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"Our plans are always evolving." Google makes major announcement about its future operations: 'There's a huge opportunity here' first appeared on The Cool Down.

I would like to make an amendment to an article I published last month comparing the risks of popular U.S. technology companies with concerns previously reserved for those from China. I wrote: In a 2019 speech at Georgetown University, Mark Zuckerberg lamented an apparently lost leadership by the U....

President Donald Trump’s additional 75 day delay to TikTok’s sale-or-ban deadline leaves service providers like Apple, Google, and Oracle on shaky ground, and, according to one influential Democrat, is straight-up “against the law.” After Trump announced the extension on Friday, 12 Republican member...

Google is launching Pokémon catching game you can play directly in search results, and it doubles as a quiz on how well you know the original 151 Pokémon.

Posted by Elie Burzstein and Marianna Tishchenko, Sec-Gemini team Today, we’re announcing Sec-Gemini v1, a new experimental AI model focused on advancing cybersecurity AI frontiers. As outlined a year ago, defenders face the daunting task of securing against all cyber threats, while attackers need t...

Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview pricing Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro is currently the top model on LM Arena and, from my own testing, a superb model for OCR, audio transcription and long-context coding. You can now pay for it! The new gemini-2.5-pro-preview-03-25 model ID is priced like this: Prompts less than 20...

Posted by Mihai Maruseac, Google Open Source Security Team (GOSST) In partnership with NVIDIA and HiddenLayer, as part of the Open Source Security Foundation, we are now launching the first stable version of our model signing library. Using digital signatures like those from Sigstore, we allow users...

The Dreamer AI system of Google's DeepMind reached the milestone of mastering Minecraft by ‘imagining’ the future impact of possible decisions

In celebration of MSFT’s 50th anniversary, we’re rolling out Agent Mode with MCP support to all VS Code users. We are also announcing the new GitHub Copilot Pro+ plan w/ premium requests, the general availability of models from Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI, next edit suggestions for code completion...

Just as tobacco companies knew they were poisoning people, today’s social media titans knowingly poison our politics, peddling lies and stoking angry divides for profit

It's starting to get a little warmer in the Northern Hemisphere, which means you might be looking to the yard for after-dark movie nights. Many portable projectors still need to be plugged in, but Dangbei's Freedo caters for cable-free watching for up to 2.5 hours. Continue Reading Category: Home En...

"What a waste of resources." Google users outraged after new feature gives bizarre responses: 'How do you turn it off?' first appeared on The Cool Down.

As a developer I use Google dozens of times a day for technical documentation. For the last 20 years it has been an incredible resource and I have always been...

Google’s upcoming base Pixel 10 might come with primary and ultrawide cameras that match the hardware recently introduced in the budget Pixel 9A, which aren’t as good as the cameras on the Pixel 9, Android Authority reports. However, the new phone may get a telephoto camera, which the Pixel 9 and ot...

DeepMind says AGI could arrive in 2030, and it has some ideas to keep us safe.

Yes, encryption/decryption occurs on end-user devices, but there's a catch.

NotebookLM can do the legwork for you now.

It's time you let that old, decrepit tech go and upgrade to the new hotness.

YouTube is adding new features to Shorts that aim to make it easier for creators to edit short-form videos. There are five new tools “coming this spring” according to YouTube’s announcement, including a revamped video editor that provides similar editing features to those already found on competing ...

Experience quality sound at an affordable price with $20 off the Pixel Buds A-Series.

I added Google’s Blogger.com to the directory today. I purposely omitted them when I was was first seeding links into the directory here because A. everybody knew about them, B. Google had not been adding on to the service although they keep it working well, C. Google is Big Tech and therefore evil ...

When you jump into a video on YouTube or Netflix, a lot happens very quickly behind the scenes. Video data is rapidly downloaded to your device, which then has to unpack and normalize that information into a smooth, hiccup-free stream. The process of encoding and decoding video data has changed grea...

Google has added a new feature to NotebookLM that lets the AI note-taking tool find its own web sources to summarize and narrate. Instead of manually uploading sources like documents or YouTube links, users can now tap the “Discover” button and simply describe the topic they want to get a better und...

A couple months back, I started freelancing with a new organization, helping people dealing with natural disasters. Getting access to previous work and plans was difficult at first, because I had to request access to items one by one with my personal email address. Soon after, I converted to a

With fresh leadership, Google aims to create new products based on Gemini.

[Just answer the question!] Recently, Pew Research Center got some surprising feedback to one of their surveys: While we get a wide range of feedback on our surveys, we were surprised by a comment we received on an online survey in 2024: “You misspelled YES with FORKS numerous times.” Forks, that wo...

Sissie Hsaio, the Google exec who oversaw the launch of the company’s AI chatbot, is stepping down as head of the Gemini app, according to a report from Semafor. A memo seen by the outlet reveals that Google Labs vice president Josh Woodward will take her place. In the memo, Google DeepMind CEO Demi...

