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This week, at its annual I/O developer conference in Mountain View, Google showcased a head-spinning number of projects and products powered by or enhanced by AI. They included a new-and-improved version of its chatbot Bard, tools to help you write emails and documents or manipulate images, devices with AI baked in, and a chatbot-like…

Image: Google, various If you love browsing YouTube and hate constantly having to wait through ads for Purple mattresses and local political candidates, you might be running some kind of ad-blocker on the web’s biggest video repository. Naturally, YouTube and Google would prefer that you not do so, and instead…

Story by Linnea Ahlgren During its I/O 2023 event yesterday, Google announced it had officially removed the waitlist for its AI-powered chatbot Bard and made the service available in 180 countries and territories. Sadly for most Europeans keen on testing the tech giant’s contribution to the generative AI race, the…

Preorder, then equip your sick day excuse. Updated: May 11, 2023 1:22 am Posted: May 11, 2023 1:21 am Finally! It's almost Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom game time. Have you got your sick day excuse ready for tomorrow? Personally, I'm going with lime disease. Haven't even Googled what that…

Amid the talk about the Pixel Fold, Android 14 and everything else at Google I/O 2023, Google CEO Sundar Pichai addressed one of the most pressing questions of our time: Is a hot dog a sandwich? But he didn't affirm or deny whether a hot dog is a sandwich, rather…

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Google and WhatsApp have confirmed they are aware of a bug that makes it appear as if WhatsApp is accessing phones’ microphones unnecessarily on some Android devices. The issue first cropped up a month ago, but gained new attention after a Twitter engineer tweeted about it in a post that…

No one likes ads, but sadly, they’re becoming more and more common each day. Now, Google Play will start showing more and more ads — even in the places where you least expect them. Now, the next time you go search for an app on the Play Store, you might…

News Is Google Authenticator's sync feature truly secure? @andrew_andrew__ May 8, 2023, 1:22 pm EDT | 1 min read Andrew Heinzman / Review Geek The latest Google Authenticator update adds account synchronization—essentially, you can now save one-time passwords to your Google account, which may come in handy if lose or…

The Sony Xperia V's design is now revealed, thanks to a billboard in Hong Kong. Not that we weren't sure what the phone would look like, but it's nice to see the triple color scheme - White, Black, and Green. The Xperia 1 V will become official on May 11.…