Google and Amazon have a funny relationship with each other. Amazon’s line of tablets, the Kindle Fire series, are powered by a heavily skinned Android operating system. And yet, Amazon has long maintained its own app ecosystem, and pitted it against the Play Store. Noticeably absent from Amazon’s app store is anything having to do with Google – Maps, Gmail, YouTube, etc. On the other side, Google devices, like the Chromecast, don’t work with Amazon hardware. For a cord-cutter like me, who loves Amazon’s various services, this can be a little frustrating.

Jacquard is part jacket, part wearable tech.

There are times when Google completely baffles us by adding a feature that we didn't even remotely think could be possible, or needed, or useful. Like now for example, there's a new Search bar when you visit the list of Assistant actions. How groundbreaking!

The tie-up marks the latest push by Google to boost its hardware business.

Google systematically pays women less than men doing similar work, according to a class action-lawsuit accusing the technology company of denying promotions and career opportunities to qualified women who are “segregated” into lower-paying jobs.

Google is making two big jumps today, expanding its Android One program to the U.S. and also releasing the first non-Nexus or Pixel device on its self-operated Project Fi carrier. Both firsts come from a single device, the new Moto X4.

Google tracking is more pervasive than most people realize. We show you some alternatives to Google services to limit your exposure.

Even though he was once an executive at Facebook, Chamath Palihapitiya, CEO of Social Capital Hedosophia Holdings, favors investing in Amazon instead, he told CNBC's "Fast Money: Halftime Report" on Thursday. President Donald Trump has been a critic of Amazon, tweeting his disdain for coverage from The Washington Post, which is a personal holding of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. But Palihapitiya said he thinks that Facebook and Google face more regulatory risk, given the many retailers that compete with Amazon.

Google is starting to roll out support for HDR videos in the mobile YouTube app. The Verge has been able to confirm that the update is live and offers support for HDR playback at up to 1080p resolution and 60 fps when manually changing video quality. The software update seems to have quietly rolled out yesterday, according to reports on Reddit and SamMobile, which first spotted the update.

When it comes to Google, you have to play by the rules. They won’t have you gaming their system for undeserved traffic. Google won’t stand for the black-hat strategies search engine marketers used in the past to scam the system.

Three former employees say Google pays women less than men for comparable work.

Learn more about the latest developments in all things Google for the month of August.

I study the way big businesses control our lives. What happened to me is a chilling example.

Emails viewed by WIRED reveal how funding from the tech giant can influence internal dynamics within a think tank.

The latest allegation against Google? Jon von Tetzchner, creator of the web browser Opera, says the search giant deliberately undermined his new browser, Vivaldi. In a blogpost titled, "My friends at Google: it is time to return to not being evil," von Tetzchner accuses the US firm of blocking Vivaldi's access to Google AdWords, the advertisements that run alongside search results, without warning or proper explanation.

Google today announced Chrome is going to war with autoplay. Starting next year, Chrome will only autoplay a given piece of content when the media won't play sound or the user has indicated an interest in the media.

The potential investment is reportedly being driven by top executives at Google's parent company.

As we noted in our earlier Google Home Mini reveal, a report from a couple of weeks back had actually suggested that Google would soon release a smaller Home unit. In that same report, it was suggested that a new high performance Chromebook Pixel was on the way too. Today, we can confirm that report and you can all welcome in the Google Pixelbook.

Wrapping up here, because we don’t want anyone feeling left out, here is the HTC-made Pixel 2. From what we can tell, it’ll arrive in three colorways and match the Pixel 2 XL in terms of storage, while sticking to prices very similar to last year’s original smaller Pixel. The Pixel 2 will arrive in Kinda Blue, Just Black, and Clearly White.

The companies are working together to keep pace in the race for online shoppers. They hope a transition to voice technology will help.

If you have tried rooting your Pixel XL device after updating to Android Oreo, you may have noticed that your typical rooting methods don’t really work well on Android’s newest version. If that’s the case, then we’ve got you covered. XDA Senior Member GroovinChip has put together a step-by-step guide that walks us through how to get root access back on the Google Pixel XL running Android 8.0.

The man who beat the FBI to identify the mastermind of global online drugs market Silk Road.

Some of the latest moves and actions (and auctions) which pose a danger to GNU/Linux in mobile devices in particular

I’ve studied monopolies for about 20 years. I got into this line of work back in 1999, when an earthquake in Taiwan resulted in the shutdown of computer factories all over the United States. What happened was that an earthquake disrupted the flow of electricity to foundries in Taipei, where most of the world’s capacity for a key type of semiconductor was located. The loss of this capacity led to a cascading crash of industrial activity, similar to a financial crash.

Toilet fixes are big but don't make the global top ten list.

Gmail has been one of the popular email option used across the globe . You have been used to sharing a lot of information like email addresses and phone

When Google takes the stage on October 4 at a phone-related event in San Francisco, most of us expect there to be non-phone related product announcements too. We’ve heard rumors about a Google Home “mini” possibly being on the way and today we can confirm that it exists, how much it costs, and the colors … Continued

Google Assistant might be ahead of its competitors when it comes to certain tasks, but third-party integration is not one of those tasks. That looks to significantly change with Android Oreo, though there are a few things to consider. Thanks to code found on the Android Developers website by XDA Developers, we have learned of the capability for an app to create a new task in Android’s activity manager. In other words, developers can open and run Google Assistant within their apps without the need for folks to leave the apps.

On Tuesday evening, Google sent a conservative website an ultimatum: remove one of your articles, or lose the ability to make ad revenue on your website. The website was strong-armed into removing the content, and then warned that the page was "just an example and that the same violations may exist on other pages of this website."

I have known Google longer than most. At Opera, we were the first to add their search into the browser interface, enabling it directly from the search box and the address field. At that time, Google was an up-and-coming geeky company. I remember vividly meeting with Google’s co-founder Larry Page, his relaxed dress code and his love for the Danger device, which he played with throughout our meeting. Later, I met with the other co-founder of Google, Sergey Brin, and got positive vibes.

Some intentionally deny the reality that men and women are different because they are afraid it will be used to justify keeping women out of STEM. But sexism isn’t the result of knowing facts; it’s the result of what people choose to do with them

America has held a largely romantic view of the tech industry that is at odds with reality.

Five years after a major sexism scandal, Silicon Valley's misogynist culture remains strong and pervasive – and history reveals the stakes could be as high as the entire US tech sector.

James Damore, the Google engineer who was fired after posting a 10-page memo calling the company an “Ideological Echo Chamber” and arguing women are underrepresented in tech because of inherent differences, has taken his side of the story to one of the friendliest venues imaginable: Reddit.

At least 500 apps collectively downloaded more than 100 million times from Google's official Play Market contained a secret backdoor that allowed developers to install a range of spyware at any time, researchers said Monday.