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The monthly “Google System Release Notes” primarily detail what’s new in Play services, Play Store, and Play system update across Android phones/tablets, Wear OS, Google/Android TV, Auto, and PC. Some features apply to end users, while others are aimed at developers. The following first-party apps comprise the “Google System”: Adaptive Connectivity…

The unlocked version of the latest Pixel series is 25% off. We may earn a commission from links on this page. Deal pricing and availability subject to change after time of publication. Credit: Product image courtesy of Amazon. The Pixel 9 is the latest series of the Google Pixel phone…

Gemini Live with Video will let you use the real world as input for your AI queries. Credit: Google As part of Mobile World Congress , happening this week in Barcelona, Google has teased that its Gemini AI is finally ready to see the world. Literally. Originally teased as Project…

Increasing Gemini app usage is said to be Google’s “biggest focus” in 2025, with the company recently buying podcast ads to drive downloads. Over the past week or so, people have noticed “Google Gemini” ads in some of the podcasts they listen to. In my case, both shows happen to…

In July of 2023, Google stopped offering new subscriptions of 1st gen Nest Aware, but allowed existing customers to continue using it. This May, Google will “no longer support the Nest Aware 1st generation service” in some regions.  Google sent out an email about “Important changes to your Nest Aware…

Google co-founder Sergey Brin sent a memo to employees this week urging them to return to the office “at least every weekday” in order to help the company win the AGI race, The New York Times reports. Brin told employees that working 60 hours a week is a “sweet spot”…

The commission funds most of its operations by charging fees to companies it regulates Google will need to pay for the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission’s (CRTC) implementation of the Online News Act, per a decision from the commission. The CRTC’s operations are mostly funded by fees charged to the companies…

Amazon AWS Amazon Web Services is the third of the Big Three cloud computing giants to announce a quantum computing chip breakthrough this week, joining Microsoft last week and Google in December.  Amazon's researchers claim their chip, Ocelot, can be much more efficient in using qubits, the fundamental building block…

Amnesty International said that Google fixed previously unknown flaws in Android that allowed authorities to unlock phones using forensic tools. On Friday, Amnesty International published a report detailing a chain of three zero-day vulnerabilities developed by phone-unlocking company Cellebrite, which its researchers found after investigating the hack of a student…

Amazon Web Services on Thursday showed a quantum computing chip with new technology that it hopes will shave as much as five years off its effort to build a commercially useful quantum computer. The chip, named Ocelot, is a prototype that has only a tiny fraction of the computing power…