Larry Page announced a whole new company, Alphabet, and it now owns Google. Photo: Alphabet

Google just dropped a bombshell announcement that the operating structure of the company is getting seriously shaken up. To start, co-founder Larry Page broke the news of Alphabet: a new holding company which Google will operate under moving forward. Page will operate as the CEO with Sergey Brin as President effective immediately.

Beware fingerprint thieves on Android. Photo: Killian Bell/Cult of Mac

Just one day after Google announced the “world’s largest” Android update was coming to eliminate the Stagefright vulnerability, two more flaws have been discovered in its platform.

One allows “hundreds of millions” of devices to be hacked without the owner’s knowledge, while the other allows fingerprint data to be stolen remotely.

Android Pay will arrive to take on Apple Pay this fall. Photo: Google

Google will finally launch Android Pay, its brand new mobile payments service, alongside a refreshed Nexus 5 from LG in October, a new report claims. The Apple Pay competitor will take advantage of Android M’s native support for fingerprint scanners.

Say hello to Huawei’s Nexus. Photo: NowhereElse

Huawei’s new Nexus smartphone — one of two Google is expected to launch this fall — has leaked out for the first time in a ten-second video uploaded to YouTube.

The clip doesn’t give us a great look at the handset’s design, but it does confirm a few of its features.

The Nexus 6 you could have had. Photo: Weibo

Former Motorola CEO Dennis Woodside revealed back in January that the Nexus 6 was originally going to get a fingerprint scanner, but the plan had to be scrapped thanks to Apple. Now new images of a prototype device with the sensor built into its back have emerged.