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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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Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Online shopping has never been perfect. If I'm online scouting for a good deal on a pair of shoes, I have to sort through several options, sizes, colors, and price points to find what I want. That takes time. And if I want to buy the shoes at a discount, I have to wait several weeks or months and come back when the price drops. Also: Everything announced at Google I/O 2025: Gemini, Search, Android XR, and more At Google's annual developer event, Google IO, the tec
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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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SOPA Images / Getty Google is ramping up its efforts to compete with OpenAI with the debut of Flow, a new video-generating AI model designed for filmmakers. (Disclosure: Ziff Davis, ZDNET's parent company, filed an April 2025 lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging it infringed Ziff Davis copyrights in training and operating its AI systems.) Announced on Tuesday at I/O, Google's annual developer conference, the new tool is designed to work synchronously with the company's other generative models: Ve
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Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET The past two Google I/O developer conferences have mainly been AI events, and this year is no different. The tech giant used the stage to unveil features across all its most popular products, even bringing AI experiments that were previously announced to fruition. This means that dozens of AI features and tools were unveiled. They're meant to transform how you use Google offerings, including how you shop, video call, sort your inbox, search the web, create images, edit vide
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Kerry Wan/ZDNET The Google I/O keynote took place on Tuesday, and the company took the stage to unveil new features across all of its product offerings. Of course, this included AI upgrades to the Google Workspace suite of applications, which millions of users rely on every day to get their work done, including Google Docs, Meet, Slides, Gmail, and Vids. Also: Google's popular AI tool gets its own Android app - how to use NotebookLM on your phone The features unveiled this year focused on pra
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Andriy Onufriyenko/Getty Images Google's Chrome browser for MacOS and Windows is receiving an infusion of new Gemini-powered capabilities, including an AI browsing assistant contextually sensitized to a user's browsing activities. Google made the announcement today at Google I/O 2025. Dubbed Gemini-in-Chrome, the feature will be available May 21 to Google AI Pro and Google AI Ultra subscribers in the US as well as Chrome Beta, Dev, and Canary users. Also: How to watch Google I/O 2025 (and why
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Kerry Wan/ZDNET Google's Project Starline, first announced years ago, subsequently evolved into an AI-forward 3D video conferencing platform in partnership with HP. Now, Google is rebranding Project Starline into Google Beam and hopes to make the platform available to select customers later this year. Google Beam leans on artificial intelligence (AI) much more heavily than Project Starline did. It uses the power of Google's AI volumetric video model to transform traditional 2D video streams in
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Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET AI-generated video has been advancing rapidly, with leading tech developers racing to build and commercialize their own models. We're now seeing the rise of tools that can generate strikingly photorealistic video from a single prompt in natural language. For the most part, however, AI-generated video has had a glaring shortcoming: it's silent. No longer. At its annual I/O developer conference on Tuesday, Google announced the release of Veo 3, the latest iteration of its vid
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MirageC/Getty Images Gemini 2.5, Google's most advanced model family, is getting upgrades across the board. On Tuesday at Google I/O, the company's annual developer conference, Google announced Deep Think, an "enhanced" reasoning mode for Gemini 2.5 Pro that shows "incredible" skill at complex math and coding. The company also announced improvements to Pro as well as Gemini 2.5 Flash, the second of its "most intelligent" models. Here's what's new. Gemini 2.5 Pro updates Most notably, Google
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Thomas Trutschel/Photothek via Getty Images I know you've heard of gamification, but have you ever heard of festification? That's what Microsoft did last month and is continuing until May 28, with the Microsoft AI Skills Fest. It's a little odd, but it also looks like it might be a heck of a lot of fun. And you still three full weeks to participate. Free AI training for everyone Microsoft's AI Skills Fest offers courses that are open for all skill levels. You can learn early stages of the les
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Artie Beaty/ZDNET Google Gemini already offers a host of useful capabilities. From generating text and creating images to live conversations, deep research, and analyzing files, Google's AI has proven itself a strong contender in the AI field. At Google I/O 2025 on Tuesday, the company revealed a slew of new and improved features now available with its AI assistant. Also: How to watch Google I/O 2025 (and why you shouldn't miss it) 1. New Google AI Pro and Ultra plans First up are two new Go
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On a wintry day in Bordeaux, France, I took refuge from the rain inside a cosy bookshop stacked to the ceiling with books. Place Gambetta, Bordeaux’s iconic square framed with majestic 18th-century limestone façades, was under construction. ‘It’s always like this,’ the owner told me with a disparaging glare. I was not sure if the comment was directed at the rain or the construction. Inside, I browsed the shelves, soaking in the titles one by one. A book cast among thousands caught my eye: La vie
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