Chrome on Android now supports approximate instead of precise location sharing
The new feature is a small win for Android users, as it gives them more control over how much location data they share with websites.
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Google unveils Whoop-like screenless Fitbit Air
The device comes with health and fitness tracking like 24/7 heart rate, heart rhythm monitoring with A-fib alerts, SpO2, resting heart rate, heart rate variability, sleep stages and duration, and more.
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Finally, texts between Android and iPhone users can be end-to-end encrypted
Google had urged Apple for years to support RCS texting to make communication between each company’s devices more seamless.
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Google adds Gemini-powered dictation to Gboard, which could be bad news for dictation startups
Google’s transcription feature will initially launch with Samsung Galaxy and Google Pixel phones.
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Google unveils Googlebook, a new line of AI-native laptops
The company says Googlebooks, which are launching this fall, are the first laptops designed from the ground up for Gemini Intelligence to offer personal and proactive help.
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Google’s ‘Create My Widget’ feature will let you vibe-code your own widgets
To create a widget, users will be able to describe what they want using natural language. For example, you could ask the feature to “suggest three high-protein meal prep recipes every week” in order to get a custom dashboard that you can add and resize on your home screen.
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Jeff Dean and other top AI researchers are leaving Google to launch their own startup
The legendary Google executive is joined by other outgoing Google execs in a joint mission to use AI to push forward the process of scientific discovery.
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Google brings agentic AI and vibe-coded widgets to Android
Gemini Intelligence will also include Gboard-based dictation and form-filling capabilities.
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Google launches new Android security feature to help uncover spyware attacks
Intrusion Logging is a new part of Android’s Advanced Protection Mode, which aims to help protect human rights activists, journalists, and dissidents from government spyware attack and law enforcement forensic devices.
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Everything Google announced at its Android Show, from Googlebooks to vibe-coded widgets
Google unveiled its new AI-first Googlebooks laptops, more agentic Gemini features, vibe-coded Android widgets, Gemini in Chrome, refreshed Android Auto, and more ahead of I/O.
