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Google Earth wird 20 und erlaubt den Blick auf historische Street-View-Aufnahmen
Zum 20. Jubiläum führt Google den Rückblick in vergangene Zeiten auch in Google Earth ein. So lässt sich die Historie aus anderen Blickwinkeln betrachten.

Imagen 4 is now available in the Gemini API and Google AI Studio, priced at $0.04 per image or $0.06 for "Ultra" mode that "precisely" follows user instructions (Google Developers Blog)
https://developers.googleblog.com/en/i

Imagen 4 is now available in the Gemini API and Google AI Studio- Google Developers Blog
Explore Imagen 4, Google's advanced text-to-image model, now in paid preview via Gemini API and Google AI Studio, offering improved text generation.

google_plus: Google (2013)
Snapshot of connections among users of Google , collected in 2012. Nodes are users and a directed edge (i,j) represents user i added user j to i's circle.
This network has 211187 nodes and 1506896 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/google_

Dave Citron, a former senior director of product at Google DeepMind, has joined Microsoft’s AI group as corporate vice president.
✅ Microsoft poaches more Google DeepMind talent as Dave Citron joins as new corporate VP – GeekWire
https://www.geekw…

Microsoft poaches more Google DeepMind talent as Dave Citron joins as new corporate VP
Dave Citron. (LinkedIn Photo) Dave Citron, a former senior director of product at Google DeepMind, has joined Microsoft’s AI group as corporate vice

Google claims its ‘AI’ is, well, actually, environmentally fine:
https://services.google.com/fh/files/misc/measuring_the_environmental_impact_of_delivering_ai_at_google_scale.pdf
Media uncritically parrots it:

Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/08/google-will-block-sideloading-of-unverified-android-apps-starting-next-year/
BTW, The vOICe for …

Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year
Google says it’s no different than checking IDs at the airport.

As AI kills search traffic, Google launches Offerwall, a Google Ad Manager tool to help publishers generate revenue beyond ads, including via micropayments (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/26/as-a

As AI kills search traffic, Google launches Offerwall to boost publisher revenue | TechCrunch
Offerwall lets publishers give their sites' readers a variety of ways to access their content, including through options like micro payments, taking surveys, watching ads, and more.

Google: Pixel 10 unterstützt Satelliten-Sprach- und Videoanrufe über WhatsApp
Google bietet mit der neuen Pixel-10-Reihe ein zunächst exklusives Feature an: Sprach- und Videoanrufe mit WhatsApp über Satellit.

Google pilots a new language practice feature on Google Translate with tailored listening and practicing sessions, and also adds AI-powered live conversations (Steve Dent/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/apps/google-translates-latest-fe…

Google Translate's latest feature is its take on Duolingo
Considering its popularity, Google Translate sure hasn't received a lot of attention lately -- but that just changed with a big new update.

"Scale AI left public Google Docs with sensitive details about thousands of its contractors, including their private email addresses and whether they were suspected of
'cheating.'"
https://africa.businessinsider.co…

Scale AI exposed sensitive data about clients like Meta and xAI in public Google Docs, BI finds
As Scale AI seeks to reassure customers that their data is secure following Metas $14

Google has unveiled Gemini CLI, an open-source AI agent that allows developers to interact with the Gemini 2.5 LLM from their terminals and integrate its output into their activities.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/ai/google-unveils-gemini-cli-…

Google unveils Gemini CLI AI tool for coders
Takes on Claude Code and OpenAI Codex CLI.

google_web: Old Google web graph (2002)
A web graph representing a crawl of a portion of the general WWW, from a 2002 Google Programming contest.
This network has 916428 nodes and 5105039 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/google_web

Western leaders starting to speak up - now more images show up of people in Gaza dying from hunger - knew all along this would be the consequence of Israel shutting off food and water supply. They ignored and suppressed protests in their own countries and kept defending Israel's actions. Shame. https://share.google/HzXCTaQqJOsrwU…

Suffering in Gaza is indefensible, says Keir Starmer
The prime minister warns of a "humanitarian catastrophe" ahead of emergency talks with France and Germany.

I've completed my move away from Google Workspace for my email and calendars. I dumped Google for search months ago but the mail move took a little more time. I do not want to support Google financially and if I can avoid using their services I will.

