Tesla will raise at least $1.4 billion through a secondary stock offering, the company announced in SEC filings today, and an additional 5.5 million shares will be purchased by CEO Elon Musk via a stock option exercise. The funds will be used to "accelerate the production ramp of … | Continue reading
I just got finished spending some time in the plush leather seats of a Maserati Ghibli, but I wasn't there for the luxury or the speed. I was taking a look at a concept of how Android N could be combined with Android Auto to power more of the car than you've probably seen before. … | Continue reading
Google is taking public submissions to help name Android N, after realizing that there just weren't that many "N" desserts to choose from. While it seems like Nutella would be the obvious answer, it's possible that the good people of Ferrero just weren't interested in a brand par … | Continue reading
One of the surprise announcements from Google's keynote session at I/O this year was Android Wear 2.0. Wear 2.0 is a major update to the platform — the biggest update yet, according to the company — and is designed to make Android Wear devices more functional and independent than … | Continue reading
Android apps and the Play Store will soon work on Chrome OS. Though it wasn't mentioned on stage during I/O's kickoff keynote, 9to5Google spotted a note on Google's website that mentions it'll be discussing how Chrome OS and Android will come together during a session for develop … | Continue reading
Tesla continues to push back on a story reporting that it used underpaid foreign labor to build an automotive paint shop at its Fremont, CA factory. Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted a letter from its primary contractor, Eisenmann, stating that Tesla paid ISM Vuzem, the subcontractor a … | Continue reading
Google took a big step into virtual reality with its Android-powered VR platform Daydream, and while we have to wait until fall for "Daydream-ready" phones, we did get a brief glimpse of the reference design for its headset and motion controller, which is also coming this fall fr … | Continue reading
At I/O this year, Google displayed its vision for a more ubiquitous and conversational way of interacting with technology. Its Assistant is chattier, answering natural language queries with a more human voice, and it’s found its way into several new Google products: the messenger … | Continue reading
Google Home is a response to Amazon's Echo, a home speaker and digital personal assistant operated by voice commands. The Echo looks like a generic Bluetooth speaker, which is to say it resembles a stack of hockey pucks or a very large tube of Pillsbury croissant dough. Google Ho … | Continue reading
Google is making a big play for developer mindshare at Google I/O this week, and it's all thanks to Facebook. In January, Facebook announced it would shut down its Parse service in a year, giving developers who rely on Parse for its various app-oriented backend services 12 months … | Continue reading
Google's ambitions for Android in the car go far beyond Android Auto, and it just laid those plans out at its I/O conference this afternoon.The company is demonstrating a Maserati Ghibli that has been completely retrofitted in partnership with Qualcomm to have a 15-inch, 4K cente … | Continue reading
Android Auto will be getting a couple new features this year that are relatively minor, but promise to make the platform quite a bit more usable.First up is support for wireless connections. Currently, phones need to be plugged in via USB in order to use Android Auto; with this n … | Continue reading
Somehow, Poncho is the only app genius enough to have a cartoon cat tell you about the weather. And now, fortunately, Android phone owners will be able to partake in that wonderful experience, too.Also: hair forecastsPoncho is launching a version of its app on Android today that' … | Continue reading
At its I/O conference today, Google announced that Android Auto is going to be available to a lot more people this year. How? You're not going to need a car or third-party head unit that supports it anymore.An update to the Android Auto phone app coming later this year will enabl … | Continue reading
Considering that Google owns Waze, it might seem a little odd that the popular crowdsourced mapping service wasn't already on Android Auto. But soon, it will be: Google announced at I/O today that Waze will be coming to the company's in-car infotainment platform.Google says that … | Continue reading
At it's I/O developer conference today, Google showed off a new feature for Android called Instant Apps. With deep links, Android users will be able to try out apps from a link without having to download anything from the Play Store. The company showed off a video experience from … | Continue reading
Google today announced Android Wear 2.0, the biggest update to its wearable operating system since its release back in September 2014. The biggest change with the software, which releases this fall, is apps can be run standalone without the need for a phone nearby. In fact, Googl … | Continue reading
Daydream, Google's new VR platform set to succeed Cardboard, will run with the next generation of Android smartphones running Android N. Google announced at I/O today that the new VR headset and software will work out of the box on new smartphones from a select group of manufactu … | Continue reading
Google wanted its very own version of FaceTime, so the company built a video chat app called Duo. Announced today onstage at the I/O developer conference, Duo is a dead-simple and blazing fast way to start video chats. The app opens into a selfie-cam video preview of yourself wit … | Continue reading
As part of a conversation with the president of the Rockefeller Foundation in New York yesterday afternoon, House of Cards star Robin Wright acknowledged that she'd used her character's popularity as leverage when negotiating for equal pay for future episodes of the show. Wright … | Continue reading
Here's something that could make Google's newly announced Daydream VR pretty epic in scope: IMAX experiences are going to start coming to the platform.While unveiling Daydream, Android's new virtual reality initiative, Google announced that it would include content from IMAX. It' … | Continue reading
Want to start trying Android N early? Google is making a way easier today. It's launching a public beta of N that's supposed to be polished and stable enough to run on your primary phone.N has been out in a developer beta for a few months now, but you had to jump through some hoo … | Continue reading
Accompanying the announcement of its Daydream mobile virtual reality initiative, Google is revealing a few of the experiences that people might have with its new VR headset. This fall, the company hopes to have Android phone makers launch the first Daydream-ready phones, along wi … | Continue reading
Following months of speculation, Google is diving deeper into virtual reality. Today at its I/O keynote, the company announced Daydream, a VR platform built on top of Android N. Google says that Daydream-ready phones, as well as VR viewers and motion controllers, will be availabl … | Continue reading
