Google spent 2.1 billion dollars buying Fitbit in 2021, three years dismantling the brand, and on Thursday launched a 100 dollar device with no screen, no buttons, and no independent functionality to bring it back. The Fitbit Air is a soft fabric ban…
Android’s top executive has ruled out Liquid Glass on Pixel devices, calling out the speculation directly. The move draws a clear line between Google’s Material 3 Expressive design language and the wave of iOS-inspired UI updated spreading across third…
It’s a Whoop dupe. That was my first thought when I saw the new $99 Google Fitbit Air. You can hardly blame me. The band is screenless with a metallic fabric clasp. My eyes flickered between the Fitbit Air and my wrist, where I’m wearing a Whoop MG. Was I not seeing double? But as […]
Google has shut down Project Mariner, the AI browser agent that navigated websites by processing screenshots in real time. Its core features are moving into the Gemini API and Gemini Agent.
Google Chrome VP and GM Parisa Tabriz has responded to backlash over Chrome’s practice of silently downloading a 4GB Gemini Nano model onto user devices.
Google has a publisher problem. AI Overviews, the AI-generated summaries that now appear at the top of search results for a growing share of queries, have been correlated with a 58 per cent reduction in click-through rates to the websites whose content…
Google has pulled the plug on Project Mariner, an experimental feature designed to perform tasks for you across the web, as reported earlier by Wired’s Maxwell Zeff. The Project Mariner landing page now contains a message that says: “Thank you for using Project Mariner. It was shut down on May 4th, 2026 and its technology […]
Most phones pick your AI for you. Apple’s iOS 27 is reportedly about to change that, and in doing so, it may have stumbled onto its most lucrative business move yet.
The proposals filed in Brussels aim to settle the European Commission’s investigation into whether Google has been demoting publishers’ pages with third-party advertising content. Failure to settle could expose Alphabet to penalties up to 10 per cent o…