Stop Uploading Your Data to #Google
http://ignorethecode.net/blog/2025/06/11/stop_uploading_your_data_to_google/

Google Shopping: Alert und virtuelle KI-Anrpobe
Kleidung per Fotoupload anprobieren und dann auch noch den besten Preis finden: Google erweitert seine Shopping-Funktionen.
https://www.heise.de/n…

Interesting use of NotebookLM.
I used NotebookLM to learn a new programming language, and it actually worked #ai

I used NotebookLM to learn a new programming language, and it actually worked
The only way I’m touching a new programming language again.

This choice of price point undercuts OpenAI and Anthropic ($1 each) but that's still effectively zero.
I am surprised that the obvious numerological pandering isn't pointed out in the article
Google’s ‘Gemini for Government’ offers AI platform to federal agencies for 47 cents | FedScoop

Google’s ‘Gemini for Government’ offers AI platform to federal agencies for 47 cents
The OneGov deal gives Google a pricing edge over competitors like OpenAI and Anthropic, which offer their models for $1 per federal agency.

Russia weighs Google Meet ban as part of foreign tech crackdown https://therecord.media/russia-google-meet-ban-crackdown

Opal Experimental Tool by #Google Labs for Building AI Mini-Apps 🤖
#Google Labs introduces #Opal, an experimental tool that enables users to build and share powerful

#Google is planning a #sideloading-ban and is selling it as a measure to enhance security.
But wouldn’t this “security measure” also affect app stores that are already more secure than Google’s Play Store, like @…

Le gourou Robert Spatz bientôt arrêté? https://www.7sur7.be/faits-divers/le-gourou-robert-spatz-bientot-arrete~a51f6fba/?referrer=https://www.google.com/

Le gourou Robert Spatz bientôt arrêté?
Robert Spatz, 81 ans, vit en Espagne, où il pourrait être interpellé à la demande d’un juge français. Il était le gourou de la secte Ogyen Kunzang Chöling (OKC).

Google is testing a vibe-coding tool called Opal that lets users create mini web apps using text prompts or remix existing apps, available in the US via Labs (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/25/google-is-testing-a-vibe-coding-app-calle…

Google is testing a vibe-coding app called Opal | TechCrunch
Google is testing a new vibe-coding tool called Opal, available in the U.S. through Google Labs, that lets users quickly spin up web apps with just a few prompts.

Every now and then I check my #Google account quota (https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/quota) to make sure its not pulling any sneaky shit like automatically uploading my

"Nano Banana": Google erweitert seine Bildberarbeitungsfunktion in Gemini
Google Gemini 2.5 Flash Image verbessert KI-Bildbearbeitung mit konsistenten Personendarstellungen und weiteren Optionen.

YouTube says that Fox is asking for payments "far higher than what partners with comparable content" receive; YouTube TV's renewal date with Fox is Wednesday (Jennifer Elias/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/25/google-youtub…

Google says Fox channels to go dark on YouTube TV if agreement isn't reached
Google-owned YouTube TV said Fox is asking for payments "far higher" than competitors.

DRPAAS: https://developers.googleblog.com/en/google-url-shortener-links-will-no-longer-be-available/
Digital Rug Pull As A Service, via

Google URL Shortener links will no longer be available- Google Developers Blog
Understand how you will be impacted by our decision to turn off the serving portion of Google URL Shortener.

"You can tell what happened — Google promised iNaturalist free money if they would just do something, anything, that had some generative AI in it. iNaturalist forgot why people contribute at all, and took the cash."
(Original title: Google bribes iNaturalist to use generative AI — volunteers quit in outrage)

Google bribes iNaturalist to use generative AI — volunteers quit in outrage
iNaturalist is a website that crowdsources pictures of plants and animals to help identify species. Its tagline is “A Community for Naturalists.” iNaturalist is administered by its own small charit…

Bericht: LLM-Siri könnte "powered by Gemini" werden
Dass Apple Probleme hat, ein gutes Sprachmodell umzusetzen, ist bekannt. Nach Gesprächen über einen Claude-Einkauf sollen nun Verhandlungen mit Google laufen.
…

»Ab 2026 ist es vorbei mit Androids Offenheit - Ausweispflicht für #Dev's:
Die offene Natur von Android war bisher immer ein Argument für Googles mobiles Betriebssystem gegenüber dem goldenen Käfig von #Apple. Ab 2026 will #Google

Ab 2026 ist es vorbei mit Androids Offenheit - Ausweispflicht für Devs
Die offene Natur von Android war bisher immer ein Argument für Googles mobiles Betriebssystem gegenüber dem goldenen Käfig von Apple. Ab 2026 will Google aber das Sideloading von Apps erheblich erschweren - und führt eine Ausweispflicht für Entwickler ein.

