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Google Bard now asks users for their precise location. This enables the chatbot to provide better information about local businesses, provide local weather reports, give you directions, and more.

Google Play Books users in the United States can now use a feature called Reading Practice. It's aimed at children to help them develop their vocabulary and comprehension skills independently.

Google has introduced seven additional features for Android, with more unique ones for US residents. These range from features boosting productivity to features increasing data privacy and safety.

Google Chrome is a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier. Google Chrome is one of the best solutions for Internet browsing

As per a recent leak, more official accessories for the Google Pixel Tablet, including a keyboard and a stylus, are still "under development," but additional information remains undisclosed.

Google's head of design confirmed the cancellation of a second foldable Pixel phone. The canceled device, potentially a clamshell design, fills a gap in Google's product lineup. Here are the details.

In this editorial, I argue that big tech companies are making the right decision by making sweeping job cuts, despite being hard to do and hard on the people whose lives are affected as a result.

Google has released the Android 14 Beta 2.1 update for its Pixel smartphones, fixing a bevy of bugs introduced by the previous Beta update released during Google I/O earlier in May.

YouTube Stories launched in 2017 under the name Reels and were supposed to compete with Instagram and Snapchat with videos that would disappear after seven days. Now they are going away for good.

Google Search users in the US are able to access Search Labs features from today. The main addition is the Search Generative Experience which adds generative AI directly to your Google Searches.

The expansion of Google Play Games on PC to a ton of new countries around the world will make it easier for many more people to check out a number of Android-based games on the PC.

The latest Chrome Canary updates have disabled the recently added Mica Alt material due to "not good enough" power usage. However, you can still enable the effect; here is how to do it.

Google Bard can now pull in relevant images from Google Search. Just like the text responses, the images that Bard fetches tend to be spot-on. To be clear, Bard cannot generate its own images yet.

Google is promoting the latest features it has added to Chrome, like a sidebar that can be activated on the right side of the browser. It lets users customize the browser's color and backgrounds.

At the Microsoft Build 2023 event today, Microsoft has unveiled its new unified analytics platform dubbed "Microsoft Fabric". One of the features of Fabric is the new, unified "OneLake" storage.

Microsoft Bing achieved a significant milestone by overtaking Baidu as the top desktop search engine in China. This showcases the importance of AI-driven innovations in the search engine market.

Google has expanded its Flood Hub project to cover 80 countries. The tool also provides 7-day forecasts now instead of 48-hour forecasts. This can give communities more time to prepare for floods.

Neeva, which created a search engine that later added an AI component, announced this weekend it is shutting down its consumer search business. It will concentrate its efforts on AI development.

A fresh, new report claims that Samsung has paused the internal review that was looking into replacing Google Search as its smartphone's default search engine with Microsoft's Bing.

Google has now quietly updated its announcement on the company's plans to delete unused or inactive Google personal accounts, stating that those accounts with YouTube videos will not be affected.

Google Chrome desktop users will now get better suggestions in the URL bar as Google will try to work out what you meant even if you made a typo. It was introduced to help those with dyslexia.

The video showed how this rear body temperature sensor is designed to be used by owners of the Pixel 8 Pro, but there's no word yet on what applications might use this kind of feature.

Microsoft quietly added a major feature to its new Photos app on Windows 11. The software now supports the WebP image format, which is said to more efficient that older, more common formats.

The year-old Google Pixel 6a is still a great device in the segment and right now you can grab the device for less than $200 from Best Buy if you get it with an AT&T or T-Mobile connection.

A new report says Google is planning to use generative AI to automate ads, which may include creating media assets and even for suggesting new videos that YouTube creators could make.

Google has changed its Vulnerability Reward Program to give higher payouts. It also expects more detailed reports from security researchers and they will be ranked as High, Medium, and Low impact.

Security experts have raised warnings about Google's new .zip and .mov top-level domains because they look like file extensions and could be used maliciously. They are already being used in the wild.

Google has accidentally launched an internal "dogfood" build of its Personal Safety app via the Play Store, which contains a new feature that allows users to use their Pixel phones as a dashcam.

Google Chrome is a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier. Google Chrome is one of the best solutions for Internet browsing

Altman added that he is concerned about how generative AI systems like OpenAI's ChatGPT could be used for misinformation and for interfering in future elections in his statements to the Senate panel.

If you have a Google account that you have not used or signed into for at least two years, the company may delete that account and its contents like email, photos, and more starting in December 2023

Microsoft Outlook calendar users who use the same email address as Google Calendar can now get Google's invites and RSVPs in Outlook's calendar feature from now on, among other additions.

Google has updated Bard again today so that it provides helpful summaries. It will also let you see which parts of the answer are from sources linked at the bottom of the response.

A new report says that the city of San Francisco is now getting three 911 calls a day due to issues with driverless automated cars from Waymo and GM, and things could get even worse in the future.

The Google Pixel 7a is a terrific Android smartphone for the low price of $499 but right now you can get it at Amazon and claim a $50 gift card from the online retailer for no additional cost.

Google has been asked by India's anti-trust watchdog to provide details related to its user choice billing program after companies alleged that Google had been charging up to 26 percent commission.

In this guide, we look at how you can reset your Google Chrome installation so that it runs like new. It's a great solution if Chrome feels sluggish on your PC if you've had it installed for a while.

Despite a massive AI push at Google I/O 2023, Google's ChatGPT competitor, Bard, is skipping a release in the European Union (EU), possibly to avoid being grounded over privacy regulations under GDPR.

Google has updated its browser in the Canary Channel, adding the recently offered Mica effect to the tab strip. The new visuals are now available for everyone to test without extra flags or commands.

Recent observations from users across the internet, later confirmed by YouTube, have found that when trying to use the site, a prompt comes up preventing playback until ad blockers are disabled.