July 29, 2020 Google reportedly offers Samsung a lucrative deal to prioritize Assistant and Play Store Google is reportedly in the midst of convincing Samsung to prioritize Assistant and the Play Store over Bixby and the Korean company’s own app…
July 29, 2020 The Morning After: CES 2021 is going entirely online Like so many other things, Engadget’s annual trip to Las Vegas will skip a year as CES 2021’s in-person element is canceled due to…
July 29, 2020 Form’s smart swim goggles now track open water excursions Form’s Smart Swim Goggles are now useful for more than tracking laps in the pool. The company has updated the goggles’ firmware to add…
July 29, 2020 Form’s smart goggles now work with GPS smartwatches to track open-water swims Photo by Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge Form is releasing an update today for its smart augmented reality swim goggles that enable them to…
July 29, 2020 How to watch today’s tech antitrust hearing Photo by Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images Starting at 12PM ET on Wednesday, July 29th, the leaders of the tech industry are appearing before…
July 29, 2020 Service that uses AI to identify gender based on names looks incredibly biased Image: Genderify Some tech companies make a splash when they launch, others seem to bellyflop. Genderify, a new service that promises to identify someone’s…
July 29, 2020 Spotify says listener habits are almost back to pre-pandemic levels Spotify’s second-quarter earnings report doesn’t just tell us how many people are using the service, and how much money it lost. The documents also…
July 29, 2020 OKCupid security flaws could have given hackers access to user accounts The data contained in dating apps is both very personal and valuable to hackers, who can use it to make highly convincing cyberattacks. So…
July 29, 2020 The Big Tech hearings won’t lead to real change. That’s okay. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifying before Congress in October 2019. | Aurora Samperio/NurPhoto via Getty Images The heads of Apple, Facebook, Google, and Amazon…
July 29, 2020 How the CEOs of Apple, Google, Amazon, and Facebook plan to defend Big Tech today Photo illustration by William Joel / Photos: Getty Images Ahead of the antitrust hearing that’s due to take place later today, the opening statements…