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

Google now lets you direct avatars through prompts in its Vids app | 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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The Pixel 10a doesn’t have a camera bump, and it’s great | TechCrunch

The Pixel 10a doesn’t have a camera bump, and it’s great | TechCrunch

For years now, smartphone makers have made the camera bump on devices bigger in order to chase camera improvements. Even if that kind of design makes cameras better, at times, it creates usability issues. With the Pixel 10a, Google took a new approach of entirely removing the camera bump and making a flat phone that lies completely on surfaces. While …

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Google broadens ‘Search Live’ access worldwide in major AI expansion

Google broadens ‘Search Live’ access worldwide in major AI expansion

Google has announced the comprehensive global rollout of its advanced ‘Search Live’ capability, extending access to all markets and languages supported by its AI Mode. The expansion enables users in more than 200 countries and territories to engage with Google Search through real-time, interactive voice and camera-based experiences. The initiative is powered by Google’s latest conversational AI model, Gemini 3.1 …

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