Google I/O 2026
…19 The future of Google is a search box that does everything Jay Peters May 19 Google’s AI future demands trust — and your personal data Emma Roth May 19 John Higgins…
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Anthropic doesn’t trust the Pentagon, and neither should you
…The NSA could then keep that information even if it was on US persons, and they could do specific searches on that later, sometimes referred to as “backdoor searches.” They collected this…
The secret to Roku’s success: not being cool
…Google uses search trends to inform what it shows on Google TV, and Amazon can presumably tap into Alexa usage patterns to personalize Fire TV. Roku doesn’t have any of that…
Microsoft’s new Xbox chief starts making her mark
…On the product side, our front end is a set of experiences built at different times, where discovery, relevance, and social are not first-class, and players have to work to find…
How Yahoo escaped the Verizon death spiral
…Ours looks a lot more like traditional search and it is more paragraph-driven. It’s not a chatbot that’s trying to act like it’s a person and be your…
I can’t believe how fast Google vibe coded my first Android app
…When I told it to search for that information in other databases instead, I discovered it vastly understating the number of calories in various kinds of food. But when I told Gemini…
I’m relieved Siri AI isn’t trying to be a health coach
…Still, AI nutrition logging and insights can be little better than Google searches. https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/06/257819_Oura_Dexcom_glucose_CGMs_AKrales_0021.jpg…
BitTorrent’s disastrous, legendary, and controversial story
…From the start, Cohen built the app without search functionality, instead relying on third-party websites for content discovery. He also didn’t run a centralized server to help users discover other…
I re-created Google’s cute Gemini ad with my own kid’s stuffie, and I wish I hadn’t
…It’s the fictional but relatable story of two parents discovering their child’s favorite stuffed toy, a lamb named Mr. Fuzzy, was left behind on an airplane. They use Gemini to…
The AI takeover of mathematics has begun
Mathematician James Maynard has spent a lot of time this past year “soul searching.” A professor at the University of Oxford and winner of the prestigious Fields Medal, Maynard told The Verge…