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October 27, 2019October 30, 2019

Weekend Poll: What is your favorite Made by Google product of 2019?

Nearly two weeks ago, Google announced its new lineup of Made by Google hardware. This included Stadia, Google’s cloud gaming service; Pixel Buds (2nd Gen), truly wireless earbuds; Pixelbook Go, a premium yet traditional clamshell Chromebook; Nest Mini, a more powerful and versatile Home Mini; Nest Wifi, a Google Wifi router and Google Home speaker combined; and, of course, the Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL, Google’s latest flagship smartphones.

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October 15, 2019October 16, 2019

Recap: Here’s all the new hardware Google announced today

Google’s yearly hardware event launch is now over and the ‘Made by Google’ brand of devices has now expanded. There have been a couple of big announcements, so in case you missed them, here’s a quick recap of everything released today.

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May 7, 2019June 10, 2019

Recap: Here’s what was announced at Google I/O 2019

Google wrapped up its annual I/O keynote today led by CEO Sundar Pichai. Pichai talked about the new developments at Google and gave us a glimpse of what’s to come. Here’s a quick recap of what was announced.

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April 20, 2019May 26, 2019

[Update: Winner] Giveaway: Win a Google Home Mini

Update 5/26: Congrats to Dane Shuler on winning the giveaway, and a big thanks to all for participating.

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February 26, 2019February 26, 2019

Apple Music will soon support Google Assistant and Google Home

After adding support for Android Auto and Android tablets late last year, signs indicate that Apple Music will soon support the Google Assistant and Google Home speakers for music playback.

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January 9, 2019September 27, 2021

Here’s what all Google announced for the Assistant at CES

Google Assistant is going big (I didn’t say useful) at CES this year. The Assistant is getting new features and is being built into almost everything, lock, stock, and barrel. Here’s a brief overview of every new device, device-integration, and feature Google has announced so far.

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January 2, 2019January 2, 2019

Exposed Chromecasts, Google Homes, and Samsung TVs are getting hacked – asking users to subscribe to PewDiePie

If you have an exposed network router, chances are, that you might be the next target of an ongoing attack. Security researchers TheHackerGiraffe and j3ws3r are currently running an attack/information awareness campaign, hacking networks where UPnP port forwarding is enabled.

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December 15, 2018December 15, 2018

Google Rewind 2018: Here’s what all happened in the past year

2018 is almost over. There’s been a lot that’s happened in the past year. Google announced many new products, made some major changes to existing products, and shut down some products. To end 2018, let’s “rewind” by taking a look back at what all Google has been up to in the past year.
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November 23, 2018November 22, 2018

Black Friday deals on Google devices: Pixel 3, Pixelbook, Google Home, Nest, and more

Black Friday is today, and if you’ve been wanting to buy yourself or someone else some Google-made hardware, here’s a compilation of all the deals.

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October 21, 2018

Digital Wellbeing rolling out to some Google Home users

Digital Wellbeing, one of Android Pie’s major features that lets you monitor your app usage, “wind down” at night, set app timers, and more, is now rolling out to some Google Home users.

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