A new recovery feature lets you choose trusted friends or family members to verify your identity if you're locked out of your Google account.

Recovery Contacts, which lets a trusted friend verify your identity for you, is just one of Google's new security features.

Google updated the Android Easter egg in Android 16 to use the new progress-centric notification style, but even in QPR1, ...

Google is making account recovery easier with new features to help users get back in through a trusted contact or their phone ...

Google plans to begin testing its recently announced verification scheme for Android developers in the coming weeks, but there's still precious little information on how the process will work. F-Droid ...

Google's upcoming requirements to verify app developers threaten to 'end the F-Droid project and other free/open-source app distribution,' F-Droid says in a post. When he's not battling bugs and ...

Google has just pressed the go-ahead button for Android Auto 15.2 in the production channel, with the rollout now kicking off through the Google Play Store. The process happens in stages, so while ...

The success of Gemini and AI on Android has inspired the major update to ChromeOS, Android chief Sameer Samat says at the Snapdragon Summit in Hawaii. Katie is a UK-based news reporter and features ...

is a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who covers gadgets, games, and toys. He spent 15 years editing the likes of CNET, Gizmodo, and Engadget. It’s “something we’re super excited about ...

Over the past few months, we’ve heard multiple rumors claiming that Google was merging Android and ChromeOS to create a new computing platform. In July, Google confirmed that work was indeed underway ...

Don’t have the latest A.I.-powered model? There are still plenty of new features in Apple’s iOS 26 and Google’s Android 16 to make your own. By J. D. Biersdorfer J.D. Biersdorfer has been writing ...

Google might have found a way Gemini could be useful while you're playing games on your phone. The company is introducing a new software overlay today it calls the Play Games Sidekick that gives you ...