Google’s Opening Up Gemini AI for Kids Under 13. Start Clutching Your Pearls.
Back in the Wild West days of the 1990s internet, there wasn’t much out there in the way of parental controls to keep the nascent World Wide Web (that’s what ...
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AI Mode is like ChatGPT in Google Search, and everyone in the US has it now
I haven’t been a big fan of Google Search AI Overviews, and I don’t even see those annoying Gemini-powered summaries in Europe. Forcing AI search results on people doesn’t make ...
Google Says It’s Close to Integrating Gemini AI Into Apple Intelligence
Google is fairly desperate to appear not as a monolithic megacorporation squeezing all the competition out of the international market, given that it’s fighting for life right now in a ...
Google Is About to Abandon Your Old Nest Thermostat
Google itself is reporting the looming abandonment of the first- and second-generation Nest Thermostats as they’re ending their support. It’s more dire than that, though, as the devices will be ...
If Google is forced to sell Chrome, you should be wary of the buyer
I’m a longtime MacBook user browsing the web primarily through Microsoft Edge. It might seem a very odd choice, considering that Apple has a great browser built into macOS, and ...
Google AI Overviews’ embarrassing new problem is even funnier than pizza glue
Ever heard your grandma tell you that “two buses going in the wrong direction is better than one going the right way”? Of course not, because that’s not an actual ...
OpenAI says it would buy Chrome if Google is forced to sell it
In the wake of Google’s latest lawsuit loss, there’s a growing chance that the company could be forced to divest its popular internet browser Chrome. If that comes to pass, ...
Google paid Samsung ‘enormous sums’ to put Gemini AI on the Galaxy S25
A court ruling in a landmark DOJ antitrust case against Google found the company operates a Google Search monopoly. That lawsuit confirmed reports that Google has been paying Apple sums ...
Gemini 2.5 Pro, Google’s most powerful AI, is available to students for free
Earlier this month, Anthropic announced a major new AI initiative targeting the education sector. The Claude for Education program includes an AI Learning Mode for students as well as AI ...
Google just admitted how afraid it is of Apple’s iPhone 16e
The iPhone 16e was just released in March, but this was apparently enough for Apple to become the world’s top smartphone vendor in the first quarter. The iPhone 16e is ...
