I trialed this open-source navigation app that's taking on Google Maps with a community-driven approach, and the results were interesting.

CoMaps is community-driven, open-source, transparent, and the developers aren't concerned with making a profit. The app is fairly new (just hitting Google Play Store and the Apple App Store around ...

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Between Google Maps and Apple Maps, there's no major difference in accuracy between them. The difference really boils down to ...

In a typical year, Cloud Next — one of Google’s two major annual developer conferences, the other being I/O — almost exclusively features managed and otherwise closed source, ...

Google is planning a major change to the way it develops new versions of the Android operating system. Since the beginning, large swaths of the software have been developed in public-facing channels, ...

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Google at Google Cloud Next 24 unveiled three open source projects for building and running generative AI models. The company also introduced new large language models to its MaxText project of ...

Dubbed Gemma, the models are available for commercial use and redistribution. That’s a bit of a departure for the tech giant, which has been criticized for its closed-access approach to AI. Google ...