Google and Apple might lose the infotainment war

Android Auto and CarPlay are both pretty great. You plug your smartphone into your car and you're greeted with a familiar set of icons. In most vehicles on the road, it's an improvement. Why wade through a confusing interface, when two of the biggest...

Watch the Google I/O 2018 keynote in under 20 minutes

Google's annual developer conference usually gives us a pretty good idea of what to expect from the company for the next several months. This year's I/O opening keynote was no different as yesterday's 2-hour event was jam-packed with AI, Androi...

Here’s what you won’t find in the Android P beta

Developers and enthusiasts have had access to a very early version of Android P for a while now, but Google has made it more easily accessible to the brave with the launch of its public Android P Beta. At this point, you can get it up and running...

Google Lens hands-on: Copy-and-paste the real world to your phone

Google may have teased us with exciting new AR features for the Maps app, but it's not forgetting to make its Lens camera more useful, either. Since its launch last year, Lens has rolled out to iOS and gained a few skills, like identifying cat and do...

Five ways Android P changes how you will (or won’t) use your phone

Google has pulled a surprising switcheroo, designing Android P to help you reduce your smartphone usage, while also making it less irritating and more approachable. To pull that off, it added a big dose of artificial intelligence smarts, iPhone X-lik...

10 tiny ways Google is weaving the fabric of our lives

This is how Google takes over the world. It won't be with the inception of an all-powerful artificial intelligence application, via the advent of self-driving cars, or through Assistant's steady creep into our everyday lives, though Google will certa...