Quick Share: Google experimentiert mit Datentransfer zwischen Android und iPhone
Google arbeitet offenbar daran, Android besser mit iOS und macOS zu verzahnen. Hierfür soll Quick Share herhalten.

Google fully releases Gemma 3n, an open-source, multimodal AI model that can run on as little as 2GB of memory; the model was previously available as a preview (David Uzondu/Neowin)
https://www.neowin.net/news/google-releases-gemma-3n-…

Google releases Gemma 3n, a new AI model built for mobile devices
Last month, Google previewed Gemma 3n, an AI model optimized for mobile. Now, it's officially available for developers to test and build with.

Ok, update on #Google Meet crap. It's not about signing in. It's literally about opening the site for the second time.
I clear cookies. It works once. Once I visit the site again, "unsupported browser".
What a piece of shit.
#Firefox

I'm always curious of how a device becomes worse with time when it comes to their AI / speech recognition. Like how do you make it dumber?
https://9to5google.com/2025/07/23/google-home-assistant-tease-major-improvements/

Android planning to throw away their advantage over Apple's iOS and ban side-loading?
#android #sideload

So, the Gemini stuff pissed me off enough to disable updates on my phone, but now it looks like I'm overreacting
https://www.engadget.com/ai/what-do-googles-gemini-privacy-changes-actually-mean-200819778.html
Except I don…

What do Google's Gemini privacy changes actually mean?
An email sent to the AI chatbot users made waves in the tech press.

Robotics & AI, a lot of progress is being made.
#AI

Google’s new robotics AI can run without the cloud and still tie your shoes
Google’s Carolina Parada says Gemini has enabled huge robotics breakthroughs, like the new on-device AI.

Mittwoch: Anthropic mit Copyright-Teilerfolg, Google Earth bietet Rückblicke
Gericht zu KI-Training mit Büchern Google Earth mit alten Bildern Entlassungen bei Microsoft Bill Gates gegen Gesundheitskrise Transparenz bei Glasfaser

Google has been banned from selling the Pixel 7 in Japan due to a patent dispute related to 4G connectivity; further bans against the Pixel 8 and 9 are possible (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/06/26/google-pixel-japan-sales-ban/
…

Google banned from selling select Pixel phones in Japan, and it might not end there
Google has been banned from selling select Pixel phones in Japan over a patent dispute, and it might not end there.

google_web: Old Google web graph (2002)
A web graph representing a crawl of a portion of the general WWW, from a 2002 Google Programming contest.
This network has 916428 nodes and 5105039 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/google_web

The UK CMA giving Google "strategic market status" could allow publishers to opt out of Google AI Overviews without removing websites from search (Dominic Ponsford/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/cma-to…

CMA set to force Google to work more fairly with UK publishers
CMA sets out plans to start curbing Google power in the UK and will address secrecy and unfairness around Google AI Overviews.

Google says it is behind the viral "nano-banana" image model, launches it as Gemini 2.5 Flash Image with finer edit controls in Gemini app, Gemini API, more (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/26/google-geminis-ai-image-m…

Google Gemini's AI image model gets a 'bananas' upgrade | TechCrunch
Google says that it's behind the anonymous AI image editor "nano-banana" that's been making waves on social media.

I like bikemap for route planning but if you use the free version you get barraged to upgrade constantly.
I try not to use Google Maps (or any Google stuff) and Apple Maps is okay for bike routes but not great. OpenStreetMap just isn't quite there yet for many of my needs.
Are there other options?
https://www.bikemap.net/

Bikemap - Die essenzielle App für Radfahrer, von Radfahrern
Plane, finde und teile deine perfekten Tracks. Erstelle deine erste Route mit Bikemap - es ist kostenlos!

Google verpasst Fitbit einen ganzheitlichen KI-Coach
Googles Fitbit-Plattform erhält ein großes App-Redesign, das von einer großen Portion Gemini begleitet wird. KI soll als persönlicher Gesundheitscoach dienen.
https:…

Google unveils Gemini CLI, an agentic AI tool that lets developers make natural language requests by connecting Gemini models to local codebases in terminals (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/25/google-unveil…

Google unveils Gemini CLI, an open-source AI tool for terminals | TechCrunch
Google launched a new, open source AI coding tool for terminals, Gemini CLI, to compete with similar offerings from OpenAI and Anthropic.

