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Google TL;DR Google’s Project Astra aims to be a “universal AI assistant” that understands context, devises plans, and acts on your behalf within Android. A demo showcased Astra assisting with a bike repair by navigating a manual, finding a YouTube tutorial, and potentially contacting a shop. This was powered by an AI agent that controls Android apps by simulating screen inputs, indicating an advanced but still developing capability. Google’s Gemini chatbot has come a long way since its init
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Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Gmail’s Smart Replies are getting personalized with help from Gemini. The replies will match your tone and pull context from past emails and Google Drive. Appointment scheduling is also getting smarter with automatic meeting suggestions. Gmail already offers a bunch of smart tools like Smart Compose, Help Me Write, and Smart Replies to make emailing faster and easier. Now, one of those features is getting a serious upgrade. Smart Replies are about t
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WWDC 2025 is fast approaching, and it looks like iOS will once again be the highlight of the year. While there is some controversy about what exactly the system will look like when Apple unveils what’s purported to be the most significant visual change since iOS 7, a few leaks suggest the update could go well beyond just a new coat of paint. Here are three iOS 19 features that will actually matter in your day-to-day. 1) Adaptive, AI-driven Low-Power Mode Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reported recen
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Last weekend, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman and Drake Bennett published a comprehensive look into what went wrong with Apple Intelligence. The piece details everything from years-long oversights to a deep misunderstanding of AI’s potential at the company’s highest levels. But more importantly, it also outlines what Apple is doing now to catch up. One of those efforts? A push into synthetic data. As Gurman and Bennett put it: All this has left Apple’s researchers more heavily reliant on datasets it
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At I/O 2025, Google announced a slew of updates for the Gemini app, including the launch of 2.5 Flash and Gemini Live camera and screen sharing for iOS. An update to Gemini 2.5 Flash, which Google first announced in April, improves its performance on reasoning, multimodality, code, and long context benchmarks, while making it more efficient by using 20-30% less tokens. It’s now available for everyone in the Gemini app, while an updated preview version (05-20) is now live in Google AI Studio and
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Yesterday, Microsoft kicked off its annual developers conference with, unsurprisingly, a slew of AI features, models, and capabilities it is bringing to its own systems, many of which developers will also be able to leverage. While some are very specific to Microsoft’s ecosystem, there were quite a few that would undoubtedly be a great addition to Apple’s own native AI offerings, whenever those finally materialize. #1: On-device AI models access through Edge A new set of APIs will allow devel
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Google first teased Project Starline in 2021, billing it at the time as a "magic window" that uses special hardware, computer vision and machine learning to create an almost holographic video call experience. Since then, we've checked out an early version of the experiment for ourselves and learned last year that the company is teaming up with HP to bring a scaled-down version of the product to enterprise clients. At I/O 2025 today, Google announced that Project Starline "is evolving into an AI-
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If you find Google's live translation tools useful, you'll soon be able to use them more naturally during video calls and meetings. The company announced today that it's bringing the feature to Google Meet. Starting this week, AI-powered, real-time Spanish translation will be available in the app. Google says more languages are on the way and that the technology is "very, very close to having a natural and free-flowing conversation." During a brief demo, live translation in Meet matched the spe
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Last month, Gemini Live camera and screen sharing became available on Pixel phones as part of Google's April feature drop. But today, at Google I/O 2025, the company announced that it's bringing that capability to all compatible Android and iOS devices as part of a free update. Available inside the Gemini app, the ability to share your phone's camera or content from your screen with Google's AI is meant to make it easier and more natural to get answers about complex topics. For example, instead
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Like it or not, Google's Gemini AI is worming its way into more of your Workspace apps. At I/O 2025, CEO Sundar Pichai announced that its upcoming Gmail app will have a new feature called Personalized Smart Replies. The idea is that with your permission, Gemini can examine your past emails and Google docs, then help you craft responses to personal- or business-oriented emails. In an example onstage at I/O, Pichai used the example of a friend taking a road trip through Colorado to Utah, a trip t
