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Forget Uber Eats. Unmanned drones may soon be dropping food, coffee and even medicine from local shops into your backyard. Google’s parent company Alphabet has chosen Logan in Queensland to launch its latest drone delivery service after conducting thousands of test flights in rural parts of the state and around the world. The Wing service …

The rise of streaming video platforms like Netflix and Amazon Prime has upended traditional power balances in Hollywood and is reorganizing the way we consume films and TV series as consumers. Following her talk at the recent Banff World Media Festival in Canada, I interviewed Laura Martin, the senior analyst covering entertainment and internet stocks …

Mark Zuckerberg, left, and Chris Hughes created Facebook together at Harvard University. Hughes has now become one of Facebook’s biggest antagonists. (Rick Friedman/Corbis News via Getty Images) SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes has become one of the company’s biggest problems. In recent weeks, Hughes, who left the social media giant in 2007 and …

Google must be getting tired of leaks for its upcoming Pixel 4. The company just up and announced two huge features its flagship will feature: the air-gesture-control Motion Sense and Face Unlock. In a tweet and blog post, Google outlined the two features – along with the new tech embedded in the phone that makes …

Here’s a new animated “bar chart race” visualization above showing the world’s top ten billionaires in every year from 2000 to 2019 based on data from business magazine Forbes’ annual lists of the World’s Billionaires via Wikipedia. I’ve slowed this visualization down to four seconds per year to make it easier to absorb the annual changes, and have …

The latest render of the Google Pixel 4 Once again, we notice that there is no fingerprint scanner to be found on the new renders. While all we can do at this point is jump to conclusions, an in-screen fingerprint scanner could be one reason for the lack of such a feature. But another possibility …

As the public and government regulators around the world discuss whether and how to manage the power of technology companies, one idea that keeps coming up is breaking up these large conglomerate corporations into smaller pieces. Public distrust for tech companies has shifted to talk of antitrust action against them. Facebook, for instance, might then …

A man walking past a building at Google’s Mountain View, California headquarters in 2015.Photo: Jeff Chiu (AP) Google has yanked several apps from its Play Store after cybersecurity firm Avast identified them as “all likely designed by a Russian developer to allow people to stalk employees, romantic partners, or kids,” CNET reported on Wednesday. The …

The Google Home Mini and Amazon Echo Dot smart speakers. Tyler Lizenby/CNET Ever since Alexa and Google Assistant first burst onto the scene and started populating people’s homes with smart speakers and other gadgets outfitted with always-listening microphones, people have wondered whether anyone other than their AI assistant of choice was listening in.  Well, the …

(Screenshot) Q: What can you tell me about Google Lens and does it work as well on an iPhone? A: Google’s image recognition technology, known as “Lens,” came to be through a myriad of acquisitions over many years, including one of my favorite early augmented reality text translation apps called Word Lens. As processing power …