I’ve covered Google’s AI Overviews since its messy rollout last year, when screenshots of absurdly wrong answers started popping up at the top of search results and going viral on social media. Still, when I first saw images of AI Overviews confidently saying that it’s still 2024 in Reddit posts …
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From your email to your web browsing, it’s highly likely that your daily online life is dominated by a small number of tech giants—namely Google, Microsoft, and Apple. But since Big Tech has been cozying up to the second Trump administration, which has taken an aggressive stance on foreign policy, …
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The ideal smart home seamlessly anticipates your needs and instantly responds to commands. You shouldn’t have to open a specific app for each appliance or remember the precise voice command and voice assistant combination that starts the latest episode of your favorite podcast on the nearest speaker. Competing smart home …
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And that brings us to the third focus for Android, which is the connecting line between all the Android ecosystem products—artificial intelligence. Almost the entirety of Google’s keynote was spent on Gemini, the chatbot replacing the nine-year-old Google Assistant in everything from Android Auto and Wear OS, to smartphones and …
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Some of these Gemini features will be coming to users of Android and Google’s web apps for free, but others (and the more powerful feature sets) will be available via paid subscription. Google’s $20 a month AI Premium service has been renamed to Google AI Pro, and the cost stays …
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Last year, I wrote about how one of my articles, previously appearing at the top of search results, was swallowed up and bumped down on the page by an AI Overview. Google eventually adjusted how it cited sources and more prominently added links beside individual paragraphs. While publishers seem primarily …
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Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, says that reaching artificial general intelligence or AGI—a fuzzy term typically used to describe machines with human-like cleverness—will mean honing some of the nascent abilities found in Google’s flagship Gemini models. Google announced a slew of AI upgrades and new products at its annual …
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The apple blossoms are sprouting, the sun is finally rising before your alarm goes off, and Google CEO Sundar Pichai is wiping down the lenses of his Gemini-powered smart glasses. You know what that means: It’s once again time for Google I/O. Google is going all out for its annual …
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Global Accessibility Awareness Day was Thursday, so it’s fitting that both Apple and Google have announced a raft of new accessibility features for their devices this week, all slated to land in the coming year. Photograph: Apple First up, let’s talk Apple. The headline is Magnifier support for Mac. This …
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Other Phones to Consider Pixel 9 Photograph: Julian Chokkattu We test a ton of Android phones. We like the ones below, but you’ll be better off with one of the options above. If you haven’t yet done so, check out our Best Cheap Phones and Best Folding Phones guides for …
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