Google has been rolling out Gemini Live’s visual Astra-powered video functions super slowly, but it is starting to expand. Here’s what it’s like to use and what you need to know. The company is ...

Google is rolling out an integrated live video experience for emergency calls with the November update to Play Services. The feature could be exclusive to Pixel phones initially and will allow them to ...

Google announced that the full version of Search Live, with video and not just audio, is now rolling out this week on mobile in the U.S. for users enrolled in the AI Mode Labs experiment. This was ...

Google unveiled Search Live at I/O 2025, a new AI product that brings the multimodal AI capabilities of Project Astra to Google Search on mobile phones. Put differently, Search Live also allows the AI ...

Project Astra debuted at I/O 2024 as a next-generation AI assistant that can view the world around you, and provide advice and tips throughout the day. Since then, Astra has been incorporated into the ...

After a number of Google AI Mode updates in recent weeks, the Search Live conversational experience is getting new floating controls on Android. Previously, AI Mode just showed a notification when you ...

Google is testing the option for Search Live in Google to stop listening when you close the app. Currently, if you’re in the middle of a search, it continues to listen and interact even when you ...

Google I/O, Google’s biggest developer conference of the year, is here. I/O will showcase product announcements from across Google’s portfolio. We’re looking forward to plenty of news relating to ...

If you find Google's live translation tools useful, you'll soon be able to use them more naturally during video calls and meetings. The company announced today at its I/O developer conference that ...

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