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Chrome 132 started rolling out this week as Google’s first major browser update of 2025, and one new feature the company is finally making official is the ability to customize the toolbar on desktop.  On Chrome for Mac, Windows, and Linux, go to the New Tab Page and click “Customize…

Credit: Google Google hasn't been shy about pushing the Gemini AI bot into just about every app and device it can—from the Pixel 9 to your video calls—and most of the time you get the same experience when you call up the assistant. If you need a more bespoke AI…

Image: Apple Apple added support for the Google-supported RCS (Rich Communication Services) message standard with iOS 18. RCS was created by the cellular industry to add advanced media and other features to messaging that would work across operating systems. Google adopted RCS in Android about five years ago, and it’s…

Mashle tops anime search, "Bling-Bang-Bang-Born" song tops "humming" search © 甲本 一／集英社・マッシュル製作委員会 We're halfway through the first month of 2025, but it is never too late to look back to the year that was, particularly the top Google searches in Japan in 2024. It's a double win for Mashle: Magic…

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January 16, 2025 1:52 PM Credit: Image generated by VentureBeat with FLUX-pro Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More A few months ago, Google Cloud launched C4A as the virtual machine (VM) instances powered by Axion, its first…

Latest The solar PV plants will be sited to support Google’s data centre operations in the US state of Oklahoma. Image: Leeward Renewable Energy. Solar developer Leeward Renewable Energy has signed a long-term power purchase agreement (PPA) with tech giant Google, which will support over 700MW of solar PV in…

Generally works for me with https://www.google.com/search?gbv=1&q=test with JS blocked at domain-level by uBlock Origin. With the caveat that this used to 100% work, but since a couple months, it indeed occasionally redirects to the “Turn on JavaScript to keep searching” page you mention, https://www.google.com/httpservice/retry/enablejs . I'd say the refusal happens…

January 15, 2025 11:43 AM VentureBeat/Ideogram Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Microsoft has been positioning Copilot as the “UI for AI.” The company has already launched several variants of the GPT-4o-powered assistant for business and personal…

​Ironically, cybercriminals now use Google search advertisements to promote phishing sites that steal advertisers' credentials for the Google Ads platform. The attackers are running ads on Google Search impersonating Google Ads, showing as sponsored results that redirect potential victims to fake login pages hosted on Google Sites but looking like…