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Everyone knows Larry Page and Sergei Brin, but who really came up with the idea of creating the Google search engine? Meet Google's unknown third creator, Scott Hassan.

Google Year in Search better than ever thanks to News Lab, the first person to hack the iPhone built a Self-Driving car in his garage and Lightsabre with Google.

Apple is making big screen changes for its future big iPhones, Google is driving the self-driving car market, Google finally sells Glass to the public, and more.

Google Play Store is seeing changes in user experience, hands-on content rating for apps, and apps are now being reviewed by Google before you can download them.

Jason Howell and Megan Morrone discuss Tesla, Apple, Google, and much more. First, Tesla’s autopilot function has seen its fair share of scrutiny, and the German Transport Miniser Alexander Dobrindt has asked Tesla to change the name of the feature to help with consumer understanding of its purpose…

The Senate voted to roll back Obama-era FCC rules that prevent internet service providers, like Verizon and Comcast, from selling our private, demographic data without asking permission first. Critics of the broadband privacy rules that Congress passed in the waning months of the Obama…

Paul Thurrott's tip of the week on Windows Weekly 502 involves what to do with your data plan when traveling overseas. If you're on one of the major phone carriers, it's been prohibitively expensive to use your phone as usual in other countries. T-Mobile and Google Fi both have offered more…

AT&T is trying to take over Google's RCS and users aren't having itGoogle giving app developers more time to fill the Play Store’s Data safety sectionGoogle Play is making it maddeningly difficult to tell what's new with your favorite appsThe OnePlus 10 Pro is launching globally next month with…

 Apple Event September 10th: iPhone. Which phone will be better, iPhone 11 or Pixel 4? Apple Event September 10th: Apple Watch. What health features should we expect, and how will they save Christina Warren's life this time? Jack Hacked! Twitter CEO's Twitter account hacked by white…

This Week's Stories What we expect at Wednesday's big Microsoft Surface event Gemmy the Twerking Alexa Bear demo Echo Loop and Echo Frames will take Alexa with you Facebook Horizon: is this the VR future we signed up for? Tesla's Smart Summon feature makes us a little…

More changes to Windows 7, browser performance, Microsoft Marketplace, Google Voice, and more.Microsoft makes changes to Windows 7 inBuild 7057.Rethinking Microsoft Live Search.Microsoft reacts to competitors browser speed claims.Google turns GrandCentral into Google Voice.Paul's "Next Everything…

On this episode of Smart Tech Today with Mikah Sargent and Matthew Cassinelli:iRobot says it'll be a few weeks until it can clean up its latest Roomba software update messGatorade's Wearable Patch Tells You How Much Gatorade to DrinkAmazon releases surprise Alexa app for Microsoft Xbox, with voice…

Google Adwords Vs. Facebook Ads, how to convert Kindle eBooks to a standard format, backing up photos to both iCloud and Google, and is Apple phasing out the Mac? 

This week, we'll be discussing Google's mobile network ambitions, Cyanogen's Google-less ambitions, Blackberry's App Neutrality ambitions, Yota Phone's screen on both sides ambitions, and many more ambitions.

Google buys domain abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.com, Google has two new drones in the works, after the EU Safe Harbor ruling, and Facebook lets you filter bad memories out of your nostalgia.

Can Twitter fix its problems with trolls, racists, and abuse? Is Google trying to kill Hangouts? Is Google Fi The best phone service in the world? (no, maybe, yes)

OpenTable is bought by Priceline, Google to launch Google Fit, the FCC investigates the Netflix deals with ISPs, Samsung's new Galaxy Tab S, and Amazon's Mayday service actually works.

Bing and Facebook team up to beat Google, Google and Mozilla beat up on Microsoft, Harry Potter and Amazon team up to ... lend you Harry Potter books, and more.

Jason Cross from Greenbot breaks down the Google router, can Google protect our privacy, Ashley Madison user's info revealed, a sneak peak at a fancy new watch from Samsung, a leashed drone, and more...

Leo Laporte, Kevin Marks, and Mathew Ingram discuss ditching Twitter, Google's Self-driving car hits a bus, the weird videos your neighbors are posting, Google's hands-free payment system, and more...

Leo Laporte and Jeff Jarvis are joined by Aaron Newcomb to discuss the Android N preview, Google's Alpha Go match, Moot's move to Google Plus, the future of journalists, and more...

Google released a Chrome extension designed to help protect your Google account, Music streaming service Grooveshart shut down today, Alibaba posted a job on their website for a Programmer Encouragement Specialist, and more...

ICANN may unmask anonymous domain name holders, Yahoo wants to trick you into using its search engine, Google launches a GitHub competitor called Google Cloud Source Repositories, a coffee printer, and more...

