As teased at I/O 2025 in May, NotebookLM is adding Video Overviews to complement the popular audio podcasts. NotebookLM users now have another way — joining Study Guides, Briefing Docs, FAQs, Timelines, and Mind Maps — to output their sources. The first video format creates narrated slides and visuals to “to help illustrate points while also pulling in images, diagrams, …
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Rita El Khoury / Android Authority TL;DR Google may be working on new AI-powered icon customization features for Pixel phones. This feature could solve the inconsistent look of the current “Themed icons” feature, which many apps still do not support. Code discovered in a recent update points to new “AI icon” and “Create” style options. Google Pixel devices offer many …
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Published on 28/07/2025 – 13:02 GMT+2 ADVERTISEMENT Google has acknowledged that its Android Earthquake Alerts (AEA) system failed to accurately warn the vast majority of people before the catastrophic earthquake that struck Turkey in February 2023, killing over 55,000 and injuring more than 100,000. Despite the potential to issue high-level alerts to 10 million people within 158 kilometres of the …
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Following the US and India (earlier this month), Google Search is now launching AI Mode in the UK. Compared to AI Overviews at the top of a Search results page, AI Mode offers a more Gemini app/chatbot-like experience. Prompts (with images supported) can have multiple parts, with Google finding that questions are often “two or three times the length of …
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Getty Images Google is rolling out a new tool in the UK that will generate results using artificial intelligence (AI), in a significant shake-up to the world’s most popular search engine. Instead of a list of search results showing links to other websites in blue type, people who choose “AI Mode” will be given an answer written in a conversational …
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Following the Pixel Launcher shortcut, you can now add AI Mode to the Google Search homescreen widget on any Android device. Like with a regular search, this lets you immediately enter a prompt into the fullscreen AI Mode screen. Widget access first appeared in April for some users of the Google app beta. It’s gone through a few cycles of …
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Last week, reports emerged of Home users frustrated by Google Assistant failing to understand basic commands and losing connections to connected smart home devices. A Google executive acknowledged the problem and promised that a better and smarter Google Home experience is on the horizon. However, the situation continues to worsen, with Google Home users reporting that they can’t control their …
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UPDATE: The owner of the Pixel 6a well done said in a later post on Reddit that his Pixel 6a had the battery update installed and also mentioned that he was charging the phone using a Steam Deck Valve branded 45W charger. The Pixel 6a will not charge faster than 18W using that charger. The original story starts here: A …
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Voice assistants are… not perfect. That’s me being nice. But if I were to cease being nice, I’d probably say something more like “voice assistants suck,” and I think most would agree I’d be justified in saying so. While no voice assistant really manages to escape that criticism, I usually opt for Google Assistant, which—in my experience—is the least sucky. …
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Google has confirmed that its Android Earthquake Alerts system experienced issues in the wake of the 2023 earthquake that rocked Turkey and nearby regions. Google’s Android Earthquake Alerts system leverages the sensors in Android phones to detect the early signs of an earthquake, providing alert to users when major quakes are coming before their effects are felt. While the system …
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