How to share your Gemini Gems custom AI experts with all your friends

All you have to do is hit the “Share” button on your custom Gem. That way, you can share, say, your toddler sleep schedule ...
Sky

Google ordered to make search engine changes - but avoids dramatic break-up

A US federal judge has ordered a major makeover of Google's search engine in a crackdown aimed at addressing the damaging effects of monopolistic practices. In an effort to curb Google's influence, ...
New York Post

How to make New York Post a preferred source in your Google Search results

Google has launched a feature that allows you to control who you see first when you search — so you’ll never have to miss the latest news from the New York Post. The Preferred Sources tool offers the ...
Slate

Make Sure You’re Seeing Slate Stories First in Google

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. If you hadn’t already read—perhaps in ...
Lifehacker

Gemini Can Now Read Your Google Docs Out Loud

Google Docs is rolling out a new "Audio" feature. This option uses Gemini to provide AI-generated voice overs for your documents. There are a number of voices and playback speeds to choose from, but ...
Consumer Reports

How to See Consumer Reports More Often in Google Search Results by Making It a Preferred Source

Google just made it easier to find CR’s expert consumer news, by prioritizing our content in certain search results. Google’s new Preferred Sources feature, launched last week, allows you to choose ...
Techzim

Google Docs Gets a Voice: Text-to-Speech & AI Image Generation Roll Out

Google Docs now includes an ‘Audio’ text-to-speech feature, allowing you to create audio versions of your documents directly from the Tools menu. The audio player offers controls for play/pause, ...
ZDNet

I used Perplexity to make a restaurant reservation - now I'm wondering if Google is holding us back

Perplexity's new feature lets you make a restaurant reservation straight through OpenTable. The feature uses OpenTable's system, so you don't have to trust the AI to do it for you. Instead of ...
ZDNet

How to turn off Gemini in your Gmail, Docs, Photos, and more - it's easy to opt out

While some users enjoy Google's AI features that seem to roll out every week, others would rather have things the way they were before Gemini. Google somewhat sneakily buries Gemini under a setting ...
Space.com

30 years ago, 'Species' showed where the Venn diagram of exploitation, B-movie nonsense, and serious sci-fi drama meets

Given its subject matter, it's appropriate that "Species" turns out to be such a jarring hybrid of ideas and tones. Thirty years after it originally mutated into multiplexes, this high-concept tale of ...
TechCrunch

Google unveils new AI features coming to Gmail, Docs, and Vids

At Google I/O 2025, the company unveiled a slew of new AI Workspace features coming to Gmail, Google Docs, and Google Vids. Most notably, Gmail is getting personalized smart replies and a new ...
Scientific American

The Curious History of Venn Diagrams

In his book The Mathematical Universe, mathematician William Dunham wrote of John Venn’s namesake legacy, the Venn diagram, “No one in the long history of mathematics ever became better known for less ...