Your notifications just got smarter and quieter with Google’s new update
Google just pushed the button on Android 16 QPR2, its second major update of the year, and it represents a huge shift in how our phones get better. Gone are…
Your phone can now tell you when a text looks like a scam
Google is rolling out a new layer of protection for Android users, specifically teaching Circle to Search and Google Lens how to spot scam messages right on your screen. Since…
Google Photos Recap is here and the 2025 edition has a narcissism meter too
What’s happened? Google Photos is rolling out its 2025 Recap, a personalized time capsule that uses Google’s Gemini model to sift through your photos and shape them into a summary…
Your Google Discover feed is getting an AI makeover, for better or worse
What’s happened? Google has started experimenting with automatically rewritten, AI-generated headlines inside its Discover feed instead of showing the original headlines written by publishers. According to The Verge, these AI…
Your Android hotspot is about to get much faster
Usually, we’re stuck with the crowded 2.4GHz or 5GHz bands for hotspots, which are fine but not exactly speed demons. Now, Google is unlocking the 6GHz band – the super-fast…
Mysterious ‘Nano-Banana’ Project Revealed to Be Google’s Latest Image Editor
Google just upgraded its AI image model, and it actually looks to be a pretty significant step up. The company rolled out Gemini 2.5 Flash Image today, a major refresh…
Intrusive Thought of the Day: Is That YouTube Video Enhanced With AI?
Have you noticed YouTube videos have started to have a little hint of the Uncanny Valley in recent months? You are far from alone, as a growing chorus of folks…
Ghislaine Maxwell Says She First Met Elon Musk at Sergey Brin’s Birthday Party
Elon Musk infamously threw Donald Trump under the bus in June when he insisted that the president was “in the Epstein files,” a reference to the late sex offender Jeffrey…
Live Updates From the ‘Made by Google’ Pixel Event 🔴
The time has come for Google’s “Made by Google” event. On Wednesday, Aug. 20, Google will once again unveil a family of new Pixel devices, and this time we’d bet…
One of the Most Prolific VR Headset Makers (Not Meta) Now Has Smart Glasses (Not Ray-Bans)
XR, or extended reality, headsets are on the outs, but smart glasses are eating more and more of what was once VR’s slice of the face-mounted wearables pie. HTC, one…