Google Earth adds Street View time travel to celebrate 20th birthday

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It’s hard to believe, but Google Earth just turned 20 years old! Since launching in 2005, it’s grown from a curious digital globe into a tool used by scientists, city planners, and regular folks to explore nearly every corner of our planet. Now, two decades later, Google is celebrating the birthday by bringing historical Street … Read more

Lenovo Chromebook Plus 14 brings powerful AI and gorgeous OLED screen to ChromeOS

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Lenovo has officially launched the Chromebook Plus 14, a premium new laptop that aims to change the way people view ChromeOS. This model is especially interesting because it is the first Chromebook powered by the MediaTek Kompanio Ultra processor. It also includes several exclusive Google AI features that work both on the device and in … Read more

Chromebook vs Windows 11: 5 reasons I made the switch

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Let’s be honest, folks. Windows 11 has become a cluttered mess of features nobody asked for. Between forced updates, ads in the Start menu, and a weird obsession with AI, it feels more like a billboard than an actual tool. That’s why I lean toward Chromebooks nowadays. They just make more sense. Here are five … Read more

Google adds hands-free Gemini-powered audio overviews to Search results

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Google is bringing a new twist to how users interact with Search results… by letting them listen instead of read. Yes, really. The company has announced an experimental feature called “Audio Overviews” that offers short, spoken summaries of certain search queries using its latest Gemini models. It is limited to English language for US users … Read more

Google uses AI to help predict hurricanes with Weather Lab

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Google is taking a swing at hurricane forecasting with a new tool called Weather Lab. The project, developed by Google DeepMind and Google Research, uses artificial intelligence to better predict tropical cyclones. And it’s not just for show – the U.S. National Hurricane Center is already testing it during the 2025 storm season. At the … Read more

Android 16 brings practical upgrades to Pixel phones but still fails to excite

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Android 16 has officially launched, with supported Pixel phones getting the update first and other devices expected to follow later this year. This early rollout is one of the fastest we’ve seen in recent memory, and while that sounds impressive on paper, the actual update doesn’t deliver much in the way of excitement. Let’s be … Read more

Google wants to help open source projects write better documentation with new tools

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Writing good documentation is hard. It takes time, effort, and often gets pushed aside in favor of more exciting coding work. Google knows this, and now it’s trying to make things easier for open source maintainers who are strapped for time and resources. This week, the search giant introduced two new open source tools meant … Read more