Starting next month, Google will require apps on the Play Store to provide a “stable, engaging, responsive user experience.” If they don’t, the company plans to eventually remove those apps from the store. This policy is part of Google’s latest spam policy update and is designed to...

Google is getting ready to remove lots of Android apps from the Play Store

As I raised one of Google's new Pixel 9 phones to snap a group photo, I saw an image of myself in augmented reality located in the same spot I was standing in just a second ago. This digital version of me was positioned right next to the person I was taking a photo of, as if we were standing alongside one another in real life.

Google's Pixel 9 Phones Have a Wild New AR Camera Feature

One of generative AI's most useful (and needed) applications is enhancing voice assistants, which have remained relatively unchanged for years. For that reason, Google is making several upgrades to its voice assistant experience with the help of Gemini. At the company's Made by Google event on Tuesday, Google made Gemini...

Gemini Live is finally available. Here's how you can access it (and why you'll want to)

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 Google on Tuesday unveiled its next generation of Pixel phones, providing the maker of Android software a head start on the next iPhone in the race to bring more artificial-intelligence services to devices that have become people’s constant companions.The showcase held near Google’s Mountain View, California, headquarters took place two months earlier than when the company typically rolls out the next models in its Pixel phone line-up, which made its debut eight years ago.Although Pixel phones still represent a sliver of worldwide smartphone sides, they are still closely watched because they serve as Google’s platform for demonstrating the latest...

Google rolls out Pixel 9 phones earlier than usual as AI race with Apple heats up

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Google has unveiled its new range of flagship Pixel smartphones, which the company says have been built to house its most advanced artificial intelligence (AI) tech, as it looks to take on Apple and Samsung.The new range includes the Pixel 9, the Pixel 9 Pro and Pro XL, and a new foldable in the form of the Pixel 9 Pro Fold, which were announced alongside a new smartwatch and wireless ear buds.The new phones have been loaded with AI – including Google’s Gemini chatbot, an AI image generation app, camera editing tools and voice call transcripts – and are powered...

Google unveils AI-powered Pixel 9 series smartphones

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"They accidentally gave us 2 washers and a dryer when we only ordered 1 of each". Last month, Lowe’s experienced a glitch that lowered the price of its $2,300 Midea jumbo capacity refrigerator to just $169.

‘Lowe’s messed up’: Shopper says they got $2,300 fridge at Lowe’s for just $169

For decades, astronomers have predicted that, in approximately 4.5 billion years, our galaxy will merge with the nearby Andromeda galaxy in a massive collision that will dramatically reshape our immediate cosmic neighborhood. But what if this doomed encounter isn’t inevitable and each galaxy will remain intact?. Previous research suggested...

Collision Between Milky Way and Andromeda Far From Inevitable, Study Shows

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If you’ve ever wondered why your partner or mate was so gosh darn easy to love, or on the flip side impossible to love at times, their sun sign could give you some important clues! I’ve definitely been in relationships that have tested my patience to the limits and other ones that have been a smooth sailing ride. The answers just may be in the stars! Read on to discover the zodiac signs according to Astrology.com that are the easiest to the hardest to love.

The Zodiac Signs Ranked Easiest to Hardest to Love

Google just announced their new line of Pixel phones.

The Pixel 9 Phones Are Betting Big on Big

Back at WWDC24, Apple announced that its upcoming iOS 18 update will finally allow iPhone users to customise their app icons on the Home screen, bringing it one step closer to Android level customisation. Although iOS 18 is not set to launch until later this year, eager users can already...

How to change the colour of app icons in iOS 18

Smartphone accessibility is essential for equitable access to software and hardware. It also opens the door to abilities that the status quo might not have otherwise considered. Guided Frame, for example, helps you frame yourself in a photo. This tool, built for people with blindness or low vision, is so helpful for all that Google made it a prominent part of the Pixel Camera app.

The Google Pixel’s Best Accessibility Features are Now Easier to Use

The parents of a child ritually sacrificed in pre-contact Mexico were likely close relatives. Like, really close relatives. Sounds like something out of Game of Thrones (RIP Princess Shireen Baratheon), but DNA analysis indicates it happened at least once in a pre-contact Mexican community. Paquimé is a UNESCO World Heritage...

Ancient Mexican Child Sacrifice Linked to Elite Inbreeding

NASA’s InSight lander may have retired over a year ago, but the data it sent back to Earth, specifically the seismic speeds of marsquakes, could contain the best evidence yet of liquid water on Mars. NASA launched InSight, also known as Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy, and Heat...

Martian Tremors Provide Strongest Evidence Yet of Liquid Water

This week's Microsoft Edge Dev update is finally here under version 129.0.2752.4. As usual, the latest preview update delivers various browser improvements and small enhancements. Also, Browser Essentials can now track extensions uninstalls, and the browser no longer crashes when turning off Gamer Mode. Here is the complete changelog for...

Microsoft Edge 129 is out in Dev Channel with Browser Essentials and Gamer Mode improvements

Solar Opposites is back on Hulu with a very fun season five; there’s also a new Halloween special coming later this year, as well as an in-the-works sixth season. io9 got a chance to speak with executive producers Mike McMahan (Star Trek: Lower Decks), Josh Bycel, and Sydney Ryan about the animated sci-fi series’ new batch of episodes, with a few hints of what’s on the way.

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Two of Earth’s neighbors will appear awfully close in the sky on August 14, as the orbits of Mars and Jupiter make them seem to almost touch. A conjunction is an astronomical term for when two or more bodies in space closely approach each other, relative to the view from Earth. While the objects appear close to each other, in actuality they can still be millions—or trillions—of miles from each other. In the case of the Mars and Jupiter conjunction, the two planets will, at their nearest, be more than 300 million miles (500 million kilometers) apart.

Watch Mars and Jupiter Appear to Almost Touch in a Rare Conjunction

Artificial intelligence is spreading its ample wings throughout the Android operating system, right down to Google’s decision to rebuild the assistant experience entirely to integrate it inside Android. It means Google Assistant has gone the way of the dinosaur, relegated to the history books as it’s replaced by the next big thing: Google Gemini. What better way to introduce the changes than letting Gemini tell you itself.

Gemini has killed Google Assistant to become the AI future of Android

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Mark Zuckerberg on Monday predicted a future where hundreds of millions of people regularly wear AI-powered smart glasses like Meta's Ray-Bans.

Mark Zuckerberg predicts a future where nearly everyone is wearing AI-powered smart glasses

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iOS 18 features one of the most important changes in iPhone history: a revamped Home Screen. With this update, Apple offers unprecedented freedom to customize one of the device’s most personal spaces to your heart’s content.
In this article, we’ll teach you everything you need to know about iOS 18’s updated Home Screen and how to customize it to better suit your needs. Previously, we taught you how to customize your iPhone Lock Screen, in case you’re curious.
iOS 18 Home Screen brings more freedom to users with these features

Rearrange apps and widgets: Place your apps and widgets where you want them....

How to customize the iPhone’s Home Screen in iOS 18

Deadline reports Deadpool and Wolverine has officially crested the $1 billion threshold at the box office, and is destined to become the high-grossing R-rated movie of all time. According to the outlet, the threequel’s domestic box office currently sits at $494.3M. With its international revenue now at $535.2M, as of...

Deadpool & Wolverine Is Destined to Become the Highest-Grossing R-Rated Movie of All Time

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Say Goodbye to Google Assistant and Hello to Gemini Live

It was inevitable. With Gemini taking form in all parts of Google’s ecosystem, it was apparent that Android would eventually follow suit. Alongside the new family...

Say Goodbye to Google Assistant and Hello to Gemini Live

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