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Google quietly releases an offline-first AI dictation app on iOS | TechCrunch

Google quietly releases an offline-first AI dictation app on iOS | TechCrunch

Google on Monday quietly released an offline-first dictation app called “Google AI Edge Eloquent” on iOS to take on the likes of Wispr Flow, SuperWhisper, Willow, and others. The app is free to download, and once its Gemma-based automatic speech recognition (ASR) models are downloaded, you can start dictating on your phone. In the app, you can see the live …

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You can now search through app reviews on the Google Play Store

You can now search through app reviews on the Google Play Store

Finding the right app on the Google Play Store just got a lot easier. Google is rolling out a new search function for an app’s reviews when navigating its Play Store, as first spotted by Android Authority. The new feature only currently searches for exact matches of at least two words, but it should still help users identify if certain …

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Google now lets you direct avatars through prompts in its Vids app | TechCrunch

Google quietly releases an offline-first AI dictation app on iOS | TechCrunch

Google on Thursday added new features to its video editor app Vids, including directing and customizing avatars through text prompts, Veo 3.1 support, the ability to export videos to YouTube, and recording with a Chrome extension. Users will be able to use natural language prompts to direct avatars to “act” in a scene. This can include the avatar interacting with …

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Google releases Gemma 4, a family of open models built off of Gemini 3

Google releases Gemma 4, a family of open models built off of Gemini 3

When Google released Gemini 3 Pro at the end of last year, it was a significant step forward for the company’s proprietary large language models. Now, the company is bringing some of the same technology and research that made those models possible to the open source community with the release of its new family of Gemma 4 open-weight models. Google …

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Google’s $20 per month AI Pro plan just got a big storage boost

Google’s  per month AI Pro plan just got a big storage boost

Google’s $20 per month AI Pro plan, which includes Gemini, Veo and Nano Banana, got a big storage boost and some other new perks. Users of the plan (also available for $200 per year) will see their cloud space jump from 2TB to 5TB at no extra cost. That extra storage can be used not only for AI but also …

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Google’s ‘Performance Advisor’ Steph Curry teases probable new wearable

Google’s ‘Performance Advisor’ Steph Curry teases probable new wearable

Basketball player Stephen Curry has long collaborated with Google, and last year took on the role of “Performance Advisor” at the company as part of a multi-year partnership. It appears the first product of this union is “coming soon,” based on a video posted to Curry’s Instagram account. The 15-second clip shows shots of Curry playing with a basketball, and …

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Proton adds a secure video conferencing service called Meet to its toolbox

Proton adds a secure video conferencing service called Meet to its toolbox

We’ve written about the Swiss company Proton’s moves to take on Google and Microsoft with an expanding variety of privacy-focused internet services, and the company is announcing yet another new tool today. Proton Meet, as the name suggests, is a video-calling service that sounds comparable to Zoom, Microsoft Teams and, naturally, Google Meet. As with everything Proton does, Meet is …

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