Google Ships WebMCP, The Browser-Based Backbone For The Agentic Web

Google ships WebMCP protocol, letting websites expose structured functions to AI agents and reducing computational overhead ...

First look: Here's how Gemini will use Google Maps to become a chatty local guide

Google is bringing a new Gemini feature that lets users attach a map area directly to their prompts. Here's how it works.
InfoQ

Chrome 144 Ships Temporal API: Advancing JavaScript Date/Time Standardisation

Chrome 144 introduces the groundbreaking Temporal API, revolutionizing date and time management in JavaScript. As a modern alternative to the criticized Date object, Temporal resolves parsing ...

Record scratch—Google’s Lyria 3 AI music model is coming to Gemini today

Google DeepMind has been tinkering with Lyria for a while now, offering limited access in developer-oriented products like ...
Android

Google Maps: The Ultimate Guide – 2026

UPDATE (February 19, 2026): Google made a change to Google Maps that limits users who are not signed in. Read more about that at the end of the article. Summary: Google Maps, the company’s web mapping ...