Google Maps Just Made it Easier to Hide Your Life
Photo: Florence Ion / Gizmodo If you give me access to your location, I am the person who will check on you constantly and bring it up the next time…
Taylor Swift Is Shadowbanned From Google’s 2023 Year In Trending Searches List
Taylor Swift is so popular that seismologists measured recent tour dates in Seattle as a magnitude 2.3 earthquake. You wouldn’t know if from the latest edition of Google’s annual annual…
Google’s Project Ellmann Shows Your Life in Photos
In a recent internal summit, Google proposed its next big idea: an AI-powered feature titled ‘Project Ellmann’ that would provide users with a snapshot or, as they’re calling it, a…
Google’s NotebookLM Could Be the Ultimate AI-Based Notes App if It Doesn’t Lie to You
Google is trying to sprinkle a bit of AI spice into the staid flavor of note-taking apps with NotebookLM, an AI assistant app focused on helping writers, educators, students, or…
Microsoft’s AI Narration App Expands to Android for Blind Users
Photo: OpturaDesign (Shutterstock) Microsoft launched the Seeing AI app on Android devices Monday, expanding the free app that narrates the world to millions more blind and low-vision users. Seeing AI…
Google Is Sending Its ‘Animal of the Day’ Assistant Feature to a Farm Upstate
Google’s latest on its list of merciless murders is the Assistant’s “animal of the day” feature. While it’s not likely that the individual command product will make the Killed by…
Google Shopping Will Hallucinate AI Products and Then Find You Something Real to Buy
Here’s an AI tool you probably hadn’t considered. Google’s AI-powered Search Generative Experience (SGE) is getting a slew of updates this December, including a feature that lets you dream up…
Google witness accidentally reveals how much Apple gets for Safari search
As part of a deal to be the default search engine on Apple devices, Google pays the tech giant 36% of the revenue earned via search ad activity on Apple’s…
How To Translate Websites in Any Browser
We live in a multilingual world, which is represented in the billions of pages published on the web—but just because a website isn’t written in your native tongue doesn’t mean…
Hiker Rescued After Following Google Maps On a ‘Dangerous,’ Non-Existent Trail
A hiker was rescued from a cliff edge on Saturday after allegedly following a Google Maps trail that didn’t actually exist, making him one of several hikers who followed the…