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The brash James T. Kirk tries to live up to his father’s legacy with Mr. Spock keeping him in check as a vengeful, time-traveling Romulan creates black holes to destroy the Fe…

So, Google’s new Hangouts app keeps all of your chats in sync across all of your devices. Cool, right? But what if you’re in a video call on your phone, and then open the same video call on your computer. Boop! Suddenly there’s two of you, as I just discovered when chatting with my friend Bay.

Who has time to watch a whole movie anymore? It’s summer! So in the spirit of phoning in everything once the temperature rises above 70-ish, here’s Ridley Scott’s Aliens in 60 seconds of adorable animation. Brought to you, of course, by the fine folks who did Star Wars Episode IV, Back to the Future, and The Matrix. Not bad for a human. [YouTube]

The revelation that Hollywood celebrity Angelina Jolie had a double mastectomy as a preventative measure against cancer stoked heated discussion this past week, but one prominent cancer researcher says it demonstrates the need to make genetic testing available to all Canadians.

Here it is at last — the first full-length trailer for Europa Report, the tense thriller about a mission to Jupiter’s moon that goes horribly wrong. It’s filled with stunning visuals and neat character moments. Plus laudatory quotes, including a couple from io9.

So you want to build the Enterprise. Don’t we all! Well good news: according to some quick, messy, napkin math, it’s possible. Kind of. The bad news? It’s going to be stupid expensive. But not unfathomably so! Start scrounging up your space-pennies.

Google rolled out quite a few updates to its core apps yesterday, one of which positively affected Jelly Bean users running Google Now. The predictive and,

Googler confirms text message integration will come to the new messaging app

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The new Google Messenger is real! It’s not called Babel, or Google Talk, but “Hangouts.” It also isn’t the unified messenger we’ve all wanted – maybe it wi… by Ron Amadeo in News

Whether you’re using a Chromebook or you’re just interested in switching from installed desktop apps to browser-based ones, web-based software can replace many of the programs people use on their computers — and can often improve on them.

Google and NASA have just announced that they’re teaming up to create a laboratory focussed on developing the future of artificial intelligence—using quantum supercomputers.

New episode guide apo launches on Google Play.

Google officially announced the not-so-secretly-kept Play Games this morning, which brings game sync, leaderboards, achievements, and more to Android. Nat… by Cameron Summerson in Games, News

More Canadians say they are seeing unidentified flying objects than ever before, with 2012 numbers nearly doubling the record number of sightings recorded in previous years.

Larry Page, Google’s CEO and co-founder, closed out the Google I/O keynote today with a sentimental, almost subdued speech. He didn’t sound like a CEO. He sounded like a guy in charge of a company he genuinely thought could change the world. And it was a wonderful reminder that Google used to be, can be, and in many ways still is, so much more than a company.

Google’s Play Books service launched last year as a competent reading app, and a necessary pillar for Google Play. But one feature readers have since been … by Ryan Whitwam in News

Google just dropped a metric ton of Google on us. Sorting through it all, it’s clear that the company’s not just trying to put new goodness into the world; it’s trying to blow plenty of existing products and services out of the water. Here are all the things Google’s looking to unseat and uppercut into the spike pit.