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I replaced my Samsung S25 Ultra with the Pixel 10 Pro XL for weeks - and don't regret it

zdnet.com Kerry Wan 2025-10-08 02:00:17

Google Pixel 10 Pro and Pro XL ZDNET's key takeaways The latest Pixel flagships are priced the same as last year, but get meaningful upgrades across the board. The Pro XL model, with its base storage of 256GB and faster wired and wireless charging, is the best Pixel phone right now. You'll just have to settle for the same design and camera hardware as last year. View now at Google View now at Amazon View now at Best Buy more buying choices Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google.

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Google pulls the Pixel 10’s Daily Hub to ‘enhance its performance’

theverge.com Dominic Preston 2025-10-08 05:50:45

If voice translation is halfway between a helpful feature and a gimmick, then Daily Hub leans even further into gimmick territory. It’s a lot like the Now Brief Samsung introduced on its S25 phones, and it’s supposed to act as a quick digest for your day as well as a place to find some inspiration based on your recent activity. It does the first part of that job just fine; it’s maybe a more longwinded version of Google’s At a Glance widget, which gives you a heads up on the weather and upcoming

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Google could be cooking up a new look for voice search in the Play Store (Updated: Rolling out)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-08 06:10:49

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google is working on a new UI for voice search. The new UI only shows up when you tap the mic icon while in the Search tab. The bottom sheet shows your recent searches, up to your last four. Update, September 9, 2025 (03:10 AM ET): Play Store’s new voice search UI is now widely rolling out. AssembleDebug / Android Authority Original article, January 30, 2025 (03:47 PM ET): Using voice search in the Google Play Store is fairly simple. Just tap the m

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Our Pixel 10 Pro XL has also run into the infamous screen snow issue (Updated: Fix incoming)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-07 14:27:54

Paul Jones / Android Authority TL;DR Multiple Google Pixel 10 series users are experiencing a “screen snow” issue. The display freezes and shows a static-like image, but recovers automatically after about ten minutes. We have also faced the issue on our own Pixel 10 Pro XL. Google has acknowledged the bug publicly and says a fix started rolling out on September 3. Update: September 8, 2025 (10 PM ET): Google has confirmed to Android Authority that it started rolling out a fix for the screen

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Google quietly hits pause on a brand-new Pixel 10 feature, and it’s for the best

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-08 06:47:35

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR Google has pulled the Daily Hub preview from Pixel 10 phones. The feature was designed to give users an overview of their day, with personalized recommendations and content suggestions. However, it seemed extremely underbaked at launch and did not live up to expectations. Google says it’s temporarily pausing the public preview of Daily Hub and actively working to improve the feature. Google is pausing the Daily Hub preview on Pixel 10 devices, citing the

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NotebookLM Can Now Make Flashcards and Quizzes to Help You Study

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-08 03:13:52

If it wasn't obvious that NotebookLM is shaping up to be the ultimate AI tool for school, it should be now. And Google has more to share for the fall season. On Monday, Google announced its latest NotebookLM features, including the option to generate flashcards, quizzes, new reports and more. Brand-new audio formats for the popular Audio Overviews feature were also released just last week. What sets NotebookLM apart from other AI tools is that it will only rely on the source material you provi

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Publishers fear AI summaries are hitting online traffic

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-10-08 08:07:35

Publishers fear AI summaries are hitting online traffic 54 minutes ago Share Save Suzanne Bearne Technology Reporter Share Save Getty Images Newspapers are banking on online revenue to replace falling circulation When actress Sorcha Cusack left the BBC drama Father Brown in January, it made headlines, including for the newspapers owned by Reach, among them The Mirror, and the Daily Express. But the story did not generate the traction the Reach newspapers would have expected a year ago, or eve

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Google Details Exactly How Many Prompts You Can Use With Gemini Free

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-08 08:44:00

Google has detailed exactly how many prompts can be used in a 24-hour period with its Gemini chatbot's free, AI Pro and AI Ultra tiers. Previously, Google was more vague on how many questions were permitted under each tier. Per Google's Gemini support page, those using the AI chatbot for free have up to five prompts on its 2.5 Pro model a day. For Gemini AI Pro, a subscription tier that costs $20 per month, you'll be allowed 100 prompts. With Gemini AI Ultra at $200 a month, that number is 500

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Google Meet is back after an outage. Here are a few workarounds for next time

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-10-08 16:15:00

SOPA Images/Contributor/LightRocket via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's takeaways Google Meet experienced a widespread outage. There are a few workarounds, like using the app or another browser. Google has since fixed problem. Google Meet is back after a widespread outage, Monday. At the time of this writing, Google's Cloud Service Health Status page is reporting no service issues with Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Drive. "Today some users

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Google expands AI Mode beyond English for the first time

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-09 00:22:45

Google is opening up AI Mode to more languages. Starting today, the AI chatbot the company is integrating into Google Search is available in Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean and Brazilian Portuguese. The company has been rapidly expanding access to the search experience. In May, Google started offering it to everyone in the US (and later the UK and India) after starting public tests just two months earlier. Google added more features to AI Mode in July, including support for the Gemini 2.5

