Google would like for you to use Gemini more often. Today, the company announced that you can opt to have Gemini read your search history when prompting it for help. Google says the upside of this is that it’ll give you more personalized results when you interact with Gemini. “This will enable Gemini to provide […]
Google Apologizes for ‘Untrusted Device’ Outage Plaguing Certain Chromecast Models
Over the weekend, 9to5Google reported that second-gen Chromecast and Chromecast Audio devices displayed an “Untrusted device” error message, preventing users from casting audio and video content onto their screens of choice. On Wednesday, Google sent an apology email to people affected by the outage, saying it was “working to roll out a fix as soon […]
Google Is Bringing Gemini to Android Auto, and It Sounds So Annoying
Gemini is coming for every part of your Google-led life, whether you like it or not. It’s even en route to the car, which I definitely do not like. Once it officially rolls out, I hope we’ll understand how to use Gemini from behind the wheel. The current demonstration of what it’s capable of doesn’t […]
Google Is Hobbling Popular Ad Blocker uBlock Origin on Chrome
Users of the popular uBlock Origin extension on Google Chrome might need to make the switch to a new browser. Or maybe cave and subscribe to YouTube Premium—features like offline downloads, background listening, and unlimited music streaming make it a decent value. Regardless, uBlock Origin is getting deprecated on Chrome as Google completes the process […]
Google Is Developing Technology to Deliver Internet Via Light Bridges
Google just had a lightbulb moment, and it might move internet access out of the (literal) dark ages. Over at the company’s moonshot factory X, researchers have developed a chip that they believe should enable us to deliver high-speed internet access via beams of light, opening up the possibility of making all those underground cables […]
The Google Pixel Watch 3 Can Call for Help If You Lose Your Pulse
The best thing a company can do for its product—especially for its sales numbers—is to convince the users that it’s essential to living. Google is certainly leaning into that narrative with the Pixel Watch 3. This week, Google’s third-gen smartwatch received clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its Loss of Pulse […]
PSA: Google Is Making It Easier to Remove Your Personal Information From Search Results
If you ever Google yourself and don’t like what you see, you have some recourse. Google’s Results About You tool, which it first introduced in 2022, just got an update that makes it easier for you to request the removal of search results that contain your personal information, including outdated search results that are no […]
Chegg Sues Google, Says AI Search Results Are Killing Its Business
Chegg is sort of on its last dying breath at this point, but it will go out fighting. The online education company, which started out renting textbooks and later expanded into online homework help, sued Google on Monday for anticompetitive practices, saying it is unfairly scraping material from Chegg for its AI-powered search results. The […]
USAID Workers Reportedly Believe They Were Recorded by Google’s Gemini AI
As if the employees of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) weren’t under enough scrutiny from Elon Musk and his team of edgelord posters, it turns out another set of unwelcome eyes seem to be on the department. According to a report from IT Brew, USAID staffers were warned by leadership that Google’s […]
Google Had to Fix an AI Mistake in Its Super Bowl Ad
In attempting to advertise the functionality of it’s AI model Gemini, Google accidentally create an advertisement for the greatest flaw of AI tools: their affinity for just making stuff up. The Verge recently caught that Google had to fix its planned Super Bowl Sunday ad promoting Gemini because the text of an answer provided by […]