Google Search AI Mode can use Gmail and Photos to get to know you
Google Search AI Mode can use Gmail and Photos to get to know you Personal Intelligence can tap into your Gmail inbox to check for bookings and purchase receipts. Google is helping AI Mode to provide more personalized responses in Search by allowing the chatbot to analyze your Gmail and Google Photos accounts. After launching […]
This midrange Android phone also runs Windows and Linux
This midrange Android phone also runs Windows and Linux Nex Computer runs both Android and this Windows Phone-esque mobile UI that they made in-house. Nex Computer, a company that makes hardware designed to turn your phone into a laptop, is working on something new: the NexPhone. It’s a midrange phone that’s designed to double as […]
Nova Launcher’s new owner might offer a version with ads
Nova Launcher's new owner might offer a version with ads Last year, Nova Launcher founder and sole developer Kevin Barry announced he had left Branch Metrics, Nova’s parent company at the time – which followed an announcement from 2024 that nearly everyone working on the project had been laid off. But the launcher is getting […]
Google has finally killed the Stadia Bluetooth tool — but this person rescued it
Google has finally killed the Stadia Bluetooth tool — but this person rescued it Did you save your Google Stadia controller like I told you last month? It’s still not too late. This week, Google has finally removed the tool that converts the now-useless controller into a decent Bluetooth gamepad. But there’s another way. Christopher […]
Google is appealing a judge’s search monopoly ruling
Google is appealing a judge's search monopoly ruling Google is appealing a federal court’s decision ruling it an illegal online search monopolist. The company filed a notice to appeal on Friday, requesting a pause on the court-ordered remedies meant to restore competition to the online search market. “As we have long said, the Court’s August […]
Google brings its AI videomaker to Workspace users
Google brings its AI videomaker to Workspace users An AI-generated scene created by Flow. Google is expanding access to its AI videomaking tool. Launched last May, Flow was initially only available to Google AI Pro and AI Ultra subscribers, but now, those with Business, Enterprise, and Education Workspace plans can access it, too. Flow uses […]
Siri is a Gemini
Siri is a Gemini We know how the next-generation Siri is supposed to work. Apple showed it off in 2024, made commercials about it, and generally promised that AI would change the way we used our gadgets forever. And then, well, none of that came to pass. So Apple made a deal: It tapped Google’s […]
‘Get Grok Gone’: Advocacy groups demand Apple and Google block X from app stores
'Get Grok Gone': Advocacy groups demand Apple and Google block X from app stores Two open letters are directed at Apple CEO Tim Cook and Google CEO Sundar Pichai. | Photo: Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images X is awash with nonconsensual sexual deepfakes that blatantly violate Apple’s and Google’s policies, yet it and xAI’s Grok […]
Gemini is winning
Gemini is winning If you want to win in AI – and I mean win in the biggest, most lucrative, most shape-the-world-in-your-image kind of way – you have to do a bunch of hard things simultaneously. You need to have a model that is unquestionably one of the best on the market. You need the […]
The Atlantic, Penske, and Vox Media have all sued Google for antitrust violations
The Atlantic, Penske, and Vox Media have all sued Google for antitrust violations Lawsuits seeking damages from Google’s illegal ad tech monopoly are piling up following the Justice Department’s successful antitrust case. Vox Media, The Verge’s parent company, is the latest in a wave of media companies that have filed suit against Google, seeking to […]