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Forgot that tune? Circle to Search now remembers your previous song searches

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority TL;DR Google is rolling out Song Search history to Circle to Search. Tapping on the new icon will open a page with your past searches, complete with song titles, thumbnails, and artist information. The feature is available on Android in the beta and stable channels. Finding out the name of a song or the artist behind it is as easy as bringing up Circle to Search and activating Song Search. But what if you want to listen to a song you previously searched for

Google’s AI Mode could soon get an important Gemini feature (APK teardown)

Tushar Mehta / Android Authority TL;DR Google is working on new ways that improve how you access AI Mode chat history inside the Google app for Android. The history of chats with AI Mode could soon be grouped under the Activity tab, alongside your regular search history and bookmarks. Google could also enable the option to share AI Mode conversations, which is currently not possible. Google has been fervently promoting Search’s AI Mode alongside Gemini. After recently adding AI Mode to Circl

Look Inside the Cinematic Legacy of ‘Godzilla’ In This Stunning New Book

Last year marked the 70th anniversary of the first Godzilla, and Toho has spent much of that 70th year going all-in to celebrate the King of the Monsters. From more movies, to theme park rides, to plenty of crazy merch, it’s been a great time to be a Godzilla fan, and it’s about to be even better. Ahead of its release this week, io9 has an exclusive look inside Godzilla: The First 70 Years, a titanic celebration of the last seven decades of kaiju moviemaking. Published by Abrams and written by

Explore 20 years of Mac UI design through emulations of a single app

What’s a Mac app that was included on the very first Macintosh back in 1984 – long before the internet – and still exists on today’s machines, albeit with a different name? Designer and author Marcin Wichery has not only traced the first 20 years of development of that app, but has also included emulators that let you experience it for yourself … The app in question: Control Panel, more recently renamed as Settings. That might not sound like the most fascinating of apps to track across time,

The ITTAGE indirect branch predictor

While investigating the performance of the new Python 3.14 tail-calling interpreter, I learned (via this very informative comment from Sam Gross) new (to me) piece of performance trivia: Modern CPUs mostly no longer struggle to predict the bytecode-dispatch indirect jump inside a “conventional” bytecode interpreter loop. In steady-state, assuming the bytecode itself is reasonable stable, modern CPUs achieve very high accuracy predicting the dispatch, even for “vanilla” while / switch -style inte

The photographer using AI to reconstruct stories lost to censorship

Video screens glow softly from the floor, looping footage of salt lakes, steppe villages, and decaying nuclear test sites. Suspended above them is a large handwoven textile map, crafted by artisans in Kazakhstan. The tapestry maps 12 significant sites across Kazakhstan and the surrounding region, each corresponding to one of the flickering videos below. This is Posthuman Matter: The Map of Nomadizing Reimaginings #3, the latest large-scale installation by photographer and multimedia artist Almag

Portyl travel app brings ancient ruins to live with immersive AR

Turn your phone into a time machine with stunning 3D reconstructions of historic sites, geospatial precision, and AI-guided tours in 60+ languages Histoury is launching its Portyl app that uses the Unity game engine and Niantic Spatial‘s technology to enable tourists to see what today’s archaeological ruins looked like in their heyday. The Dallas-based company says it’s like turning your smartphone into a time machine, with 3D reconstructions of historic sites, geospatial precision and AI guid

Curved-Crease Sculpture

Curved-Crease Sculpture When folded along curved creases, paper shapes itself into a natural equilibrium form. These equilibria are poorly understood, especially for curved creases. We are exploring what shapes are possible in this genre of self-folding origami, with applications to deployable structures, manufacturing, and self-assembly. This transformation of flat paper into swirling surfaces creates sculpture that feels alive. History of Curved Origami Sculpture There is a surprisingly old

Curved-Crease Origami Sculptures

Curved-Crease Sculpture When folded along curved creases, paper shapes itself into a natural equilibrium form. These equilibria are poorly understood, especially for curved creases. We are exploring what shapes are possible in this genre of self-folding origami, with applications to deployable structures, manufacturing, and self-assembly. This transformation of flat paper into swirling surfaces creates sculpture that feels alive. History of Curved Origami Sculpture There is a surprisingly old

macOS Tahoe’s new Spotlight clipboard manager leaves plenty of room for powerful third-party apps

The new Spotlight is easily my favorite macOS announcement from WWDC25. It may even be my favorite update across all of Apple’s platforms this year. Still, I don’t plan on abandoning my current clipboard manager. Here’s why. The addition of a native clipboard history tool to macOS feels like one of those small but meaningful quality-of-life upgrades we’ve been waiting forever to get. That said… I’m not switching. Don’t get me wrong: I love that Apple is acknowledging clipboard history as a po

Apple’s Passwords app has iOS 26 fix for my most common issue

Apple’s Passwords app launched last year in iOS 18 as a new pre-installed password solution across iPhone, iPad, Mac, and more. iOS 26 changes for Passwords are pretty minimal, except there is one key fix that addresses my most common issue after a year of use. Passwords app now saves login version history in iOS 26 For years, Apple has offered password management tools on the iPhone and its other devices. But until iOS 18, those tools were always hidden away inside the Settings app. Fortunat

An Experimental New Dating Site Matches Singles Based on Their Browser Histories

Imagine, for a moment, that your most clandestine internet searches—anxiety-riddled deep dives on WebMD, Google queries wondering if your cat is trying to kill you, or why farts smell the way they do—were the key to finding a soulmate. Would you sign up for a dating site that guaranteed connection in return for your browser history? For more than a decade, developers have tried to perfect the science of compatibility. Tinder promised infinite swipes. Bumble let women make the first move. Feeld

Google Home app is getting a YouTube-like feature for your video history

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR The Google Home mobile app is introducing a new way to navigate through your video history. Users can now double-tap the left or right side of the video to rewind or fast-forward by 10-second increments. The feature is available through the Public Preview. The video your Google Nest camera and doorbell records is automatically stored in the cloud and can be viewed in the Google Home mobile app. Previously, the only way to navigate through your video

Twitch’s new storage limits will purge huge swaths of Internet gaming history

Popular Amazon-owned game streaming platform Twitch announced Wednesday that it will be imposing a 100-hour limit on the archived video highlights users can preserve permanently on the site. And while Twitch says that only 0.5 percent of users will be affected by these new limits, gamers are warning that the move threatens to eradicate large swaths of recent gaming history from the Internet. Highlights, in Twitch's own words, are a way for Twitch streamers to "show off your best moments to new