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Even the best minds need a little something extra to get them through the day. It’s a digital kind of world, and we’re just trying to live in it, but Silicon Valley-based tech executive John Imah is one of the few geniuses chosen to create it – and we just want to know his secrets. […]

Google has announced that it’s acquiring Fitbit, one of the world’s top maker of wearable fitness activity trackers. The deal is worth around $2.1 billion and is one of Google’s biggest purchases, CNN reports. The tech company has previously had a hard time breaking into the smartwatches and wearable device market, but buying Fitbit could […]

Apple is pushing back on a recent Google report that detailed more than a dozen iPhone security flaws. Last week, Google researchers confirmed they had found 14 vulnerabilities in Apple’s iOS, resulting in a “sustained effort to hack the users of iPhones in certain communities over a period of at least two years.” Analysts for […]

YouTube, Discord and Gmail all experienced outages today, due to apparent problems with Google’s Cloud service. The disruption effected not only Google‘s own properties in the G Suite (Drive, Gmail, Hangouts and other applications) but also took down prominent websites that run on the Cloud service on the backend, like Snapchat and Vimeo. The Verge reports […]

When it came to the general public, Google Glass didn’t fare so well. Turns out it was better in theory than practice (more on that below). But the tech giant is doing their best to adjust to that unfortunate (for them) development, and has instead switched it up to market itself as a tool designed […]

During Google‘s I/O developer conference, the company announced two new smartphones: the Pixel 3a and the 3a XL. Image via Google Coming in at $399 and $479 respectively, the new phones are half the price of their older siblings. CNN notes the 3a and 3a XL are meant to be budget-friendly alternatives to their predecessors, with global […]

The death of physical video game media draws ever closer. Brick and mortar stores like GameStop are closing up. We no longer buy video game discs and cartridges, used or otherwise; we download our games to our consoles via high-speed wireless connections and curate digital libraries. Eventually, we’ll subscribe to and stream our games from […]

No matter how many measures you take to protect your personal information, the unfortunate truth is that no computer is truly safe. Any device that connects to the internet is theoretically vulnerable to being hacked, which means everything from your bank account to your credit cards to your social media accounts could be compromised, if your […]

Thousands of Google employees staged walkouts across the globe to protest the company’s mishandling of sexual misconduct on Thursday. Beginning in Tokyo, participants began leaving their offices at 11:10 a.m. local time following a report from the New York Times published last week. In the story, the Times revealed the company gave a $90 million severance […]

The popular video sharing website YouTube, as well as YouTube TV and YouTube Music, went down on Tuesday and people were not happy about it.  Thanks for your reports about YouTube, YouTube TV and YouTube Music access issues. We’re working on resolving this and will let you know once fixed. We apologize for any inconvenience this may […]