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29 Gmail keyboard shortcuts to help you power through your inbox

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Stop using your phone for directions and use a smartwatch instead

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How to recover old versions of files on programs like Excel and Photoshop

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The Opt Out: When it comes to privacy, smart devices are not the smarter choice

By Sandra Gutierrez G.

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How to set up F-Droid, the open-source alternative to the Google Play Store

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Google Chrome’s new search function will help you keep tabs on your tabs

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The best ways to transfer photos from an Android to a computer

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WhatsApp, Discord, and other apps that let you message yourself for peak productivity

Google Search’s new changes are designed to make you see even more results

Google Search’s new changes are designed to make you see even more results

By Harry Guinness

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Alexa, why are you losing so much money?

By Harry Guinness

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Help make your Chromebook better by being a power beta tester

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Self-driving cars are turning into hyperlocal weather stations

By Charlotte Hu

Can software really define a vehicle? Renault and Google are betting on it.

Electric Vehicles

Can software really define a vehicle? Renault and Google are betting on it.

By Kristin Shaw

Code as Policies robot demo at Google AI event

Google is testing a new robot that can program itself

By Harry Guinness

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How Google Search is helping ‘greenwash’ oil companies

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Gmail’s new email layouts will give a newsletter vibe to all your messages

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Google’s AI has a long way to go before writing the next great novel

By Charlotte Hu

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3 ways to avoid falling down a YouTube rabbit hole

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4 ways to customize Google Chrome’s new tab page

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Google is training robots to interact with humans through ping pong

By Harry Guinness

Google’s new passkey support is helping kill the password

Google’s new passkey support is helping kill the password

By Harry Guinness

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You can now bring iOS 16’s coolest home screen feature to Android

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Stop Android from slowing down apps to save battery

Clicking ‘dislike’ on YouTube probably doesn’t do much to customize your feed

Clicking ‘dislike’ on YouTube probably doesn’t do much to customize your feed

By Harry Guinness

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How to ditch the default Google TV home screen and build something better

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The new Android 13 features you need to be using

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DOJ accuses Google of buying its position as a default search engine

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How to make Android look like iOS

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These 5 popular Chrome extensions are compromising your computer

What Google’s latest algorithm tweaks mean for your search results

What Google’s latest algorithm tweaks mean for your search results

By Harry Guinness

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Android 13 lets you change the language in individual apps. Here’s how.

By Sandra Gutierrez G.

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Google’s DeepMind AI can ‘transframe’ a single image into a video

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Google’s new robot butler was trained on social media and Wikipedia articles

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Google pleads its case to Apple to switch from SMS to RCS texts

By Harry Guinness

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Remap the streaming service buttons on your Google TV remote

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10 useful tools built into Google Search you should know about

By Sandra Gutierrez G.

A brunette woman wearing pink headphones and looking away from the camera as she listens to music she owns that she put onto her Spotify playlist.

How to add your personal music collection to your streaming playlists

An intricate maze of small lakes and waterways define the Yukon Delta at the confluence of Alaska's Yukon and Kuskokwim Rivers with the frigid Bering Sea. Wildlife abounds on the delta and offshore where sheets of sea ice form during the coldest months of the year.

3 advanced mapping tools for your every cartographic need

By Anthony Fordham

Check out Wing’s new delivery drone prototypes

Check out Wing’s new delivery drone prototypes

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Syncing Google and Apple calendars is less annoying now

By John Kennedy

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If it sounds right, it must be human: Google’s language AI exposes us as shallow listeners

By Kyle Mahowald and Anna Ivanova / The Conversation

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Google Hangouts is dead. Long live Google’s mess of chat apps.

By Harry Guinness

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Here’s what Google knows about you—and how to change it

By Sandra Gutierrez G.

A person on a laptop playing with Craiyon, one of many free AI tools.

The best free AI tools you can try right now

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Unpacking Google’s ‘sentient’ AI controversy

By Colleen Hagerty

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You can now use Google Maps to find fresh air

By Colleen Hagerty

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Apple’s passkeys could be better than passwords. Here’s how they’ll work.

By Harry Guinness

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Google Earth Engine is taking its closest look yet at how landscapes are changing

By Charlotte Hu

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Why you can’t use Google’s impressive text-to-image generator Imagen yet

By Marissa Wu / Popular Photography

How data brokers threaten your privacy

How data brokers threaten your privacy

By Harry Guinness

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Google Street View just unveiled its new camera—and it looks like an owl

By Charlotte Hu

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Forget your wallet: It’s time to start paying for everything with your phone.

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8 tips for navigating Google Maps like a pro

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How to hide your house on every map app

"Scene exploration" was teased as a new feature coming to Google search

Google I/O recap: All the cool AI-powered projects in the works

By Charlotte Hu

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Apple, Google, and Microsoft team up for new password-free technology

By Colleen Hagerty

A person pointing a TV remote at a TV with Netflix on the screen. It's possible they're sharing a Netflix account with someone else.

How to share streaming service logins while you still can

A woman wearing a gray shirt and blue jeans using a laptop on her lap with the Popular Science archive on the screen.

How to read the Popular Science archives

By John Kennedy

A mobile phone with a bunch of social media apps on the screen, along with other apps.

How to prevent your social media accounts from oversharing

A man sitting and opening his wallet to remove several hundred dollars in cash with a laptop on the table in front of him.

Getting rid of an old phone or computer? Protect your data first.

Google is making it easier to scrub your personal info from search results

Google is making it easier to scrub your personal info from search results

By Harry Guinness

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20 tips to get the most out of Google Drive, Docs, Slides, and Sheets

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Use this little-known Google feature to bookmark every movie you want to watch

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12 hidden Android features you should be using

By David Nield, Sandra Gutierrez G.