7 Lesser-Known Google Account Settings You Should Change

Adjust your options for things like account recovery, ad personalization, and which parts of your Google profile are shared ...
Android

Google reCAPTCHA May Soon Ask You for Hand Gestures to Verify Your 'Humanity'

Google is testing a new reCAPTCHA check that uses hand gestures for verification purposes. It’ll ask users to perform simple hand gestures in front of the webcam. The system analyzes them to confirm ...

Bluesky asks Texas users to verify their ages, citing new app store law

Texas users of the microblogging platform Bluesky were given a shock on Tuesday: They'd need to verify their ages before ...

Here's your most detailed look yet at how Android 17 OS verification will work

We're taking an early look at how Google's upcoming Android 17 OS verification feature will check that your phone's software ...
Tech Times

Claude Identity Verification Starts July 8: What Facial Data Anthropic Collects

Anthropic can require Free, Pro, and Max users to submit a government photo ID and live facial scans through Persona ...

Should you change your phone number after a hack?

Learn how to protect yourself from SIM swap scams and phone number hacking after repeated account takeovers, including steps to secure your carrier.
New York Post

NYC is getting a new area code — say ‘hello’ to 465

New area code, same attitude. The Big Apple will start handing out the a area code on June 18, after the city officially ran out of phone numbers for existing area codes. Happening every few years — ...
CNET

NotebookLM Is Getting Google's Latest Gemini AI Model

Macy is a writer on the AI Team. She covers how AI is changing daily life and how to make the most of it. This includes writing about consumer AI products and their real-world impact, from ...
9to5google

You can thank AI for Google Keeps’s new large FAB on Android

Google Keep on Android is getting some tweaks to the FAB (floating action button) ahead of its new AI voice feature coming this summer. Keep for Android goes from a regular-sized FAB to the larger ...
VentureBeat

Anthropic says 80% of its new production code is now authored by Claude — how your enterprise can keep up

Credit: VentureBeat made with OpenAI ChatGPT-Images-2.0 Anthropic co-founder and CEO Dario Amodei said it was coming, but it still feels like a milestone: More than 80% of the code merged into ...
Digital Trends

Google wants your app code so badly, it’s willing to pay for it

Google has been quietly reaching out to Android developers with an offer to buy access to their code. As reported by 404 Media, the company sent emails to a select group of Google Play developers, ...
CNBC

Microsoft and Google are late to AI coding, but 'absolutely critical' they compete for growth

Coding tools are becoming an increasingly big target for Google and Microsoft as they try to catch Anthropic and OpenAI in the red-hot market. Microsoft is gearing up for coding-related announcements ...