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You Can Make Google Translate Your iPhone’s Default Translation App
Ever since Apple made it easy to change certain default apps on your iPhone, it’s become quite convenient to switch away from the company’s apps whenever there’s a third-party option you prefer. With iOS 18.4, Apple made it possible to change your default translation app as well. First spotted by MacRumors, you can officially set Google Translate as the default…
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I ditched Google for Perplexity for a month — and I don’t think I can go back
Like many people, I have naturally defaulted to Google as my search engine of choice. It’s not through a lack of trying out the competition. I’ve used DuckDuckGo, Brave, and a selection of competitors, but the lure of different unique selling points has never managed to pry me away from the ease of Google. However, there is a newer and…
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Google is getting serious on cloud sovereignty
Google has joined Microsoft in bolstering its sovereign cloud services as tensions grow over US influence on big tech providers. The tech giant has rapidly expanded its sovereign cloud services in recent years, now boasting more than 42 cloud regions, 127 zones, and 202 network edge locations. In a blog post detailing the updates, Hayete Gallot, president of customer experience…
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The great Google Gemini deceit – Computerworld
At their core, Gemini, ChatGPT, and other such systems are powered by a type of technology known as a large language model — or LLM, for short. In the simplest possible terms, an LLM looks at massive amounts of real-world language data and then uses that to learn patterns and predict the most likely next word over and over, in…
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All the New Google I/O Features You Can Try Right Now
Google I/O 2025 was chock full of announcements. The problem is, Google isn’t always clear about which features are new, which have already been released, and which are coming out in the future. While there are plenty of features to look out for on the horizon, and a number still that you’ve been able to use for some time, there…
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Google rejected giving publishers more choice to opt out of AI Search
Google didn’t want to give publishers the choice to keep their content out of AI Search results because it’s “evolving into a space for monetisation.” That’s according to a newly disclosed internal document spotted by Bloomberg, which reveals that Google had discussed offering publishers more granular control over how website data would be used in AI Search features instead of…
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Google I/O 2025: The most important new launches
Particularly exciting is “Deep Search,” a function that takes over complex searches and analyzes, compares and merges multiple sources. “Search Live,” on the other hand, enables real-time information searches: if you point your smartphone camera at a building, for example, Google Search immediately provides information on its history, architectural style and opening hours. Gmail also benefits from AI upgrades. The…
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All the Biggest News and Features Announced During Google I/O 2025
It should have been obvious that Google I/O 2025 would be jammed-packed, considering the company felt the need to hold a separate event to cover all of its Android news. But color me shocked that Google pulled off a nearly two hour-long presentation, full of announcements and reveals, mostly about AI. Not all AI announcements are equal, of course. Some…
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Google Made an AI Detector, but You Can’t Use It
Summary AI detectors are currently unreliable due to false positives and negatives. Google’s SynthID Detector scans for digital watermarks in AI-generated content. SynthID Detector might not be a 100% reliable silver bullet, but it’s probably as reliable as a detector can get for AI. AI detectors, while a potentially useful feature, are currently a mess. Tools like ZeroGPT like to…
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The 15 biggest announcements at Google I/O 2025
Google just wrapped up its big keynote at I/O 2025. As expected, it was full of AI-related announcements, ranging from updates across Google’s image and video generation models to new features in Search and Gmail. But there were some surprises, too, like a new AI filmmaking app and an update to Project Starline. If you didn’t catch the event live,…
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