Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy told MPs the government will draft legislation requiring smartphone makers and app providers to prevent under-18s from taking or sharing nude photos. This follows a three-month deadline given in June to Apple and Google, whose voluntary commitments Nandy said still fall short of addressing the crisis. The law would extend blocking measures beyond device operating systems to individual apps used by children.
Scientists completed a full map of a male fruit fly's nervous system, detailing its neurons and connections. Programmers have since used this neural map to build simulations that let a virtual version of the fly's brain attempt to play games like Doom and Super Mario 64.
Google Cloud and Accenture are forming the Accenture Gemini Enterprise Business Group, a joint unit that will place trained engineers directly inside client companies to help them adopt Google's AI tools. Google plans to train up to 1,000 Accenture engineers for this 'forward-deployed' role, following similar moves by OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, and Amazon.
Google has shifted Chrome from its four-week milestone update schedule to a two-week cycle, with version 153 rolling out now across desktop, Android, and iOS. Each release will carry a smaller set of changes, but updates will arrive twice as often, with version 154 already slated for September 22.
Amazon is selling the XGIMI MoGo 4 Laser portable projector for $539, a $170 cut from its $709 list price. The 24% discount matches the lowest price the device has hit, previously only available during Prime Day.
Google has rolled out Chrome 153 on desktop, Android, and iOS, marking the switch from a four-week to a two-week release schedule. This follows an earlier announcement that Google would double the frequency of stable Chrome releases to speed delivery of features and fixes.
Google has shifted Chrome's stable release schedule from a four-week cycle to a two-week cycle, beginning with Chrome 153 across desktop, Android, and iOS. This means new features, bug fixes, and security patches now reach users twice as fast as before. Chrome 154 is already in beta and slated for release on September 22.
Multiple Waze users report that switching the app from split-screen to full-screen view on Android Auto causes the navigation information box—showing ETA, arrival time, next turn, and remaining distance—to vanish. Some say the data briefly reappears when an alert pops up, only to disappear again once the alert clears, while at least one user reports the map failing to center properly in either view. Android Authority has contacted Google, and it remains unclear whether the fault lies with a recent Android Auto or Waze update.
NextEra Energy has received a $1.9 billion federal loan to refurbish the Duane Arnold Energy Center in Iowa, a nuclear plant shuttered since 2020 that Google pledged to help revive last October. The plant is slated to restart in 2029, with Google reportedly planning up to six data centers nearby, while only 50 megawatts of output will go to the local power cooperative.
Google has shifted Chrome from a four-week to a two-week release schedule, beginning with Chrome 153 rolling out on desktop, iOS, and Android. The company says the change helps it manage a growing volume of security patches driven by AI-assisted bug discovery and faster-moving threats.
Google DeepMind has released AlphaGenome Atlas, a 1-petabyte database that uses its AlphaGenome AI model to predict the regulatory impact of all roughly 9 billion possible single-letter mutations across the human genome. The Atlas also introduces a scoring system called AVI, which condenses complex coding and non-coding predictions into one number researchers can use to quickly identify which genetic variants deserve closer study.
Google confirmed it is rolling out major changes to how Search functions across the European Union, following a $1 billion fine tied to alleged Digital Markets Act violations. The update forces Google to display results from competing vertical search services, such as Expedia or Booking.com, ahead of its own Flights and Hotels products in categories like travel and dining. New carousels will rank listings using Google's algorithm, but with details like real-time pricing removed.
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