Google plans major expansion of Alabama data center campus - which could be backed up with nuclear power.

A Chinese Zhuque-2E rocket's upper stage broke apart shortly after last week's June 9 launch, likely creating 100 to 150 pieces of debris in a busy region of low-Earth orbit crossed by the ISS and lower-altitude Starlink satellites

Recently, Meta announced the AI Mode feature on Facebook

Banyak maklumat menarik boleh diakses menerusi Google Earth seperti peta topografi dan melihat perubahan muka bumi menggunakan data terkumpul berdekad lamanya

Selain tidak boleh lari daripada serangan iklan apabila berada di atas talian, anda juga tidak boleh lari daripada kecerdasan buatan (AI) yang semakin diintegrasikan dalam semua aplikasi harian

Up, up and away! (Just try not to crash.)

Google is removing Chrome's last remaining workarounds for Manifest V2 extensions, effectively ending support for legacy ad blockers such as the original uBlock Origin

These features aim to enhance search on Facebook and give you more creative tools for stories.

The search engine giant has committed to spending at least $50 million on training that it says will impact as many as 300,000 workers across America.

Google Messages wants to arm you with tools to tell real pictures from AI creations.

Google Earth's hidden flying Easter egg is not much of a secret anymore.

Will the Sun roast Earths plants or starve them?

BrianFagioli writes: Google CEO Sundar Pichai delivered Stanford University's 2026 commencement address, but despite leading one of the companies at the center of the AI boom, he spent very little time discussing artificial intelligence

Aura makes some of the best digital photo frames including my favorite, the Walden which now support Google Photos, iCloud, text message and Aura app uploads (and more), making them easier than ever to use

Google has announced a $1.5 billion investment for 2026 and 2027 to expand its data center campus in Jackson County, Alabama

Google's new Gemini 3.5 Flash is a pricey downgrade for Android devs.

Google says the intruders were on the hunt for everything from drone tech to pathogens

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Google is rolling out an update to its Gemini TV platform that will enable you to control your TV's settings via voice but it's on TCL TVs in the US at first.

The Elfin Flip series can also adapt for your bedroom ceiling.

Today marks 15 years since the first Chromebooks hit the market.

AI Mode will now keep you updated on the latest sneaker drops, movie tickets, and more.

Futurism reports: in a new essay for The Chronicle Higher Education, university-level literature and writing instructor Tyler Jagt recalls how not a single one of his students could get through an assigned 20-page article, something that he had read "without complaint" as an undergraduate a decade ago

Googles cheapest AI plan is now cheaper than ChatGPTs heres what you get for your $4.99

The FBI, Google, and Lumen Technologies say theyve dismantled a China-based phishing-as-a-service operation called Outsider Enterprise.

Google is advertising some Gemini features you already paid for as something new.

Tecno launched the Pova 8 last week, but there's also a Pova 8 Pro coming soon, as revealed by certifications dating back to last month

Sundar Pichai swerves AI in Stanford speech, but still faces protests at Google policies.

Google's AI Overviews can't stop thinking of you as a friend, and that's a problem.

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Most new features come from the Play Store, not an Android upgrade.

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"Battered by years of mass layoffs, California tech workers were hoping the job market would rebound this year," reports the Los Angeles Times

Youve probably heard a lot about the Microsoft Flight Simulator, but have you ever heard of the Google Earth Flight Simulator? Neither have I, until today anyway

PLUS: Japans space truck is back in business; Zoho's DIY servers; Record tech exports for Korea, and more!

Steven Spielberg grants that his 1977 UFO film Close Encounters was "speculative," writes the Associated Press, but "Disclosure Day, he insists, is the real deal." "It's my first film that will be considered science fiction that I do not consider to be science fiction," Spielberg said in a recent interview

"A year after spending over $14 billion to bring in Alexandr Wang and a group of his top Scale AI engineers to revamp its artificial intelligence efforts, Meta is at least back on the map in AI," reports CNBC, "though it's still far behind OpenAI, Anthropic and Google in the market." Wang's big accomplishment was the delivery of the Muse Spark AI model in April, marking Meta's first jump into proprietary foundation models and away from a strict adherence to open source, or open weight as it's more commonly called in AI..

