Google has acquired the GIF platform Tenor for Android, iOS, and desktop, the company announced today. Tenor is going to help Google bring up GIFs inside Google images and other services like Gboard more easily. Notably, Tenor is a GIF platform that Facebook has used in its Messenger service to let users send GIFs more easily. It’s unclear if this acquisition will change that. A blog post from Goo

Google today unveiled its experimental effort to integrate augmented reality features into the mobile and desktop web using its Chrome browser. That way, web designers, media organizations, and other creative professionals could create virtual 3D objects, embed them into websites for viewing on desktop, and make them downloadable on mobile so users could place those objects into their real world s

Google is working on a new operating system named Fuchsia / 'Pink + Purple == Fuchsia (a new Operating System).' By James Vincent, a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for eight years at The Verge. Source Fuchsia (GitHub) | Via Android Police Here's a puzzle: Google appears to have started work on a completely new operating system, but no one knows quite what it's for. The proj

Gaming/Entertainment/Circuit BreakerNintendo is releasing a miniature NES with 30 built-in games Nintendo is releasing a miniature NES with 30 built-in games / Launches in November for $59.99 By Andrew Webster, an entertainment editor covering streaming, virtual worlds, and every single Pokémon video game. Andrew joined The Verge in 2012, writing over 4,000 stories.

By Jacob Kastrenakes, a deputy editor who oversees tech and news coverage. Since joining The Verge in 2012, he’s published 5,000+ stories and is the founding editor of the creators desk. Source Google Google is introducing a new logo today. Just a month after unveiling a major restructuring of the company, Google is updating its image, too. The new Google logo is still a wordmark, but it's now usi

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