Enlarge / The Google Gemini logo. reader comments 39 Like many of us, Google Gemini is tired of politics. Reuters reports that Google has restricted the chatbot from answering questions about the upcoming US election, and instead, it will direct users to Google Search. Google had planned to do this back when the Gemini chatbot ..
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reader comments 68 Whether or not autonomous vehicles ever work out, the effort put into using small cameras and machine-learning algorithms to detect cars could pay off big for an unexpected group: cyclists. Velo AI is a firm cofounded by Clark Haynes and Micol Marchetti-Bowick, both PhDs with backgrounds in robotics, movement prediction, and Uber’s ..
Enlarge / Apple’s App Store. reader comments 73 Mobile app developers are expected to push subscriptions more aggressively over the next year. Numbers that RevenueCat recently shared examining over 30,000 apps suggest why: Most apps struggle to reach $1,000 per month in revenue. RevenueCat makes a subscription toolkit for mobile apps. The 7-year-old company’s study ..
reader comments 37 The 2024 Moto G and Moto G Power. I think they have the exact same design, but technically this black one is the Moto G. The back is “vegan leather.” That’s a side fingerprint reader / power button below the volume. The barely there camera bump. Motorola is launching the 2024 version ..
Enlarge / Apple’s $329 9th-gen iPad is over 2 years old and the last model to use Lightning or the old Apple Pencil. Andrew Cunningham reader comments 109 After leaving the iPad lineup untouched for the entirety of 2023, Apple is reportedly preparing to overhaul all of its tablets within the next few weeks, according ..
Enlarge / Apple AirPods on display at the company’s Fifth Avenue store in New York in Feb. 2024. Bing Guan/Bloomberg via Getty Images reader comments 43 Apple’s AirPods Pro are getting closer to becoming fully fledged hearing aids and marketed as such, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. The move could have a large impact on ..
reader comments 51 Airbnb, like hotels and rival vacation rental site Vrbo, will no longer allow hosts to record guests while they’re inside the property. Airbnb previously allowed hosts to have disclosed cameras outside the property and in “common areas” inside, but Airbnb’s enforcement of the policy and the rules’ lack of specificity made camera ..
Enlarge / AMD’s depiction of a game playing without FreeSync (left) and with FreeSync (right). reader comments 26 AMD announced this week that it has ceased FreeSync certification for monitors or TVs whose maximum refresh rates are under 144 Hz. Previously, FreeSync monitors and TVs could have refresh rates as low as 60 Hz, allowing ..
Enlarge / The bigger Pixel 8 Pro gets the latest AI features. The smaller model does not. reader comments 50 If you believe Google’s marketing hype, AI in a phone is really, really important, the best AI is Google’s, and the best place to get that AI is Google’s flagship smartphone, the Pixel 8. We’re ..
Enlarge / A blurry, ghostly Persona in visionOS 1.0. They should at least look less bad in visionOS 1.1. Samuel Axon reader comments 59 Apple has released a long list of medium-sized software updates for most of its devices today. The macOS Sonoma 14.4, watchOS 10.4, tvOS 17.4, and visionOS 1.1 updates are all available ..
