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Gemini is moving into Google Play, and it has front-row seat to your spending habits

Ask Google Pay uses Gemini to analyze spending and explain financial topics, while a new SBI partnership expands Google’s app-based Flex credit card in India.…

Red state governor pummeled online after defying Trump’s deportation orders

Gov. Mike DeWine called Haiti "hell" while arguing against deporting Haitian TPS holders, sparking fierce online backlash from critics on social media.…

Landon Donovan 'disappointed' Folarin Balogun red-card fiasco got 'out of hand' after Trump's involvement

Landon Donovan says the Folarin Balogun red card controversy "tainted" the USMNT's incredible World Cup run and motivated Belgium ahead of their match.…

National Guard soldier who added Mongolian migrant as second wife pleads guilty to immigration fraud

A D.C. National Guard member who entered a bigamous marriage with an illegal Mongolian immigrant pleaded guilty Tuesday to a fraud scheme aimed at keeping her in the U.S.…

We’re launching Lyria 3.5 in Google Flow Music, with advances across musicality, lyrics, vocals, and creative control

Our newest music generation model, Lyria 3.5, delivers significant advancements across musicality, lyrics, and vocal quality, empowering you to craft richer tracks. We’r……

Fauci’s Biden autopen pardon won’t spare him from prosecution for 5th Amendment spectacle: GOP senators

Dr. Anthony Fauci’s pardon from Joe Biden won’t save him from prosecution for obstructing Congress, Sen. Rand Paul warned on Wednesday.…

Trump says he warned Biden that Fauci ‘was no good,’ but he didn’t listen

President Donald Trump says he warned former President Joe Biden that Dr. Anthony Fauci “was no good,” but he didn’t listen. “I called Biden to tell him Fauci was no good, either d…

Google Wallet broken on your Pixel? A fix is rolling out now

Google has rolled out a fix for a Google Wallet issue that prevented NFC payments on some Pixel phones after Android 17 arrived.…

OpenAI, Anthropic ask US government to consider slowing down AI - Editor and Publisher

Comprehensive up-to-date news coverage, aggregated from sources all over the world by Google News.…

LIV Golf reportedly canceling its finale makes CEO's comments about 'incredible' Saudis look wildly foolish

Multiple contractors reportedly say travel and accommodations were cancelled as LIV Golf's $40 million team championship in Michigan faces reported axing.…

Made In’s sold-out cookware set is back, and the lineup just got bigger

Back in stock!…

ROAD RULES REFRESH: Forgot how to drive? Let Uncle Josh bring you up to speed.

Over the past 15 years, America has abandoned just about every social rule, every kind of etiquette, and every normative behavior that used to make public interaction bearable. I’v…

Shipping Godot VR and Porting to PSVR2: A Partial Post Mortem

TLDR: Written version of the talk I gave at Develop Brighton 2026. Yes Godot can ship commercial VR, we paid roughly £80k in early adopter tax to do it. War stories from rebuilding…

Body found in suitcase in Athens 11 days ago that of 38-year-old British woman

Greek authorities identify remains after reported discovery in a derelict building by homeless man…

Google will let Mac users talk to Gemini simply by pressing the 'fn' key

Users only have to long-press the ‘fn’ key on the bottom left corner of their keyboard to talk to Gemini on Mac.…

I spent a month eating virtually nothing but pizza to test the Gozney Arc XL — here’s the outcome

Someone had to do it (and that someone was me)…

Survey: 77% of US adults support in-class cellphone bans for middle and high school students, up from 74% in 2025 and 68% in 2024; just 18% oppose such bans (Jeffrey Gottfried/Pew Research Center)

I watched Tom Holland's new Marvel movie Spider-Man: Brand New Day and it spins a fun and functional yarn but one that ultimately fails to avoid the same pitfalls where the MCU continues to go wrong

Tom Holland's new Marvel movie is fun enough, but doesn't take the big swings it needs to avoid some classic MCU pitfalls.…

Google Pixel’s Tensor grows as global smartphone shipments continue to fall

The chipset giants like MediaTek and Qualcomm are facing a drop in shipments as proprietary SoCs from Google and Samsung...…

AMD May Be Reviving GPUs With 4GB RAM. Who's Going to Buy That?

A 4GB ASRock RX 9050 briefly appeared online before being taken down, but it says something about how major GPU manufacturers see the next couple of years playing out.…

Michael B. Jordans The Thomas Crown Affair trailer makes that getaway van Gogh

Remember the Pierce Brosnan classic? It's had an update.…

AI giants back employee-led push asking US government to ‘deliberately pace’ development - The Hill

Comprehensive up-to-date news coverage, aggregated from sources all over the world by Google News.…

'We're Going to Go a Bit Crazy': Clair Obscur Dev Doesn't Want to Hold Back on Its Next Game

Take your turn. It's surprisingly fun to speculate over Sandfall Interactive's next game, because based on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 — the studio's debut — its follow-up project …

Walmart Deals of the Day: You’ve Got a Rare Chance to Save Over $100 on the AirPods Max 2

Plus, nearly half off an MSI monitor and a simple single-serve Keurig for less than $75.…

Los Movimientos, Part II: Solving Large Pickup-and-Delivery Problems with Adaptive Large Neighborhood Search

Building an ALNS heuristic in Python for vehicle routing, time windows, capacity constraints, and mandatory driver breaks.…

Handbook.md shows that long policy documents do not reliably govern agents

Language-model agents are increasingly deployed under standing instructions: a system prompt, a policy file, or a skills document is placed in context, and the agent is trusted to …

Google has quietly nuked the ‘Me Meme’ feature in Google Photos

Google has completely removed the "Me Meme" feature from Google Photos, including mentions on support pages and the original announcement.…

