Published on: 2025-04-19 11:14:17
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Just a year ago, the narrative around Google and enterprise AI felt stuck. Despite inventing core technologies like the Transformer, the tech giant seemed perpetually on the back foot, overshadowed by OpenAI‘s viral success, Anthropic‘s coding prowess and Microsoft‘s aggressive enterprise push. But witness the scene at Google Cloud Next 2025 in Las Vegas last week: A c
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-19 15:57:06
Under no circumstances should you let AI do your schoolwork for you, but Google has decided to make that option a little bit easier for the next year. The company is offering a free year of it's Google One AI Premium plan, which includes Gemini Advanced, access to the AI assistant in the Google Workspace and things like Gemini Live, to any college student willing to sign up. The offer gives you a sample platter of Google's latest AI features, which normally costs $20 per month, and is primarily
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Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR Google has released Gemini 2.5 Flash, a new lightweight AI model with improved reasoning. It’s the first Gemini model to offer adjustable thinking settings to balance cost, speed, and quality. It’s available now in preview via the Gemini API, AI Studio, and Vertex AI. It’s also available in the Gemini app. Just when you thought you’d got your head around all the Gemini models, Google goes and adds another one to the list. The company has announced that G
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The humble QR (or Quick Response) code has become ubiquitous. Invented back in the 1990s to scan car parts, the barcodes got a popularity boost during the pandemic when touchless tech became prioritized, and they’re now a regular part of daily life. You’ll find them deployed to help you order food, connect to Wi-Fi, shop online, access tickets, prove your identity, and much more besides. They can either store information (about 3KB’s worth), or redirect you somewhere (like a website or an app p
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-20 03:58:12
Aitor Diago/Getty Images A sophisticated phishing scam is taking advantage of Google security flaws to convince people that the malicious emails and website are legitimate. In a series of X posts spotted by Android Authority, developer Nick Johnson explained how he was targeted by a phishing attack that exploits flaws in Google's own infrastructure. In his first post, Johnson includes a screenshot of the scam email claiming that Google had been served a subpoena requiring it to produce a copy
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-20 07:52:00
What just happened? The U.S. Department of Justice has argued that Google illegally built "monopoly power" through its web advertising business, manipulating online ad services across multiple sectors and forcing higher fees on publishers reliant on its technology. Judge Leonie Brinkema ruled that the tech giant's anticompetitive behavior harmed publishers, and the DOJ contended that Google should be forced to divest its ad tech business. A federal judge handed Google yet another courtroom defe
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-20 15:08:00
What just happened? Google is giving college students across the United States free access to its most advanced Gemini AI tools. The tech giant's Google One AI Premium plan, which typically costs $20 per month, is being offered at no cost to eligible students until the end of June 2026 – provided they sign up before June 30, 2025. Applicants must verify their student status using a valid .edu email address to qualify. Once enrolled, students will receive an email reminder as their complimentary
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-20 19:00:01
Inside a secretive set of buildings in Santa Barbara, California, scientists at Alphabet are working on one of the company's most ambitious bets yet. They're attempting to develop the world's most advanced quantum computers. "In the future, quantum and AI, they could really complement each other back and forth," said Julian Kelly, director of hardware at Google Quantum AI. Google has been viewed by many as late to the generative AI boom, because OpenAI broke into the mainstream first with Chat
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Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR Google is preparing to make the icons on the Settings homepage more colorful. This is part of Google’s effort to redesign the Settings app to be more expressive. It’s unclear if colored icons are part of Google’s new Material Design 3 Expressive theme. Earlier this week, we found evidence indicating Google will introduce an expressive new Material Design theme at next month’s Google I/O developer conference. Although several mentions and potential exa
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-20 19:10:18
The streaming device competition gained a new entrant just a few months ago when the Google 4K TV Streamer debuted, replacing the relatively shortlived Chromecast with Google TV dongle. Google pitched the TV Streamer as a big improvement over the Chromecast, and so far that seems to be right on the money. The Google TV Streamer is also right for the money during Amazon’s limited-time 21% off deal that drops the price lower than ever to just $79. The only discouraging words to greet the Google 4
