Nathan is a tech journalist from Canada who spends too much money on gadgets. You can find his work on Android Police, Digital Trends, iMore, Mobile Syrup and ZDNET. Nathan studied journalism at ...

Not too long ago, I was able to treat the Google Assistant with a level of respect due to the entity that fits comfortably between “faceless voice” and “future robot overlord.” Something happened over ...

So long, CAPTCHA. We hardly knew ya. Fourteen years ago, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University set up "CAPTCHA" as an online tool to help websites tell humans from spambots. Presented with a set ...

Will was the Phones Editor at Android Police from August 2022 to May 2025, which usually meant his desk was covered in a dozen different smartphones at any given time. Prior to that, he was a news ...

Is barking orders at our AI-powered voice assistants turning us into jerks? Are our kids growing accustomed to commanding the Google Homes and Siris of the world to turn on the lights without the ...

In a letter addressed to Google CEO Larry Page, 10 privacy authorities from across the globe have asked Google a series of questions to address ongoing privacy concerns over Google Glass. The US$1,500 ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for eight years at The Verge. Pretty Please is an ...

Google recently announced some big privacy changes for its internet browser, Chrome. It’s planning to make obsolete what are known as third-party cookies. Cookies are the trackers that advertisers ...

Last summer a close friend gave me a tour of Google’s X lab in Mountain View, California. I was dumbstruck by the displays of innovation and invention in just the foyer. Here people were designing ...

You want niché content? Then damn, you’ve got it — because this is a call for Google to sort out the Docs iPad app. Look, it’s not bad. It works. But it’s driving me mad. Why? Because it’s not ...