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Watch your wallets! Google has more than doubled Play Store’s app price limit to $1,000

$400 is no longer the highest amount you can spend on an app or in-app content.

Google Rolls Out Its Powerful AI Photo Editing Tools to Older Smartphones

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Magic Editor, Google's artificial intelligence-based photo editing tool, has arrived on older smartphones. No longer must users have the latest Google Pixel phones to take advantage of the company's AI photo features.

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Elon Musk Reportedly Took Ketamine and Had Sex With the Wife of the Cofounder of Google

futurism.com

High Times The New York Times ran an excoriating investigation this week into Nicole Shanahan, the vice presidential running mate of Robert F. Kennedy Jr — yes, the same third-party candidate who recently claimed that a worm had eaten part…

Google to invest billions of dollars to produce smartphones in Tamil Nadu, India

www.gizchina.com

In a strategic move, Google has announced plans to invest billions of dollars in Tamil Nadu, India, to establish a smartphone production base, as reported ...

Bing outage shows just how little competition Google search really has

arstechnica.com

Opinion: Actively searching without Google or Bing is harder than it looks.

Southwest Airlines Flights Are Now Available on Google Flights - CNET

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The low-cost airline doesn't appear on many third-party sites, but now it's on a major one.

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Google Meet could soon help you create meetings out of nothing

www.techradar.com

Adaptive audio in Google Meet will let teams create meeting spaces wherever they are.

Google Docs voice typing coming to Safari, Edge

9to5google.com

Google is expanding availability of voice typing in Docs beyond desktop Chrome to Safari and Microsoft Edge to allow for “more inclusive and accessible user interactions.”

The 5 Hottest Summer Nail Trends, According To Your Google Searches

www.vogue.com

How will we be wearing our nails this summer? According to our collective Google searching, these are the summer nail trends to know about now, from cloud to tulip nails.

Reddit’s 'Squat Plug' Joke Is Now Google AI’s Fitness Advice

lifehacker.com

Google thinks people use butt plugs at the gym, because its AI was trained on Reddit shitposts.

Why is Google telling us to put glue on pizza?

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Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos by Getty Images

Screenshots of Google's AI Overview giving bizarre answers go viral, including telling users to add "1/8 cup of non-toxic glue" to make cheese stick on a pizza (Jyoti Mann/Business Insider)

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Screenshots of Google's AI Overview giving bizarre answers go viral, including telling users to add “1/8 cup of non-toxic glue” to make cheese stick on a pizza — - Google's AI Overviews feature suggested a user put glue on pizza so the…

Google plans to run a fiber optic cable from Kenya to Australia

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Google said on Thursday it will build a fiber optic cable to connect Africa and Australia. Named Umoja (a Swahili word meaning “unity”), one end of the cable will start in Kenya and pass through Uganda, Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of…

Google is fixing a bug that kept showing blank tabs in Chrome for Android

9to5google.com

If you’ve noticed recently that Chrome for Android is showing blank tabs, Google is both aware and rolling out a fix for the problem.

Google guru roasts useless phishing tests, calls for fire drill-style overhaul

www.theregister.com

Current approaches aren't working and demonize security teams

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Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt predicts AI data centers will be ‘on military bases surrounded by machine guns’

nypost.com

Schmidt said that the proliferation of AI knowledge in the next few years poses challenges to regulators.

Judge to weigh proposed changes to Google’s Android app store to prevent anticompetitive tactics

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By MICHAEL LIEDTKE and BARBARA ORTUTAY (AP Technology Writers) SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is confronting the latest in a succession of legal attacks on its digital empire on Thursday as federal judge begins to address anticompetitive…

Google shifts focus to AI-integrated advertising

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Google is shifting its focus to AI Overview Ads, moving away from organic search results. This strategic change aims to enable new business opportunities and increase advertisers’ return on investment. Google’s plan involves integrating…

Huawei’s HiSilicon ships 8 million Kirin SoCs in Q1 2024, surpasses Google in revenue

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Huawei‘s HiSilicon division, responsible for Kirin chipsets, is showing signs of recovery in the smartphone chipset market. According to Canalys data, the company shipped 8 million Kirin units in the first quarter (Q1) of 2024, generating …