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Google just ended the busiest 12 months ever on the DMCA takedown front. The popular search engine processed 3.5 billion takedown requests.

Google is rolling out the straightforward ability to search your open tabs, as well as Tab Group sync, to Chrome for Android.

After failed negotiations threatened to remove channels, YouTube TV has confirmed a new deal with Paramount for CBS and other channels.

Google TV has just removed a few more of its free channels while also added a few more back to the library.

The first Google TV Streamer update of 2025 is now rolling out and it's a more sizable download, though the release notes...

After introducing for paid Advanced subscribers last year, free Gemini users are starting to get the ability to upload and analyze files...

Material 3 offers three size options for the floating action button, with Google Drive possibly adopting the large FAB.

A nice improvement for Google Chat will let you rename group conversations, while teams will benefit from a new “board” feature.

No more recapping.

Google today announced a suite of new features for parents and kids, including a Family Link redesign that...

An update has removed the Google Maps ETA from select vehicles using Google's Android Automotive OS, specifically Polestar and Volvo.

In 2019, Google introduced a new class of Assistant device that provided dedicated mics in your car. Five years later, Google looks to be...

Following Talk Live about this, Gemini Live is getting a model update that will “make your conversations even more dynamic and engaging.”

As part of Safer Internet Day, Google shared that Safe Browsing’s Enhanced Protection mode has been enabled by over 1 billion Chrome users.

The road to Google I/O 2025 is underway this morning with a puzzle to figure out the date for the developer conference.

Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental and 2.0 Pro Experimental are seeing wider availability in the Android and iOS apps.

YouTube CEO Neal Mohan today is out with an overview of “big bets for 2025,” which this year marking the site’s 20th birthday.

Some Google Calendar users are angrily calling the company out after noticing that certain events like Pride month are no longer highlighted by default. Black History Month, Indigenous People Month, Jewish Heritage, Holocaust Remembrance Day, and Hispanic Heritage have also been removed, according to a Google product expert.

One user called the move “shameful” and said that the platform is being used to “capitulate to fascism.” Over the last few years, there have been comments and media reports complaining about the presence of the notes, but now they’re gone.

Google confirmed it’s made changes to the default Calendar events, but with a different explanation about when and why. Here’s Google’s explanation of what’s going on, provided by spokesperson Madison Cushman Veld:

For over a decade we’ve worked with timeanddate.com to show public holidays and national observances in Google Calendar. Some years ago, the Calendar team started manually adding a broader set of cultural moments in a wide number of countries around the world. We got feedback that some other events and countries were missing — and maintaining hundreds of moments manually and consistently globally wasn’t scalable or sustainable. So in mid-2024 we returned to showing only public holidays and national observances from timeanddate.com globally, while allowing users to manually add other important moments.

Timeanddate.com didn’t reply to requests for comment.

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In its first big batch of removals, several free channels have disappeared from the Google TV Freeplay app this week.

A problem with how Google has rolled out Gemini to Google Workspace accounts prevents the ability to disable the new AI features easily.