Users of Google Maps in recent days have noticed something very peculiar: Satellite map images that once showed the devastation from last year’s devastating Palisades and Eaton wildfires have now been ...

David Nield is a technology journalist from Manchester in the U.K. who has been writing about gadgets and apps for more than 20 years. He has a bachelor's degree in English Literature from Durham ...

Lane guidance is already available in Google Maps (and many other navigation apps, to be honest), but Google is getting ready to push this thing to the next level. The company has announced live lane ...

Google is expected to unveil several new Gemini AI features at the Google I/O event in mid-May 2026, but the company already shared AI innovations a week earlier, hosting the I/O 2026 Edition of "The ...

A Google Googlebook laptop against a black background - screenshot from Google promo video. - YouTube/Android and Google Indeed, Google said on stage that Googlebooks have been designed for Gemini ...

I wore the world's first HDR10 smart glasses TCL's new E Ink tablet beats the Remarkable and Kindle Anker's new charger is one of the most unique I've ever seen Best laptop cooling pads Best flip ...

Google just wrapped its keynote address at its annual I/O developer event. The company showed off a swath of new agentic AI features and some demos of its upcoming Android-powered smart glasses. As it ...

Using a new Gemini A.I. model, the tech giant is overhauling its search box dimensions to answer longer queries, adding a video-generation tool and simplifying online shopping. By Tripp Mickle Kate ...

Last year marked the beginning of Google’s explicit focus on AI search, and this year’s I/O solidified that shift. As Google’s search VP Liz Reid said during the keynote, “Google search is AI search.” ...

Google I/O 2026 is well underway, following its kickoff with a Tuesday morning keynote featuring several new Gemini tools like the personalized Spark assistant, an update on the company's efforts for ...

We’ve all pulled up Street View on Google Maps to show a friend what our childhood home looked like, or dropped that little person icon onto the streets of Paris to see if we booked a hotel in a cool ...

Blackstone committed $5 billion to a Google-backed AI infrastructure venture. The joint venture aims to bring the first 500MW of compute capacity online by 2027. Google is seeking to loosen Nvidia's ...