Google has opened SynthID Detector to the public worldwide, turning a tool that spent more than a year gated behind a waitlist for journalists, media professionals and researchers into open verification infrastructure. From today, anyone can visit synthid.com, upload an image, a video or an audio clip, and learn within seconds whether it carries an … Read more
Google is on trial in London over the economics of its app store. A £1.2 billion ($1.6 billion) opt-out class action brought on behalf of roughly 20 million UK consumers opened this week at the Competition Appeal Tribunal, with consumer advocate Liz Coll alleging that the company used its grip on Android app distribution to … Read more
Apple has begun rolling out the most substantial redesign of Siri in the assistant’s history, and with iOS 27 the new Siri AI arrives as something closer to a system-wide reasoning layer than a voice command tool. It delivers contextual answers, searches across your installed apps, stitches together information from multiple sources and can act … Read more
Google’s long-awaited answer to motion sickness on Android is now rolling out as part of Android 17, arriving roughly two years after Apple shipped a comparable tool on the iPhone. Motion Assist draws subtle animated shapes along the edges of the screen that move in step with the vehicle, so your eyes receive the same … Read more