Google is in the process of purging Assistant across its products, and the next target is Google Maps. Starting today, Gemini will begin rolling out in Maps, powering new experiences for navigation, location info, and more. This update will eventually completely usurp Google Assistant’s hands-free role in Maps, but the rollout will take time. So ..
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Google’s proposed free-fall (“no thrust”) constellation for linked satellites; arrow pointing toward Earth. Google’s proposed free-fall (“no thrust”) constellation for linked satellites; arrow pointing toward Earth. However, there is the problem of physics. Received power decreases with the square of distance, so Google notes the satellites would have to maintain proximity of a kilometer or ..
You may be disappointed if you go looking for Google’s open Gemma AI model in AI Studio today. Google announced late on Friday that it was pulling Gemma from the platform, but it was vague about the reasoning. The abrupt change appears to be tied to a letter from Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), who claims ..
On Monday, OpenAI announced it has signed a seven-year, $38 billion deal to buy cloud services from Amazon Web Services to power products like ChatGPT and Sora. It’s the company’s first big computing deal after a fundamental restructuring last week that gave OpenAI more operational and financial freedom from Microsoft. The agreement gives OpenAI access ..
Oops, we made you think someone broke into your house. Credit: Ryan Whitwam Oops, we made you think someone broke into your house. Credit: Ryan Whitwam On several occasions, I’ve seen Gemini mistake dogs and totally empty rooms (or maybe a shadow?) for a person. It may be alarming at first, but after a few ..
This blurry screenshot appears to list which Pixel phones Cellebrite devices can hack. Credit: rogueFed This blurry screenshot appears to list which Pixel phones Cellebrite devices can hack. Credit: rogueFed At least according to Cellebrite, GrapheneOS is more secure than what Google offers out of the box. The company is telling law enforcement in these ..
The fight continues Google is fighting tooth and nail to keep the Play Store locked down, which it claims is beneficial to Android users who expect an orderly and safe app ecosystem. The company pleaded with the US Supreme Court several weeks ago to consider the supposed negative impact of the order, asking to freeze ..
Lawsuits and safety concerns Character.AI was founded in 2021 by Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas, two former Google engineers, and raised nearly $200 million from investors. Last year, Google agreed to pay about $3 billion to license Character.AI’s technology, and Shazeer and De Freitas returned to Google. But the company now faces multiple lawsuits ..
OK, but which one is better? These differences don’t necessarily mean the AI-generated results are “worse,” of course. The researchers found that GPT-based searches were more likely to cite sources like corporate entities and encyclopedias for their information, for instance, while almost never citing social media websites. An LLM-based analysis tool found that AI-powered search ..
[embedded content] Softly talking about the Boox Palma 2 Pro For years, color E Ink was seen as a desirable feature, which would make it easier to read magazines and comics on low-power devices—Boox even has an E Ink monitor. However, the quality of the displays has been lacking. These screens do show colors, but ..
