Google’s Pixel 11 price hike may come disguised as a storage upgrade

A new leak suggests the Pixel 11 series could get a 100 euro price hike, but the regular and Pro models may soften the blow with 256GB base storage.

Google’s Pixel event is set for August 12

Google’s upcoming event in August will introduce new Pixel devices.

Google announces Pixel 11 launch event in August
Google announces Pixel 11 launch event in August

Google is hosting its next Made by Google launch event for Pixel hardware on August 12th in New York City, according to an invitation sent by Google to The Verge. Unusually, the event is taking place in the evening: It’ll kick off at 6PM ET that day. The email also includes a brief animation teasing […]

The Supreme Court lets Texas turn Apple and Google into the internet’s age gate
The Supreme Court lets Texas turn Apple and Google into the internet’s age gate

Texas can now make Apple and Google check how old you are before you download an app. The Supreme Court just let the rule stand. The US Supreme Court has refused to block a Texas law aimed at app stores, the Associated Press reports. The rule forces Ap…

Google Search lets creators know more about their reach
Google Search lets creators know more about their reach

Google is going to give content creators and website owners a better idea of how people find their social media profiles and YouTube content through Search. With a new feature in the Google Search Console called “platform properties,” Google says that you’ll be able to “easily track which search terms lead people to your Instagram, […]

Google defends a ‘crisis actor’ video at Australia’s antisemitism inquiry
Google defends a ‘crisis actor’ video at Australia’s antisemitism inquiry

A Google executive told an Australian inquiry that a video smearing a shooting survivor as a “crisis actor” meets YouTube’s standards. So it stays online. Google has defended keeping up a conspiracy video about a mass shooting in Sydney, the Associated…

If you use Google, you’re training its AI. Here’s how to opt out.

PSA: A change to Google’s privacy settings let it train its AI on more of your data. Here’s how to opt out.

America’s 250th anniversary time capsule includes an iPhone 17 Pro Max

America’s 250th anniversary time capsule includes an iPhone 17 Pro Max, an AI-generated prediction, and dozens of historic artifacts to represent life in 2026.

Infuriating Google commercial imagines the founding fathers embracing AI
Infuriating Google commercial imagines the founding fathers embracing AI

“Group project, but make it 1776.” That’s how a new commercial for Google Workspace opens. And things only get cringier from there. The clip imagines what it would be like if the founding fathers turned to Google’s collaboration tools and Gemini to help them draft the Declaration of Independence. Ben Franklin texts Thomas Jefferson to […]

New Google commercial imagines a Declaration of Independence written with help from AI

Two hundred and fifty years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, a new commercial asks: What if the Founding Fathers had access to Google Workspace?