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In court filing, Google concedes the open web is in “rapid decline”

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-09 00:29:40

Is the web thriving or faltering? Google has an unexpected take in a new legal filing. Google is heading back to court soon in hopes of convincing a judge that it should not have to split up its ad business. The company lost its adtech antitrust case earlier this year, and now it's up to the court to decide on remedies for the illegal conduct. In its response to the DOJ's requested remedies, Google made a startling claim: "The fact is that today, the open web is already in rapid decline." Googl

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The Gemini app just got the one feature everyone was asking for

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-09 04:30:30

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR Google has updated the Gemini app to handle any file type. This includes audio files, which was the top request. Audio length can be up to 10 minutes for free users. Around the beginning of August, we found evidence that Google was working on adding a highly requested feature to Gemini. Specifically, the AI app was getting support for audio file uploads. Fast forward to today, and the function is now live on Android, iOS, and on the web. Don’t want to mi

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Is Google Meet down for you? Try these workarounds - and what else we know

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-10-09 04:25:00

SOPA Images/Contributor/LightRocket via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's takeaways Google Meet is currently experiencing a widespread outage. There are a few workarounds, like using the app or another browser. Google is investigating the problem. If you're having trouble with Google Meet today, you're not alone. Google's popular video conference software, which we named the best video conferencing software for small businesses, is suffering a wide

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Yes, Google Meet Is Down

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-10-09 04:35:43

If you’re trying to use Google Meet and failing, it’s not your fault. Google is reportedly investigating the outage, and DownDetector has seen tens of thousands or reports about Google Meet not working properly since around 1:25 p.m. ET. “We are experiencing an issue with Google Meet beginning at Monday, 2025-09-08 10:25 PDT,” Google reported on its Workspace updates page. “Our engineering team continues to investigate the issue. We will provide an update by Monday, 2025-09-08 11:30 PDT with c

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Customize Your Google Search Results With This New Feature

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-09 03:30:00

Facing criticism for degraded search results and angst from people who want to avoid AI Overviews, Google has announced a new search feature that lets you choose the sites you want to see in your news and search results. Google said in a recent blog post that it's launching Preferred Sources in the US and India this month. The new feature can be accessed through a plus icon to the right of Top Stories panels or a direct link to your preferences. "Once you select your sources, they will appear

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Google’s AI Mode adds 5 new languages including Hindi, Japanese, and Korean

techcrunch.com Jagmeet Singh 2025-10-09 04:46:10

Google is expanding AI Mode — its AI-powered Search experience — to five new languages, opening access to additional users around the world, after being limited to English for over six months. On Monday, Google announced that AI Mode will now support Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, and Brazilian Portuguese. The update follows last month’s rollout of the AI-powered experience to 180 new markets in English, after initially launching in the U.S. and later expanding to the U.K. and India. “Wi

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Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-10-09 12:50:20

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. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. For months, Google has maintained that the web is “thriving,” AI isn’t tanking traffic, and its search engine is sending people to a wider variety of websites than ever. But in a court filing from last week, Google admitted that “the open web is already in rapid

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Google gets away almost scot-free in US search antitrust case

news.ycombinator.com More This Author 2025-10-09 16:32:46

What was Judge Amit Mehta thinking? When he ruled a year ago that Google violated the Sherman Antitrust Act by stifling search competition, we thought Google was truly in hot water. Boy, were we wrong! After Mehta’s initial ruling, the Department of Justice (DoJ) demanded that Google divest itself of the Chrome web browser and/or the Android operating system, and also be blocked from exclusive distribution contracts that had placed Google Search as the default on almost all devices and web brow

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Adtech company PubMatic sues Google over monopoly violations

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-10-09 20:41:49

In Brief Advertising exchange PubMatic has filed a lawsuit against Google, accusing the tech giant of illegally monopolizing the ad technology market. PubMatic is seeking billions of dollars in damages, according a report from Bloomberg. The lawsuit marks the second time that an advertising exchange has sued Google since a federal judge ruled in April that the search giant had illegally monopolized ad exchanges and ad servers. The judge has set another trial for this month to determine whether

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These are the 5 best budget camera phones of 2025 that can take great photos while saving you money

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-07 22:00:48

We can thank the Google Tensor G4 chipset for making imaging so special in this budget phone. After all, computational photography is what has made the Google Pixel phones so good in mobile photography. The good news is this processing doesn’t change much from phone to phone, as it is all software enhancements. Of course, hardware matters too. The Pixel 9a comes with a 48MP main sensor, which may seem like a downgrade from the Pixel 8a’s 64MP sensor, but photo quality is not always about megapi

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Changing these 10 settings on my Pixel phone gave it a nice performance boost

zdnet.com Jason Howell 2025-10-10 00:49:00

Even older Pixel models can get in on the optimization tweaks. Kerry Wan/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Google Pixel phones are notorious for having hidden settings that can greatly enhance the user experience. The list includes options for ramping up the display refresh rate, optimizing the battery life, and gestures. I demo them on a Pixel 9a running on Android 15, but newer and older software versions should have similar capabilities. W

