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Surveys show Google desperately needs to do much better with Pixel battery defects

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-22 04:30:46

Zac Kew-Denniss / Android Authority Google’s mid-range Pixel phones have suffered from a litany of battery issues. The company issued updates to some Pixel 4a and Pixel 6a models that effectively reduced battery capacity in a bid to prevent overheating. This comes after some users reported device fires. The issues haven’t ended here, as Google is now offering free battery replacements for some Pixel 7a models due to battery swelling. Will these issues affect the Pixel 9a? I have my reservation

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Find Hub is the next Google app to get an Expressive coat of paint (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-22 05:38:52

Andy Walker / Android Authority TL;DR We’ve conducted a teardown of Google’s Find Hub app and discovered a variety of visual changes. These tweaks are broadly in line with Google’s push to adopt the Material 3 Expressive style. Google’s Find Hub is your one-stop shop for tracking your devices, accessories, and even loved ones. Now, it looks like Google is bringing some Material 3 Expressive changes to this app as well. We conducted a teardown of the latest version of the Find Hub app (versio

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Google’s Calling Cards are rolling out now, and this is our first proper look!

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-22 05:01:53

TL;DR Google has started to roll out the Calling Cards feature in the Contacts and Phone apps. This feature lets you create a stylish profile for your contacts. This differs from Apple’s Contact Posters, which only lets you create a poster for yourself. We’ve been tracking a Calling Card feature in Google’s Contacts app for weeks now. We haven’t actually seen this in action, but all signs point to Android’s take on Apple’s Contact Posters feature. Now, we’ve got our first look at this feature

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Android 16 QPR1 is nearly complete as Beta 3.1 arrives for testers

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-22 18:37:42

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR Android 16 QPR1 Beta 3 arrived on July 17, and Google’s now following that up with a Beta 3.1 release. The full changelog mentions a ton of fixes. If all goes to plan, Android 16 QPR1 should be ready to hit stable right on schedule, on September 3. When it comes to Google hardware, August has arrived to usher in the latest lineup, and at this point we’re under a week away from the big Pixel 10 Made by Google event. But for as exciting as that is, we’r

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Google Reportedly Working on a Mysterious 'Magic View' for NotebookLM

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-22 16:21:00

Google is continually expanding and strengthening the features for NotebookLM, its free AI-powered research assistant. An upcoming feature, code-named Magic View, should eventually land in the Studio panel alongside popular features like Audio and Video Overviews. At the moment, there's no clear indication as to what Magic View is (or will do) when it formally arrives in NotebookLM, but it's clear that Google keeps improving what I'd consider its best AI tool available today. The leak comes fr

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Google releases pint-size Gemma open AI model

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-22 23:04:22

Big tech has spent the last few years creating ever-larger AI models, leveraging rack after rack of expensive GPUs to provide generative AI as a cloud service. But tiny AI matters, too. Google has announced a tiny version of its Gemma open model designed to run on local devices. Google says the new Gemma 3 270M can be tuned in a snap and maintains robust performance despite its small footprint. Google released its first Gemma 3 open models earlier this year, featuring between 1 billion and 27 b

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Google unveils ultra-small and efficient open source AI model Gemma 3 270M that can run on smartphones

venturebeat.com Carl Franzen 2025-11-23 09:21:55

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Google’s DeepMind AI research team has unveiled a new open source AI model today, Gemma 3 270M. As its name would suggest, this is a 270-million-parameter model — far smaller than the 70 billion or more parameters of many frontier LLMs (parameters being the number of internal settings governing the model’s behavior). While more parameters

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Describe your dream trip and Google's new AI tool will find flight deals for you now

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2025-11-23 09:06:00

Getty Images/George Pachantouris ZDNET's key takeaways You can describe travel ideas in natural language to Google's tool. Flight Deals surfaces affordable flight options to match your ideas. The tool will roll out in beta over the next week. Get more in-depth ZDNET tech coverage: Add us as a preferred Google source on Chrome and Chromium browsers. Google is bringing generative AI to the skies. On Thursday, the company announced Flight Deals, a new AI-powered feature within Google Flights

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Google’s latest foldable teaser raises unexpected naming questions

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-23 14:56:01

TL;DR The new Google foldable teaser is titled “Google Pixel Pro Fold 10,” hinting at a possible naming change. You’ll notice the video reuses the previous teaser’s footage and soundtrack but adds a new nostalgic voiceover. The Pixel 10 lineup launches August 20, alongside the Pixel Watch 4 and Pixel Buds 2a. As excitement for the Google Pixel 10 series continues to build, the tech giant just released another teaser for its upcoming foldable. The latest video might borrow quite a lot from the

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Google Photos just put all its best editing tools a tap away - here's the shortcut

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-11-23 14:02:49

Google / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways Google has introduced a new Create tab for Photos. Create hosts editing tools that let you get creative with photos. The tab is available for Android and iOS versions of the app. Get more in-depth ZDNET tech coverage: Add us as a preferred Google source on Chrome and Chromium browsers. Google Photos is making it easier to get creative with your photos. In an announcement today, Google said there's a new "go to destination" for cr

