New AI toolbars and prompts are showing up in Google Docs and Gmail. If you don’t want Gemini’s help in writing documents and emails, here’s how to turn that stuff off.

Google will officially start removing Google Assistant from Android mobile devices, Wear OS watches, and Android Auto on September 4, replacing it permanently with Gemini. The gradual rollout will ...

Chandra Steele has been writing about tech for the entirety of her journalism career. She loves making tough topics easy to understand. Before joining Android Police, Chandra was senior features ...

China will require automakers to include physical buttons for safety-related functions, pushing back on the proliferation of using screens for everything in modern cars. In recent years, it has become ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

If you use Word, Excel, or PowerPoint, you have probably noticed a floating Copilot button hovering over your documents. It has been there since December 2025, sitting at the bottom-right corner of ...

You may not know the name for it, but you’ve probably experienced it: you click on a link to a webpage, hit the “back” button on your browser, but end up on a ...

Sites that manipulate browser navigation to trap users or redirect them without consent now face ranking penalties in Google Search. Google Search Central announced on April 13, 2026, a new spam ...

Jake Peterson is Lifehacker’s Tech Editor, and has been covering tech news and how-tos for nearly a decade. His team covers all things technology, including AI, smartphones, computers, game consoles, ...

Have you ever tried to click “back” on a website, but instead of returning to the previous page you ended up on a wall of ads? This can happen when websites or advertising networks use JavaScript to ...

Google is putting its foot down on "back button hijacking," an infamous deceptive practice where users are kept on a long loop of pressing the back button but are either not brought anywhere or ...

If you’re using Google’s browser, you may be protected from malicious back button hijacking practices in the coming months. Have you ever been trapped by a web page, unable to use the back button to ...