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Waze app showing motorcycle mode routing with hazard indicators on a city mapAI

Waze Adds Motorcycle Mode and Personalized Navigation in a Five-Feature Gemini Push

Waze motorcycle mode launches today alongside personalized navigation, a quieter voice option, and two new Gemini tools. Seven countries get motorcycle routing.

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Three ascending pricing cards beside a violet panel reading Gemini Pricing 2026AI

Gemini Pricing 2026: Google AI Plus, Pro, and Ultra Plans Compared

Google sells Gemini four ways, from $4.99 to $199.99 a month, all bundled with cloud storage. Every plan and API rate.

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Google Photos Video Remix interface showing the Create tab with artistic video effects powered by Gemini OmniAI

Google Photos Video Remix: How to Use It, What It Can't Do, and How It Compares to CapCut

Google Photos Video Remix launched July 8 for AI Plus, Pro, and Ultra subscribers. Five effects, a 10-second clip limit, and how it compares to CapCut.

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Google Gemini logo representing the Gemini 3.5 Pro model targeting July 17 2026 release after a ground-up rebuildAI

Gemini 3.5 Pro Targets July 17 - and Google Rebuilt It From Scratch to Get There

Gemini 3.5 Pro targets July 17 with a 2M token context window. Google rebuilt it from scratch. DeepSeek's deepseek-chat and deepseek-reasoner aliases stop responding July 24.

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Two Google Pixel 11 phones in silhouette from the official Made by Google August 12 event invitationHardware

Google Sets August 12 for Pixel 11 - Leaks Point to a Price Hike and No More 128GB

Google confirmed a Pixel 11 launch event for August 12 in New York. Same day, leaked EU pricing shows the 128GB base model is gone and prices are up €100.

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Google's Declaration of Independence Ad Puts Gemini in 1776. Bluesky Calls It Tone Deaf.

Google's July 4 ad imagines the Founding Fathers drafting the Declaration in Workspace with Gemini's help. YouTube cheered. Bluesky called it tone deaf.

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Google Maps app shown on a smartphone displaying the Ask Maps conversational interface, representing the upcoming Gemini-powered food ordering featureAI

Google Maps Is Testing a Gemini Feature That Places Your Dinner Order Before You Arrive

Google Maps is building a Gemini food ordering mode inside Ask Maps. An APK teardown found UI strings describing the feature. No launch date confirmed.

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Project Akrites announcement graphic from the Linux Foundation, showing coordinated open source security effort backed by 19 industry organizationsSecurity

Fewer Than 5% of AI-Found Open Source Vulnerabilities Get Patched. Akrites Is the Industry's Fix.

Linux Foundation launched Project Akrites to coordinate open source vulnerability patching at AI speed. Backed by AWS, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI.

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Samsung Messages app icon next to Google Messages app icon on a Galaxy smartphone, representing the July 2026 switch from Samsung's native messaging app to Google MessagesApps

Samsung Messages Shuts Down This Month. Google Messages Takes Its Place on Every Galaxy.

Samsung Messages shuts down in July 2026 for US users. Every Galaxy device moves to Google Messages, bringing RCS and Gemini AI features to the entire lineup.

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Gemini Spark running on Mac desktop showing file access and AI agent interfaceApps

Gemini Spark Comes to Mac With File Access, Real-Time Tracking, and Custom MCP

Google's Gemini Spark arrives on Mac for AI Ultra subscribers with local file access, real-time topic tracking, Keep and Tasks integration, and custom MCP support.

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Google Cuts Off Meta's Gemini Access as AI Compute Capacity Runs Short

Google has restricted Meta's access to its Gemini AI models after the social media giant sought more compute capacity than Google could provide, disrupting internal AI projects.

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Close-up of a quantum computing processor with gold wiring and cryogenic hardware components in a research labScience

What Is Quantum Computing and When Will It Actually Matter?

Quantum computing hit three major milestones in 18 months. Here is what it does, where it stands in 2026, and what NIST's 2030 deadline means for you.

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