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Google Will Now Blur Nude Photos in Your Messages. Here's How to Turn It On (or Off)

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-23 12:01:55

Some Android users are starting to see blurred images on their devices while using Google Messages. It's part of a Sensitive Content Warning system announced last year that is now rolling out on Android devices that obscures images containing suspected nudity. In a Help Center post, Google explains that when the feature is turned on, these warnings can detect and blur images with nudity and generate a warning when one is being received, sent or forwarded. "All detection and blurring of nude ima

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Perplexity AI’s $34.5 billion bid for Chrome underscores Google's hurdles ahead of IPO anniversary

cnbc.com Jennifer Elias Mackenzie Sigalos 2025-11-23 18:39:34

In this article GOOGL Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT Sundar Pichai, chief executive officer of Alphabet Inc., during a visit to the Google for Startups campus in Warsaw, Poland, on Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025. The EU has established a reputation globally for its aggressive regulation of major technology companies, including the likes of Apple and Google over antitrust concerns. Photographer: Damian Lemanski/Bloomberg via Getty Images Damian Lemanski | Bloomberg | Getty Images Perp

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Google Find Hub’s automatic enrollments will only give you two days to opt out (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-23 14:51:19

Andy Walker / Android Authority TL;DR Google plans to expand Find Hub’s automatic enrollment with more triggers. We’ve now spotted clues suggesting that once users hit these triggers, they would have two days to opt out of participating in the Find Hub network. Additional triggers expected in the future include enabling Location access on the device, syncing with Fast Pair accessories, and more. Google recently rebranded Android’s Find My Device tool into Find Hub when it added the ability t

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Flight Deals is Google’s new, AI-powered travel search tool

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-23 18:15:02

The AI-ification of Google seemingly knows no bounds, and now it wants you to turn to AI for booking flights, too. Rolling out in the US, Canada and India over the next week, Flight Deals lives within Google Flights, and is designed for "flexible travelers whose number one goal is saving money on their next trip." Rather than going through the usual process of manually selecting dates, times and destinations, you just tell the AI-powered assistant your travel intentions using natural language p

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Google Pixel Watch 4: I gathered the 8 biggest rumors that make the wait worth it

zdnet.com Nina Raemont 2025-11-23 18:14:00

The Google Pixel Watch 4 may look fairly similar to last year's Pixel Watch 3 (pictured). Kyle Kucharski/ZDNET Get more in-depth ZDNET tech coverage: Add us as a preferred Google source on Chrome and Chromium browsers. There's a big chance we'll be getting a new Google smartwatch next week. We're one week away from the August Made by Google event, the tech giant's annual hardware showcase, and rumors and leaks of what's coming on this next generation of AI-infused devices are swirling. Also:

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Google Flights can help you book a trip when you don’t know where to go

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-11-23 18:05:28

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. It seems like Google is looking for a way to put AI into everything these days, and now its efforts have reached its airfare-booking service, Flights. On Thursday, Google announced that it’s testing a new AI-powered Flight Deals tool, which could come in handy if you’re planning a trip on a budget but aren’t quite sure where you want to go yet. Ins

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Google’s ongoing Pixel battery fiasco gives me zero confidence in the Pixel 10

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-23 17:00:24

Reddit user zaliver Google has messed up. For the past few months, one story keeps coming back again and again to haunt the Pixel line-up, and it’s all centered around battery woes. Specifically, something fishy around the Pixel 4a’s and 6a’s batteries, with mandatory updates, restricted battery charging, battery replacement programs, cashbacks to buy a new phone, and the odd exploding battery or two. Throughout this entire mess, one thing has been abundantly clear: Google is trying to sweep t

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The Google Pixel 10 Pro is boring…and I’m buying it

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-23 21:00:52

We are just a week away from Google’s official reveal of the Pixel 10 series. I’ve been using the Pixel 9 Pro as my daily driver since it launched last year, and it’s not just my favorite phone of 2024, but possibly my favorite phone…ever. Now, as the rumor mill churns at full speed for the Pixel 10 launch on August 20, the overall consensus for the upcoming Pixel 10 Pro is that it is going to be, in a word, boring. From the outside, it looks like a bland, iterative update. So why am I still pl

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Finding the best deals on Google Flights is about to get a little easier

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-23 23:11:17

Google TL;DR A new search tool called “Flight Deals” is coming to Google Flights. By describing when, where, and how you want to travel, the tool will find the best bargains available that meet your criteria. The feature will launch in beta over the next week in the US, Canada, and India. Finding the best deals for flights can take a lot of time. You have to figure out where you want to go, the best dates to fly, how you want to fly, and so on. Google wants to streamline this process with it

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Google Messages can now blur nude images on Android

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-23 23:03:05

Google is rolling out a new safety feature for the Messages app on Android. As spotted by 9to5Google , the company is making Sensitive Content Warnings more broadly available after beta testing the option since April . Google announced it last October. The feature can detect and blur images that include nudity. However, it’ll only work if you’re signed into a Google Account in the Messages app. When Messages detects and blurs such an image, you will be able to choose between several actions. Y

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Google Wants You to Pick Your Own News Sources for Searches

