Everything we hope to learn at Google I/O 2025: Gemini, Gmail, and Project Astra updates
UPDATE: May. 19, 2025, 1:36 p.m. EDT This article has been updated with new information from ‘The Android Event,’ the Android-focused mini I/O event held on Tuesday, May 13. The latest news from Google-land is all Gemini, Gemini, Gemini. And with Google I/O 2025 less than a day away, we expect more of the same….
Google I/O 2025: New Android 16, Gemini AI and everything else to expect at Tuesday’s keynote
Google I/O, the search giant’s annual developer conference, kicks off on Tuesday, May 20. The event is arguably the most important on the company’s annual calendar, offering the opportunity for the company to share a glimpse at everything it has been working on over the past year — and contextualize its biggest priorities for the…
Google I/O 2025: What to expect including Gemini AI, Android 16 updates, Android XR and more
In just a week, Google’s annual developer conference will kick off on May 20. The event is probably the most important on the company’s calendar, offering a glimpse at everything it has been working on over the past year. From the rumors and even information Google has trickled out, I/O 2025 should be one of…
6 texting features I wish were a part of Google Messages
Summary Google Messages is the go-to text messaging platform within the Android ecosystem. Google has been steadily adding new features to Messages over time. Here are 6 additions that are on my personal Google Messages wish list. Google Messages has solidified itself as the go-to text messaging platform across much of the Android ecosystem. It’s…
Google On Diluting SEO Impact Through Anchor Text Overuse
Google’s John Mueller answered a question about internal site navigation where an SEO was concerned about diluting the ability to rank for a keyword phrase by using the same anchor text in four sitewide sections across an entire website. Link In Four Navigational Areas The person asking the question had a client that had four…
How fraudsters abuse Google Forms to spread scams
The form and quiz-building tool is a popular vector for social engineering and malware. Here’s how to stay safe. 23 Apr 2025 • , 5 min. read When Google enters a particular market, it often means bad news for the incumbents. So it was with Google Forms, the tech giant’s form and quiz-building tool that…
Google Pixel 9a review: This is the budget smartphone to beat in 2025
For years, Google’s Pixel A-series line has been one of the best deals in smartphone-land. As long as you can tolerate (or hell, even prefer) Android to iOS, these are generally the best phones that can be had for $500. That hasn’t changed with the new Pixel 9a, but the market landscape has…somewhat. Apple recently…
Google AI Unveils 601 Real-World Generative AI Use Cases Across Industries
Google Cloud has just released an extraordinary compendium of 601 real-world generative AI (GenAI) use cases from some of the world’s top organizations — a major leap from the 101 use cases it shared just a year ago at Google Cloud Next 2024. This sixfold expansion showcases the explosive pace at which GenAI technologies are…
Walmart’s onn. 4K streaming box: A Google TV upgrade doesn’t clobber its cost
Within my teardown published last summer of Walmart’s “onn.”-branded original Android TV-based streaming receiver, the UHD Streaming Device: I mentioned that I already had Google TV operating system-based successors for both the “box” and “stick” Android TV form factors (the latter subsequently dissected by me and published last December) sitting on my shelves awaiting my…
A Step-by-Step Coding Guide to Defining Custom Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server and Client Tools with FastMCP and Integrating Them into Google Gemini 2.0’s Function‑Calling Workflow
In this Colab‑ready tutorial, we demonstrate how to integrate Google’s Gemini 2.0 generative AI with an in‑process Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, using FastMCP. Starting with an interactive getpass prompt to capture your GEMINI_API_KEY securely, we install and configure all necessary dependencies: the google‑genai Python client for calling the Gemini API, fastmcp for defining and…