Google's New Magic Pointer Sends Screen Content To Gemini, Code Reveals

Google's Magic Pointer for Googlebook uses Gemini to analyze your screen. A teardown reveals the feature is built almost ...

Googlebook’s Magic Pointer app teardown gives us a glimpse under the hood

Last week, we caught a glimpse of the new Magic Pointer app surfacing on the Play Store, giving us a brief look at the ...

Google’s new Magic Pointer Play Store listing reveals a Gemini shortcut built for Googlebooks

Google’s newly surfaced Magic Pointer listing reveals a Gemini-powered cursor for Googlebooks, but incompatible Android devices mean the feature remains an early preview rather than something ...
Android Police

Google's Magic Pointer turns your cursor into an AI assistant, and you can test it now

Karandeep Singh Oberoi is a Durham College Journalism and Mass Media graduate who joined the Android Police team in April 2024, after serving as a full-time News Writer at Canadian publication ...
HotHardware

Google DeepMind Launches Interactive AI Magic Pointer Demos: Try the Future of Computing

The mouse pointer has not changed much in over 50 years. Google DeepMind wants to change that, and it just shared demos to show what it believes it will look like with its Magic Pointer. The project, ...
PC World

I tried Google’s AI mouse pointer. It’s not magic yet

PCWorld tested Google’s new Magic Pointer, an AI-powered mouse feature for upcoming Googlebooks that uses Gemini to interpret gestures for tasks like image editing and web interactions. The feature ...
9to5google

DeepMind details Googlebook ‘Magic Pointer’ with demos you can try, also coming to Gemini in Chrome

The Magic Pointer on Googlebook was built with Google DeepMind. The research team behind this underlying capability shared more about the premise of AI-enabled pointers. DeepMind wants to use AI “to ...
CNN

30 years after Kristin Smart vanished, a new search renews hope for answers. Here’s what we know

It’s been 30 years since Kristin Smart’s family last saw her smile light up a room. The college freshman vanished from California Polytechnic State University’s San Luis Obispo campus over Memorial ...
USA Today

New search warrant in Kristin Smart case 30 years after she vanished

Nearly three decades after Kristin Smart vanished, investigators in California conducted a new search warrant at a home in hopes of recovering the woman's body. Smart, a Stockton native and then ...
National Basketball Association

Kon Knueppel Sets NBA Rookie Record For 3-Pointers Made

February 26, 2026 – With his sixth made 3-pointer in tonight’s 133-109 win at Indiana, Charlotte Hornets forward Kon Knueppel broke the NBA rookie single-season record for 3-pointers made, previously ...
CNN

The best smart locks in 2026, tried and tested

If you’ve ever struggled to pull out your key from the bottom of your handbag while juggling groceries and kids, worried about how the pet sitter is going to get in while you’re on vacation or rushed ...