Background activity can drain your battery and use your mobile data without you seeing it happen. Apps refresh in the background to keep content updated, which helps you pick up where you left off.

Google’s meme-friendly Nano Banana image-generation model is getting an upgrade. The new Nano Banana Pro is rolling out with improved reasoning and instruction following, giving users the ability to ...

Google is adding a new feature to its mobile app that could potentially challenge Pinterest in becoming users’ first stop for inspirational imagery: a dedicated images tab. The company announced on ...

The future of Affinity Designer, Photo and Publisher, subscription-free alternatives to Adobe Creative Cloud, was uncertain after the apps' developer Serif was acquired by Canva in 2024. Now, over a ...

When graphic design platform-provider Canva bought the Affinity image-editing and publishing apps early last year, we had some major questions about how the companies’ priorities and products would ...

A national cloud service outage resulted in thousands of people losing access to online platforms like Snapchat, Reddit, Verizon, Instacart and more. The instructional website Iowa Regent universities ...

Katelyn is a writer with CNET covering artificial intelligence, including chatbots, image and video generators. Her work explores how new AI technology is infiltrating our lives, shaping the content ...

What if you could build anything—a game, a website, or even a fully functional app, without writing a single line of code? Imagine describing your vision in plain language and watching it come to life ...

Gemini’s mobile adoption has been soaring since the August launch of its Nano Banana image editor model, which has received positive reviews, particularly from users who say they can now more easily ...

A mystery "nano banana" image editing model climbed the charts. DeepMind was secretly behind the model, which is now available. Users can get started for free in the Gemini app. On Tuesday, Google ...

A mysterious Nano-Banana AI image generator went viral a few days ago, with some testers speculating that Google owned the new generative AI tool. They thought Google released it on LMArena for public ...

Google Gemini’s web version had a very interesting feature called the ‘Canvas.’ It allows users to create web pages from the documents, generate audio overviews, create an app, and much more. This ...