Safe Mode and then ran the ransomware in Safe Mode....

In Summary It was a year when headphones suddenly became an integral part of our lives. And while there were many models released, most tended to follow a regular beat (pun intended) and only some headphones really stood out. Here is our list of seven best headphones we tested and liked in 2020. To check out our list of best smartphones of 2020, click here. AKG K371 BT – audio magic, wireless AND wired!...