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Let’s say goodbye to Google Assistant a decade later. Google has begun to delete its code to leave only one option: Gemini

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It’s not official but as if it were: the end of Google Assistant or the classic Google Assistant, is scheduled. An analysis of the latest version of the Google app for Android carried out by Android Authority has revealed his almost definitive goodbye. The Mountain View company is eliminating the code that, for the moment, allows us to choose between Gemini and the old assistant. It is the chronicle of a death foretold that ends an era within the company. Where before we saw the Assistant icon and dialog window, we now have the Gemini one. Image by Iván Linares for Xataka Android failed promise. Launched in May 2016, the Google Assistant was going to be a revolution. On paper, it promised full voice control of your cell phone, car and home. In practice, like many users have experiencedits use ended up being “despairing” although the “Okay, Google” It became popular in smartphones and speakers. Your inability to understand the context or natural language and the rise of AI models, has finished burying it. The future belongs to Gemini. With the rise of generative AI, Google has bet everything on Gemini, but it has had a rather confusing rollout. For months, the American company maintained a curious mess with several duplicate names, apps and services… Bard, Assistant with Bard, Project Astra… In practice, two assistants live on the same mobile phone. In February 2024, its “transmutation” began: that was when Google launched the dedicated Gemini app (Bard was left behind) on Android, which when installed was offered as a replacement for Assistant. As we tested in its day, the new AI took over of the invocation with the famous “Hey Google” command. A more mature replacement. The problem with the Gemini assistant is that, at first, it was quite green. It was a powerful chatbot, but a not so useful assistant: it could not execute the basic tasks that the previous one could do, such as routines or orders for home automation. However, Google has spent the last year making Gemini absorb the features of its predecessor. The turning point came at the end of last year, when Gemini Live – the conversational voice mode – finally landed in Spain and in Spanish. Already approaching 2025, Gemini learned a basic function that it was missing: making calls and sending messages without having to unlock the mobile. The last big feature inherited from Assistant, the «Scheduled actions»arrived in June of this year. Google’s plan. At the same time that Gemini was learning the old Assistant tricks, Google has been dismantling the latter, removing useful functions. The objective is more than clear: Gemini is the future and will be everywhere. Now you can act like the “all-seeing” assistant thanks to Project Astra (integrated in Live mode), it is coming to Google Home speakers and its landing on Android Auto is imminent. The last step remains. And that is eliminating the escape route: Google has already consolidated the transition. Gemini is the default assistant on new mobile phones and can be installed on old ones without major impediments. The analysis of the APK of the specialized Android media only confirms that the last step is very simple: eliminate the option to go back. The king is dead, long live the king. Cover image | Composition with Google images and generated with Nano Banana by Pepu Ricca In Xataka | How to create Gemini Gems to have your personalized version of artificial intelligence

How to transcribe WhatsApp or Telegram audios with Gemini

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Let’s explain to you how to transcribe audios from WhatsApp or Telegram with Geminithe artificial intelligence from Google. WhatsApp and other applications have their own tools for transcribing voice messages, but they are not always accurate, and in fact WhatsApp can leave several words untranscribed due to its limited capacity. Here we are going to go with Google’s AI, since ChatGPT seems to have some problems and not always accept the audio file well. This is a free feature that you will be able to use whenever you want. He prompt It is very easy to use, and so is the process. Transcribe WhatsApp audios in Gemini The first thing you have to do is download voice message in your mobile memory. To do that, select it and choose the share option, and when you do you can choose to do it externally, choose your files application and save it there. You can also save it in the cloudsuch as Google Drive, a service that you can use in Gemini to add files. Now you have to go to Gemini, and attach the audio file that you have downloaded. Here, depending on your mobile or the linked services, when you click on the add elements button you can do it directly from the files or hard drive, or from apps like Google Drive. Once you have added the audio file, you will see that it remains uploaded and attached in the writing field. Now simply write a prompt like “Transcribe this audio”or something similar with which to tell the AI ​​that what you want is the transcription of the message. And that’s it. Only with this you will see that Gemini analyzes the content of the audio file that you have uploaded, and will proceed to transcribe what is said in it. Here, remember that Gemini’s limits for transcribing audio are around 20 MB. In Xataka Basics | Gemini on your old Android: what you need and how to get the most out of it

