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Megan Morrone and Father Robert Ballecer discuss the Note 7 fiasco which may have cost Samsung up to $17 billion in revenue and $30 billion in recall costs, stock loss and damage to the Samsung brand. Now the Korean electronics giant is looking for a hit to revive its smartphone line. According to…

The Graphene wars can begin! Pinterest takes on Google, Bitcoin's new director is under fire, a new Bitcoin bank, Google snaps up real-time language translator, Google adds bill payment reminder, Google Maps ads elevations, inside Foursquare's new Swarm app, and the crazy guy who built Wolverine…

Megan Morrone and Jason Howell talk to Steve Kovach, Senior Correspondent for Business Insider about his hands-on with Google's new Pixel device. Google has made a lot of promises with the new lineup. Do these phones live up to Google's hype? Is this Google's iPhone?For the full episode, visit twit…

Leo Laporte: It's time for TWiG, This Week in Google. A little preview coming up of Google IO. It's next week. And we'll talk about self-driving cars, how safe are they? Jeff Jarvis is coming up along with Kevin Marks. It's time for TWiG.Voiceover: Netcasts you love from people you trust. This is…

Megan Morrone and Jason Howell talk to Sean Hollister from CNET about Google Fiber. According to a blog post by Craig Barratt, SVP, Alphabet and CEO of Access, Google Access announced that it is placing its high-speed fiber rollout of Google Fiber to a number of new regions on hold. Joining us to…

Google is 2 Billion Lines of Code

Leo Laporte, Mathew Ingram, and Kevin Marks talk about Google's driverless cars, which are being built near Detroit in Livonia, Michigan.

Robert Thomson of NewsCorp sent a letter to Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia warning that a failure to challenge Google will lead to a bleak future in information online.

Andy Ihnatko's pick of the week on MacBreak Weekly 532 is Snapseed by Google. This app can turn complex edits into simple gestures of swiping left or right, a top down scrolling list of effects, and an intensity slider for that effect. It also is doing an amazing amount of intelligence behind the…

Leo Laporte and Alex Wilhelm compare the new Google Home to the Amazon Echo. Bryan Burnett has a round-up of gaming headsets. Jason Howell attended The VR Developers Conference in San Francisco and fills us in on what was there. Alex Wilhelm, Devindra Hardawar and Greg Ferro play another round of …

Google+ goes all Pinterest on us, Google is bringing A.I. to Google Calendar, updates on the next Apple TV, and more...

Mikah Sargent hosts This Week in Google and discusses with Jeff Jarvis, Ant Pruitt and Glenn Fleishman the latest on some of the cutbacks Google has implemented in addition to the recent layoffs.For the full episode, visit twit.tv/twig/710#TWiT, #Google, #Podcast

On All About Android, Florence Ion shares her recent roundup of music apps to replace the now-dead Google Play Music service. Jason Howell shares his challenges in using Google Takeout to export his MP3s from Google's servers and import them into the Plex ecosystem.For the full episode, visit twit…

On The New Screen Savers, Leo Laporte and Jason Howell give us a complete wrap-up of the Google I/O 2017 keynote. They discuss everything from AI, the new Android O, Google Lens, Google Photo's Suggested Sharing and Books, and more.For the full episode, go to twit.tv/nss/105

Google Chrome is a popular browser, but it continues to lose market share. On FLOSS Weekly, Jonathan Bennett discusses the controversy of Google limiting access to the Chrome API even though there's the fundamentals of the open source Chromium project in place for Google Chrome browser.For more,…

Megan Morrone and Jason Howell discuss Burger King's ads that triggered people's Google Home, on purpose. They issued an “OK Google, - what is the whopper burger?” voice command at the end of their ad, at which time someone's Google Home would light up and read the first sentence from the Whopper…

Andy Ihnatko's pick of the week on MacBreak Weekly 500 is Google's NIK Collection. This is a collection of six professional photo filters and plugins that work with Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Lightroom, or Aperture. The collection consists of Analog Efex Pro, Color Efex Pro, Silver Efex Pro, Viveza,…

Jason Howell and Megan Morrone discuss AutoDraw, Google’s Artificial Intelligence that will make you the Picasso of clip art. AutoDraw is a new site (autodraw.com) by Google that gives users a host of drawing tools to roughly sketch out an image to the best of their ability. When using the AutoDraw…

Google cuts app store fees for developers on first million in annual salesGoogle announces 2nd-gen Nest Hub with Soli-powered ‘Sleep Sensing’ for $99‘AAWireless’ dongle for wireless Android Auto starts shipping to customersAsus ROG Phone 5 has the longest battery life of any Android phone we've…

T-Mobile's RCS Upgrade, Action Blocks for Assistant, Rugged Galaxy S20. T-Mobile now supports RCS Universal Profile. Google releases Action Blocks for one-tap Assistant functions. OnePlus plans to release midrange devices again. How to download your Google Play Music library…

Google announces the Pixel 3, Pixel Slate, and Home Hub at its Made By Google 2018 event.

Google unveils Android Wear, Google Voice to fold into Hangouts soon, Facebook facial recognition coming by way of DeepFace, and more.

Google responds to controversial results, what Wave needs to win, and why Leo thinks it's OK for Google to own the world.

