[ad_1] Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR Google Plus launched in the US earlier this year at $8 a month. Now Google’s already cutting that nearly in half to just $5 a month. In addition to the price cut, Google’s pushing storage from 200GB to 400GB. Today may be all about Apple’s latest announcements, with … Read More “Google lowers AI Plus pricing while doubling cloud storage” »
[ad_1] Aamir Siddiqui / Android Authority TL;DR Apple confirmed at WWDC 2026 that iOS 27 will support the iPhone 11 series, granting the phones from 2019 seven years of major platform updates. This update lifespan highlights a stark contrast with 2019 Android powerhouses like the Pixel 4 and Galaxy S10, which received only three years … Read More “Apple’s iPhone software support is putting Pixel, Galaxy to shame” »
[ad_1] Aamir Siddiqui / Android Authority TL;DR Apple’s announcing its latest Siri upgrades at WWDC 2026 today. Those include new options for customizing the sound of Siri’s voice output. Separate sliders let you dial in the exact speed and expressiveness you want. Apple is in the middle of showing off its latest advancements at the … Read More “Gemini needs to copy Siri’s new voice customization, yesterday” »
[ad_1] Andy Walker / Android Authority TL;DR NotebookLM is getting a major upgrade with Gemini 3.5 and Antigravity, bringing improved accuracy, reliability, and greater visibility to how the AI reaches its answers. The tool can now do much more than research, including writing and running code, and generating reports, spreadsheets, presentations, charts, and other files … Read More “NotebookLM gets its biggest upgrade yet with Gemini 3.5” »
[ad_1] Aamir Siddiqui / Android Authority TL;DR YouTube Music users have long requested an official blocking feature to block songs, artists, and albums. A new, unofficial, open-source browser extension called YTM Block finally delivers this blocking capability by auto-skipping over blocked tracks and removing blocked artists from the homepage. However, because it is a browser … Read More “YTM Block extension lets you block content on YouTube Music” »
[ad_1] C. Scott Brown / Android Authority TL;DR Pixel 10-exclusive Magic Cue might soon start working in third-party apps, and we got a glimpse of it. A developer tweaked the Firefox app on Android to give us an exclusive preview of how Magic Cue would work. Magic Cue uses AI to suggest relevant actions or … Read More “Here’s a closer look at Pixel 10’s Magic Cue working in third-party apps” »
[ad_1] Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR ChatGPT and Gemini are hallucinating weird images when asked to “restore” an image without attaching one. Both AIs produce unsettling results and offer generic “apologies” when questioned about their creations. I’ve been writing about AI for quite some time now, and it seems for every good thing I … Read More “ChatGPT and Gemini are creating weird images out of nothing” »
[ad_1] Rita El Khoury / Android Authority Gemini has been available in preview on existing Google Home and Nest speakers and displays for a while now, but as my colleague Rita put it, it is slow, unpredictable, and a painful experience. Every question takes longer to answer, and every answer is unpredictable. Users have been … Read More “Here’s how to remove Gemini from Google Home” »
[ad_1] Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR Google Messages is rolling out “Tap to draft,” replacing instant Smart Reply sends with a safer review step. Google is keeping “Tap to send” as the default, so users must manually enable the new behavior. Google is finally doing away with a longstanding behavior in Google Messages that … Read More “Google Messages finally rolls out a better way to use Smart Replies” »
[ad_1] Stephen Schenck / Android Authority TL;DR Google’s older Nest Audio and Nest Mini speakers are going out of stock, with the new Home speaker coming soon. The new Google Home speaker, announced in October last year, is rumored to finally launch this month. Google hasn’t commented on the availability officially, and still says “coming … Read More “Google’s older Nest Mini and Audio are quietly checking out before the new Home speaker arrives” »
