
From the Pixel 11 series and a brand new competitor to Apple’s AirTag, here are all the announcements from the Made by Google 2026 event.
Google held its Made by Google 2026 event to unveil new hardware including the Pixel 11 series smartphones, Pixel Watch 5, and Pixel Tag, along with AI-powered features across its devices. The Pixel 11 starts at $899 with double the base storage of its predecessor, while the Pro model begins at $1,099 and emphasizes durability improvements. Google introduced new Gemini AI features including Live Transcribe support for American Sign Language, a voice-input tool called Rambler designed to understand casual speech patterns, and expanded Circle to Search functionality. The Pixel Tag, priced at $29, is Google's answer to Apple's AirTag and integrates with Android's Find Hub network and can be controlled through voice commands via Gemini.

The Robot Report Podcast · How Protolabs turns CAD files into parts in under 24 hours Marc Kermisch, Chief Technology and AI Officer at Protolabs. Marc Kermisch is the chief technology and AI officer at Protolabs. He leads the Maple Plain, Minn.-based company‘s global technology organization, overseeing its software product development, digital manufacturing platform evolution, and enterprise-wide artificial intelligence and research & development strategies. Kermisch also focuses on

Google will now allow you to remove visible watermarks from the images, videos, and music made with AI tools. With the update, you can toggle off a new "Media watermark" setting in Gemini and Google's AI video generator, Flow. When toggled off, Google will remove the "sparkle" watermark that appears in the bottom-right corner of content generated with the company's Nano Banana and Omni models. Though visible watermarks are now optional, AI-generated content will have invisible

Turning off this setting won't affect invisible benchmarks used to identify an AI generated file.
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