France fines Google €50M for GDPR violations, Google appeals.Watch the full episode here:https://twit.tv/twig/492

Google engineer writes men's rights diatribe. Google fires him. Discussion ensues.For the full episode, visit twit.tv/twig/417

The guy who invented the web says Europe's right to be forgotten is dangerous, Google adds some cool new features to Hangouts and Google Plus, the police raids the Pirate Bay, and more...

Google plans to launch Android TV, a new Google Glass app lets you stream live video to the Internet, Amazon announces a WiFi- and Voice-enabled barcode scanner for automating your grocery shopping list, and more.

Google earns billions but stock is down, Mt. Gox to liquidate, a Heartbleed hacker is charged, Samsung's Android watch and Tizen phones, Bing gets personalized, the new Google Camera app, and 10 houses are 3D printed in one day.

Apple/Google Contact Tracing.On Security Now, Steve gives an update on the joint Apple / Google virus contact tracing.Subscribe & watch the full Security Now podcast: https://twit.tv/sn/764

At the Game Developers Conference 2019, Google announced Stadia, "a new gaming platform from Google for playing AAA video games across all kinds of screens."Full episode at twit.tv/specials338

Google could be bringing its hardware back to Google IO with the news that it plans to announce a new phone on the same day as the keynote.For the full episode, visit twit.tv/aaa/417

The Home Hub is already our favorite digital picture frame. Here are Leo's first impressions.Watch the full episode here:https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google/episodes/479

Ron Richards from All About Android joins Jason Howell to discuss Google's announcement of the new Pixel lineup of phones, all created top-to-bottom in-house by Google.For the full episode visit twit.tv/tnt/1612.

At Google I/O, Google debuted Duplex, an extension of Assistant that can speak intelligently to real people on the phone to make reservations for you. Should we be excited or terrified?Watch the full episode here:https://twit.tv/twig/456

Google finally upgraded the original Google Home and it's a solid upgrade according to Daniel Bader from Android Central who shares his review of the Nest Audio smart speaker.For this story and more, watch Tech News Weekly: https://twit.tv/tnw/154

On All About Android, Jason Howell, Florence Ion, and Ron Richards talk about how Gmail is getting an update to replace Hangouts with Google Chat among other productivity upgrades that have only been available to Google Workspace users until now.For the full episode, visit twit.tv/aaa/529

On Tech News Weekly, Jason Howell and Ant Pruitt talk about Google's Project Starline: Google's 3D video chat booth that uses technology to simulate chatting with someone as if they're in person with you.For this story and more, check out Tech News Weekly: https://twit.tv/tnw/256

On All About Android, Florence Ion, Jason Howell, and Ron Richards discuss Google's official announcement of its upcoming hardware event where it will showcase the Pixel 4a 5G, the Pixel 5, a new Nest smart speaker, and a Chromecast dongle with "Google TV" built-in.For the full episode, visit twit…

On All About Android, Florence Ion reviews the new Chromecast with Google TV dongle after spending more than a week with it. It has a remote and the new Google TV interface, but it doesn't support Stadia at launch.Watch the full 'All About Android' podcast: https://twit.tv/aaa493 

Google wants to reach the next billion users, so it makes sense that the company would do whatever it takes to bring its services to China. Ryan Gallagher form The Intercept has seen the internal documents that show how Google is willing to censor its products in order to do business there.Watch…

Jason Howell and Megan Morrone talk to Ryan Whitwam about his article on Android Police regarding Google possibly buying HTC. More and more signs are pointing to a pending shift in HTC’s future, and it sounds likely that Google might be in the mix. Will they get the phone hardware, the HTC Vive, or…

A new report shows how Google is working on censored versions of its biggest products in order to enter the Chinese market. Ryan Gallagher from The Intercept has seen the documents that detail Google's controversial ambitions.From Too Many Cooks to Final Deployment 4, director Casper Kelly is no…

Megan Morrone talks to Lindsey Turrentine, Editor in Chief at CNET about the differences between the newly announced Google Home that no one has seen yet and the Amazon Echo.For the full episode visit twit.tv/tnt/1517

Google shutters Stadia Games and Entertainment development studioFord is adopting Android Automotive starting in 2023The Sony Xperia Pro is expensive but video producers might love itXiaomi and Motorola are competing on wireless over-air battery chargingRobinhood app got slammed with negative…

Google Chromebooks have come a long way and are very capable computers, but they still rely on an internet connection for most things. Megan Morrone, however, has a tip for being productive on a Chromebook even without internet access.For Google's apps including Docs, Sheets, Calendar, and Gmail,…

Google held its annual Made by Google hardware event on October 4th, unveiling a slate of new products, including the Pixel 8 and 8 Pro phones, Pixel Watch 2, and Pixel Buds Pro earbuds. TWiT host Jason Howell and guest Huyen Tue Dao offered commentary throughout the event's livestream,…

Pratt & Whitney's new Super EngineModern aircraft are all about the turbofan engineThe Turbofan combines massive amounts of power, with decent efficiency and impressive reliability.Even the non-exotics are amazing works of engineeringHere's how a traditional turbofan works:A Jet engine…

Google's Schmidt steps aside and cashes out.

Google Keep is a great alternative to Skitch.

Sundar Pichai announces Google I/O 2016 will be in Mountain View.