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-20 19:53:39
Our plan for this episode was to spend some time talking about antitrust regulation, because one of the biggest companies on the planet is currently in the midst of a trial that could fundamentally reshape the internet economy. And that was before Google lost its adtech trial! Two’s definitely a trend, in this case: Meta’s trial is just beginning, and we have a ruling in Google’s, but both companies are staring at a future that looks very different than the last 20 years. On this episode of The
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Calvin Wankhede / Android Authority TL;DR Google is working on an annual billing option for the $19.99/month Google One AI Premium plan. This annual plan will benefit users wanting long-term access to Gemini Advanced while potentially saving money compared to the monthly plan. There’s no official price yet, but users could save up to $40 if Google follows its current pricing structure. Google has been making great progress with Gemini, and it makes a lot of sense to get a Gemini Advanced sub
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Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority With a commendable balance of fitness features and everyday smarts, Fitbit’s smartwatches used to be regular fixtures on our best lists. Ever since Google took the reins, I’ve witnessed a slow unraveling. It didn’t take long for once-promising wearables to start feeling deliberately held back, and the reasoning is obvious. The Pixel Watch is the brand’s sole smartwatch focus. The recent removal of Google Assistant from Fitbit’s alternative lineups is just the
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“Email has largely stayed the same,” wrote Gmail product manager Aakash Shaney in 2019, while the web rapidly evolved around it. No more. Google’s AMP for email meant “your emails can stay up to date” and “you can easily take action directly from the message itself.” Four years earlier, the search giant had come for the mobile web with AMP—accreted mobile pages. Devs would code mobile versions of their site using AMP libraries, host them in Google’s CDN, and reap the benefits of near-instant l
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C. Scott Brown / Android Authority The Google TV Streamer marked a big step in the evolution of the search giant’s smart TV ecosystem. It is a great smart TV box with plenty of enhancements and cool features, and while the $99.99 retail price seems very fair to us, we’re always happy to pay less! Today, the Google TV Streamer is on sale, and it’s actually the first time we’ve seen it discounted. You can get it for $79.99. Get the Google TV Streamer for $79 ($20.99 off) This offer is available
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-21 07:27:30
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Google has launched Gemini 2.5 Flash, a major upgrade to its AI lineup that gives businesses and developers unprecedented control over how much “thinking” their AI performs. The new model, released today in preview through Google AI Studio and Vertex AI, represents a strategic effort to deliver improved reasoning capabilities while maintaining competitive pricing in the
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-21 15:37:56
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Google Cloud announced a significant number of new features at its Google Cloud Next event last week, with at least 229 new announcements. Buried in that mountain of news, which included new AI chips and agentic AI capabilities, as well as database updates, Google Cloud also made some big moves with its BigQuery data warehouse service. Among the new capabilities is Big
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Axios Jason Redmond/TED TL;DR Google recently demoed prototype Android XR smart glasses during a TED Talk. The video of that demo is out now, showing the glasses in action. These glasses have features like live translation, real-time object recognition, navigation, and more. The next hot product from the tech world may be smart glasses. Meta has already had success with its Ray-Ban collaboration, and Apple and Samsung are hot on its heels with their own projects. Google recently demoed proto
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-21 13:06:17
Google's Gemini AI may have had a slow start, but it has been anything but in 2025. Barely a week goes by that another model doesn't arrive in the Gemini app or developer tools like AI Studio, and there's a major release coming to the app today. Google has announced that its faster, more efficient Gemini 2.5 Flash model is rolling out widely in preview. At the same time, developers can begin building with 2.5 Flash using the company's newly announced API pricing, which Google says is much lower
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In this article GOOGL Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT Google CEO Sundar Pichai testifies before the House Judiciary Committee at the Rayburn House Office Building on December 11, 2018 in Washington, DC. Alex Wong | Getty Images Google's antitrust woes are continuing to mount, just as the company tries to brace for a future dominated by artificial intelligence. On Thursday, a federal judge ruled that Google held illegal monopolies in online advertising markets due to its positio
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-21 23:24:15
Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Android 16 Beta 4 is now available for Pixel phones. Testers can manually download an OTA or factory image, but most will want to wait for an update notification. We’re now within spitting distance of Android 16 stable, due later this quarter. Google is putting the finishing touches on Android 16, and last night told us to look forward to Beta 4 arriving today. While we’re not quite to the point where the new OS update is ready for a stable release,
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Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR Android 16 Beta 4 arrives today for Pixel devices. New owners of the Pixel 9a can now enroll in the Beta program, their first opportunity to do so. Downloads for the Pixel 9a should also be available soon. Android development is proceeding a little differently this time around, with Google giving work on Android 16 a much earlier start than we’ve come to expect. But while Android 16 is moving on a bold new timetable, Google similarly pushed up its launch
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-21 23:00:00
Yuichiro Chino/Getty Images Just weeks after unveiling Gemini 2.5 Pro, Google is on to its next top-performing model. On Thursday, the company released an "early version" of Gemini 2.5 Flash in preview in the Gemini API, AI Studio, and Vertex AI. The model has a knowledge cutoff of January 2025. It can take text, images, video, and audio prompts, and has a one-million-token context window. Also: Gemini Pro 2.5 is a stunningly capable coding assistant - and a big threat to ChatGPT Google says
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Google's advertising business, which generates key revenue for the tech giant, is an illegal monopoly, a federal judge ruled on Thursday. In the ruling, US District Judge Leonie Brinkema wrote that Google violated Section 2 of the Sherman Act, a landmark antitrust law from 1890. Google broke the law "by willfully acquiring and maintaining monopoly power in the open-web display publisher ad server market and the open-web display ad exchange market," Brinkema wrote. The ruling marks the second m
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Google's Gemini AI may have had a slow start, but it has been anything but in 2025. Barely a week goes by that another model doesn't arrive in the Gemini app or developer tools like AI Studio, and there's a major release coming to the app today. Google has announced that its faster, more efficient Gemini 2.5 Flash model is rolling out widely in preview. At the same time, developers can begin building with 2.5 Flash using the company's newly announced API pricing, which Google says is much lower
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-21 23:06:47
is a news editor with over a decade’s experience in journalism. He previously worked at Android Police and Tech Advisor. After 24 hours with Huawei’s Mate XT — a.k.a. the world’s first trifold smartphone — I have this to say for it: the novelty hasn’t worn off. I’ve tried the Mate XT twice before, first shortly after it launched last September, and then again in February after it was released outside of China. But now Huawei is ready to actually let me review its one-of-a-kind hardware, which
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“We won half of this case and we will appeal the other half,” said Lee-Anne Mulholland, Google’s vice president of regulatory affairs. “Publishers have many options and they choose Google because our ad tech tools are simple, affordable and effective.” The Department of Justice did not immediately have comment. The cases against Google are part of a growing push by regulators to rein in the power of the biggest tech companies, which shape commerce, information and communication online. The Jus
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-22 03:07:22
A federal judge ruled today that Google is a monopolist in some parts of the online advertising market, marking the second case in a year where the company was found to have violated US antitrust law. Last August, a federal judge ruled that Google was maintaining an illegal monopoly in search. Judge Leonie Brinkema of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia determined that Google illegally monopolized parts of its advertising technology business to dominate the programmatic a
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-22 03:53:20
On Thursday, weeks after launching its most powerful AI model yet, Gemini 2.5 Pro, Google published a technical report showing the results of its internal safety evaluations. However, the report is light on the details, experts say, making it difficult to determine which risks the model might pose. Technical reports provide useful — and unflattering, at times — info that companies don’t always widely advertise about their AI. By and large, the AI community sees these reports as good-faith effor
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-22 06:33:29
Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR Gemini Live with camera and screen sharing is now rolling out to all Android phones without requiring a Gemini Advanced subscription. The feature was previously available only only on the Pixel 9 series and the Galaxy S25 lineup. It allows users to share their screen and camera view with Gemini to ask questions in real time. Update, April 17, 2025 (12:33 PM ET): It turns out that Google’s generosity with Gemini Live camera and screen sharing is even m
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