ZDNet
Gemini Plans Your Summer Vacation, Because Apparently That's What AI Is For Now
Gemini can plan your vacation in minutes, but it might also ignore your requests and push Google products on you.
2026-07-15
ZDNet
2026-07-14
The Verge
Pixel Watch 5 Leak Reveals Four Finishes, Because Apparently We Needed More Ways to Match Our Wrist to Our Phone
Leaked Pixel Watch 5 renders show four color options, a familiar design, and a likely price increase - because why fix what isn't broken, just make it cost more.
2026-07-12
The Guardian
Big Tech's Carbon Emissions Now Rival France's, Thanks to All Those Chatbots
Microsoft, Amazon, and Google's emissions hit 119m mTCO₂e - one-third of France's - as AI datacentre construction boom undoes years of climate progress.
2026-07-11
Ars Technica
Google's Quantum Computer Learns to Fix Its Own Attitude Problem While You Wait
Google's quantum computer learns to recalibrate itself during calculations using error-correction data and reinforcement learning, boosting error detection by 20%.
2026-07-09
TechCrunch
Google's SynthID Does Its Job, Ruins a Fake Mitch McConnell Hospital Photo's Fun
Google's SynthID watermark catches a fake Mitch McConnell hospital photo, proving that sometimes the system works exactly as advertised.
2026-07-01
ZDNet
I Made Gemini and Claude Write My Emails - One of Them Actually Gets Me
A writer pits Google's Gemini and Anthropic's Claude against each other in an email-writing showdown - one AI actually sounds like a human, the other sounds like it's filling out a form.
2026-06-25
ZDNet
Google's Gemini Flows Sort Your Gmail, But Only Until You Hit the 'Enough Email to Need It' Wall
Google's new Gemini Flows can finally sort your Gmail with AI, but the 2,000-email monthly cap means heavy users will hit a wall faster than they can say 'unsubscribe.'
2026-06-24
BBC Business
YouTube Settles With Teen Who Says Infinite Scroll Ruined His Life, Gets to Keep Infinite Scrolling
YouTube settles with a 15-year-old who claims infinite scroll and autoplay made him addicted, anxious, and sleep-deprived - but the features remain, because progress is a journey.
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