Dvorak eats crow, Congress eats gambling sites, and Microsoft eats its young...Microsoft has severely limited Windows Vista license transfers.If you do not pass WGA in Windows Vista, you will be put into a "reduced functionality mode".Disney claims, "We understand piracy now as a business model…

Tech News for Wednesday March 22, 2017Airbnb is adopting the new name "Aibiying" in China and has doubled its investment in the country. Read more at bloomberg.com.The saga over Google's ad algorithm continues. Today both AT&T, Verizon, and Enterprise rent-a-car have pulled their ads from…

Tech News for Monday April 3, 2017Apple is looking to take its destiny into its own hands by developing its own GPU for its mobile devices. Chip maker Imagination announced that Apple would cease to use its chip technologies sometime in the next “15-months to two years.” Consequently, Imagination…

Tech News for Tuesday August 15, 2017Uber is paying the price for its misuse of “God View” as the result of a probe by the Federal Trade Commission. Uber is required to submit to 20 years of privacy audits and if mishandlings are discovered, Uber faces stiff financial penalties. Not only that, Uber…

Tech News for July 27, 2016Families will finally have the ability to share apps, movies and TV shows purchased within Google Play on their Android devices and beyond with its new Google Play Family Library feature rolling out today. Once a Family Manager is setup, that person can select a default…

Apple will unveil the iPhone 7 this Wednesday, September 7th. Google will announce its Pixel phones and Google Home October 4th. Samsung recalls the Galaxy Note 7 due to exploding batteries.

Google's Launch Night In was a snooze. Google's hardware launch drew yawns from our panel.Full episode at twit.tv/twit791

Turn Siri into your own personal Jarvis, The White House gets hacked... again, Underwater Google Maps, a trimmed down Facebook for the world, Google releases its self-driving car records, and more...

President Obama is doing something about data privacy, Google is doing something about global language barriers, Microsoft and Google are doing something to each other in a squabble over bug reporting, and more...

Jeff Jarvis, Matt Cutts, and Kevin Marks join Leo Laporte to talk about all of the latest news from Google, Google's AMP, Installing Apps from Search, Brave, Tor for Facebook, and more...

Google's Project Ara has a launch date, what Amazon's smartphone looks like, Roku now has voice search too, Yahoo's earnings, Google Glass goes on sale for one day only, and Twitter buys Gnip.

YouTube acquires Directr, Google acquires A.I. application Emu, Google teams up with Barnes & Noble to offer same-day delivery, FCC makes open internet comments more accessible to the public, and more.

Google today began testing a carpooling service in Tel Aviv, Israel. The test is being conducted by its Waze group. Waze is a social driving and mapping app that Google acquired two years ago.

Leo Laporte and Megan Morrone discuss the best apps for vacation planning. Leo likes TripIt and Google Trips. Megan likes SkyScanner and Destigogo. Plus, we compare Siri and Google Assistant for the iPhone.

Porting a Google Voice number to a smartwatch, getting Google Photos to delete photos after backing up, using your router for FIOS, understanding and managing permissions, can a NAS be hacked and more of your calls!

U.S. files antitrust complaint to block AT&T and T-Mobile merger, Google explores re-ranking search results using +1 button, "if you can't use your real name, don't use Google +" and more.

Google shuts down Maps Editor, Google becomes more transparent about its self-driving car, New York Times debuts ad-supported free iPhone app, and Giphy is now available as a Gmail extension.

Google plans to kill Flash in Chrome, a search engine company from the 90s returns to launch two wearables, Google Europe Chief addresses EU woes, PayPal backs down from its spamming plans, and more...

Tech News for Tuesday May 30, 2017Uber has fired Anthony Levandowski, its VP of technology and the former head of its self-driving car effort. The decision to fire the engineer/executive is a part of the ongoing fallout of a lawsuit filed by Levandowski's previous employer, Google, against Uber…

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Post-show on FLOSS Weekly Doc Searls chats with Jonathan Bennett and Avi Press about Google analytics, linuxy stuff, and also how he would see if Google's crawler was working well for his writing.

Star Wars Google Cardboard headsets are adorable, Google sends out Project Fi Lego kits as a holiday treat, Chrome for Android skips images on sites for up to 70% data savings, and more.

French government banned free eBooks starting today, Satya Nadella's manifesto about his vision for Microsoft, tablet shipment declines, Microsoft complying with the Right to be Forgotten, Google favoring Google+ content in search, and more.

European wireless carriers might try to crush Google by blocking all ads, Belgium says Facebook has to obey Belgian Law, watch out for Google's crazy new car hitting America's roads this summer, and more...

Please be advised this transcript is AI-generated and may not be word for word. Time codes refer to the approximate times in the ad-supported version of the show.Jason Howell (00:00:00):Coming up next on All About Android. It's a brand new year and we've got a great episode for you. It's me, Jason…

Google announces the Pixel and Pixel XL smartphones, what is the "other" storage on my Mac? Using T-Mobile and Google Fi overseas, are there any good Windows 10 books? And more of your calls!

Google releases an update to GMail for iOS, Apple Pay is having banking issues, Geneva Motor Convention, tech giants support same sex marriage, Google Wireless for Nexus 6 only, meme's used for a good cause, and more...