Le gourou Robert Spatz bientôt arrêté?
Vu d'ici on attend de la Justice Française qu’elle passe Š la vitesse supérieure dans une affaire qui prédate les années 2000, scandaleux après le fracas de la justice belge.
https://www.7sur7.be/fai…

Le gourou Robert Spatz bientôt arrêté?
Robert Spatz, 81 ans, vit en Espagne, où il pourrait être interpellé à la demande d’un juge français. Il était le gourou de la secte Ogyen Kunzang Chöling (OKC).

KI-Update: Trumps AI-Plan, Google, KI am Fraport, Chatbot mit Datenschutz
Das "KI-Update" liefert werktäglich eine Zusammenfassung der wichtigsten KI-Entwicklungen.
https://www.

Google launches Doppl, an experimental AI app to let users virtually try on outfits by generating videos from photos, available on iOS and Android in the US (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/26/goog

Google launches Doppl, a new app that lets you visualize how an outfit might look on you | TechCrunch
Google is launching a new experimental app called Doppl that uses AI to visualize how different outfits might look on you.

As AI kills search traffic, Google launches Offerwall, a Google Ad Manager tool to help publishers generate revenue beyond ads, including via micropayments (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/26/as-a

As AI kills search traffic, Google launches Offerwall to boost publisher revenue | TechCrunch
Offerwall lets publishers give their sites' readers a variety of ways to access their content, including through options like micro payments, taking surveys, watching ads, and more.

Sources: Google reduces the budget for Google TV and Android TV by 10% and cuts Android TV and Google TV's ~300 employees by 25%, as it focuses on YouTube (Sahil Patel/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-cuts-smar…

Google Cuts Smart TV Budget as It Doubles Down on YouTube
Google has cut its smart TV budget and trimmed its team—marking the most concrete signs yet of the company’s waning interest competing with the likes of Samsung and Roku as it centers its TV business around YouTube. The company has reduced the budget for Google TV and Android TV 10%, according ...

Google rolls out historical Street View imagery on Google Earth as the service turns 20, and says pro US users can access AI insights, like tree canopy coverage (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/24/google-brings…

Google brings historical Street View imagery to Google Earth | TechCrunch
Google announced on Tuesday that you can now access historical Street View imagery on Google Earth.

google_web: Old Google web graph (2002)
A web graph representing a crawl of a portion of the general WWW, from a 2002 Google Programming contest.
This network has 916428 nodes and 5105039 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/google_web

Não é todos os dias que se fala da OKC em português
Aqui vai o artigo do Público na forma de um PDF, sem paywall
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ega7ZKrVezn_6I4_UrdYBZezpouRJd5f/view?usp=drivesdk
Obrigado por partilharem.

Google Chrome: Unterstützung für Android 8 und 9 endet
Google knappst dem Webbrowser Chrome die Unterstützung für die veralteten Android-Versionen 8 (Oreo) und 9 (Pie) ab.
https://www.

A look at the tensions between Meta, Apple, and Google on whether apps or app stores should check if a user is a minor, as states work on age verification bills (Emily Birnbaum/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Meta Clashes With Apple, Google Over Age Check Legislation
The biggest tech companies are warring over who’s responsible for children’s safety online, with billions of dollars in fines on the line as states rapidly pass conflicting laws requiring companies to verify users’ ages.

Google greift bei Android durch und beendet die Ära anonymer Apps! 📱
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-10617479?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

The Linux Foundation unveils the Agent2Agent project, with founding members including Google Cloud, AWS, and Microsoft; Google donated the protocol spec and SDK (Google Developers Blog)
https://developers.googleblog.com/en/google-cloud-donates-a2…

Google Cloud donates A2A to Linux Foundation- Google Developers Blog
Explore how Google, Amazon, and Cisco form the Agent2Agent Foundation under the Linux Foundation to drive AI innovation via interoperability as an industry standard.

Google officially launches AI summaries in the Discover news feed within its smartphone search app in the US; there is no date set yet for the UK (Rob Waugh/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/google-ai-summaries-start-to-roll-out-in-discov…

Google AI summaries start to roll out in Discover in US
AI summaries roll out in Google Discover, posing new threat to publishers who rely on the app for traffic.

