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Google launches Playground, a new platform for making games with AI

A new experiment from Google Labs now lets anyone turn written ideas into playable games. The platform, named Playground , works entirely inside a web browser. Based in Mountain View, Google said the tool removes the need for programming skills. Instead of learning complex software, users type out what they want in plain words. A chat window is used to make changes to characters, rules, movement, and scenery. According to a blog post from the company, Playground targets people who have never touched code or a game engine. The process works like a conversation. A user writes a request, and the game is created for them to try right away in the browser. Games can be started from nothing, from a ready-made prompt, or with step-by-step help. Once a game exists, users can keep tweaking it by typing new instructions. Changes can cover how things move, what the rules are, who the characters are, or what the world looks like. Because the games live online, they can be o...
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How to stop Gemini from reading your Chrome tabs

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Google has added Gemini to Chrome, and the Ask Gemini button now shows up in the top right corner of the browser. By default, Gemini can view the pages you open. That means it can read your tabs automatically unless you turn the feature off.

This can be useful if you want a quick summary of a page. But many people would rather not have an AI assistant looking at everything they browse.

How to turn Gemini Chrome access off

  • Open Chrome.
  • Click the three dot menu and go to Settings.
  • Select AI innovations, then Gemini in Chrome.
  • Scroll to Permissions.
  • Turn off Share current tab by default.
Google-settings

After that, Gemini will no longer grab the page you are viewing when you start a chat. You can still share a tab manually if you want.

The same settings page lets you limit Gemini further. You can hide the Gemini button from the top of the browser, stop it from using your location, turn off microphone access, and control whether it can sign you in to websites.

There is no single switch that disables Gemini completely. Even with every option turned off, Ask Gemini still appears if you right click selected text.

An unofficial fix exists for now. Type chrome://flags/#glic in the address bar, find the Glic flag, change it from Default to Disabled, and relaunch Chrome. Take note that Google could remove this workaround in a future update.

As it stands, it looks like AI assistants like Gemini in Chrome and Copilot in Edge are not going away. For now, limiting them is the best users can do.

This article, How to stop Gemini from reading your Chrome tabs, was originally published at NoypiGeeks | Philippines Technology News, Reviews and How to's.


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