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Google has made an update so that Video Boost no longer has to be enabled every time you open the Pixel Camera app. Since launch, Video Boost on the Pixel 8 Pro, 9 Pro, and 9 Pro XL would get disabled upon exiting the Camera app. (However, it remained on…

Acting Consumer Financial Protection Bureau director Russell Vought has demanded all bureau staffers to halt investigations, enforcement, rule-making, research, and public statements in two emails sent Saturday and Monday that were reviewed by WIRED. He also forbade CFPB workers from making court appearances other than to pause or postpone proceedings.…

If you search map websites for information about the Gulf of Mexico this week in the United States, you will see that, depending on which service you use, the familiar body of water might have a new name—or not. These search results exemplify the complications stemming from technology companies’ varying…

California-based internet giant says the name of the body of water will depend on the user’s location. Google has begun calling the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America following United States President Donald Trump’s executive order renaming the body of water. The California-based internet giant said on Monday that…

(Image credit: Google) Google wants you to know that Gemini 2.0 Flash should be your favorite AI chatbot. The model boasts greater speed, bigger brains, and more common sense than its predecessor, Gemini 1.5 Flash. After putting Gemini Flash 2.0 through its paces against ChatGPT, I decided to see how…

To coincide with the Super Bowl 2025 commercial, the US Google Store is discounting the Pixel 9 series, as well as the Pixel Watch 3 and Pixel Buds Pro 2. After previously taking $150 off, the Google Store is now offering a $200 discount on the Pixel 9 Pro ($799…

There seems to be some real excitement behind the project Feb 8, 2025 11:02 AM EST 0 comments Just over a week from announcing that Pebble smartwatches are returning, the creator Eric Migicovsky has shared his progress in a new blog post. The Canadian claims that when Google published the…

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When the Super Bowl airs on Sunday, February 9 at 6:30 p.m., one ad from Google will run with some last-minute alterations. Last week, an X user posted that one of Google's new Super Bowl ads about a Wisconsin cheese market owner was "AI slop" and is "unequivocally false." In…

Edits generated by the Pixel 9’s Reimagine feature inside the Google Photos Magic Editor will now be watermarked with SynthID. SynthID (from Google DeepMind) adds a digital watermark to AI-generated content, including images, videos, music, and text, without compromising quality. It’s not visible to people, but detectable by features like…