Amazon built Prime Day to keep shoppers inside its own marketplace. This year, AI shopping sent its best customers in from outside: a chatbot made the recommendation. US shoppers spent a record $26.4bn across retail sites during the four-day Prime Day …
Google has started testing Gmail Live, a voice-based search tool that answers spoken questions about your inbox and points back to the original email.
Google Play Store v52.1 is rolling out with performance changes aimed at smoother app installs across Android phones, watches, TVs, tablets, and car systems, plus AI labels and new game video tools.
The next major leap in wireless charging may not come from a flashy smartphone launch, but from behind closed doors where some of the biggest names in the tech industry are working together, according to an ITHome report. Apple, Google, Xiaomi, and sev…
Britain’s competition regulator has decided that the cheapest place to buy a digital subscription should not be the one place an app is forbidden from mentioning. On Tuesday the Competition and Markets Authority proposed allowing UK app developers to s…
Your browser has been busy on your behalf. This week brought two reminders that Chrome can put things on your machine you never agreed to. One came from Google. One came from an impostor. Both used the same quiet machinery. Chrome runs on billions of d…
Your phone keeps a minute-by-minute diary of where you go. The US Supreme Court has now ruled that police cannot simply demand it. In a major win for digital privacy, the court said geofence searches need a warrant. The 6-3 decision lands on a practice…
Google is making Gemini’s personalized AI image generation free for all eligible users in the United States, removing a paywall that had restricted the feature to Plus, Pro, and Ultra subscribers since its launch in April. The expansion, announced on S…
Google is expanding Gemini’s personalized AI image generation to eligible free users in the U.S., allowing the chatbot to create images based on your interests and data from connected Google apps.
Waymo robotaxis are no longer available on Uber’s app in Phoenix, ending a nearly three-year partnership in the city that served as the first test of whether the two former courtroom rivals could work together. Both companies confirmed the split to Tec…