This year's MKBHD Smartphone Awards from Marques Brownlee honor iPhone 16 as Best Small Phone, surprisingly.

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The upcoming Google and Samsung Android XR headset will compete for market share against Apple and Meta AR/VR headsets.

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The U.S. Department of Justice is reportedly hoping to require Google to sell Chrome, the world’s most popular web browser.

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A new Gemini application gives iPhone users direct access to Google’s AI-powered virtual assistant to chat or generate images.

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Gemini is a new iPhone app from Google, offering an AI-powered digital assistant, Imagen 3 image generation via prompts and other features.

Learn how to remove the credit card you added to your Google account when subscribing to things like YouTube Premium or buying Android apps.

Apple and Google have adopted the ISO 21496-1 standard for properly encoding and decoding gain map metadata of HDR photos.

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With AI low on smartphone upgrade wishlists, according to a new study, what do they really want? The basics we all love, of course.

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Learn how to leverage the collective power of the Google app and the Shortcuts app to know more about a photo that's on your iPhone screen.

Is your Google, Gmail, or Drive cloud storage full? Learn how to make space so you can back up new media and data for safekeeping.

A U.S. federal judge ordered sweeping changes to Google Play, the default source for Android applications. What does this mean for Apple?

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The Google Photos app for iOS and Android has gained new presets powered by artificial intelligence (AI) that simplify video editing.

On September 21, 1999, Google came out of beta. The Google launch brought a powerful internet search tool (and birthed an Apple rivalry).

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Google is bringing pause screen ads to YouTube on smart TV platforms that appear when you pause the video you're currently streaming.

Tab groups, a feature of Google's Chrome desktop browser for years, finally made its way to the iPhone and iPad version.

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Ask Photos brings a smarter and more powerful search experience to Google Photos with contextual image understanding ability.

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Google Maps for iOS has gained improved navigation by dropping the Go and Updates tabs after the Android version did the same in July.

On August 19, 2004, the Google IPO cemented the company's status as a tech giant. Apple and Google soon went to war.

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A YouTube sleep timer automatically pauses playback after a set period, helping curtail your usage of the app before nap time.

A deal with Google that made a mockery of Apple's privacy promises is coming to an end. It should have never been made.

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