I stumbled across Google Maps' Area 51 Easter egg by accident while searching for unusual locations online. When you hover over the restricted military base in Nevada, a small UFO icon appears instead ...

Google avoided harsh antitrust penalties for its conduct in the U.S. search market, with a judge barring the company from entering into exclusive deals but rejecting a forced spinoff of its Chrome ...

A federal judge’s remedy stops short of making meaningful changes to how we use our phones, computers and the web. By Brian X. Chen Brian X. Chen is The Times’s lead consumer technology writer and the ...

A controversial algorithmic age assurance system that Google has launched on YouTube is reportedly also being incorporated into the company’s tentpole search engine. The age check tool uses machine ...

A policeman in Argentina was put in an awkward situation when his bare behind showed up on national TV. Sure, he had been walking around naked. But he was in his backyard, behind a 6.5-foot wall.

To set Preferred Sources on Google Search, sign in, go to Google.com, click your profile icon, select Search Personalization, then Source Preferences. Search for or enter a site’s URL, enable it, and ...

Blake has over a decade of experience writing for the web, with a focus on mobile phones, where he covered the smartphone boom of the 2010s and the broader tech scene. When he's not in front of a ...

Every month, Google sends me a report about where I've been, and I have to say that I'm not a fan. In fact, the idea that Google is following me around, via Maps, disturbs me. That's not the only ...

Most people know Google Maps as the go-to app for driving directions. It helps you avoid traffic, find the fastest route, and get to your destination without getting lost. But if you have never used ...

Numerous studies indicate that the shift to AI search features and the use of AI chatbots are killing traffic to publishers’ sites. But Google on Wednesday denied that’s the case, at least in ...

The technology giant Google has released an artificial intelligence (AI) model that acts as a ‘virtual satellite’ to weave together trillions of disparate observations — satellite images, radar and ...

Google’s newest AI model is going to scour the Earth and, ideally, help it out. That's the plan, anyway. The mission is to find out once and for all, in fine detail, what we are doing to our planet.