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Sometimes founders search high and low for the right startup idea, while other times it comes to them. Federico Felici and Jonas Buchli are two of the lucky ones.

Three hikers were rescued from California’s Mount Shasta this week after using Google’s AI chatbot Gemini to plan their expedition, according to the Chicago Tribune.

Apple has followed Google’s lead and officially changed the name of Lake Ontario to “Lake America” on its Apple Maps service less than a week after President Trump ordered the change.

Confession: I’ve spent the past two weeks speed-dating. Not people, but phones. Some were overly luxurious, offering flashy features and bold promises that were simply too lavish for my lifestyle. Others were quietly compelling.

One of the first tests I conduct while evaluating smartwatches is GPS location accuracy — I want to see how close it can track my actual path. Most of the time, the overall distance is fairly close, but zooming in on the GPS track reveals differences in where I walked. Google focused heavily on improving…

Sure, this is likely an attempt to juice those Gemini usage numbers, but it also comes with 5TB of cloud storage.

Several years ago, Google Meet introduced a feature that takes notes during your virtual meetings. As of this week, Google’s meeting software can now sit in and take notes on your in-person offline meetings, too. 

A few days ago, Google announced a new feature for Wallet — the ability to send money to a child’s Google Wallet account so they can securely spend money with the app’s tap-to-pay feature on a compatible Android phone or watch. 

WeatherNext can deliver a 15-day forecast predicting storms’ track and intensity.

Google announced on Thursday that Google Maps’ “Ask Maps” feature is gaining a slew of new agentic capabilities, including the ability to order food, book hotels, and find event tickets. The tech giant is also bringing Personal Intelligence to Ask Maps, allowing the AI tool to personalize its responses by drawing on information from a…