I’ve come to realize that convenience often carries a healthy dose of mediocrity, and Google Maps might be the undisputed king of it. Google Maps is what I’d call good enough software. It’s definitely ...

The premade Skills available through the Gemini sidebar in Chrome include ways to maximize protein in recipes or summarize YouTube videos. You can set up your own ...

In a handy new tweak rolling out now, Google Maps now shows more prominent street labels on Android Auto. Google Maps has long shown street labels along each road, but outside of your next turn, ...

Google has unveiled new generative AI features for its mapping and geospatial apps that are designed with enterprise users in mind. The new features, announced at Cloud Next in Las Vegas this week, ...

Some Google DeepMind employees use Anthropic's Claude for coding internally. Most Google employees are only permitted to use the company's internal Gemini AI tools. The divide is causing tensions as ...

These are precisely the words Google used when it announced immersive navigation. "The biggest update in over a decade." And after a debut last month in the United States on iPhone and Android, the ...

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The Chrome and Edge browsers have built-in APIs for language detection, translation, summarization, and more, using locally hosted models. Here’s how to take advantage of them. With every passing year ...

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I’m a very good driver — don’t come at me, I genuinely am, and I’m proud of it. But no matter how good you are behind the wheel, Google Maps is always riding shotgun. Every single day, without fail, ...