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Google hasn’t even announced these new Nest devices, but they’re already on store shelves

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-10 10:21:10

AssembleDebug / Android Authority TL;DR Google’s upcoming Nest Cam and Doorbell are already appearing in retail stores. A user spotted them at Home Depot along with their prices. Google is expected to showcase new smart home devices on October 1 alongside Gemini for Google Home. Google is set to officially showcase advancements in Gemini for smart speakers and display on October 1. In addition to the new smart speaker that Google teased at the Pixel 10 launch event, we also expected to see n

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Our Pixel 10 Pro XL has also run into the infamous screen snow issue

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-10 12:27:54

Paul Jones / Android Authority TL;DR Multiple Google Pixel 10 series users are experiencing a “screen snow” issue. The display freezes and shows a static-like image, but recovers automatically after about ten minutes. We have also faced the issue on our own Pixel 10 Pro XL. Google has not acknowledged the bug publicly, and no fix has been mentioned in the recent software update. The Google Pixel 10 series is the latest Android flagship on the block, and as with every release, early adopters

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Your Android phone just got a major Bluetooth upgrade for free - how it works

zdnet.com Jada Jones 2025-10-10 12:00:17

Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Auracast support rolls out to more smartphones and headphones. You can share your phone's audio with one or many friends. Your phone and headphones must support Auracast to access the feature. If you've been waiting for technology to evolve so you can easily share audio from one device to two headphones with fewer device ecosystem barriers, the day has come. Google's new update to Android expand

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Your Android phone just got 3 useful upgrades for free - including a big one for audio

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-10-10 12:46:00

Google / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways A new Google update is adding several features to Android phones. A new AI writing tool for Gboard is on the way. An upgraded Emoji Keyboard will help you find the perfect emoji. Your Android phone is getting an upgrade, and it might have a big impact on how you communicate. Also: Google is killing the Android phone feature that once made them popular - and there's a big reaso

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Google to make it easier to access AI Mode as default

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-10 07:07:54

Google plans to make it easier for users to access AI mode by allowing them to set it as the default, replacing the traditional blue links. AI mode is an advanced version of Google Search that uses large language models to summarise information from the web, so you can spend more time on Google than visiting websites. Google AI mode advanced analysis Source: BleepingComputer Google AI mode can answer complex answers, process images, summarize information on the web, create tables, graphs, ch

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I hope iPhone 17 adopts these 7 features from Google, OpenAI, and others

zdnet.com Jason Hiner 2025-10-10 10:26:00

Jason Hiner/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways The release of the Google Pixel 10 phones with deeply integrated AI features that offer impressive new capabilities has revealed the biggest gaps the iPhone 17 needs to fill. Many of the smartest AI services in the world are already on the iPhone as apps, and so there's the possibility that Apple could partner with them for deeper integrations. The new AI camera features in the Pixel 10 could be th

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The Pixel 10 Pro’s free AI Pro plan is a trap, don’t get fooled

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-10 02:30:24

Joe Maring / Android Authority The Pixel 10-series is Google’s most aggressive bet on AI yet. Year on year, the company keeps tacking on more AI-first features. From the camera to the notes app and elsewhere, the pitch is clear. This isn’t just another smartphone. Instead, it’s a showcase for how Google’s AI strategy ties directly to its hardware. But while the on-device LLM can do a lot, when it comes to heavy lifting, Google wants you to pop over into the Gemini app. More specifically, Gemini

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This is the Samsung app I miss most when I use my Pixel

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-10 05:00:35

Andy Walker / Android Authority Despite employing a Samsung as my primary smartphone, I’ve really enjoyed using my Pixel as a sidekick. Granted, it’s a Pixel 8, so it lacks the latest and greatest features of the Pixel 10 series, but having access to Android 16 has been a joy. The software is swift, cheerful, and clean, but there’s a reason I opt for the Galaxy S24 FE as my main device. I still miss plenty of software features when using the Pixel over the Galaxy. Modes, Routines, and Good Loc

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I Tried Gemini's 'Nano Bananas' for Image Editing. The AI Slipups Were Obvious

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-10 05:28:02

After seeing all the banana-fanfare for Google's newest generative AI tool, I knew I had to take it for a spin. Named Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, the model upgrades your ability to edit your photos natively in Gemini. AI enthusiasts have referred to it as the "nano bananas" model, spurred on by a series of banana-themed teasers from Google execs. In the few weeks it's been out, people have created over 200 million AI images, and over 10 million people have signed up to use the Gemini app, according

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I replaced my Samsung S25 Ultra with the Pixel 10 Pro XL for weeks - and don't regret it

Google pulls the Pixel 10’s Daily Hub to ‘enhance its performance’

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These are the 5 best budget camera phones of 2025 that can take great photos while saving you money

Changing these 10 settings on my Pixel phone gave it a nice performance boost

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