Internal docs: Scale AI's efforts to train Google's Gemini were flooded with "spammy behavior" from unqualified independent contractors submitting shoddy work (Sam Blum/Inc)
https://www.inc.com/sam-blum/exclusive-sca

Exclusive: Scale AI's Spam, Security Woes Plagued the Company While Serving Google
How the startup that just scored a $14 billion investment from Meta struggled to contain 'spammy behavior' from unqualified contributors as it trained Gemini.

google: Google internal webpages (2007)
A directed network of webpages from Google's own sites, and the hyperlinks among them. Edge direction indicates that i hyperlinks to j.
This network has 15763 nodes and 171206 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/google

Google: IP68 schützt nicht dauerhaft vor Wasser und Staub
Viele moderne Smartphones und auch andere mobile Gadgets sind laut IP-Rating gegen das Eindringen von Wasser geschützt. Doch das hilft nicht dauerhaft.
htt…

Google releases a new Gemini Robotics On-Device model with an SDK and says the vision language action model can adapt to new tasks in 50 to 100 demonstrations (Ryan Whitwam/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/google/2025/06/google-relea…

Google’s new robotics AI can run without the cloud and still tie your shoes
Google’s Carolina Parada says Gemini has enabled huge robotics breakthroughs, like the new on-device AI.

Etwas mehr der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Google: IP68 schützt nicht dauerhaft vor Wasser und Staub
https:…

A survey of 900 US Google users: of ~69K searches, 18% gave AI Overviews; of those, users clicked a link 8% of the time, compared to 15% with no AI summary (Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/20

Google users are less likely to click on links when an AI summary appears in the results
In a March 2025 analysis, Google users who encountered an AI summary were less likely to click on links to other websites than users who did not see one.

Google plans to begin verifying the identity of all developers who distribute apps on Android, even if it's outside the Play Store, starting September 2026 (Mishaal Rahman/Android Authority)
https://www.androidauthority.com/android-developer-verifica…

Google wants to make sideloading Android apps safer by verifying developers’ identities
Google wants to make sideloading safer on Android by verifiying the identities of developers who distribute apps outside the Play Store.

Vorgaben an Google: Britische Wettbewerbsbehörde will Suchmaschine verbessern
Seit Januar untersucht die britische Wettbewerbsaufsicht CMA Googles Suchmaschine. Nun hat sie erste Maßnahmen erarbeitet, um den Wettbewerb zu schützen.

Google DeepMind unveils AlphaGenome, an AI tool to predict the effects of DNA changes on molecular processes, available via an API for non-commercial research (Antonio Regalado/MIT Technology Review)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/06/25/1…

Google’s new AI will help researchers understand how our genes work
First came AlphaFold. Now comes AlphaGenome for DNA.

Google und Meta rücken bei KI zusammen
Metas eigene Rechenzentren reichen Mark Zuckerberg nicht aus. Um KI-Dienste schneller an den Start zu bringen, will er Milliarden bei Google ausgeben.
https://www.

Google, the Earth Fire Alliance, and Muon Space's Fire Sat aims to launch 52 satellites by 2029 to detect wildfires globally and will make the data accessible (Boone Ashworth/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/google-earth-fire-alliance-sp…

Google Wants to Get Better at Spotting Wildfires From Space
A partnership with the nonprofit Earth Fire Alliance and satellite manufacturer Muon Space is giving Google a better shot at tracking wildfires—and using AI to process all the data being collected.

ChromeOS: Google kündigt neue KI-Funktionen und Chromebook mit Mediatek-Chip an
Google hat gemeinsam mit Lenovo ein neues Chromebook-Plus-Modell mit Mediatek-ARM-Chip angekündigt, das mehr KI-Aufgaben direkt auf dem Gerät ausführen kann. 

OpenAI und Google erreichen Gold bei Mathe-Olympiade
International Math Olympiad ist ein besonders schwerer Mathetest. OpenAI und Google DeepMind erklären, das Abschneiden ihrer KI-Modelle sei ein Durchbruch.
https://…

Sources: Google reduces its Google TV and Android TV budget by 10% and cuts Android TV and Google TV's ~300 employees by up to 25%, as it focuses on YouTube (Sahil Patel/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-cuts-sm…

Google Cuts Smart TV Budget as It Doubles Down on YouTube
Google has cut its smart TV budget and trimmed its team—marking the most concrete signs yet of the company’s waning interest competing with the likes of Samsung and Roku as it centers its TV business around YouTube. The company has reduced the budget for Google TV and Android TV 10%, according ...

