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Besides Search Live, Gemini Live is also rolling out a pair of updates today that should result in “less talking over each other” and “more smooth chatting.”

YouTube might feel at home on your smartphone or within your browser, but if you’re primarily digging into your subscriptions feed on the biggest, best display in your house, things might look a little different.

Google today announced the latest version of Gemini 2.5 Flash Native Audio. In addition to Google Translate for live headphones translation, AI Mode’s Search Live will benefit from these model upgrades.

Google Translate is rolling out new features that leverage Gemini, including live translation with headphones.

Bands have been by far the biggest headache of owning a Pixel Watch, at least for me. Google’s first-party collection is surprisingly expansive, but also pricey. In the third-party space, options are often limited or of low quality, but I recently picked up a super cheap Pixel Watch band that feels just as good as Google’s “Active Sport” band, but at a fraction of the price.

Samsung’s long-awaited Galaxy Z TriFold will hit store shelves in the US early next year, but if its Korean launch cycle is any sign of things to come, don’t expect the device to stay in stock for very long.

Disney announced a billion dollar agreement with OpenAI this morning over use of its characters, and Google’s going to have to pray it doesn’t alter the deal any further.

Google is rolling out an update to the Gemini app today that better displays information pulled from the Google Maps extension.

Google’s Stadia cloud gaming platform has been dead for the better part of 3 years now, but the sole piece of hardware, the Stadia Controller, has lived on. Now, as yet another arbitrary cutoff nears, Steam has quietly improved its support for the Stadia Controller.

After launching the “Remix” tool in August in a server-side update, Google Photos is bringing the image-to-cartoon feature to more users in a much wider rollout.

A strange issue has left YouTube and YouTube TV apps inaccessible on the Nvidia Shield TV, but the issue is being addressed as we speak.

After a multi-year hiatus, popular battle royale Fortnite is now officially back on the Google Play Store.

Google Labs today announced “Disco” as an experiment to “shape the future of web browsing.” The first flagship feature of this AI browser is the Gemini 3-powered “GenTab.”

Google today announced a “significantly more powerful Gemini Deep Research agent” that will soon be available in consumer apps and is now available for developers.

After a small-ish Android 16 update, One UI 8.5 is now available in beta for select Samsung smartphones – here are some of the biggest and best new features.

In addition to their ADT partnership (and investment), Google is working with AT&T on its new Connected Life security system.

One of the most useful parts of any music streaming service is finding new songs via discovery, and that often comes in the form of playlists. Spotify, with the help of AI, is now launching a new “Prompted Playlists” feature that allows users to better control what appears in their playlists.

Moving into 2025, it was rumored that Samsung was on track to release the Galaxy Ring 2 alongside the Galaxy S25 series in February. That window has come and gone, and new reports indicate the company doesn’t plan on releasing the sequel anytime soon.

Ayaneo is no stranger to Android handhelds, but now it’s turning attention towards an arguably less competitive landscape: smartphones.