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Late last year Google announced its new extended reality ecosystem, Android XR, designed to go up against Meta Quest and Apple's Vision Pro. Along with that it introduced the first device, Samsung's Project Moohan, a virtual reality-style headset. Now as part of Google I/O, Xreal has unveiled Project Aura, the second official Android XR device. Rather than being a full headset, it's a pair of lightweight see-through "tethered" glasses powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor. It incorporates
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Google just touted some big numbers regarding its AI Overviews feature during its I/O conference. On the stage, company CEO Sundar Pichai said that the service has 1.5 billion monthly users. That's around 18 percent of the total human population of planet Earth, give or take. For the remaining 82 percent of humanity, AI Overviews are those little recaps that appear at the top of Google queries. These primarily appear when the search engine is asked a question, with the company saying they only
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The more nuanced TTS can also soften into a (creepy-sounding) whisper. Google is enhancing Gemini's text-to-speech (TTS). On Tuesday at Google I/O 2025, the company previewed a new TTS feature, built on native audio output, that can "converse in more expressive ways." Google’s Tulsee Doshi showed a quick demo of the Gemini 2.5 TTS models onstage in Mountain View. It showed an AI-powered voice that sounds more natural and less robotic, with subtler nuances. The TTS can converse in over 24 lang
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When Google unveiled Android XR last year, it seemed like a clear response to Apple's Vision Pro: It was a plan for a true mixed reality platform that could easily hop between AR, VR and smart glasses like Meta's Ray-Bans. At Google I/O 2025 today, Google announced the second developer preview for Android XR, and it also showed off a bit more about how it could work in headsets and smart glasses. It'll likely be a while before we see Android XR devices in action, though, as Google also revealed
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It can take on more complex tasks, but it still has a long way to go. Last year at Google I/O, one of the most interesting demos was Project Astra, an early version of a multimodal AI that could recognize your surroundings in real-time and answer questions about them conversationally. While the demo offered a glimpse into Google's plans for more powerful AI assistants, the company was careful to note that what we saw was a "research preview." One year later though, Google is laying out its vis
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Google has started testing a reasoning model called Deep Think for Gemini 2.5 Pro, the company has revealed at its I/O developer conference. According to DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, Gemini's Deep Think uses "the latest cutting-edge research" that gives the model the capability to consider multiple hypotheses before responding to queries. Google says it got an "impressive score" when evaluated using questions from the 2025 United States of America Mathematical Olympiad competition. However, Goog
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One of the new AI features that Google has announced for Search at I/O 2025 will let you discuss what it's seeing through your camera in real time. Google says more than 1.5 billion people use visual search on Google Lens, and it's now taking the next step in multimodality by bringing Project Astra's live capabilities into Search. With the new feature called Search Live, you can have a back-and-forth conversation with Search about what's in front of you. For instance, you can simply point your c
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As part of this year's announcements at its I/O developer conference, Google has revealed its latest media generation models. Most notable, perhaps, is the Veo 3, which is the first iteration of the model that can generate videos with sounds. It can, for instance, create a video of birds with an audio of their singing, or a city street with the sounds of traffic in the background. Google says Veo 3 also excels in real-world physics and in lip syncing. At the moment, the model is only available f
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As part of its announcements for I/O 2025 today, Google shared details on some new features that would make shopping in AI Mode more novel. It's describing the three new tools as being part of its new shopping experience in AI Mode, and they cover the discovery, trying on and checkout parts of the process. These will be available "in the coming months" for online shoppers in the US. The first update is when you're looking for a specific thing to buy. The examples Google shared were searches for
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Google's Chrome browser is the latest major product from the company to get its own built-in Gemini features. Today at Google I/O, the company detailed its plans to bring its AI assistant to Chrome. While Gemini can already distill information from websites, having the assistant baked into Chrome allows it to provide insights and answer questions about your open tabs without ever having to move to a different window or application. Instead, Gemini lives in a new menu at the top of your browser
