The Google app’s legacy voice search experience is finally being modernized with a redesign inspired by Search Live.
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The Google app’s legacy voice search experience is finally being modernized with a redesign inspired by Search Live.
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Upcoming Google Wallet settings will provide a “new way for you to get more personalized recommendations” from your “purchase and pass” history.
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If you’re seeing a new icon in the top-right corner of Google Drive this morning, it’s for Google Workspace Flows.
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As the personal health coach preview gets underway, Fitbit Labs is testing more features: Unusual Trend Detection and Hypertension Study Lab.
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Since launch, the NotebookLM mobile experience has been focused on letting you listen to Audio Overviews on the go. The NotebookLM app for Android and iOS now supports flashcards and quizzes.
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Google has released a new “Theme packs” app on the Play Store for its devices that “Personalize your Pixel in one tap.”
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After adding PDF support in May, Gemini Deep Research can now directly tap information stored in your Gmail and Google Chat conversations, as well as Google Drive files.
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After giving AI Mode new floating controls on Android, the new Search experience is expanding its presence on Chrome and getting more agentic features.
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Pixel devices are getting a set of new ringtones, notification alerts, and alarm sounds via an update to the Sounds app.
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Besides navigating with Gemini, Google Maps is rolling out other AI-powered features, like landmark-based navigation.
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In Google Maps, Gemini already exists in place listings, and it’s now coming to the navigation experience on Android and iOS. Google equates this “hands-free, conversational driving experience” to having a “knowledgeable friend in the passenger seat who can confidently help you get where you’re going.”
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Google Maps on Android Automotive (“Google built-in”) is tapping into how modern vehicles are smartphones on wheels with a new live lane guidance capability for the Polestar 4. This essentially lets Google Maps “see” the road like a driver.
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After a number of Google AI Mode updates in recent weeks, the Search Live conversational experience is getting new floating controls on Android.
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Google is updating Chrome Autofill to support passport, driver’s license number, and vehicle info.
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Following AI-powered live translation and language practice capability, Google Translate is adding a model picker with “Fast” and “Advanced” options.
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Like the Weather app, Google officially announced today that Clock for Wear OS is now only available for the Pixel Watch.
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Alphabet today reported Q3 2025 earnings, and CEO Sundar Pichai shared that the Gemini app has over 650 million active users.
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Following the last edition on Friday (which the Gemini for Home voice assistant requires), release notes for Google Home 4.2 are now available.
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The chat feature in NotebookLM is getting significant improvements today to “performance, quality, and contextual understanding,” as well as the ability to set goals.
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In starting the Gemini for Home voice assistant preview today, Google also shared when Gemini for Google TV is coming to more devices, like the Google TV Streamer.
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Gboard for Android is rolling out a new Flick keys shortcut that lets you quickly enter numbers and symbols with a swipe down.
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After the tenth addition earlier this month, Google Wallet on Android is now rolling out support for Puerto Rico IDs.
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Google is beginning to roll out the Gemini for Home voice assistant in the US for devices set to English on all Nest speakers and displays from the past decade. Make sure you’re enrolled in the Early Access program.
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As previewed alongside the Pixel Watch 4 launch in August, Google will begin rolling out a Public Preview of Fitbit Coach “starting tomorrow and over the next week” in the US. The idea is to leverage AI and Gemini models to give you a personal coach, just like how athletes have a team around them providing support.
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