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Google just deleted years of smart home help—here's where to find answers now

Years of useful Google Nest help is going down the drain ...

Google’s Updated Guidance Now Says It’s “Fine” To Use LLMs.txt For AI SEO

Google's updated guidance is less discouraging about the use of LLMs.txt, special markup, and markdown for AI SEO.
Game Rant

How to Use Google Lens on Computers (Mac and PC)

Alex has been a video game journalist since 2019. You can find her articles on IGN, Android Central, Windows Central, GameRant, and more. She has written on a variety of topics including PC gaming, ...
CNET

Google Search Is Becoming Something Fundamentally Different. Here's What That Looks Like

From a reimagined search box to AI agents that hunt for apartments on your behalf, Google Search is being rebuilt with AI at its core. Macy is a writer on the AI Team. She covers how AI is changing ...
TechRepublic

10 Gemini Tricks to Try in Google Docs

Learn how to use Gemini in Google Docs to draft, edit, summarize, format, generate images, pull sources, and listen to documents. Google Docs is no longer just a blank page with comments. For years, ...
Time

Google Shifts to AI Search, Heralding Major Change in How People Use the Internet

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TechCrunch

How to use Google’s new AI agents to go beyond your standard searches

At the Google I/O 2026 keynote, the tech giant revealed new agentic capabilities in Search, where users can create, customize, and manage multiple AI agents to stay updated on topics of interest. The ...
The New York Times

Google Signs A.I. Deal With the Pentagon

The Pentagon has also signed deals for using A.I. on classified networks with OpenAI and Elon Musk’s xAI, amid a dispute with Anthropic. The Mountain View, Calif., campus of Google, which reached an ...
9to5google

Google redesigning the Fitbit, Home & Nest Community forums

Google today teased an upcoming redesign of the “Fitbit Community” and “Google Home & Nest Community.” Community.fitbit.com and googlenestcommunity.com are ...
CNET

How to Tell Google's AI Features to Leave You Alone, Once and for All

Blake has over a decade of experience writing for the web, with a focus on mobile phones, where he covered the smartphone boom of the 2010s and the broader tech scene. When he's not in front of a ...
ZDNet

How to use Google Messages' new Trash feature to recover texts you accidentally deleted

I wore the world's first HDR10 smart glasses TCL's new E Ink tablet beats the Remarkable and Kindle Anker's new charger is one of the most unique I've ever seen Best laptop cooling pads Best flip ...
Wired

How to Use Google Chrome’s New AI-Powered ‘Skills’

The premade Skills available through the Gemini sidebar in Chrome include ways to maximize protein in recipes or summarize YouTube videos. You can set up your own ...