TL;DR Gemini Live conversations currently require you to use voice input. Google appears to be preparing the option to swipe up for keyboard input, instead. Users could switch back and forth between text and voice input as they like. Android users sure aren’t hurting for ways to use Gemini, and it feels like Google’s already … Read more
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While Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang was onstage at the All-In Summit on Monday morning in Los Angeles, he got a phone call that he couldn’t send to voicemail — it was from President Donald Trump. “I’m onstage with the besties,” Huang told Trump, referring to the venture capitalists who host the podcast All-In, including tech … Read more
It’s time to ditch the cable. Sean Anthony Eddy/Getty Images If you’re looking to improve your gaming setup, the mouse is one of the best places to start. The right mouse can both improve your performance and feel much more comfortable during longer sessions, but with such a vast market of mice it … Read more
Switching to Ethernet was simultaneously the best and the cheapest network upgrade I’ve ever gotten. Simply ditching Wi-Fi for a cable is fantastic, and in most cases, it improves your connection tremendously. But what if one Ethernet-related setting actually makes your PC feel slow? That can happen, and after some digging, I found the culprit. … Read more
Credit: Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR Motion Assist is now rolling out to more Android devices. The feature is designed to reduce motion sickness by displaying small dots on the edge of your screen that move in real time to help synchronize what your eyes see and your body feels while riding in a … Read more
The unstoppable rise of foldables has slowed the homogenization of smartphones with new form factors and designs, but early in the foldable era, dual-screen smartphones (two separate displays connected by a hinge) seemed like an alternative to traditional slabs. That period was short-lived, though, as dual-screen smartphones quietly faded into obscurity while foldables grew in … Read more
Cornelis, a company creating networking technology to help AI chips communicate more effectively, announced Monday that it has raised $205 million in a funding round led by IAG Capital Partners. It also announced a product called Active Compute Fabric, a network technology that targets the fact that much GPU time is wasted waiting for data … Read more
OpenAI has bought smartphone camera maker Glass Imaging in a deal worth over $300 million, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal. The company, founded in 2019 and based in Los Altos, California, had previously raised about $30 million in funding from investors. Glass Imaging was founded by Ziv Attar and Tom Bishop, … Read more
When an app gets stuck, there are a number of ways to terminate it. Rayahristova/Getty Images If you’re a long-time Mac user moving to Windows, you’ll be familiar with the option to force quit apps. When an app is unresponsive and doesn’t listen to normal close requests, a force quit does exactly what … Read more
Credit: Google TL;DR Google will open pre-orders for Googlebooks on September 21, 2026. The first wave of manufacturers includes Acer, ASUS, Dell, HP, and Lenovo. It’s unknown when shipping will start. During The Android Show I/O Edition back in May, Google announced a new category of laptops called Googlebooks. Since then, there have been various leaks, … Read more