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Google announced through a short community post today that the LTE versions of the Pixel Watch 2 and 3 are losing free access to Safety Signal that allowed features like Emergency SOS, Fall Detection, and Safety Check to work through cellular networks without the need for a carrier plan. The connectivity was included as part…

Google Cloud announced the Gemini agent on October 8, 2026, at its Gemini at Work 2026 event, describing it as a single, universal agent for work that handles knowledge work, question answering, content creation, and coding from one prompt box.

Google has detailed an update bringing a slew of new features to its Pixel Buds 2A and Pro 2, which the company says are rolling out now. The new features were first teased in August. The biggest update is Pixel Watch-powered sleep detection, rolling out to both pairs of earbuds. If you’re wearing a Pixel…

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Google’s Martin Splitt and John Mueller discussed the reasons why Search Console may display a “couldn’t fetch” error even though a website displays a valid XML sitemap. While Mueller acknowledged there sometimes may be a technical reason for that happening he also said that the actual reason is often a quality issue.

Google is entering a new phase of SERP scraping due to AI agents. Some of it may be driven by networks of LLMs that are reverse engineering Google’s search results. The public face of Google’s war against scraping remains rank trackers but the real battle may be elsewhere.

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Tired of saying “Can you hear me?” or “Hello?” too many times on calls? Then you’ll be glad to hear that, with a few quick tweaks and not-so-hidden settings, you can significantly improve the sound quality of calls on your Android phone.

Welcome to the Pulse: this week’s updates change how long a spam update may take to roll out, what Search Console reports for image searches, how an error page can keep pages out of search, and what two reports say about traffic from Google.

Google has published a research paper about detecting spam that mimics a human manual review that catches content that violates the “spirit” of policy violations and platform guidelines. The system is called Scaled Abuse Forensics Examiner (SAFE) and it is expressly designed to identify AI-generated content.