Google Maps is rolling out its 'Immersive Navigation' redesign more broadly, introducing more specific navigation maps, AI-powered natural language voice guidance, and analysis of local routes and lan…
Google's July 2026 System update is rolling out with improvements to the Play Store, Wear OS, and Maps, including a better Play Store layout for large screens, AI-generated image labels in the EU, and…
SerpApi announced that developers can now integrate data from Google Flights, Google Hotels, and Google Maps APIs to build unified accessibility search experiences, retrieving details such as wheelcha…
Waze is integrating Gemini AI, developed by Alphabet Inc., to revamp its navigation platform with smarter, more intuitive features. The upgrade promises enhanced route planning, personalized travel re…
A developer built PathFindr, an AI-powered campus navigation app using Expo, React Native, and Sarvam AI. The app combines interactive maps, intelligent search, and a conversational AI guide to help u…
AI glasses from Meta, including Ray-Ban Meta and Oakley Meta models, can serve as a hands-free travel assistant for sightseeing, offering features such as landmark identification, translation, directi…
Waze is rolling out a major update powered by Gemini and AI, introducing personalized route recommendations that learn driving preferences, an AI-enhanced Motorcycle mode with bike-specific routes and…
Google has rolled out a new default setting called Search Services History that saves user-uploaded media, including images, audio recordings, and files, to train its generative AI models. The setting…
Apple's iOS 27 introduces over eight new CarPlay features, including video browsing while parked, Siri AI for hands-free conversations, a persistent mini-player, new wallpapers, route data sharing wit…
Google Research published a study showing that modifying its Maps routing algorithm to reroute a small share of trips away from congested segments improved median driving speeds by about 2% and reduce…
The Answer Citation Protocol (ACP) is a proposed web standard that delivers content in two layers—visual summaries and structured JSON-LD data—to optimize AI retrieval by reducing token waste and infe…
Google quietly updated its privacy settings in June to automatically opt all search users into allowing the company to store uploaded media—including photos, audio, and video—for training its AI model…
Google updated its privacy settings to automatically opt users into AI training using their uploaded media, including images, audio, and video from Search, Maps, and other services. Users can opt out …
The Web Answer Citation Protocol (WACP) is a proposed web standard that delivers content in two layers—a visual sidebar summary and structured JSON-LD data—to reduce token waste and inference latency …
Google's Gemini voice assistant on Android Auto continues to speak after users complete touchscreen interactions, a persistent bug that has gone unfixed for months. The issue frustrates drivers who mu…
Google offers lesser-known account settings that users can adjust to enhance privacy and convenience, including setting home and work addresses, editing public profile information, and designating rec…
Apify partnered with Coinbase to enable autonomous AI agents to pay for and run its web automation Actors via the x402 payment protocol, eliminating the need for human intervention in service payments…
In a 2016 analysis, the author argues that autonomous reinforcement-learning AIs (Agent AIs) will inevitably surpass purely computational AIs (Tool AIs) in both intelligence and economic value, making…
A new open-source Playwright CLI tool called 'brow' achieves 82% task success at approximately $0.22 per task, outperforming browser-use, playwright-mcp, and agent-browser on 22 benchmark tasks. The t…
Researchers accidentally discovered that ordinary CMOS transistors can function as artificial neurons and synapses, potentially enabling neuromorphic computing that is vastly more energy-efficient tha…