New York wants to govern Iowa and Missouri — we're suing to stop it cold

Iowa and Missouri challenge New York's greenhouse gas reporting rule in federal court, saying it illegally targets out-of-state fuel suppliers.…

Make antitrust fast again

It was 1903, and Theodore Roosevelt had a problem. The Sherman Antitrust Act , passed in 1890, was effectively dead. It had been used rarely, and when it had been, cases moved slug…

Todd Blanche to lobby John Cornyn as outgoing senator holds up confirmation

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche is reportedly slated to lobby outgoing Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) on Wednesday morning, after the Texas Republican held up his confirmation to tak…

I tried COSMIC expecting a half-finished beta, and now I don't want to go back to KDE or GNOME

It's young, but it's mighty.…

DoorDash is going airborne with new drone delivery division

DoorDash is launching a new drone delivery program called DoorDash Air. The largest food delivery app in the US said that it has approval from the Federal Aviation Administration t…

August Social Security direct payment worth $994 goes out in two days

The August 2026 Supplemental Security Income payments, worth up to $994, will be sent to recipients in two days. SSI payments are typically issued on the first day of each month. I…

2026 Rocket Classic picks: PGA Tour best bets, odds, predictions for Detroit Golf Club

Si Woo Kim and Russell Henley headline our picks at the Rocket Classic.…

Elon Musk finally launches X Money. What could possibly go wrong?

Expect bumps with X Money rollout as major US financial markets are excluded.…

Google's SynthID watermark is hard to break, but it doesn't solve AI misinformation

Deciding what's real on the Internet won't be easy in the future.…

Apple's corporate espionage suit against OpenAI: How we got here

Google's price hike explanation ignores the real culprit: mandatory AI bloat

Google is forcing you to pay more for Gemini…

3 useful Google Maps features I wish I started using years ago

Waze isn't the only Google-owned navigation app with useful crowdsourced features.…

Gemini can now summarize the messiest comment threads in Google Docs

Gemini can now sort sprawling Google Docs comments by reviewer or theme, surface unresolved questions, draft responses and suggest edits, though access depends on the right plan, s…

Google VPN was doomed from day one – how lack of trust meant it never had a chance

Between 2020 and 2024, Google built and destroyed its own VPN. This is the story of how it happened.…

Peacock Premium to Join YouTube Premium, Recover Your Google Account With a Video, and Dangerous Predictions on Wildfires | Tech Today

Wes Ott covers today’s biggest tech stories, including Youtube and NBCUniversal’s major deal. Plus, Google adds selfie videos as a new recovery method, and wildfires on prediction …

Samsung, Google and Apple Made It Way Easier to Switch From an iPhone to Android

The new way to switch from an iPhone to Android isn't perfect, but it's far smoother.…

I moved one device off my main network, and the whole house got faster

You might not realize it's causing issues.…

The Groundhog Trap – Multi-model consensus and AI output failover framework

The Groundhog Trap by Ricky Rojas: an open AI governance framework using multi-model consensus, adversarial validation, semantic routing, and LLM-as-a-Judge techniques for trustwor…

Google DeepMind Disbands AlphaFold Team as AI Strategy Shifts Toward Gemini

'Apocalyptic' damage as Cairngorms wildfire burns for two weeks

The blaze has destroyed about 25 sq km of moorland and forestry near Aviemore since Wednesday 15 July.…

Google shuts down its Nobel-prize winning AlphaFold project as it focuses on Gemini

DeepMind's award-winning AlphaFold team is no more.…

NHS England rapped over inaccurate Palantir patient data disclosure

Privacy guardian warns public trust quickly erodes when supplier access comes as a surprise…

I turned off Google Health Coach and got back the Fitbit app I actually wanted

The coach didn't tell me anything new…

Google’s priciest Pixel 11 may bring a smaller battery and a bigger bill

A new leak points to smaller batteries inside both Pixel 11 Pro models, while the Pro XL could cost £80 more than last year’s equivalent.…

OpenAI, Google, Meta, BlackRock, and others are recruiting electricians and carpenters by the thousands, with some of the highest pay the industry has ever seen (Lydia DePillis/New York Times)

Gemini can now read, respond to, and make changes based on comments in Google Docs

Google is giving Gemini the capability to read comments on Google Docs, respond to them, and even draft changes based on them.…

The Galaxy Z Flip 8 no longer needs Good Lock for this cover screen feature

Samsung's Galaxy Z Flip 8 now offers a built-in option if your favorite app is looking a little wonky on the cover screen.…

London-based Agon, which is developing sovereign AI training infrastructure for European defense, emerges from stealth with a $7M pre-seed and a $23M seed (Ingrid Lunden/Resilience Media)

Ingrid Lunden / Resilience Media : London-based Agon, which is developing sovereign AI training infrastructure for European defense, emerges from stealth with a $7M pre-seed and a …

Show HN: Vimgolf.ai – Learn Vim by playing through a map of levels

Elevate your vim skills to elite levels with vimgolf.ai…

I swapped my Fire TV Stick for the Google TV Streamer — then one glitch almost ruined it

Replacing my Fire TV Stick with the Google TV Streamer was an incredible decision — until a software glitch almost ruined it.…

The new HP Omen 16 Slim isn't actually that skinny, but it is a surprisingly good budget gaming laptop - if you can get it at the right price

It's all about the money, these days…

Kentucky governor calls on McConnell to prove he is fit to serve or resign: ‘Address the people’

The governor also wrote to Senate Majority Leader John Thune, calling for an investigation into McConnell's condition.…

More Americans are going bankrupt. What does that mean?

The bankruptcy rate has risen about 48% between 2022 and 2025, although it's still below pre-pandemic levels.…