Tag: Google Allo

Google killing Allo messaging service

Thursday, December 6, 2018 12:56 pmThursday, December 6, 20181 Comment

Allo, once the vanguard platform of Google’s plans for messaging, will officially shut down…

Amazon’s Alexa is randomly laughing and nobody knows why

Wednesday, March 7, 2018 5:11 pmWednesday, March 7, 201835 Comments

Some Alexa users may feel like they’ve been dropped into a science fiction story about an artificial intelligence gone awry…

Google Home Mini spies on everything reviewer said 24/7, transmits recordings to Google’s servers

Thursday, October 12, 2017 9:37 amThursday, October 12, 201720 Comments

It was waking up thousands of times a day, recording, then sending those recordings to Google…

37,000 users unwittingly installed a malicious Chrome web browser extension from Google’s Web Store

Tuesday, October 10, 2017 11:26 amTuesday, October 10, 20176 Comments

A fraudulent browser extension was downloaded by 37,000 Chrome users after it sneaked past Google’s Web Store vetting processes…

Why Google Assistant can’t beat Apple’s Siri for iPhone users

Friday, May 19, 2017 6:55 pm7 Comments

Some people think Google’s virtual assistant beats Siri in reliability and capability…

Google Assistant features that Apple’s Siri can’t currently match

Friday, May 19, 2017 3:25 pmFriday, May 19, 20179 Comments

Earlier this week, Google finally put the Google Assistant onto iPhones..

Alphabet to push Google Assistant to iPhone as standalone app via Apple’s App Store

Tuesday, May 16, 2017 9:30 amTuesday, May 16, 201710 Comments

Google is set to announce a version of its AI-powered assistant for Apple Inc.’s iPhone as soon as Wednesday…

Yahoo discloses ‘largest hack of all time,’ says hackers stole data from over one billion users

Thursday, December 15, 2016 8:56 amThursday, December 15, 201622 Comments

Yahoo said it is forcing all affected users to change their passwords and is invalidating unencrypted security questions…

Google to try to overcome Pixel phones’ myriad weaknesses with massive advertising blitz

Friday, October 7, 2016 4:50 pmFriday, October 7, 201617 Comments

Google’s new ‘Pixel’ smartphone is off to a fast marketing start with $3.2 million in television ads…

Google’s slow, shaky, underpowered, overpriced Pixel XL cannot compete with Apple’s iPhone 7 Plus

Thursday, October 6, 2016 3:00 pmThursday, October 6, 201628 Comments

Google’s latest effort to show off its vision for ‘Pure Android’ hardware costs the same as Apple’s iPhone 7 Plus…

Think Apple’s iPhone is expensive? Take a look at the price tags on Google’s slow Pixel and Pixel XL phones

Wednesday, October 5, 2016 3:00 pmWednesday, October 5, 201613 Comments

For years the Android fanboy argument has been that the iPhone is too expensive and that Android offers…

Yahoo secretly scanned all customer emails for FBI, NSA, sources say

Tuesday, October 4, 2016 1:37 pmTuesday, October 4, 201626 Comments

Yahoo Inc last year secretly built a custom software program to search all of its customers’ incoming emails…

Edward Snowden: No matter what, do not use Google’s new Allo messenger app

Friday, September 23, 2016 1:26 pmFriday, September 23, 20169 Comments

Google has received much criticism for changes it made to Allo upon its release…