Modern map apps do much more than get you from point A to point B, with everything from traffic light locations to AI-powered route planning. I tested Google Maps and Apple Maps to find the better ...

Consider this a belated PSA: A recent change to Google’s privacy settings is allowing the company to store more of your data, including media such as “images, files, and audio and video recordings,” ...

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani argued a true celebration of patriotism should confront both the nation’s ideals and its flaws, in a speech Friday on the eve of America’s 250th birthday. The speech ...

Chrome’s automatic Gemini Nano installation writes a file called weights.bin to a folder most people have never opened and wouldn’t think to check. Chrome has been running an experiment on its users’ ...

President Donald Trump kicks off the Great American State Fair with an evening speech on Wednesday, June 24. The event, starting at 7 p.m. ET on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., promises music ...

A24 and Google have struck an AI research partnership that will see the independent studio work with Google’s DeepMind unit to develop new AI-powered technologies for filmmakers. Google’s roughly $75 ...

Google's gonna start using your search-oriented images and audio to train its AI systems — unless you explicitly tell it "no thanks." Heads-up, my fellow Android-appreciating animals: Google’s in the ...

Potentially impacting all AI search engines and chatbots known to poorly paraphrase source links, a German court has ruled that Google is liable for false statements in AI Overviews. The preliminary ...

The generative AI boom has driven the cost of memory into the stratosphere, and Google is a key part of that trend. So it’s only fitting that Google should offer some less RAM-hungry local AI models.

It’s been three-and-a-half years since generative AI exploded onto the scene. In this past year, progress has continued its relentless pace: Vibe coding took off, companies embraced agentic workflows, ...

AI is changing health care faster than almost any other technology in recent memory. Among the most rapidly adopted applications are transcription tools that record encounters, convert speech to text, ...