Google unveils new AI features for Chrome, including a Gemini button and AI Mode for US desktop users, and plans to add agentic features in the next few months
10 new features that reinvent your browser PYMNTS.com : Google to Add Agentic Capabilities and Other AI-Powered Features to Chrome Browser Igor Bonifacic / Engadget : Gemini in Chrome no longer requir...
Meta launches Instagram's text-based Threads app on the App Store and Google Play in 100+ countries; users log in via Instagram and can follow the same accounts
As Twitter has become even less-filtered … Michael Muchmore / PCMag : Hands On With Instagram Threads: Does Meta's Twitter Killer Deliver? John Palmer / Cryptopolitan : Meta's Threads Promises Decentr...
Report prepared for the Senate analyzes Russian disinformation that supported Trump across millions of posts on YouTube, Instagram, Tumblr, Pinterest, and more
For years, Russia has leveraged … Wired : How Russian Trolls Used Meme Warfare to Divide America New York Times : Russian 2016 Influence Operation Targeted African-Americans on Social Media Sara Fisch...
Ubuntu powered BQ Aquarius phones now available for order globally, do not support 4G in US
Ubuntu powered BQ Aquaris available in US — BQ just announced on their Google Plus page that their Aquaris Ubuntu Edition phones will be available ‘wherever you live’, this makes …
Google Versus
Larry Page, on stage at I/O today: … Google fans seem to eat this kumbaya stuff up, to really believe it. But Google is the company that built Android after the iPhone, Google Plus after Facebook, an...
How Google Can Beat Facebook Without Google Plus
Look, Google, we've got a plan to help you win on social. There's only one catch: you have to give up the notion that animates Google Plus. — Out in the Mojave Desert, there's a place called Califo...
Google and Facebook Grow Comfortable and Complacent
Google and Facebook, young and successful companies that they are, risk being left behind as technology shifts from PCs and Web browsers to mobile devices. — Earlier this month, when Google showcase...
Google Plus: The problem isn't design, it's a lack of demand
While Google continues to maintain that its Google+ social network is doing just fine, thank you very much — with a user base of about 100 million, according to the web giant — skepticism about the ac...
Andy Rubin announces: 700,000 Android devices activated every day
He made the announcement via Google Plus and notes: ...and for those wondering, we count each device only once (ie, we don't count re-sold devices), and “activations” means you go into a store, buy a ...
My offer to Google Reader
Like many others, I was curious when Google announced that it would be revamping the Google Reader UI and refactor its social components into Google Plus. To that end, I wrote a brief blog post about...