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Fred Armisen as Randall Meeks on SNL © 2013 NBC Fred Armisen is a funny guy, but as Randall Meeks—the SNL News Technology Correspondent—he’s even funnier. So what do you get when you add Armisen as Meeks and Google Glass together? A  hilarious mock review, that may be a satire on the device, but actually does a good job of showing average consumers just how ridiculous they may look wearing them. Armisen shows SNL News anchor Seth Myers just how “easy” it is to use Google Glass, while thrashing his head around in...

Over the past few weeks, there has been a plethora of leaked screenshots, information and reports of Google’s planned “cross-platform” messaging service, codenamed Babel. With the success of Apple’s iMessage on iOS, Google’s looking to not only match it for Android, but to actually make it even better, by allowing messages to sync to other platforms like Chrome, Google+, Google Voice (eventually), Gmail (web client), Android and quite possibly iOS. Google’s Babel will allow users to chat seamlessly...

Update: CNET has received a statement from Apple that contradicts Eric Schmidt’s earlier claim that Google Now’s future is in their [Apple's] hands. Apple has said that Google Now has “not” been submitted to their App Store. Perhaps Schmidt is off by a few hours, he is in India after all, or perhaps he was just blowing smoke. Either way, according to Apple, there’s nothing from Google related to Google Now to approve. If this changes, we’ll be sure to let you know. —- Google former CEO and current...

If you’re anything like me, you may have finally come around to the idea of Google Glass, especially after watching Google’s latest video “What it’s like to wear Glass.” While the idea of wearing something like this on your head, may sound, and even look, odd… I beat the idea of wearing a baseball cap did too at one time. There are plenty of things we wear on a daily basis that may have seemed odd when they were initially introduced, but as society opens up to accept them, they become the norm, like...

It was rumored for a while and we even had the device on video, which many thought was fake, but it actually turned out to be the real deal. Google today took the wraps off their new, self-branded Chromebook, the Pixel. This new 12.85-inch Chromebook features an ultra-high resolution (2560×1700) display, an aluminum design, a full-touch screen covered by Corning’s Gorilla Glass. The the Pixel will start at $1,299 for aWiFi Model and $1,499 for an LTE (Verizon) equipped variation. While the Chromebook Pixel, looks fantastic,...

Google has just made their official page for Google Glass, live, you can visit the new site at Google.com/Glass. On the page, is a full page video showing what it’s like to wear Google Glass. The video shows a wide range of functions that Glass can be used for, like directions, image searches, Google web searches, Google+ Hangout, pictures, videos and more. While Glass may look slightly ridiculous from the point of view of on lookers, the concept of wearing them is very cool. If you’re interested in testing out a pair of Google...