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De-Googled GrapheneOS is coming to Motorola’s foldables next year

GrapheneOS, an open source version of Android that prioritizes security and privacy, has detailed its plans for supporting Motorola smartphones. Official support is set to arrive next year, starting with traditional flagships, before rolling out to Motorola’s foldable phones and perhaps cheaper models, eventually. In a Mastodon thread, the GrapheneOS Foundation announced that it will […]

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Google says Gemma has passed a billion downloads

Google says its Gemma family of open models has passed a billion downloads. Developers have published more than 100,000 Gemma variants over the past two years, the company said in a blog post on Thursday. Clement Farabet, a vice president at Google DeepMind, and Olivier Lacombe, a product director there, wrote it. Google calls the […]

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Walmart is finally adding Apple Pay and Google Pay

Walmart will soon allow you to pay for your items with Google Pay or Apple Pay. In an announcement on Friday, Walmart says it’s going to bring tap-to-pay capabilities to “select” Walmart and Sam’s Club locations starting August 24th, before rolling out support to all US stores by the end of 2026 and gas stations […]

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Walmart is accepting tap to pay after eleven years of refusing

Walmart is adding tap to pay at its checkouts from Monday, ending more than a decade of refusing the technology. The retailer will not say so in those terms. Its announcement does not use the word Apple once. The rollout starts at selected Walmart stores and Sam’s Club locations on 24 August, the company said. […]

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Google wants publishers to install a button that makes readers pick them

Google is giving publishers a button to put on their own websites. Clicking it adds that publisher to a reader’s preferred sources on Google. It is one of three personalisation changes the company announced on Thursday. The other two are a chatbot for tuning the Discover feed, and topic controls for audio news briefings. Mrinalini […]

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YouTube raises Premium prices across Europe with an opt-in deadline

YouTube Premium is getting more expensive across Europe. This time the company is asking subscribers to agree, rather than simply imposing the increase. A price-change notice seen by TNW went to a Romanian subscriber on Friday. It puts the individual plan up from RON 29.00 to RON 32.00 a month, a rise of about 10%. […]

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Ex-Google engineer’s espionage convictions overturned, theft convictions stand

A federal judge has thrown out seven economic espionage convictions against the former Google engineer Linwei Ding, on the grounds that prosecutors never proved he was working for China. Seven trade secret theft convictions stand. Judge Vince Chhabria found the evidence sufficient to show that Ding took what he took, but insufficient to show that […]

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