Robot with note saying ‘Grandma, hop on!’ saves elderly woman from Russian forces

Ukrainian soldiers saved an elderly woman’s life by asking her to hop on the back of a robot. The woman, 72, was spotted by ...

Google Year Of The Snake Game: How To Master The Retro Doodle And Beat Your High Score

What you may not recognize is the visual overhaul Google has given it. Instead of the tiny pixels you’d have to squint to ...
heise online

Google Play Update: New Features for Android and Google Wallet

Month after month, Google releases updates via Play Services and the Play Store. These updates provide, for example, new functions for smartphones and other products in the Google ecosystem, such as ...
The Daily Gazette

Gemini AI bot in South Florida suicide will be ‘updated,’ Google says

Google will donate $30 million to mental health hotlines and its Gemini bot will be updated to better respond to people in mental health crisis, the company announced Tuesday — five weeks after a ...
TechCrunch

Google Play is adding new paid and PC games, game trials, community posts, and more

Google on Wednesday announced a slew of new gaming-focused updates to Google Play at GDC 2026. The tech giant revealed that Google Play is expanding its catalog to include anticipated paid and PC ...
Ars Technica

Google Play Games for PC is getting more premium titles and cross-buy with Android

Google has been tinkering with porting its Play Games platform to Windows for several years, but it started getting serious about it last year. Now, with the 2026 Game Developer Conference underway, ...
Business Insider

Google AI Overviews are more likely to talk smack about brands than ChatGPT is, according to new data

Google AI Overviews are 44% more likely to be negative about brands than ChatGPT is, a new BrightEdge report found. A version of this post appears in the CMO Insider newsletter. You can sign up for ...
The American Prospect

Google Man Peddles Snake Oil

This week, Californians are opening their mailboxes and text messages to find petitions they are urged to sign if they oppose waste and fraud in government spending. “Government has wasted billions of ...
Android Police

Google Play’s monopoly era is finally over

Karandeep Singh Oberoi is a Durham College Journalism and Mass Media graduate who joined the Android Police team in April 2024, after serving as a full-time News Writer at Canadian publication ...
Searchenginejournal.com

Google’s Mueller Calls Markdown-For-Bots Idea ‘A Stupid Idea’

Mueller questioned whether LLM bots can recognize Markdown on a website as anything other than a text file or follow its links. On Bluesky, he called converting pages to Markdown for bots "a stupid ...
Android

Google Rolls Out February 2026 Play System Update for Android

Google’s February 2026 system updates bring improved Google Account storage purchases, streamlined device setup, and new developer security tools through Google Play services version 26.04. The ...
Search Engine Roundtable

New GoogleBot: Google Messages

Google added a new crawler, robot, to its list of user-triggered fetchers in the Google crawlers documentation. This specific bot is named Google Messages and it is a fetcher "used to generate link ...