How to summarize pages with Gemini in Chrome for Android

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Let’s explain to you how to summarize pages with Gemini in Chrome for Android. This way, if you find a very long article and you don’t feel like it or don’t have time to read it in full, you can ask the artificial intelligence Let me summarize it for you so you can see the key points and go directly to the information it offers. This is something you can do now Gemini It is fully integrated into Android. In the future you will also be able to do it on iOSbut this Gemini feature is not yet available on iPhones. Summarize web pages with Gemini The first thing you have to do is go to the web page you want to summarize in Chrome. So, Press and hold the power button on your phone to summon Gemini on Android. This will open Gemini on top of Chrome, so you can interact with the AI ​​referring to the content you have open on the web. In addition to the writing field, above you will have several options, and you have to press where it says Summarize page in this menu. Just by doing this, in a few seconds Gemini will show you a summary of everything it puts on the website. Here, the important thing is that this summary is overlaid and you have not left Chrome, so whenever you want you can close it and continue browsing normally. In Xataka Basics | Gemini Image Editor: 16 Ways and Tricks to Squeeze Nano-banana with Google’s AI

How to force Gemini to create images of proportions and sizes you want instead of always making them square

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We are going to explain how to get it Gemini make images with the sizes and proportions that you want. With other alternatives such as ChatGPT This is as easy as telling the horizontalxvertical pixels or telling you an image aspect ratio, but with Geminithe artificial intelligence from Google this seems to fail, and often just makes them all square no matter how much you ask otherwise This is a bug that will surely be corrected over time, but if you need to have control over the proportion of the image you are going to create, we will tell you a little trick with which to force it in an original way. Create images in the proportion you want The first thing you have to do is edit a blank image with the proportion you want using any image editor. You can simply make a blank image and crop it to use a specific size. It could also be a random photo, because in the end it’s just one size template which you will then use in Gemini. Now you have to go to Gemini. When writing the prompt you have to add blank image with size that you have chosen. It will be like putting the canvas on which to later create the image. Then, next to the image add a prompt with this formula: “Replace this image with one that shows (…)”. Here, in the prompt it is important to specify that you want replace that image with a new oneand then describe what you want to appear in the new drawing. By doing this, Gemini will not create the image entirely from scratchbut instead will take as reference the size from which you have uploaded. And then, since you have asked to replace the image, nothing from the previous one will appear, but to avoid problems it is best to have the image blank. This way, you can master one of Gemini’s biggest flaws when creating images, which is that it ignores your size instructions. And remember that you can have several templates of specific sizes. In Xataka Basics | Gemini Image Editor: 16 Ways and Tricks to Squeeze Nano-banana with Google’s AI

If you are a student, you have Gemini Pro free for a year: this is how you can get it

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If you are a student, Google has just launched a promotion with which you can enjoy Google AI Pro for one year totally free. In addition to being able to use the model Gemini 2.5 Pro whenever you want, with the subscription you can enjoy 2 TB of storage. Its value without promotion is 21.99 euros per month, which is more than 260 euros per year. If you use Gemini in the free version, the model you can use is Gemini 2.5 Flash, faster but also more limited in terms of reasoning capacity. With Gemini 2.5 Pro You can take advantage of the Deep Research mode for more in-depth investigations or make audio summaries, as well as use the imaging with Nano Banana and create videos with I see 3. There’s more, the promotion also comes with 2 TB of storage and more credits to use experimental tools like Whisk and flow to generate images and videos. Requirements to obtain the offer In order to enjoy the Google Gemini promotion, you will have to meet several conditions that we detail below: You must be over 18 years old. Be a university student and your institution offers the Google AI Pro trial. Have a personal Google account. That your Google account has a valid payment method registered. Register before November 3, 2025. How to get the Gemini Pro offer for students If you meet all the requirements, you can register to enjoy the promotion. We tell you how to do it step by step. The first thing you should do is enter the following link https://gemini.google/es/students/ and click on the Get Offer button. If you are not logged in to your Google account, the next step will ask you to do so. Then you will have to fill out the form where you must enter the name of your educational center and your information (in the email do not use the address of your university, use the Google account on which you want to apply the offer). If everything is correct, you will proceed to verification using SheerID. Basically you will have to log in to your university’s platform with the email and username that you have configured on it. You may be asked for proof of registration. You will have to upload the document and click Send. Finally, select “Subscribe to Google AI Pro” and “Student Offer”. When you redeem the offer you will not be charged anything, but we have already seen that in order to subscribe you need to have a valid payment method. If you do not want the subscription to renew and be charged You have two options, wait until the date approaches and cancel it or do it now from this link https://play.google.com/store/account/subscriptions. If you choose the second, you can continue using it until the renewal date. In Xataka | Gemini Image Editor: 16 Ways and Tricks to Squeeze Nano-banana with Google’s AI

