How to fix Android Auto freezes when the app update is not enough
The map view freezes as you approach the turn. The music cuts out mid-song. You stab at the head unit hoping the picture comes back before the exit. If that sounds like…
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Self-hosting photos with Immich beat Google and OneDrive
I was paying for two photo services at the same time, which is the kind of admission you make after the fact when you realize the math stopped making sense months ago.…
Amazon’s free Fire TV assistant still loses to Gemini
The Fire TV news this month got framed as a reason to switch ecosystems. I have been running both Fire TV and Google TV in my living room for two years and…
Google’s $1.5B Mechanize bet is a roadmap for coding tools
When a Fortune 500 company writes a check that is three times the startup’s last valuation a year ago, the rational explanation is almost never product revenue. In the case of Google…
Google’s blind Gemini eval is the first benchmark worth trusting
I used to assume the charts in vendor blog posts were roughly honest, then I started watching what happened to the teams that bought models based on them. Six months after the…
The Pixel 11 lineup finally answers the question I had stopped asking
The base Pixel I bought three years ago still works. That detail tends to get buried under launch coverage, but it sets up what Made by Google 2026 actually means. The Tensor…
Google built a free education suite and forgot to mention it
If you think far back, you will notice that for as long as technology has been applied to learning, the central challenge has remained the same: getting good tools into the hands…
Munich court makes Google own its AI hallucinations
The Regional Court of Munich (Landgericht München I) ruled on Tuesday that Google is directly responsible for false claims generated by its AI Overviews. The case is the first of its kind…
Browser makers just formed a coalition to break Microsoft’s defaults
The Browser Choice Alliance fired a shot across Microsoft’s bow this week, and it is about time. A coalition of browser developers (Vivaldi, Brave, Waterfox, and several smaller forks) has filed a…
WebMCP is Chrome’s bet that agents become the new users
Google has a habit of announcing the future like it is already here. At I/O 2026, the company unveiled WebMCP, a new protocol built into Chrome that is supposed to make the…