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Google app store overhaul expected by end of July

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The tech company says it is prepared to start opening up the Google Play Store to third-party app stores beginning on July 22.

Police: Greenwood man accused of child sex crimes asked Google if ‘fake naked pictures’ were illegal

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GREENWOOD -- A man who police say used his cellphone to search online for "is fake naked pictures illegal" pleaded not guilty Wednesday to having thousands of images of child sexual abuse material, some of which police reported were…

Why Immich succeeded where every other Google Photos alternative failed

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Immich, the unexpected photo management solution, is quietly becoming a sleeper hit.

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EU Fires Record DMA Fine at Google Over Search and Play Store Violations

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EU Google DMA fine: the European Commission is expected to impose record penalties in the hundreds of millions of euros on Alphabet for Search self-preferencing and Google Play Store anti-steering violations, with a 60-day compliance…

EU Gives Rival AI Assistants System-Level Android Access Google Reserved for Gemini

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Google Android DMA: The European Commission has issued two binding orders under the Digital Markets Act requiring Google to grant rival AI assistants the same system-level Android capabilities it gives Gemini, and to share anonymized…

Google rebrands NotebookLM as Gemini Notebook

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Google's NotebookLM started off as a small Google Labs experiment back in 2023, but it has grown tremendously since then, reaching more than 30 million people and over 600,000 organizations. Thus, the company has realized that the product…

Google Search Now Connects to Instacart, Canva and YouTube Music

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Google is expanding AI Mode in Search, allowing users to connect apps to improve search results and "get more done."

Does Google Maps Work In China? It's Complicated

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Planning a trip to China soon? Check your navigation app before you go to find out why the country's strict digital walls make mapping so complicated.

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Change these 5 Google Wallet settings and stop wasting time at checkout

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Make some simple changes to spend less time in line paying for stuff.

Google updates its AI video editor Vids with Gemini Omni and a feature that lets users create custom digital avatars using a selfie and voice recording (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

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Google updates its AI video editor Vids with Gemini Omni and a feature that lets users create custom digital avatars using a selfie and voice recording — OpenAI's Sora may have shut down, but Google apparently thinks there's still interest…

No sleep score, no steps: this Signal smart ring from an ex-Google head is focused on cracking cuffless, calibration-less blood pressure readings

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The Signal Ring has been created by an ex-Google head and "a very smart group of multidisciplined people focused on a single problem" — blood pressure.

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You can now link your favorite apps to AI Mode in Google Search to get things done

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Google Search's AI Mode can now connect to apps like Instacart, Canva, and YouTube Music to complete tasks for you.

Sources: Google is months behind schedule on delivering Gemini 3.5 Pro as it tries to improve its capabilities, particularly in coding; GOOG closes down 4.43% (Bloomberg)

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Sources: Google is months behind schedule on delivering Gemini 3.5 Pro as it tries to improve its capabilities, particularly in coding; GOOG closes down 4.43% — Alphabet Inc.'s Google is months behind schedule on delivering Gemini 3.5 Pro,…

Instacart, YouTube Music join a Connected Apps expansion in Google's AI Mode

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Google expands its Connected Apps experience in AI Mode to include AI-assisted grocery shopping, playlist creations, and more.

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Heads up, Google fans: the Pixel Watch 4 has crashed back to its Prime Day price

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Weeks before Made by Google 2026, Amazon has dropped the price of the Pixel Watch 4 back to a historic low.

EU forces Google to share its toys with the other AI and search kids

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Spelled out in big colorful letters that even Google can understand, the EU is now requiring the Chocolate Factory to share search data with competitors while enhancing Android AI interoperability for bots other than Gemini. Needless to…

You can now edit videos in Google Vids by simply describing the changes

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Google has added Gemini Omni and personal avatars to Vids, giving paid users new ways to create, edit, and present videos without traditional editing tools.

Google Pixel 11 Pro XL vs. Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra: Big style vs big features

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Google and Samsung are closer than ever, but these companies' phones are more different than you think. How will the Pixel 11 Pro XL stack up against the Galaxy S26 Ultra? Let's take a speculative look.

Rebuilt Gemini 3.5 Pro Misses Third Deadline: Google Eyes Stopgap Release

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Gemini 3.5 Pro has missed three consecutive launch deadlines after Google DeepMind's rebuilt model failed key reliability standards, including frequent hallucinations, and fell short of GPT-5.6 in benchmark tests. Google is reportedly…