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In Brief Posted: 11:28 AM PDT · August 19, 2025 Image Credits:TechCrunch Google will pay $30 million to settle a class action lawsuit claiming it violated children’s privacy on YouTube, per Reuters. The lawsuit alleges that Google collected data from children watching YouTube videos; while this kind of data collection…

The Google Store is teasing the upcoming Pixel 10 launch with a new banner counting down to the launch and calling the series “your future phone.” Google’s Pixel 10 launch event takes place tomorrow, August 20, at 1pm ET. The event will see the debut of the Pixel 10 series…

Updated on: Aug 19, 2025 05:56 pm IST Google and Kairos Power will build a nuclear plant in Tennessee to power data centres by 2030, marking a turning point for America’s nuclear industry. Google has partnered with nuclear startup Kairos Power to build an advanced nuclear plant in Tennessee, marking…

Google Translate could soon get some major AI enhancements, like the ability to select different AI models and a game-like practice mode, according to a report from Android Police on Monday. Android analyst AssembleDebug looked into the Google Translate app's latest build, version 9.15.114, and found what appears to be…

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A Google Cloud survey showed that 87% of video game developers are using artificial intelligence (AI) agents to streamline and automate tasks, as the industry focuses on optimising costs following a wave of record layoffs. Most of the respondents in the report, published on Monday, said AI was helping automate…

Ahyan Stock Studios/Shutterstock If you're not careful, your Android just might be spying on you. Over the past 12 months, more and more hackers have turned to spyware to try and steal user data, snooping on users' messages, photos, phone calls, and even GPS movements. A study conducted by Malwarebytes…

Andrew Leigh backs cancellation of Israeli MP’s visa The assistant minister for competition, Andrew Leigh, has defended the government’s decision to deny entry to a far-right Israeli politician who described Gazan children as “enemies” and called for Israel’s total control of the West Bank. As Sarah Basford Canales reports, Simcha…

What's the harm in visiting a time-wasting website for a few minutes? This is a question I constantly ask myself. But whether it's due to a notification or a recommendation on Chrome's startup page, I end up wasting hours of productivity time by failing to control myself and opening a…

Sunday 17 August 2025 4:34 pm Investors cheered the outcome, with Alphabet shares surging more than seven per cent following the news, with analysts quick to brand the ruling a “regulatory bullet dodged”. Artificial intelligence start-up Perplexity AI has made an unsolicited $34.5bn (£25.4bn) all-cash offer for Google’s Chrome browser,…