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Gemini on a smartphone – Photo Illustration by Thomas Fuller/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Hello Gemini, Goodbye Google Assistant
So long, Google Assistant. We never got to know each other on a first-name basis, but it’s Gemini’s turn in the spotlight.
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bigtunaonline / Getty Images Google ‘AI Mode’ Is Coming to Feed You Even More AI Slop
Will the results be accurate? Who cares!
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Credit: CHUYN via Getty Images Google’s ‘Shielded Email’ Feature Is Like Apple’s ‘Hide My Email’ for Androids
Do you envy Apple’s Hide My Email feature but use an Android? Well, Google has good news for you.
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sample of the user interface — credit: google/screenshot by matt jancer Let AI Help You Find a New Job—After It Puts You Out of One
Google Career Dreamer sounds like the perfect way to make us all feel like a stick caught in rapids, at the mercy of AI from firing to hiring and back again.
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TikTok for download on the Apple App Store — Credit: Gabby Jones/Bloomberg via Getty Images TikTok Is Back on the iPhone and Android App Stores
Apple and Google surprised us late last night with the equivalent of a “U up?” TikTok is back to download on their official app stores, and still nobody knows precisely what’s going on.
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(Photo Illustration by Omar Marques/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) Google Abandoned Its Pledge to Never Use AI for Deadly Weapons
You can’t slip one past us, Google. We saw you remove your promise to never use AI for “technologies whose purpose contravenes widely accepted principles of international law and human rights.”
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Original Pebble smartwatches – Credit: Google An OG Smartwatch Is Coming Back (So Don’t Skip This Pebble)
Microsoft just open-sourced PebbleOS. You know who’s a big fan of that? Pebble creator Eric Migicovsky.
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Samsung XR Headset – Credit: Samsung Samsung’s VR Headset Has Apple Vision Pro in Its Sights
Buried beneath news of the Galaxy S25’s unveiling at Galaxy Unpacked, Samsung gave us a teaser of its Google-collab VR headset.
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Google Gemini on a smartphone – Credit Google Google Gemini May Be the Hottest Thing in Smartphones This Year
Google’s ChatGPT-like Gemini AI will become the default voice assistant on the Samsung Galaxy S25 range. It’s a major leap forward.