Jugendschutz: EU-Vorstoß zur Online-Altersverifikation spaltet Datenkonzerne
Google und Apple laufen Sturm gegen den Plan, die Altersüberprüfung auf Geräteebene – also über App-Stores und nicht bei einzelnen Anwendungen – durchzuführen.

Google's lead for Home and Nest Anish Kattukaran apologizes for Assistant reliability issues on home devices and announces "major improvements" later this year (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/07/23/google-home-assistant-teas…

Google acknowledges Assistant issues with Home, teases ‘major improvements’ coming
Google is teasing some "major improvements" for Assistant and Home while acknowledging recent shortcomings.

Scale AI used Google Docs to track work for customers like Google, Meta, and xAI, and left confidential AI training documents accessible to anyone with the link (Business Insider)
https://africa.businessinsider.com/new

Scale AI exposed sensitive data about clients like Meta and xAI in public Google Docs, BI finds
As Scale AI seeks to reassure customers that their data is secure following Metas $14

Montag: Lithium & Co. im Abraum von Minen, Android-Apps in Windows 11 fortsetzen
Kritische Rohstoffe als Nebenprodukt Handy-Funktion für Windows 11 Medion zurück an Gründer Meta-Milliarden für Google-Cloud Technik der AR-Brille Metas

Google launches its virtual clothes try-on feature, letting users upload photos of themselves, in the US and updates price alerts to let users specify an amount (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/24/googles-new-ai-feature-lets-…

Google's new AI feature lets you virtually try on clothes | TechCrunch
The feature is launching in the United States today, letting users try on apparel items in Google's Shopping Graph across Search, Google Shopping and product results on Google Images.

Google zeigt das Pixel 10
Mit einem offiziellen Video reagiert Google auf Leaks des Pixel 10: Im Clip ist das Design des neuen Flaggschiff-Androiden zu sehen, inklusive Dreier-Kamera.
https://www.heise.de/news/Goog…

Google: Weder Pixel Flip noch Smart-Ring geplant
Google hat überraschend offen über Produktpläne gesprochen und einigen Kategorien eine klare Absage erteilt: Ein Pixel-Flip-Phone wird es etwa nicht geben. 
https://www.

Jeff Dean, who co-founded Google Brain and leads Google's AI research, has emerged as a prolific angel investor, backing 37 AI startups over the past two years (Sharon Goldman/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/07/22/jeff-de

Jeff Dean, Google’s chief scientist, is quietly betting on the next wave of AI startups
Google’s longtime AI guru has quietly backed more than 30 startups in the past two years—offering founders early credibility and cachet.

Workers at Google, TikTok, Adobe, Dropbox, CrowdStrike, and other tech firms recount how managers used AI to justify firing them, speed up their work, and more (Brian Merchant/Blood in the Machine)
https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/how-ai-is-killing-jo…

AI Killed My Job: Tech workers
Tech workers at TikTok, Google, and across the industry share stories about how AI is changing, ruining, or replacing their jobs.

Pixel 10: Google streicht "Akku teilen"-Funktion zugunsten von Qi2-Magneten
Mit der neuen Pixel-10-Serie verzichtet Google auf den Support das umgekehrte kabellose Laden unter dem Namen „Akku teilen“ zugunsten von Qi2. 

Google adds new features to Google Photos, including a Veo 2-powered photo-to-video tool and a Remix tool that applies styles like anime and sketches to photos (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/07/23/google-photos-photo-to-video/

Google Photos adding free photo-to-video, Remix, and Create tab
The latest round of new features for Google Photos is meant to “bring your memories to life” using AI, with photo-to-video rolling out now. 

Android-Neueinrichtung: Landgericht untersagt Google Bevorzugung von Gmail
Google muss beim Einrichten eines Android-Smartphones E-Mail-Adressen von alternativen Providern gleichberechtigt zulassen, hat das Landgericht Mainz geurteilt.

Google will officially deprecate links generated with its goo.gl URL shortener on August 25, 2025; the company stopped generating goo.gl URLs in March 2019 (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/713125/google-url-shortener-links-shutdown-deadlin…

Google’s shortened goo.gl links will stop working next month
Google will deprecate all links created with its URL shortener on August 25th, 2025. All links made with the tool will return a 404 error message after that date.

Google launches Web Guide, an AI-powered Search Labs experiment that organizes Google Search results by grouping pages related to specific aspects of the query (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/24/googles-new-web-view-…

Google's new Web View search experiment organizes results with AI | TechCrunch
Google's new Search Labs experiment will organize the search results using AI smarts.

