Dive into The Register's online archive of incisive tech news reporting, features, and analysis dating back to 1998 ...

Google’s hands-free voice search on Android is getting a major UI overhaul, replacing the bodyless face with a microphone, “Ask Anything,” and a colored arc. Google’s convenient, hands-free voice ...

Google has started to roll out a redesign of its voice search function on Android, retiring the four-dot waveform animation that has represented the feature for years. The new interface has a gradient ...

Google app’s Voice Search is finally getting a major redesign on Android. This change modernizes the interface with some subtle tweaks. You will now see a large Google “G” logo at the top center of ...

Sometimes, you stumble onto a digital discovery of some sort and need a touch of time to wrap your head around if or how it could help you. Other times, you slap something new onto your favorite phone ...

The Android 16 QPR2 update brings Circle to Search support to Desktop Mode, enabling the key feature on external monitors. This major usability upgrade allows users to initiate searches on large ...

The new Circle to Search feature isn't the only new safety feature coming to Android. Call Reason is a new feature inside the Phone app that lets users mark a call to a contact as "urgent." That ...

“Spinners,” the South African extreme sports action drama, is returning for a second season that brings back the creators, writers and cast of the hit drama set in Cape Town. Co-produced by African ...

Google unveiled Search Live at I/O 2025, a new AI product that brings the multimodal AI capabilities of Project Astra to Google Search on mobile phones. Put differently, Search Live also allows the AI ...

After AI Mode and gaming updates, Google is now adding Song Search history to Circle to Search on Android. After tapping the music icon in the Circle to Search bar, there’s a new history/clock icon in ...