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PERSONAL TECH New rules cover organic rankings, AI Overviews, and user-approved search data sharing The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has imposed two new conduct requirements for Google's search services, to improve transparency and fairness in result rankings and allowing users to port their search data to third parties.…

Table of contents Android 17 started rolling out to the Pixel 9a on Tuesday, as part of Google’s June Pixel Drop. This is a major feature update. Your phone is getting new multitasking tools, a smarter screen recorder, better privacy controls, and one genuinely useful perk that only just landed…

Dead Hand in Hand by Ollie Reynolds Mon 15th Jun 2026 Image: Nintendo A new description for The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time on Switch 2 suggests that the upcoming remake may be a more faithful 1:1 recreation of the original rather than a complete reimagining. As covered by…

Little Layers cuts through the noise with weather-based daily outfit suggestions built on NHS and Lullaby Trust guidance ELY, UK — June 2026 — For today's generation of parents, the answer to almost every question begins with a Google search. But when it comes to dressing a newborn — one…

Google loves telling us all the ways people are using its generative AI products to build new things, grow businesses, and save the world. Supposedly. Of course, people are also using AI for crime. Google has announced a new legal salvo aimed at a Chinese group called Outsider Enterprise, which…

Despite a single-digit market share in practically every global region, Google still has a fairly strong foothold in the smartphone space with the Pixel, but why? There’s no way to sugarcoat it: with the Pixel, Google hasn’t exactly hit the heights of its competitors. Rightly or wrongly, Samsung is the…

The software updates revealed at WWDC will launch alongside new hardware later this year. Apple has unveiled a sweeping artificial intelligence overhaul of Siri for the iPhone, turning to Google for help after stumbling on its first attempt two years ago, as tech giants race to pour billions into AI.…

We know that Siri AI and other Apple Intelligence features are powered by Google’s Gemini models, but Apple has been at pains to point out that this is not the same as running Gemini on iPhone. While there are still some unknowns, a far clearer picture is emerging about exactly…

Google just made its budget AI subscription plan a lot more budget-friendly, bringing a price war that’s been brewing in emerging markets squarely to American consumers. The company announced Monday that it is cutting the monthly price of Google AI Plus from $7.99 to $4.99 — while doubling the storage…

With the new Workspace icons fully rolled out, Google is now tweaking how Chat appears in the Android status bar to look less like Messages. The homescreen icons are pretty distinguished in terms of color (green vs. blue), but the design has more than a few similarities. Both consist of…