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Mike Elgan details his first impressions of the new Google products, including the exciting Pixel C.For the full episode, visit twit.tv/specials/259 Thanks to cachefly for the bandwidth for this episode.

On All About Android, Jason Howell, Ron Richards, and Florence Ion discuss a feature coming to TV sets that ship with Google TV that allows users to bypass the smart features altogether and set it up as a "basic" TV set.For the full episode, visit twit.tv/aaa/514

On Tech News Weekly, Mikah Sargent talks with Ryne Hager from Android Police about Google's announcement that it will be bringing its data tracking limitations that began with the Chrome browser to its Android-based devices.For this story and more, check out Tech News Weekly: https://twit.tv…

Fortnite removed from App Store and Google Play in an Epic anti-trust battle.On This Week in Tech, Leo Laporte, Amy Webb, Iain Thomson, and Mike Masnick are in a battle royale.For more on this story and many others, watch This Week in tech: https://twit.tv/twit/784

The New York Times loves things made out of dead trees. Newspapers, for example. And now, virtual reality goggles. The Times is getting ready to bundle Google Cardboard with its print edition.For the full episode visit twit.tv/tnt/1370 Thanks to cachefly for the bandwidth for this show.

The FCC Chairman expects to get sued over Net Neutrality, why the European Parliament wants to break up Google, Amazon might book your next online travel, a new free ad-supported streaming video service from Amazon, Uber's bad PR forces changes at Lyft, Aereo calls it quits. new Chromebooks come…

The Tech Guy regular, Arizona Lou, calls in to ask how he can record phone calls on his smartphone. He's tried apps that require speakerphone, others that have internet-connectivity requirements, and some that flat-out don't work. Leo tells him to use Google Voice, a service with built-in call…

On This Week in Tech Leo Laporte, David Spark, Nate Lanxon, and Brianna Wu discuss the implications of Google's DeepMind AI solving a long unsolved mathematics problem.

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On Tech News Weekly, Jason Howell shares his time with Google IO 2023 and his hands-on with the new Pixel Tablet and the Pixel Fold.For more, check out Tech News Weekly: https://twit.tv/tnw/285

On This Week in Tech, Leo Laporte, Amy Webb, and Phil Libin discuss the ways that Google search will be impacted by its new artificial intelligence features and whether its good or bad for content sites.Full episode at twit.tv/twit927

Almost any Android TV device can be upgraded too!Google released the new Chromecast with Google TV at its Fall hardware event last week and its the first device to be running the newly revamped Google TV interface that replaces Android TV. However, Googe hasn't pushed Google TV out to any other…

On This Week in Google 373, Jason Howell had a tip for easily scanning documents with your phone. The Google Drive app will scan documents by taking a photo of it with the phone's camera.After it snaps the photo, it automatically crops and straightens out the document. Then it saves it to your…

Denise Howell: Next up on This Week in Law, Rob Walker, Jim Gibson, and Sarah Pearson join me, Denise Howell. We will discuss how some lawyer's head clearly rolled when Samsung had not-so-smart privacy or terms of service with its smart TVs; we'll talk about purring cats being misidentified;…

On This Week in Google 359, Leo Laporte had a tip for getting more out of OK Google -- the voice assistant from Google. One of the biggest problems with speech interfaces is remembering the syntax and what things it can actually do. To help with this, Kristijan Ristovski (aka Kitze) came up with a…

Leo Laporte's tip of the week on This Week in Google 360 is to use Google Keep to transcribe text from images. TechRepublic pointed this out in a recent article. If you have a picture in Google Keep, you can simply open the note, click on the three dot menu, and select the option to "grab image…

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Please join Leo Laporte, Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, and Iyaz Akhtar on Wednesday (July 24th) at 9AM for our live coverage of Google’s breakfast press conference with Sundar Pichai (Google’s Senior Vice President, overseeing Android, Chrome, and Google Apps).TWiT will be covering all of the breaking…

Leo Laporte, Gina Trapani, Jeff Jarvis and Anil Dash discuss what the enterprise tag means to a product or service with the news that Google has rebranded Google Enterprise to "Google for Work."

Google yesterday announced a major restructuring. Google has now been demoted to a wholly owned subsidiary of a new company called Alphabet. Co-founder Larry Page will act as the CEO of Alphabet. The other co-founder, Sergey Brin will be president. Sundar Pichai has been named CEO of Google.For the…

Netflix disappoints more people, Kindle thumbs nose at Apple, why Real names on G+ are like ties, and more.