Google’s hybrid entertainment and productivity tablet returns to its lowest-ever price.

"And they said AI is smarter than humans." Google user baffled after AI gives wildly different answers to nearly identical prompts: 'Then explain this' first appeared on The Cool Down.

Samsung has launched the Tab S10 FE and Tab S10 FE Plus, the latest in its midrange Android tablet line, but they cost $50 more than their predecessors. For the first time neither tablet has a direct equivalent in the standard Tab S10 series. The FE is the smallest of the company’s current tablet of...

Away geography is [not] destiny wandering holding a backpack with a device beeping, amidst the traffic even a heartbeat is useless, following an arrow on the Google map desire steps in with mustard twilights of a Northern winter, breathless for an early renewal; poppies are still fabulous, hoopoes m...

We’re living in an age where every tap and every swipe can feed the data collection practices of Big Tech giants. Smartphones have become integral to our daily transactions, highlighting the growing need for secure, privacy-respecting payment solutions. Google Pay might appear convenient, but it com...

Motorola announced the first phone in its midrange Edge 60 series, which ships with a novel twist: a faux-canvas finish. The Edge 60 Fusion looks the part otherwise, with its molded camera module and surprisingly slim body, but the basic specs match the low price tag — just £299.99 (around $390) in ...

Some Google Pixel users have found that their At a Glance widget has been showing outdated weather forecasts, as reported by Android Police. But the company says in a statement to The Verge that it’s addressing the issue. According to one user on Reddit who has been dealing with the problem, “the cu...

Apple only supported RCS on the big three carriers in the first iOS18 releases.

I’m releasing an expanded version of my game Shark Turtle for macOS and Windows. Grab it at itch: gingerbeardman.itch.io/shark-turtle-desktop/ About the icon I couldn’t find the exact licence for Google’s Emoji Kitchen, it’s either SIL as part of the Noto font or CC BY 4.0. But I did find a comment ...

Ethan Mollick at One Useful Thing: Over the past two weeks, first Google and then OpenAI rolled out their multimodal image generation abilities. This is a big deal. Previously, when a Large Language Model AI generated an image, it wasn’t really the LLM doing the work. Instead, the AI would send a te...

You probably shouldn’t expect major changes to Google’s next Pixel foldable. Renders shared with Android Headlines by reliable leaker Onleaks show a Pixel 10 Pro Fold that looks very similar to its predecessor, potentially indicating that it could largely be just a spec bump. As shown in the renders...

​Google has started rolling out a new end-to-end encryption (E2EE) model for Gmail enterprise users, making it easier to send encrypted emails to any recipient. [...]

A tougher vetting process and more bureaucracy make it harder to publish.

In the past few years, AI has set Silicon Valley on fire. The new book AI Valley: Microsoft, Google, and the Trillion-Dollar Race to Cash in on Artificial Intelligence chronicles those blazing high times, telling the stories of the startups, venture capital firms, and legacy tech companies that are ...

Google is updating Gmail to allow enterprise users to send encrypted messages to any inbox in just a few clicks. Google says it’s developed a new encryption model that, unlike the current encryption feature on Gmail, doesn’t require senders or recipients to use custom software or exchange encryption...

How’s that 5G rollout going in your area? Even in 2025, there’s no guarantee you’re going to be able to get reliable cell service everywhere you go, especially if you happen to live somewhere that’s especially crowded or remote — or if you work in your company’s basement. That’s where Wi-Fi callin...

Om Malik: What’s particularly ironic is that today’s Google has become exactly what its founders warned against in their 1998 paper: an advertising company whose business model fundamentally conflicts with serving users’ needs. I remember when Sergey Brin and Larry Page first articulated their visio...

Photo Management I'm going to turn the tables today. Instead of giving YOU information on software, I'm going to ask you to give me some recommendations. Specifically, I am looking for a photos app. Since I am eliminating Google and Amazon from my online life, I won't have access to their photo mana...

Malwarebytes announced they're done with April Fools' pranks because we have enough fake crap on the internet already. The cybersecurity company points out that between AI-generated fakery, Google ad scams, and fraudsters using synthesized voices of loved ones to con families, we're already drowning...

Eid al-Fitr is now a “US Holiday” according to Apple: (Separately, nobody can write precisely precisely?) How about some new phrases, e.g., “As American as Eid al-Fitr”? (Eid al-Fitr is not on the analogous Google Calendar “Holidays in the United States”) Related: Profiles in Corporate Courage (Appl...

New IDC study, co-sponsored by Canonical and Google Cloud, reveals the challenges and opportunities for organizations securing their software supply chains. Today, Canonical and Google Cloud released findings from a joint research project conducted by the International Data Corporation (IDC) that sh...