Privacy-first: no tracking or data collection. Offline maps and turn-by-turn directions save battery. Free, open-source app for Android and iOS. Every month, Google ...

A capable map app will save you time (and your sanity), but which one is best at dodging all the holiday season traffic? I tested both, and there's a clear winner. My PCMag career began in 2013 as an ...

OpenAI has declared a "code red" emergency, halting advertising and revenue plans to address ChatGPT's declining performance against Google's surging Gemini 3. This strategic pivot aims to improve ...

Google has entered the fast-emerging category of AI-first coding environments with Google Antigravity, an agentic development platform that aims to reimagine the IDE in the era of autonomous coding ...

Google has launched an official Colab extension for Visual Studio Code, aiming to bridge the gap between local development and powerful cloud computing for AI and machine learning. The new tool allows ...

Google Maps is adding new AI features, including a builder agent and an MCP server — a tool that connects AI assistants to Google Maps’ technical documentation — to help developers and users create ...

A high-resolution digital map allows people to plan their routes along the ancient roads of the Roman Empire. Combining historical records with modern mapping techniques, researchers mapped hundreds ...

Google Maps suffered an outage that left the mobile version of the service unable to fully load its map or provide directions. Over 4,000 reports were filed on Downdetector since the outage started, ...

Google is changing the way you confirm if contacts are legit. The company has begun rolling out a QR code to verify that the person you're communicating with is, in fact, who they say they are, ...

As previewed last year, Google Messages is beginning to roll out QR code-based key verification to confirm that you’re “communicating with the person you intend to.” Once available, open a ...