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Google updates NotebookLM's Video Overviews, adding six new Nano Banana-powered visual styles and a new "Brief" format for quick insights (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/10/13/notebooklm-video-overviews-styles/

NotebookLM Video Overviews add Nano Banana visual styles, Brief or Explainer formats
NotebookLM is giving Video Overviews a big upgrade with the help of Google’s Nano Banana image editing and generation model.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
This Is Lorelei:
🎵 Holo Boy
#ThisIsLorelei
https://thisislorelei.bandcamp.com/track/name-the-band-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/3Xf9TsClkc9ncSplhihsEh

Great to see Google backtracking on their sideloading restrictions
https://9to5google.com/2025/11/12/android-sideload-unverified-apps/

Android will let ‘experienced users’ sideload unverified apps as Google makes case for verification
In August, Google announced that it will require developer verification to install Android apps, including through sideloading. That’s continuing, but Google is working on a solution for “experienced users.”

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #90TEEN
Ty Segall:
🎵 Fantastic Tomb
#TySegall
https://tysegall.bandcamp.com/track/fantastic-tomb-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/69hmfosjhuPtbDXnAALYYL

#grapheneos podría dar el salto pronto a mšs dispositivos con SOC Snapdragon (por eso amiguitos y amiguitas, nunca, nunca pero nunca compréis un móvil con chipset mierdatek, perdón Mediatek)

Puck: Disney offered YouTube the same rates as major distributors at least for ESPN, but YouTube wants to pay less; Disney is losing $30M/week without YouTube (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/11/11/youtube-tv-rate-report-disney-losses/

YouTube TV deal reportedly hung up on ESPN pricing as Disney loses $30 million a week
According to a new report, YouTube TV is seeking even better rates on Disney channels than other providers, while Disney is losing money.

Google adds Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, aka Nano Banana, to Search's AI Mode and Google Lens, on Android in the US for those with an account opted into Search Lab (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/10/11/google-lens-ai-mode-nano-banana/

Nano Banana image editing comes to AI Mode and Google Lens
Nano Banana has been a hit in the Gemini app, and Google is now bringing image editing and generation to AI Mode, as well as Google Lens.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AstralPlane
Ty Segall:
🎵 Possession
#TySegall
https://tysegall.bandcamp.com/track/possession-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/7pcKkmMsu5Ikc8ZntOytvc

Google adds new pinch and wrist gestures to the Pixel Watch 4 and says Watch 3 and Watch 4 will now use an on-device Gemma-based AI model for Smart Replies (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/12/09/pixel-watch-4-gestures/

Pixel Watch 4 adding pinch and wrist gestures, faster Smart Replies
After missing out on last month’s Feature Drop, Google is rolling out a sizable Pixel Watch 4 update this month that adds one-handed gestures.

Apple and Google say they've developed new features that streamline the process of moving data between each platform as part of a joint collaboration (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/12/08/android-iphone-switching/

Google and Apple partner on better Android-iPhone switching 
The latest Android Canary is available today and it features work by Apple and Google to make switching between Android and iPhone easier.