Google Maps gets conversational with Gemini-powered "Ask Maps"

For years, Google Maps has been able to surface nearby coffee shops and provide turn-by-turn navigation. What it couldn't do was answer complex questions that blend ...

Google overhauls its Maps app, adding in more AI features to help people get around

One tool called Ask Maps will expand upon conversational abilities that Google brought to the service last November, giving suggestions to users looking for things such as nearby places to charge ...

Google's Gemini Embedding 2 arrives with native multimodal support to cut costs and speed up your enterprise data stack

While previous embedding models were largely restricted to text, this new model natively integrates text, images, video, audio, and documents into a single numerical space — reducing latency by as muc ...

Google’s new AI agent remembers everything, here’s how it works

Most AI agents have a memory problem. Ask a question, get an answer, close the tab and it’s done. Google's newly open-sourced Always-On Memory Agent, built on Gemini Flash-Lite, is designed to fix ...
The New York Times

South Korea Clears Way for Google Maps to Fully Operate

South Korea approved Google’s request to export detailed map data, reversing a longstanding restriction that made the tool largely nonfunctional. By John Yoon Reporting from Seoul South Korea said on ...
ExtremeTech

Google Chrome Adds Split View, PDF Annotations, and 'Save to Drive'

Last week, Google announced new Chrome features: Split View, PDF Annotations, and Save to Google Drive. Split View lets you place two tabs side by side without managing a whole second window. This ...
TechRadar

Google Chrome reveals a host of new productivity tools - including a much-wanted split screen boost, and improved PDF annotation

You can now open two tabs in Chrome Split View without having to rely on OS alternatives Annotations, like highlights and notes, are also coming to Chrome's PDF ...
Tom's Guide

Google Maps appears to be removing features if you're not logged in — and that's a huge mistake

AI I quit ChatGPT — here's how I moved everything to Claude and Gemini without losing my data (or my mind) AI I swapped ChatGPT for Claude for a week — and these 5 features convinced me to stay TVs ...
New York Post

This community is hidden from Google Maps — here’s why its ultra-wealthy residents have been kept secret for two decades

He put them on the map. An ultra-rich Minnesota enclave named North Oaks is so secretive and exclusive that they have the distinction of being the only community not seen on Google Maps. Or at least ...
InfoWorld

Google unveils API and MCP server for developer documentation

Developer Knowledge API and Model Context Protocol server. Together connect AI agents to Google’s developer and Google Cloud documentation. Google is previewing the Developer Knowledge API and an ...
TechCrunch

Google Maps now lets you access Gemini while walking and cycling

Google announced on Thursday that Google Maps users can now access Gemini hands-free while walking and cycling. The update comes a few months after Google Maps rolled out its Gemini-powered hands-free ...
Lifehacker

10 Hacks Every Google Maps User Should Know

Pranay Parab is an independent tech journalist based in Mumbai, India. He covers tech for Lifehacker, and specializes in tutorials and in-depth features. Google Maps is the only navigation service I ...