A California man has been arrested for allegedly flying a drone over Vandenberg Space Force Base, as the FBI investigates mysterious drones in New Jersey.
Earlier this week, Futurism reported that two families in Texas filed a lawsuit, accusing Google-backed AI chatbot company Character.AI of sexually and emotionally abusing their school-aged children. The plaintiffs alleged that the startup…
Google doesn't have the best track record when it comes to user privacy, but it's getting better. The company's messaging app, Google Messages, now comes pre-installed on most new Android devices and advertises its conversations as end-to…
Google Maps has complied a positively bonkers amount of data. That includes not just mountains of imagery, from Street View to satellites, but databases storing information about all these streets themselves: tolls, one-way status, and…
Experts believe that one day, quantum computers could make today’s systems of encryption utterly obsolete. But Google tells The Verge its new “breakthrough” Willow chip is nowhere near ready for that.
Gemini 2.0 Flash is available now, with other model sizes coming in January. It adds multilingual voice output, image output, and some trendy “agentic” capabilities.
While Hyundai and Kia plan to adopt Android Automotive in the near future, the Hyundai Motor Group has just inked a deal to bring Google Maps to its infotainment system ahead of that launch.
Google just announced a brand new operating system called Android XR. "XR" stands for "extended reality," which is the umbrella term for virtual reality, augmented reality and mixed reality headsets.
Gemini’s integration into Google Drive is getting a little more useful. In addition to summarizing documents or answering questions about a project, the AI assistant can now generate summaries of everything inside a folder.