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-23 22:12:50

Perhaps in response to suggestions that its Search functions have been degraded or been usurped by AI summaries that not everybody wants, Google will now let you select news sources to narrow things down. The company said in a blog post this week that it's launching Preferred Sources in the US and India over the next few days, along with a plus icon to the right of Top Stories in searches. Clicking on that plus symbol allows you to add blogs or news outlets. There doesn't appear to be a limit o

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Google Home finally adds full temperature scheduling for older Nest thermostats

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-24 04:51:46

Jimmy Westenberg / Android Authority TL;DR Google is finally starting to roll out the long-awaited temperature scheduling features for the 3rd Gen and E Nest thermostats in the Google Home app. This addresses the last major reason many users were forced to keep using the old Nest app, which was previously required for this function. While the new feature is now live for some, users should note that their old schedules from the Nest app will not automatically carry over. Back in April, Google

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Google pushes AI into flight deals as antitrust scrutiny, competition heat up

techcrunch.com Jagmeet Singh 2025-11-24 04:46:09

Google on Thursday announced a new AI-powered search tool to help travelers find flight deals — even as regulators continue to question whether the search giant’s dominance in travel discovery stifles competition. Called Flight Deals, the new tool is available within Google Flights and is designed to help “flexible travelers” find cheaper fares. Users can type natural language queries into a search bar — describing how and when they want to travel — and the AI surfaces matching options. These

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Google Wallet has a new shortcut UI, but I’m not sure it’s an upgrade

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-24 12:19:15

TL;DR Google Wallet has gained a new UI when you activate it via a double-tap of the power button. This UI features a transparent design and an animation showing you how to tap your phone. Unfortunately, this UI change means you can no longer launch the full app with a double-tap. Android 16 on Pixel phones lets you double-tap the power button to activate Google Wallet. That’s a welcome change as the gesture was previously restricted to launching the camera. Now, a new UI is rolling out for t

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Linux Address Space Isolation Revived After Lowering 70% Performance Hit to 13%

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-24 14:14:21

Several years ago Google engineers began exploring address space isolation for the Linux kernel and ultimately proposing Linux ASI for better dealing with CPU speculative execution attacks . While the hope was it would better cope with the ever growing list of CPU speculative execution vulnerabilities, the effort was thwarted initially by I/O throughput seeing a 70% performance hit . That level of performance cost was unsustainable. But now that I/O overhead has been reduced to just 13%.Google e

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Google Messages now ensures you don’t get flashed without your consent

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-24 22:46:06

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google Messages will now automatically blur NSFW photos that you receive or send. It will show warnings before opening any explicit media shared with you to ensure you approve of it. It will also warn you of the risks of sending such photos before you do. All processing takes place locally on your device, so none of the private media is sent to Google. The outpouring of multimedia junk, thanks to RCS, in Android’s default Messages app has inspired G

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Latest Google Messages bug gives you two (or three) app icons

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-24 23:37:09

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR A bug in the new Google Messages beta, version v20250811, is causing users to see two or even three app icons in their app drawer. The bug affects only beta users. All icons launch the same app, so their functionality is the same. Google Messages is the default messaging app on Android flagships, and most users will stick to the stable version since that is what ships on their phone. If you’re an enthusiast, you may have opted to test the beta version

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Sorry, Google, but the Pixel 10 doesn’t excite me

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-25 00:30:10

Joe Maring / Android Authority Remember the first Pixel devices, and the Nexus phones before them? I do. I loved my Nexus 5, and I remain convinced the Nexus 6P was the height of smartphone design. The Pixel 6 harked back to it, which was new and exciting at the time. However, I’m now bored with the Pixel lineup. I’m not accustomed to being unimpressed with Pixel phones; usually, the line always had something to interest me. But the Pixel 9 was just…meh. And now, it looks like the Pixel 10 wil

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I Love How Streamlined the Excellent Pixel 9 Pro Is, and It’s 40% Off for a Limited Time

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-24 23:43:00

CNET's key takeaways The Google Pixel 9 Pro is currently on sale with $400 off After months of using Google's Pixel 9 Pro, I like its solid overall performance and quirky new AI skills. The element that stands out most is how easy it is to use. While Android users do swear by them, a lot of other people consider Android phones to feel overly complex. The user interface isn't quite as easy to adjust as the Apple offering, and while it may sound unreasonable, Samsung's Galaxy S25 range, for ex

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Google Gemini's Deep Research is finally coming to API

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-25 00:01:01

Google Gemini's one of the most powerful features is Deep Research, but up until now, it has been strictly limited to the Gemini interface. This could change soon. With Deep Research in Gemini, you can search about pretty much anything, including scholars, existing research papers, and more. Google describes Deep Research as an agentic Research Assistant that can browse up to hundreds of websites on your behalf, think through its findings, and create insightful multi-page reports in minutes.

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Surveys show Google desperately needs to do much better with Pixel battery defects

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Perplexity AI’s $34.5 billion bid for Chrome underscores Google's hurdles ahead of IPO anniversary

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Google’s ongoing Pixel battery fiasco gives me zero confidence in the Pixel 10

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