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Google Maps has released its first annual dining list covering 10 cities, including Tokyo. We look at the rise in mochi mentions, the data period, how directions searches differ from reviews, and where Japan's existing features and ordering are available.
Google Cloud has announced Gemini agent for businesses. It switches between Gemini and Claude and is designed to work as a colleague with its own account. We compare official announcements since April to see how memory, permissions, and cost controls fit together.
Chrome 155 will officially support JPEG XL. We look at the shift to Rust, lossless recompression of existing JPEGs, how it compares with AVIF, decoding speed, and differences between browsers.
Google has opened SynthID Detector worldwide, with support for watermarks from OpenAI and others. Drawing on primary sources, we explain why "not detected" doesn't mean authentic, how the tool is protected from abuse, and how SynthID differs from C2PA's signed provenance.
Google has launched Playground in the US, letting users build and share games from text prompts. We look at the Unity Spark pilot, human-made assets, how Meta compares, and how games are edited and delivered after generation.
Code in Android 17 QPR3 Beta 1 points to a "Face Active Illumination" feature that could help Pixel face unlock in the dark. The light source is unconfirmed. We compare it with Google's security classes, Galaxy's screen assist and Face ID's infrared approach.
Claude for Google Workspace is in public beta, letting Claude edit files directly and use your saved work skills. Comment and chart support differs by entry point, and enterprises should check data retention terms.
Once enabled, Gemini in Chrome shares your current tab by default when you open it. Based on Google's official documentation, we look at how page content and URLs are handled, how to stop sharing, chat-saving and training settings, and how Workspace protections differ.
Google's EmbeddingGemma 2 improves code retrieval and unifies images, video and audio in one embedding space. We compare it with primary sources on Qwen, Jina and Gemini, covering input length, index compatibility and the quality lost when vectors are shortened.
Nano Banana 2.1 cuts image output costs by about half. We look at higher input and reasoning rates, the limits of Google's internal evaluations, and how it compares with GPT Image 2.5, FLUX 3 and Qwen on price, editing and 4K dimensions.
