Google is continuing its elemental AI naming scheme with the new Gemini 4 Hydrogen. These names are less descriptive than the Pro/Flash monikers of earlier releases, but Hydrogen’s purpose is clear: It replaces the faster, more economical Flash models most people in Google’s ecosystem use. With Google’s recent Argon and Carbon releases, the rollout was ..
It has often been unclear whether US and Ukrainian government officials discussing the restrictions were referring to Starlink, the civilian service that isn’t supposed to be used for offensive military purposes, or Starshield, which relies on the same technology but is intended for military use. But today, Zelenskyy clearly stated that the current restrictions affect ..
Emma Doe’s lawsuit alleged that Google has taken advantage of a dominant position it has held in schools since 2007 to push AI on kids and seize their data without meaningfully protecting them from the worst potential harms of its chatbot’s sycophantic design. In Chicago, CPS signed a contract with Google in 2020, “long before ..
We caught the first trailer for the upcoming Netflix animated film Ray Gunn in September and were charmed by director Brad Bird’s blend of a Jetsons-like future with classic 1930s noir detective thrillers. Bird has described it as a mashup of The Maltese Falcon and Buck Rogers, and the latest trailer definitely gives off that ..
During an hour-long event on Thursday, Abel Avellan, the founder and chief executive of the telecommunications company AST SpaceMobile, laid out his vision for developing a large rocket to launch his Bluebird satellites into orbit. Avellan emphasized, over and over again, that AST plans to build a “simple” rocket. He paraphrased SpaceX founder Elon Musk ..
For 11 years, a Massachusetts man had an alarming array of health problems, most notably that his heart kept failing. He landed in the hospital over and over again, needed life support at one point, spent years going to specialists, and underwent a barrage of tests along the way. But through it all, he never ..
One nice thing about discovering exoplanets is that, once you work out how long their orbits take, they continue to show up like clockwork. The timing is so regular, in fact, that we can use variations to detect the gravitational influence of additional planets in the same exosolar system. And the precise timing is useful ..
Smartglasses have always faced an uphill road to acceptance. Not only is propping a computer up on your nose an uncomfortable proposition, but the privacy aspect has been vexing people since the Google Glass days. Now, Google is ready to take another swing at “intelligent eyewear” for the Gemini era after previewing its plans a ..
Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang has resigned following revelations that he had two extramarital affairs, plunging the chipmaker at the heart of the global AI boom into crisis. The 63-year-old will be replaced by chief financial officer Colette Kress, who will serve as interim chief executive. His exit comes after he admitted to having a ..
“Fifty-seven channels, and nothin’ on.” Bruce Springsteen famously said those words during a concert and later in a song in the 1990s about the number of TV channels seemingly growing disproportionately to the availability of enjoyable content. Within a few years, there would be hundreds of TV channels and still, some would argue in hyperbolic ..