How to create Gemini Gems to have your personalized view of artificial intelligence

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Let’s explain How to create your own Gemini Gemand thus have a personalized version of Google’s artificial intelligence. The Gemini Gems They are like a kind of light and very simplified version of the Artificial Intelligence Agentsnot so complete, but easier to create. The idea of ​​this article is to have a mini guide to understand these personalized versions of Geminiand help you create the first to be able to adapt it to your needs. You will see that they are easier to do than you think, and the options are simple. What are the gems exactly The gems are Personalized versions of Geminithat allow you to use a personalized version of this artificial intelligence assistant. So you can adapt it to perform concrete tasks, play specific roles, or get answers of certain topics that interest you. It is something similar to Chatgpt GPTSbut for Gemini. Gems will allow you to create a version specialized in something concrete of Gemini. Thus, instead of the generic version of the AI ​​you can have one that is centered on the programming, on making a personal tutor or even reviewing your writing. For this, you will simply have to Write instructions telling you what your role and purpose isand from then on all the interactions will start from those rules that you have established. You can even add concrete articles or files to take into account your content in your answers. Although initially the gems were a payment function, currently You can create and use them with a free account from Google with Gemini. However, even being a function that is no longer paying is subject to the general limits of the free account, which means that you can only use the most basic AI model, with a very scarce limit in the use of the advanced model. Another of the limits to be used is in the context window, which is 32,000 tokens or around 50 pages of text, while The file limit for the knowledge base It is only 10. How to create your own gems To create your own Gemini Gems, you have to open the lateral menu of the web or the mobile application. Once inside, click on the option Discover Gems That will appear. This will take you to a screen where you can see a list of gems created by Google itself, and below the section where you have created. Here, click on the + buttonNew gene that will appear to start the process of creating a new one from scratch. This will take you to the screen where you will have to fill in the three necessary fields to create your Gem. You will have to give it a name, instructions and a knowledge base In the event that the latter is necessary. Three fields to define your new gem The first thing you have to do is name your gem. This is the distinctive name it will have, and with which it will appear on your list of gems created. It is recommended that it be a clear and distinctive name. Come on, it is better to call him “expert in SEO writing” than simply “Julián”. Then comes the most complex part, because you will have to Write detailed instructions of the Gem. This is the most important step, because it serves to define the role, tone and rules that this automatism must follow. You have to specify everything you can When you are writing these instructions. These are any of the most important aspects to be defined in the instructions When you are going to create your Gem: Personality: You will have to say what your role is, the character you must interpret and the tone you must use. For example, you can ask you to act as a rigorous but friendly university professor, or an editor of casual content and focused on Reels. Whatever you want, but this personality is important to define it to establish behavior. Objective and rules: It is also also important to specify what the main task of the GEM is, and what are the rules to be used. For example, you can say “Your work is to review the texts to find spelling, grammatical failures and improve the structure”, for example. You can also say things like “Never talk about issues that are not about …” to make it focus on that concrete task. Format: This is something optional, but you will also be able to define the structure of the answers. For example, you can ask that you always start with a summary and then make a list at several points, or whatever you think is necessary. In the end, the question is to define a response structure that is useful and according to the tasks you want to do this customization of Gemini. If you don’t clarify writing the instructionsyou have at your disposal the option to use Gemini to help you write them. For that, write two or three phrases describing the instructions, and then click on the pencil button Use Gemini to rewrite the instructions. By doing so, AI will develop instructions from your phrases, and then you will only have to modify them as you consider necessary. And last place, you have The field of Knowledge Where can you add files. This is something optional, you can simply give your Gem an additional information or context base to reference in chats. These files can upload them from Google Drive or your device. Here, when you upload files keep in mind that They will have priority over general knowledge When you ask the Gem. Come on, that version of Gemini will first look for the answer in those files you have sent, and if you ask you questions that can be answered with them. But if the GEM does not find the answer in its content, then it will resort to Gemini’s general knowledge. Try the Gem before saving it Once you have … Read more