At its annual I/O developer conference today, Google is showing off a reference design for a new virtual reality headset that builds on the success of the Cardboard unit it launched back in 2014. The headset is part of Google's new Daydream initiative, a mobile VR platform baked … | Continue reading
Google kicked off the Android segment of its I/O developer conference this year as it has in the past with a list of new facts and figures to tout. The company says more than 600 new Android phones have launched in the last year, while more than 65 billion apps have been installe … | Continue reading
It wouldn't be a Google developer conference without some time dedicated to Google's most important software platform: Android. The next iteration, codenamed N, was announced super early in March of this year, and today at Google I/O more details and features are being revealed.G … | Continue reading
Google wants your help naming Android N. It's launched a website that'll let anyone suggest names for N, and Google says it'll search through them to pick out a final name. Does that mean it could choose something aside from a dessert? Who knows. Google didn't really go into deta … | Continue reading
Nicolas Winding Refn's newest project is a remake of the 1968 cult horror movie Witchfinder General, a hyperviolent gorefest that tracked Vincent Price's titular witch-hunter as he tortured the suspected witches of 17th century rural England. Directed by Michael Reeves, the movie … | Continue reading
Google is releasing a new video calling app later this summer. It's called Duo, and it's probably the fastest and simplest video calling app I've ever seen. Like its companion chat app, Allo, Duo is mobile-only. It uses your phone number as an identifier, and it will work on both … | Continue reading
Google Home, a small speaker you can converse with using natural language, is an ambitious way to weave the company's search engine and artificial intelligence into every fabric of your daily life. The company announced the new product today onstage at its I/O developers conferen … | Continue reading
Google Photos now has over 200 million monthly active users after only a year of existence, Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced at I/O today. Users have created more than 2 trillion labels that help the company sort its Google Image search results, and 24 billion of those are self … | Continue reading
Google I/O is here. What you can expect from today's big announcement? For one thing, a closer look at Android N. We might also see some updates to Chrome OS and a new messaging app. Plus: Google's unveiled an Amazon Echo competitor called Google Home. Stay tuned as we catch you … | Continue reading
Google is announcing a new messaging app today. It's called Allo and its main feature is a Google assistant that's built right in. Google says it'll be available later this summer — for free — on both iOS and Android.Allo (pronounced like "Aloe" and not like "'allo, guv'nor!") is … | Continue reading
Google would like to remind you that you can talk with it.Today Google is announcing a "Google Assistant" that essentially performs the same tasks as other Google interfaces do, but in a conversational mode. It doesn't have a name, it just has the power of Google and its deep min … | Continue reading
For the past year and a half, the tech world has been recovering from Amazon's surprise announcement of the Echo. Now, Google is finally doing what everybody wanted it to do: release a competitor. It's called Google Home, and it's coming out later this year for an unspecified pri … | Continue reading
A new method that lets scientists make antibiotics from scratch could lead to the development of thousands of new drug candidates, according to a study published today in Nature. But some experts caution against getting too excited; it's far too early to tell if the method will h … | Continue reading
On this week's episode of Game of Thrones, Jon Snow receives a letter, which he reads aloud reluctantly because it is vile. Today, HBO has released an image of the prop letter used when filming the scene: Calligraphy does nothing to make these words seem elegant. … | Continue reading
As part of Volvo's top-to-bottom redesign of all its cars, the Swedish carmaker is showing us a pair of concepts for its smallest car lineup, the 40 series. First teased last week, the 40 series concepts are a spectacular take on small cars, unlike anything else in the segment.Sh … | Continue reading
Windows 95 is slowly turning into the operating system people use to prove modern devices can run anything. We've seen Windows 95 running on both the Apple Watch and an Android Wear smartwatch, and now someone has managed to get it running on an Xbox One. It's a slightly less imp … | Continue reading
Hello! We are congregated outside. Actually everything will be outside today. It will be weird. And hopefully fun. The keynote is slated to start at 10AM PT and run for two hours. Until then, we'll be applying sunscreen. Because obviously the sun is the enemy and we must do whate … | Continue reading
A spy photographer has come across a fleet of all-electric Chevy Bolts in San Francisco today that appear to be equipped with arrays of self-driving sensors, a sign that GM is already testing the electric cars that could be ferrying Lyft passengers around without drivers sometime … | Continue reading
So many things about Los Angeles feel uniquely friendly to crime dramas like The Nice Guys. The long, warm nights give characters plenty of time to roam in the dark, committing crimes or solving them. The city’s sprawl packs in enough racial, cultural, economic, and environmental … | Continue reading
Samsung Pay users can now now add membership and loyalty cards to the mobile wallet service in the US. Users will be able to scan the loyalty cards when they checkout, and Samsung Pay will also be able to store insurance and personal identification cards alongside their credit ca … | Continue reading
For nearly a year, Princeton researchers Steven Englehardt and Arvind Naranyan have been hard at work on a new project called the Princeton Web Census. Their goal is to log all the cookies, scripts, and trackers in the various corners of the internet, providing a running tab of a … | Continue reading
In China. Dreams, they arrive. A watch runs Android. 1280 x 800 laser projector. For American dollar, about $458.Sorry I've just been reading a lot of Google Translate lately. The Asu Cast One, announced back in January, is patently crazy. A watch that has a built-in projector, a … | Continue reading
At Google I/O today, Hyundai will show a new Android Auto app that adds a bunch of vehicle-specific functionality. The automaker says that it's "one of the first OEMs to show such an application," which gets us closer to the dream — never needing to exit Android Auto to hop into … | Continue reading
The vagina, or nature's pocket as Broad City calls it, can do all sorts of mystical things. It's a life canal. Babies come out of it! Before babies traverse that path, there's a recurring visitor: the period. The monthly blood bath is about as natural as it gets, and let's be rea … | Continue reading