Despite some grim portents last year, Project Ara is far from dead. It now has its own business unit at Google (says newly installed ATAP chief Dan Kaufman), and the nearly magical modular hardware we've been anticipating for years is slowing getting...
Google aims to launch its consumer Project Ara phone in 2017
Despite some grim portents last year, Project Ara is far from dead. It now has its own business unit at Google (says newly installed ATAP chief Dan Kaufman), and the nearly magical modular hardware we've been anticipating for years is slowing getting...
I've been spending my time here at Google I/O hoping to catch a Google exec pull a supersecret VR headset out of a coat pocket. Instead I ran into one using Motorola's new Moto G4 Plus -- the highest-end of the three new Moto G models announced earli...
Remember last year's I/O, when Google revealed JUMP? It was a VR content creation system consisting of a camera rig made of 16 GoPros (called, appropriately, the "Odyssey") and some incredibly smart cloud-based processing and sharing software. Now, a...
There's more to today's Android Pay announcements than just a long-awaited UK launch. Google doesn't want people to just think of Android Pay as a way to pay for things in stores with phones, so it just pulled back the curtain on new and updated APIs...
Nougat? Nerds? Necco wafers? Nonpareils? We'd argue none of these treats sound cool enough to grace the next version of Android, and it turns out Google is having a hard time picking too. That's why, for the first time ever, the search giant wants to...
Even the most stubborn fence-sitters have to admit it: Virtual reality is worming its way into our the fabric of our culture. Part of VR's growth is because we can now just strap phones to our faces and see other worlds, but that typically requires l...
Google surprised us all with an Android N developer preview two months before we landed at I/O, and updated it with new performance-enhancing features just a few weeks back. Now, as revealed during this morning's I/O keynote, there's a new update for...
It's that time of year again. Google's about to give developers a serious show at I/O 2016, which this year is at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View (also known as Google's backyard). We'll be there throughout the week bringing you thoughtfu...
Forget the iPhone SE and the smaller iPad Pro: Apple's biggest surprise at its most recent keynote might have been CareKit, a software framework meant to help iOS users more easily monitor and manage their illnesses. Some of you might have felt your...
When the Nextbit Robin launched earlier this year, its auto-backup worked well but for a few other things that... well, they needed work. That's where the company's April update comes in. The new build packs Android 6.0.1, and with it comes a handful...