Comprehensive analysis of Google Maps, Waze and Apple Maps examines usability, routing accuracy, data handling and features across the top navigation platforms.

That's because Google recently integrated Nano Banana — the company's AI-powered image generation and editing tool — into Gemini's new Gemini 2.5 Flash Image. Simply put, if you go to Google AI Studio or to the Gemini App, you should be able to make better photo creations. In Mashable's tests, Nano Banana works particularly well as an image editor.

Google's Nano Banana AI model that can generate and edit images via prompts is now available in Google Search, so you don't need Gemini to use it.

A new redesign to Google Search groups all ads together under one “Sponsored” heading to make it easier to tell them apart from real results.

NotebookLM’s Video Overviews just got Nano Banana visuals and a new Brief format, giving visual learners faster, clearer summaries with styles you can tune on the fly.

Google’s investment in South Carolina will go toward scaling up its Berkeley County data center campus, supporting construction, energy affordability and workforce training programs.

After some impressive recent developments in the world of AI, Google is readying to release an upgrade to its chatbot, the Gemini 3.0 model, on October 22.

Google tried to kill the app that let Pixel users enable VoLTE and VoWiFi on any carrier, but the developer found a workaround.