How to create Stickers for WhatsApp with Gemini using these two methods

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Let’s tell you two methods to make WhatsApp stickers with Geminisomething for which we are going to use two methods with this artificial intelligence. Thus, you can create totally custom sticker from photographs, with which you can express everything you want. Let’s start with the simple method, using Nano Banana in Gemini and a Prompt Next to a photograph. Then we will tell you Another method with which to create a stickers pack using an application for Gemini. In both cases it will be all extremely easy. How to create a stick using Gemini To create a sticker based on a face in Gemini, you just have to Upload a photo and accompany it from a prompt in which you describe what you want. You can use this that we tell you: “Convert this photo into a WhatsApp stick with a pop style Art. The person must be throwing a heart.” You can adapt this stick as you want. The important thing is to mention that it is a WhatsApp stick and say the style. Then, the description of what the person should be doing depends on you, you can adapt it to what you need. Once you have the stick, you can download it. Now, you can use the methods that we have told you to convert any image into sticker directly on WhatsApp. You will only have to upload the image in a chat, with yourself for example, and Choose the option to create sticker in the sharing menu. And that’s it, your custom sticker. Create a stickers pack with Gemini You can also create a sticker pack directly with An application for Gemini. It’s simple, and you just have to go to this link. Once inside, accept the permits that you ask for. You will go to a screen where you can Choose how to add the photobeing able to be by webcam or uploading a photograph. Choose the method you want to upload the image from which to work. After uploading the photo, Choose the style you want to use Among those you have underneath, and click on Create stickers. With this, the application will create a stickers collection immediately. You can lower them one by one, rebuild the one that does not convince you of all, or lower a whole pack. You can try again all the times you want. In Xataka Basics | Gemini Image Editor: 16 forms and tricks to squeeze Nano-Banana with Google’s artificial intelligence

How to convert any person or thing of a photo into a hologram with Gemini and Nano Banana

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Let’s tell you how convert any object or person of a photo into a hologram. For this we will use Geminithat integrates the free nano model. This allows you to do many things with Gemini’s image editor, such as Create ultra -realistic action dolls From a photo a photo and Many more things. As always, do a task like this with artificial intelligence It does not depend only on the model, but also on Prompt You use, the command with which you ask for it. Therefore, we are going to tell you which one to use and the things you should take into account to perfect it. Turn anything in a photo into a hologram The first thing you have to do is upload a photo to the Gemini writing field, either on the web or on the mobile. Then simply Write the prompt that we tell you belowand click to send everything so that AI does its magic. This is the prompt: “Convert (describe the object or the person to know what you mean) that appears in the image in a 3D hologram of transparent lines.” Here, the most important thing is make the AI ​​understand what object, person or animal you mean When you ask him to make him a hologram. When it is a photo where a distinguishable object appears, like a mobile, then you just have to say the mobile. If two similar things appear, such as two cats or two people, then you will have to give extra indications as you would like a person, such as telling him that he is the person on the right or the cat in the background with dark color. This is already. Only with these indications and leaving the rest of the prompt as Gemini will edit the photo to specifically modify what you have asked. It will not always go well to the firstthat is, you are not afraid to redo the action until it is to your liking. In fact, sometimes the result will be a representation of what is not always corresponding to what it was. For example, if you change a person for a hologram, a silhouette that is not always recognizable will appear. In other words, he sees trying again or tries to add to keep the factions. In Xataka Basics | Gemini Image Editor: 16 forms and tricks to squeeze Nano-Banana with Google’s artificial intelligence

