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Photo Credit: Alban_Carguy Google has added its newly released Lyria 3 music generator to Gemini, which can now determine whether audio uploads contain the SynthID watermark. The tech giant debuted Lyria 3 today, touting the DeepMind-developed model as its most advanced music offering to date. At the top level, this…

An internet search was conducted for Nancy Guthrie’s home in the weeks leading up to her reported abduction. Citing Google Trends data, Fox News reported that someone in Arizona searched for Guthrie’s address between June 21 and 28, 2025. The address was searched again on January 11. According to Fox…

Google’s annual developer conference is taking place on May 19-20. As usual, the event will be held at the Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View, California and is scheduled to kick off on May 19 at 10AM PT (5PM UTC). Google confirmed that it will be livestreaming all keynotes, demos and…

Dark vessel operating without AIS signal captured by Vantor satellites via Maritime Sentry, embedded by Google Earth AI models. Credit: Vantor WASHINGTON — Vantor, a commercial Earth-observation satellite operator focused on government and national security markets, announced plans to run Google Earth AI models inside classified government networks to automate…

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Sharing files with your iPhone friends just got easier Google Last year, Google first enabled AirDrop compatibility on Pixel 10 devices, a change that finally let Android phones share files with iPhones using Apple’s own system. Now, Google is expanding its Quick Share feature, and Pixel 9 phones are next…

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Podcaster David Greene is accusing Google of using his voice without permission to create one of the AI voices in the company’s research and note-taking tool NotebookLM. Google added Audio Overviews in the second half of 2024, allowing NotebookLM users to make brief podcast episodes out of pages of notes…

CTM360 reports that more than 4,000 malicious Google Groups and 3,500 Google-hosted URLs are being used in an active malware campaign targeting global organizations. The attackers abuse Google’s trusted ecosystem to distribute credential-stealing malware and establish persistent access on compromised devices. The activity is global, with attackers embedding organization names…

TranslateGemma is a suite of open translation models developed by Google, designed to facilitate seamless communication across 55 languages. Built upon the advanced Gemma 3 architecture, TranslateGemma offers a range of models tailored to various deployment needs, from mobile devices to cloud-based applications. Key Features Model Variants: TranslateGemma provides models…