Gemini isn’t replacing Google Assistant on Android just yet

Google isn’t ready to replace Assistant with Gemini on Android devices just yet. The company said on Friday that it will “continue our work to upgrade Assistant users to Gemini on mobile devices into ...

Next-generation nuclear reactors could get a boost from the National Defense Authorization Act

Congress passed energy provisions in the annual defense bill that could help spur the development of advanced nuclear reactors. ...

Want to link from Google’s app store to your app? That’ll be $2–4 per install

Meanwhile, developers who want to offer their own billing solutions will only get a 5 percent discount compared to Google’s current fees, likely making it not worth the effort t ...

ChatGPT will now let you pick how nice it is

OpenAI will now give you the ability to dial up — or down — ChatGPT’s warmth and enthusiasm. An update rolling out on Friday gives you the option to choose whether you want “more” or “less” of these ...

Google is part of Movies Anywhere again

Google is once again part of Movies Anywhere, meaning that movies you’ve purchased from Google Play and YouTube will now show up as part of your Movies Anywhere collection. Films from Google Play and ...

Google sues web scraper for sucking up search results ‘at an astonishing scale’

Google has filed a lawsuit against SerpApi, a company that offers tools to scrape content on the web, including Google’s search results. SerpApi is accused of violating the Copyright Act by using ...

Did a publisher’s slip-up reveal smaller Switch 2 cartridges?

ININ Games quickly walked back a statement saying Nintendo will offer smaller capacity cartridges for physical game releases ...

White House “investigating” after a YouTube livestream popped up on its website.

On Thursday night, the White House Live News section featured YouTuber @RealMattMoney, for reasons that remain unclear. According to Bloomberg, “The White House is aware of the incident and looking ...

Skyrim’s Switch 2 input latency has been ‘fixed,’ Bethesda says.

That’s according to a support doc, at least. Based on Digital Foundry’s video, the input latency for the Nintendo Switch 2 version of the game, which launched earlier this month, seemed pretty bad. [M ...

Netflix is acquiring an avatar company as it moves into party games

Ready Player Me’s tech will help players ‘carry their identities and fandom’ across Netflix’s games.

Don’t expect Trump Media’s nuclear fusion power plant to generate electricity soon

Trump Media — yup, the parent company of Truth Social — is the latest entrant in the near century-long race to develop a nuclear fusion power plant. It announced a merger agreement with fusion company ...

The RAM shortage is here to stay, raising prices on PCs and phones

Your next smartphone or PC might cost more amid a global memory shortage that the International Data Corporation expects to “persist well into 2027.” A new report from the research firm lays out the ...