How to create a chibi -style manga character based on your face using artificial intelligence, in chatgpt and gemini

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Let’s explain how to create A chibi character using your face as references using the artificial intelligence. It is called chibi in the style inside the manga in which the characters are small, big heads and very adorable, a very particular style. We are going to tell you a prompt that you can do, and we are going to teach you the result with Chatgpt and Gemini. The prompt will also help you for other AI Where you can create images using a reference photo. You just have to keep in mind that Each AI will have its own style When drawing this character, and that you can redo the result if you want to try again. Create a Chibi doll with your factions To create a chibi with your face you can do two things. Can Use a photo of yours as a reference Or simply describe your appearance, with the beautiful facial or the style of hair or eye color. If you use a photo all this data will be extracted from it, but the Chibi are never usually excessively realistic, so it is not so important. Therefore, what you should do is upload your photo to the artificial intelligence chat you have chosen, and then Write a prompt with the petition to create the doll. We have used this Prompt: “Create a chibi manga -style doll, similar to the reference image, with the person’s factions in attached photography. The doll must have a black shirt and jeans, blacks, with black shoes. The background must be that of a concert, and the doll is jumping by making the gesture of the heavy metal horns with the hand. The expression of the doll must be of joy.” Here, in the prompt you must mention that you want the image factions. You can also Describe the clothes you want to wear In the event that the photo does not look good. In addition, you can describe a gesture you want to be doing, and whatever you want to appear at the bottom of the image. Another thing to keep in mind is that you can specify the expression you want your drawing, as an expression of joy. Besides, You can add other things to the prompt such as the size or proportion of the image, or any other detail you want to add. Result with Gemini The result with Gemini It is quite good, although sometimes you may need to rebuild it a couple of times until you find something better. The style is not exactly the chibi that you can recognize in any manga, but it is quite approaching. The good thing is that Gemini will get more information about your photoas details of the clothes you wear even if you do not ask for them. Result with chatgpt The result with chatgpt is the bestand the style is much more cuqui and childish. You may not get so many details of the original photo, but it is possibly what you have in your head when you try to make one of these dolls. Result with Grok In both cases we have used the same promptalthough you can try to make some changes in the way of expressing yourself. You can use this prompt in other AI, such as Grok either Perplexity. The first one approaches Gemini, Per Ose is behind in terms of the execution of the gesture you ask for, and the second allows you to use third -party models. In Xataka Basics | 14 Functions, tricks and ideas to squeeze the analysis of chatgpt images

An US missile dynamited a boat in the middle of the Caribbean. And then Venezuela went to Gemini to see if the video was real

