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Umar Shakir
Umar Shakir
Google Gemini is now remembering things for free.

Last year, the AI chatbot gained the ability to personalize responses for you based on your personal preferences, but only if you were a paying Gemini Advanced member. As reported by 9to5Google, the “Saved Info” feature has started rolling out to some free users.

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Sheena Vasani
Wes Davis
Wes Davis
Google charges 50 cents per second to use its Veo 2 AI video generator.

That’s according to Google’s AI tool pricing tables, which it recently updated to include the early-access Veo 2 model.

As TechCrunch notes, that rate adds up to $30 per minute or $1,800 for an hour of AI-made video — far more than the $200-per-month subscription fee for OpenAI’s Sora.

Andrew Liszewski
Andrew Liszewski
It’s hard to think of a worse way to play Pong than 240 browser tabs.

If you find yourself with a hankering for retro gaming and only have access to a macOS computer running Google Chrome, developer Nolen Royalty has created a painful way to play Pong, as spotted by Tom’s Hardware.

You can download Faviconic, described by Royalty as “a tool for running games inside your tab bar,” from GitHub, but performance appears to be absolutely abysmal once gameplay transitions into hundreds of favicons.

Pong being played across hundreds of Chrome browser tabs.
Developer Nolen Royalty has shared the source code for a tool that can play Pong across 240 Chrome browser tabs on macOS.
Image: Nolen Royalty
Wes Davis
Wes Davis
Is this a Galaxy S25 Edge in the wild?

YouTuber Alexis Garza showed off what he said is the Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge, Samsung’s unreleased ultra-slim phone, in a video posted (and later removed) today.

Garza compared its thickness with an unfolded Galaxy Z Fold 6 and showed specs that included 12GB RAM, a 4,000mAh battery, and dual 12MP rear cameras, though the AIDA64 app he used may have had that last part wrong, according to Android Authority.

Update February 22nd: The video has been removed.

Sean Hollister
Sean Hollister
Google’s latest Chromebook update adds bounce keys for people with tremors.

Good news for Joe Joyce and other assistive technologists who help students and computer users around the world: ChromeOS now supports Bounce keys, which ignore repeated keystrokes if you accidentally tap them too much within your specified amount of time. It’s part of the ChromeOS M133 update.

A Pixelbook keyboard.
A Pixelbook keyboard.