Jason Howell pits two midrange beasts head-to-head with the Pixel 4a vs. the OnePlus Nord.Get the Pixel 4a: https://amzn.to/3mYIkV3Get the OnePlus Nord: https://amzn.to/2SkwLtzFind the right smartphone for you: https://my.lustre.ai/YXY4d

As of September 1, 2015, Flash will be banned by Amazon and Chrome will pause ads by default.Watch the full episode at twit.tv/sn/523.

Emojineering Part 1: Machine Learning for Emoji Trends.For the full episode go to www.twit.tv/twig

Jason Howell, Ron Richards, Florence Ion and Michael Fisher discuss the new features announced for Android N and what the new name could be.For the full episode, visit twit.tv/aaa/267.

In the latest round of a long and twisty fight over Java APIs, Oracle finally wins.Watch the full episode here:https://twit.tv/twig/450

Leo & Sarah celebrate Cinco de Mayo with history/language apps, Khan Academy for video learning, Hitman GO is a fun strategy game, Cook's All Time Best Recipes, Office for iPad now includes printing, & more!

The White House launches the U.S. Digital Service, CBS has plans to make programming for streaming services, Microsoft re-launches Mac vs PC ads, Intel's new low-power Core M chips, and Microsoft announces a big event in September. 

Gina Trapani's tip this week is trivia game Topeka, a Chrome app for Android that features Material Design.

Twitter sues the United States Government, IBM's Watson continues to evolve, Facebook's Audience Network opened up yesterday, and more.

Alex Kantrowitz from Big Technology Podcast talks about how Facebook and Australia have made amends in the News Feed dust-up.For this story and more, check out Tech News Weekly: http://twit.tv/tnw/172

Is Nest dead as a company? Yes. Is Nest dead as a platform? Sort of.For the full episode, visit twit.tv/twig/508

What does Tim Cook have to say about user privacy and, in particular, Facebook's business model? Quite a bit as it turns out. Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, Alex Lindsay, and Rene Ritchie discuss Cook's comments from the CPCD virtual conference.Full episode at twit.tv/mbw751

How can crucially-important full-disk encryption be offered on inexpensive commodity hardware lacking any encryption acceleration?For the full episode, visit twit.tv/sn/701

Self-driving cars hit the streets, get your PC ready for Occulus Rift, Pandora loses a key battle against the music industry, Samsung teases an Iron Man phone, and more...

LinkedIn buys Lynda.com, Amazon sues 5-star review sites, an iPhone app for Android Wear is in the works, and more...

Google Play is now allowing users to store 50,000 songs to Google Play Music for free to stream to phones, tablets, and PCs.

Google today launched a major new update to Google+. The new feature is called Collections, and it enables you to follow people based on your interests.

Google today released a new Android app called Device Assist that offers live tech support, troubleshooting, tips and more for Nexus, Google Play edition, and Android One devices.

Twitter's Dorsey Apologizes to Developers for Past ConflictsFor the full episode go to https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google/episodes/323

Matt in Irvine, Ca is trying to manage his photos in Google Photos but finds that he is running out of space on his Google Drive storage.For the full episode, visit twit.tv/ttg/1307.

On All About Android, Jason Howell and Huyen Tue Dao talk about a slew of credible rumors that make the appearance and presale of the Pixel Fold at this year's Google IO developer conference highly probable.For the full episode, visit twit.tv/aaa/626#PixelFold #Google #GoogleIO

On This Week in Google, Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Stacey Higginbotham discuss exactly how Apple and Google's new plan to track coronavirus victims and everyone they come in contact with to stop the spread of the deadly virus.Full episode at twit.tv/twig555

AI written, human edited. The highly anticipated Google I/O developer conference brought the latest advancements in AI and a front-row view of the battle brewing between tech's biggest players. On this week's episode of This Week in Google, hosts Leo Laporte and Jeff Jarvis unpacked the event…

Blog created using AI, edited by humansAs someone who's reviewed many smartwatches over the years, I'm always curious to see if the latest one can motivate me to continue wearing it once the review period is over. I appreciate the feature set of modern smartwatches, but oftentimes, the constant…

On This Week in Google, Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt discuss the dismissal of four claims against Google in the Justice Department's antitrust case.For the full episode, visit twit.tv/twig/728#Google #Antitrust #Technology

EU plans to challenge Google over it's handling of "right to be forgotten" requests.

Google announces its Chromebook Pixel 2, the highest-end version of its cloud-based Chromium OS laptop.

Leo Laporte, Myriam Joire, and Mike Masnick talk about Google Glass' future as developers abandon the smart eyewear platform.

Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte discuss Google's blog post that search results will start using "HTTPS as a ranking signal."