Android is getting a design refresh, launching a mixed reality platform for smart glasses, and Gemini is expanding to cars and watches. Can it entice the overwhelmingly dominant iPhone-owning youth?

The Android operating system, currently installed on billions of devices across the globe, is receiving some significant security enhancements.

Beyond smartphones, Google is also extending its design changes to Wear OS, its smartwatch operating system, and expanding the reach of its Gemini artificial intelligence system to more platforms. Those include watches and vehicles that run either Android Auto or are part of the Cars with Google program.

Google has released the first Developer Preview of Wear OS 6, giving us a chance to try out the update's big Material 3 Expressive redesign.

The Android 16 QPR1 Beta 1 operating system is already available for Google Pixel smartphones. Many changes and features of «have been analyzed by sp

Google's Android operating system is set to receive one of the biggest updates in recent years. This update, which introduces a design called Material 3 Expressive, will make phones and watches running Google's OS "smoother,

Your Android phone could soon look quite different. Android 16 and Wear OS 6 are both on their way to an Android device near you, along with a new look based on Google's updated design language, called Material 3 Expressive.

Google's Android Auto is set to expand its app offerings, soon including video and browser apps, along with a wider range of weather apps.