It was a jam-packed week as Apple introduced a slew of new updates at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference

Google News is great, but with these five features, it could be even better.

SpaceX and Google have a long and complicated relationship, but they were both celebrating this week after Elon Musk's company held its blockbuster IPO.

Less choice, aging hardware, and worsening experience are testing my loyalty.

A few weeks ago on a bike ride "inspiration struck" for Dave Eggers, reports SFGate..

"A coalition of state attorneys general has opened an investigation into OpenAI," reports the Wall Street Journal, citing "people familiar with the matter." OpenAI was served Friday with a subpoena seeking documents related to a broad range of its activities and impact on users, including advertising, user engagement and retention, handling of consumer data and health data, activities related to minors and seniors, deep learning models, model sycophancy and company policies, some of the people said

Not all older features are obsolete.

Pixel updates have been a mess, and it needs to stop!

The ruling holds that a company that designs, trains, operates, and manages an AI system must assume legal liability for any damages caused by the responses it generates.

ShinyHunters claims it exploited a critical Oracle PeopleSoft zero-day to compromise more than 100 organizations, including the University of Nottingham, where it says it stole 40GB of student and billing data

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Google is suing to dismantle the infrastructure behind an alleged massive AI-powered cybercrime operation

Google TV just turned its Sports page into a World Cup command center.

The fraudsters allegedly targeted hundreds of thousands of people with Gemini-coded scams sites.

This soccer-themed Android Bugdroid is now on sale in the US and it's just $25!

Last December, we heard that Waze - a crowd-sourced GPS navigation app - started testing a feature that showed traffic lights to users

Google might have just confirmed that the new Google Home Speaker is officially arriving next week.

The company was pressured to pause development by Google

Amazon says it used far less water than Google at its data centers as it turns to air cooling and recycled water consumption.

Gemini can - at least on some TCL models - adjust your TV's picture settings.

Telegram-based 'Outsider Enterprise' accused of sending millions of scam texts and impersonating trusted brands

Google director of Android platform security ditches company over contracts with Defense Department

Previous landmark scientific discoveries like the Higgs boson provide a better template for what it will take to confirm whether aliens have made contact with Earth.

Google sued a Chinese cybercrime network for using its Gemini AI in a 'massive' scam operation.

There's so much I want Gemini to learn from Claude, but Google took note of the wrong lesson.

From intelligent file renaming to on-demand categorization, there's a lot to like here.

Years of user Q&As are about to disappear forever.

Learn how Google is fighting scammers on all fronts with industry-leading security, lawsuits and law enforcement and industry partners.

Researchers uncovered a global phishing network using Google Cloud redirects and copied news content across thousands of coordinated servers.

Has Google gotten better or worse? Readers are split.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: If digital sovereignty is important to you, and it certainly is in the European Union (EU), then you'll be pleased to know that EuroOffice, a new open-source browser-based office suite alternative to Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace, has officially reached its first stable release

Google's Home Speaker teaser makes a release sound imminent

Language model builds on diffusion tech to boost output performance by up to 4x, claims Chocolate Factory

It just got a lot easier to switch to a phone without Google services.

A proper mid-range showdown between two solid phones.

OpenAI's aggressive push into the enterprise, where it competes with Anthropic, coincides with efforts by Apple and Google to bring advanced AI to consumers.

The new open-source project could serve as the basis for a future of apps with features as complex as Slack, Discord, or Google Docsbut with added protection against surveillance.

Google's new Screen Reactions feature handles camera overlay and background isolation natively, and you can try it out!

Google is expanding its total skilled trades support to $50 million to help prepare more than 300,000 American workers.