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Jess Weatherbed

Jess Weatherbed

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    Jess Weatherbed
    Gemini in Chrome has landed on Android.

    After starting to roll out to “select devices” in June, Google’s AI Chrome assistant is now available to all Android users in the US. It adds a Gemini icon to the top-right of your toolbar that opens the familiar chatbot window, allowing Gemini to summarize web pages, answer questions, generate images, and more.

    The Gemini sparkle icon besides the tab menu on the Chrome toolbar for Android.
    You can see the Gemini sparkle icon now sitting beside your tab menu on the Chrome toolbar.
    Image: Google
    Jess Weatherbed
    Jess Weatherbed
    GeForce Now comes to Firefox.

    Nvidia’s cloud gaming service can now stream more than 5,000 PC games directly in the Mozilla browser, joining existing support for Chrome, Safari, Edge, and Opera GX. It’s the latest effort to get GeForce Now onto as many screens as possible, following its expansions to Linux and Amazon Fire TV this year.

    Jess Weatherbed
    Jess Weatherbed
    Nothing is about to drop its own budget ‘Neo.’

    Buds Neo, that is, which are being teased by Nothing’s budget-friendly CMF sub-brand, just two weeks after it launched the CMF Clip Pro open earbuds. It posted the below image on X yesterday as a “hint of what’s next.” A new video posted today also shows colorful Smart Dial charging case configurations, and a short message: “Buds Neo. 20 August.”

    A picture of a wireless earbud, posted to Nothing’s CMF X account.
    These upcoming CMF wireless earbuds are similar in shape to the Buds 2 Plus that the brand launched last year.
    Image: Nothing
    Jess Weatherbed
    Jess Weatherbed
    Spirit in the machine.

    Google won a $10 million bankruptcy auction to acquire a hefty collection of business data from the now defunct Spirit Airlines, which it plans to use for AI training. The data, which includes calendar info, documents, spreadsheets, emails, and employee chats will be “deidentified,” a Google spokesperson said in a statement to Axios:

    “We will not receive any personal information from this dataset. Any data we receive will be rigorously scrubbed of any personally identifiable information by a third party before receipt.”

    Oops! My cat is an iPad kid

    He has his own games and favorite YouTube shows.

    Jess Weatherbed
    Jess Weatherbed
    Jess Weatherbed
    Right-clicking without the clutter.

    Microsoft’s latest Experimental Windows 11 Insider Preview build introduces support for Emoji 17.0, alongside an updated context menu experience in File Explorer that’s “designed to feel faster, cleaner, and easier to tailor.” A notable personalization feature finally lets you add the “Print” command to the context menu in Windows 11.

    A screenshot of the updated context menu that’s available in the Windows 11 Insider Preview build Experimental channel.
    The “Customize menu” option at the bottom of the new context window takes you to a settings page where you can choose which file actions to enable.
    Image: Microsoft
    Jess Weatherbed
    Jess Weatherbed
    Google is reportedly stopping Pixel production in China.

    Most of Google’s products are still manufactured in the country, but Nikkei Asia reports that all production of Pixel phones, watches and earbuds will leave China starting in 2027. Google started this exodus in 2019, shifting to building production capacity in Vietnam and India instead, as have Apple and Microsoft in recent years.