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Google has begun rolling out AI Mode to every Search user in the US. The company announced the expansion during its I/O 2025 conference. Google first began previewing AI Mode with testers in its Labs program at the start of March. Since then, it has been gradually rolling out the feature to more people, including in recent weeks regular Search users. For the uninitiated, AI Mode is a chatbot built directly into Google Search. It lives in a separate tab, and was designed by the company to tackle
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Google Chrome has announced a feature for its built-in password manager that it claims will let users instantly change passwords compromised in data breaches. Google Password Manager already alerts you when your credentials have appeared in a data breach, and partially automates the process of changing your password, but — until now — you still had to go through the steps manually for each of your online accounts. The Automated Password Change feature, announced at today's Google I/O keynote pr
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At I/O today, Google pitched creators on a new app for "AI filmmaking": Flow. Combining all of Google’s recent announcements and developments across AI-powered services, including Veo (video), Imagen (images) and Gemini, the company bills Flow as a storytelling aid ‘built with creatives.” If it sounds familiar, this is the advanced version of VideoFX, previously a Google Labs experiment. It says it’s aimed at helping storytellers to explore ideas and create clips and scenes, almost like storybo
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SK Telecom says that a recently disclosed cybersecurity incident in April, first occurred all the way back in 2022, ultimately exposing the USIM data of 27 million subscribers. SK Telecom is the largest mobile network operator in South Korea, holding roughly half of the national market. On April 19, 2025, the company detected malware on its networks and responded by isolating the equipment suspected of being hacked. This breach allowed attackers to steal data that included IMSI, USIM authenti
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'ZDNET Recommends': What exactly does it mean? ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. And we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products and services we’re assessing. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or
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ZDNET's key takeaways The OnePlus 12 has a starting price of $799 It was the company's most complete handset in 2024 with the fastest charging speeds on the market (both wired and wireless), a flagship camera system, premium build quality, and reliable performance The lack of generative AI features is felt, but for many, that may not be a problem. View now at OnePlus View now at Amazon View now at Best Buy more buying choices OnePlus is holding a new promotion for its old flagship phone. For
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NurPhoto / Contributor / Getty Images Google Search has dominated the market for decades, but the experience has remained relatively the same -- that is, until generative AI exploded in popularity. Since then, Google has been forced to reimagine Search, using AI to create a more conversational and personalized experience. Also: Everything announced at Google I/O 2025: Gemini, Search, Android XR, and more On Tuesday, during its Google I/O keynote, Google unveiled several major upgrades to its
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Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET In recent years, Google Search's shopping features have evolved to make Search a one-stop shop for consumers searching for specific products, deals, and retailers. Shoppers on a budget can scour Search's Shopping tab during major sale events to see which retailer offered the best deal and where. Also: These 8 Google Search upgrades are going to transform your browsing experience But often, consumers miss out on a product's most productive discount, paying more lat
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Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET If you're one of the 8% of Americans who say they're willing to pay for AI, Google has a deal for you -- a $250 per month AI subscription. Also: 8 best AI features and tools revealed at Google I/O 2025 The company unveiled Google AI Ultra today, a plan with the biggest usage limits for Google's suite of AI tools and access to the highest versions of those tools. What is AI Ultra? Google AI Ultra is intended for filmmakers, developers, and creative professionals
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Google / ZDNET Several months ago, Google promised that one of the coolest Gemini features would soon be available on a much larger scale. Also: Everything announced at Google I/O 2025: Gemini, Search, Android XR, and more That moment has arrived as Google announced that Gemini Live with camera and screen sharing is now free for all users worldwide on iOS and Android, starting today. The feature was first introduced in January as an exclusive for the Pixel 9 series, and Galaxy S24 and S25 ser
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