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The story began on September 2, when Donald Trump affirmed That the United States Armed Forces had executed a precision attack against a “positively identified” vessel that transported drugs from Venezuela and was operated by members of the Aragua Train, designated by Washington as narcoterrorist, with a balance of eleven dead according to their own story. From then on until now all kinds of events have occurred. The video. Shortly after, the president amplified the message with A declassified video Through social truth that shows the detonation of a white missile in the high seas and a public warning to future traffickers, while Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, He corroborated the characterization of “lethal coup” against an objective that would have sailed from Venezuelan coasts. A senior defense official, cited in the background, confirmed The action as a precision attack against a “Drug Vessel”, in line with the known employment of rapid boats of three or four force used for cocaine routes to the north. Context and political framework. The announcement came days after Trump will order to deploy Three marine ships in the Caribbean to reinforce the interdiction of posters against Venezuela, expanding the role of the pentagon in missions traditionally led by the coastal guard. The president already He had instructed At the beginning of the year to prepare force use options against transnational criminal organizations after declaring them as foreign terrorist organizations in executive order, an framing that seeks to provide greater legal flexibility to extraterritorial kinetic operations. In parallel, the treasure sanctioned to the so -called Cartel de los Soles (Officer Network accused by Washington of drug trafficking and supporting the Aragua Train and the Sinaloa Cartel) as a specially designated global terrorist entity, consolidating a financial and safety pressure scaffolding. Caracas responds. Shortly after, Nicolás Maduro, whom the United States considers an illegitimate ruler for electoral fraud, human rights and drug trafficking violations, He warned That Rubio pushed Trump towards war and promised resistance if Venezuela is attacked, describing US military accumulation as “the greatest threat that our continent has seen in 100 years.” Although the Venezuelan government did not immediately react to the concrete attack, the martial tone and the doctrine of “defense of the territory” enunciated by Maduro raise the political bar and increase the risk of incidents of narrative or operational climbing in a dense maritime environment and complex jurisdictions. The norm vs the lethal force. It also happened another problem. I remembered The Wall Street Journal that the expansion of the prominence of the Pentagon contrasted with the standard procedures of the Coast Guard described by the former United States embassy in Panama, John Feeley: Identification, stop orders, priority for preserving life, neutralization of engines with .50 caliber shooters from helicopters if the boat tries to flee and approach to verify load. According to that doctrine, the use of direct lethal fire is not the norm except in legitimate defense; Hence, the kinetic destruction of a suspicious boat, without the typical sequence of “interdiction and approach”, represents a qualitative leap in commitment rules and in the signal issued to criminal networks and the states that shelter them. The video goes on a suspect. The clip, which Trump presented as proof of the effectiveness of its anti -drug strategy and as a warning to organized crime, He went to the protagonist being quickly questioned by Caracas. Freddy Ñáñez, Minister of Venezuelan Communication, accused in the networks Social to the president to disseminate images “generated by artificial intelligence”, pointing out the aesthetics “almost caricaturesca” of the explosion, visual artifacts and water with an artificial aspect, characteristic of synthetic productions. He did it with an equally doubtful study. Namely: He asked Google’s AI, Gemini, what seemed to him the sequence, and it responded after an analysis that “it was very likely” that it would have been created generated by ia. The doubts to the operation. Again, Trump said the ship crew belonged to the Aragua Train, a Venezuelan criminal organization designated by Washington as a terrorist group in February. However, the veracity of the material was questioned. Reuters Indian That he did not find conclusive manipulation evidence, although he continues to review the video as part of his verification process. Beyond the technical debate, security experts They expressed reservations On the performance in itself following the exhibition of Feeley and remembering that the usual practices of the Coast Guard seek to preserve lives and rarely open fire against suspicious vessels, since most crews are surrendered without resistance. Electoral key message. Plus: The episode has acquired a greater relevance for the context in which it occurred: it was Trump’s first public appearance in a week, in the midst of Speculations about your status Health at 79. The video became A propaganda instrument More than in a military part, used by the president and his main ministers (Marco Rubio outdoors and Pete Hegseth in defense) to underline his hard hand against drug trafficking. The message that accompanied the clip In social Truth, written with Trump’s usual excessive style, reinforced the intimidating tone towards any attempt to introduce drugs in the United States. The shadow of AI. In addition, the controversy has spread to the broadest field of digital manipulation. Ñáñez insisted in which the piece was an artificial creation aimed at manufacturing a media victory, while, in parallel, Trump himself contributed to confusion by disqualifying as “probably generated by AI” another viral recording that showed alleged objects thrown through a White House window, despite the fact that the Executive himself himself He had explained which was a contractor performing maintenance work. The contradiction fed the perception of a president willing to use the Technological ambiguity To mold the political story. F-16A of Venezuela Two fighters appear. In the last hours the tension has increased. The pentagon confirmed that two Venezuelan fighters F-16 They approached To the American destroyer USS Jasson Dunham, a Arleight Burke class ship deployed in the Caribbean as part of the drug … Read more

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