Chrome for Android is rolling out a feature that lets users move the address bar to the bottom of the screen, after it launched for iOS users in 2023 (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/691718/google-android-chrome-address-bar-bottom

Google finally lets Android users put Chrome’s address bar on the bottom
Google is starting to roll out a feature for Chrome on Android that lets users move the address bar to the bottom of the screen. The feature is already available on iOS Chrome.

Google Assistant zieht aus: Gemini kommt ins Smart-Home
Google läutet das Ende des Google Assistant im Smart-Home ein. Ab Oktober soll "Gemini for Home" auf Nest-Geräten landen.
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Sources: in 2024, OpenAI considered document collaboration features but lacked the staff to create them, but has since made some unreleased collaboration tools (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-…

OpenAI Quietly Designed a Rival to Google Workspace, Microsoft Office
OpenAI has been gearing up to take on Google and Microsoftwith features that let people collaborate on documents and communicate via chat in ChatGPT, according to two people who have seen the designs. Launching these features would pit OpenAI more directly against Microsoft, its biggest ...

US senators reintroduce the bipartisan Open App Markets Act to challenge Apple's and Google's grip on app stores; the 2021 version never made it to a floor vote (Amber Neely/AppleInsider)
https://appleinsider.com/articles/25/0

Bipartisan Open App Markets Act revived to challenge Apple's App Store control
Big Tech's grip on the app economy is under fire again as lawmakers reintroduce the bipartisan "Open App Markets Act" aimed at breaking Apple and Google's app store dominance.

Android 16 QPR2: Google veröffentlicht erste Beta für nächstes Update
Bevor das große Material-3-Expressive-Redesign mit Android 16 QPR1 freigegeben wird, liefert Google schon die Android 16 QPR2 Beta für Pixel-Geräte.

Noch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Abhängigkeiten bei der Bundeswehr: Scharfe Kritik an Deal mit Google-Cloud

Sources: OpenAI has been partially using Google search results scraped by a startup called SerpApi for ChatGPT responses on current events like news and sports (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-challenging-google-using-search…

OpenAI Is Challenging Google—While Using Its Search Data
As it tries to unseat Google, OpenAI is relying on search data from an unlikely source: Google. OpenAI has been using Google search results scraped from the web to help power ChatGPT responses, according to two people with knowledge of it.

Google testet Podcast-artige Antworten in der Google Suche
In den Google Labs ziehen Audio Overviews in die Suche ein. Dort kann man eine KI-Antwort als Konversation oder Podcast erhalten.
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Google DeepMind unveils Aeneas, an AI model for contextualizing ancient Latin inscriptions, to help historians interpret and restore fragmentary texts (Google DeepMind)
https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/aeneas-transforms-how-historians-connect-the…

Aeneas transforms how historians connect the past
Introducing the first model for contextualizing ancient inscriptions, designed to help historians better interpret, attribute and restore fragmentary texts.

Google Suche bekommt Funktion für präferierte Quellen
Top Stories: In den USA und Indien gibt es die Möglichkeit, Google zu sagen, welche Webseiten man bevorzugt sehen möchte.
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Private Chats mit Grok via Google öffentlich auffindbar
xAIs Funktion zum Teilen von Gesprächen mit Grok hat diese auch für Suchmaschinen auffindbar und damit öffentlich gemacht.
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Source: Meta has signed a deal with Google, worth more than $10B over six years, to use Google Cloud's servers, storage, networking, and other services (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/meta-signs-10-billion-plus-cloud-deal-goo…

Meta Signs $10 Billion-Plus Cloud Deal With Google
Google has struck a major cloud computing deal with Meta Platforms, according to two people familiar with the matter. As part of the agreement, the social media giant will use Google Cloud’s servers, storage, networking and other services, one of the people said. The deal—worth more than $10 ...

Google unveils Gemini AI features, like select to search, for Chromebook Plus laptops like Lenovo's new $649 14" flagship with MediaTek's Kompanio Ultra chip (Antonio G. Di Benedetto/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/690885/googl

Chromebook Plus laptops like Lenovo’s sleek, new 14-incher are getting free Gemini AI features
Google adds new Gemini features like select to search to Chromebook Plus laptops. Lenovo’s Chromebook Plus 14 also debuts with a new processor for on-device AI.