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5 ways Google parents are using Gemini Original
Your browser does not support the audio element. Listen to article [[duration]] minutes As the old aphorism goes, it takes a village to raise a child. But as a (relatively) new parent, I’ve found that you don’t always have a village handy to help with the seemingly infinite things that crop up when parenting: planning playdates, keeping up with pediatrician visits, figuring out how to travel with a months-old baby and more. But sometimes, technology can fill in the gaps.
The surprising photographers behind Google screensavers
Sorry, your browser doesn't support embedded videos, but don't worry, you can download it and watch it with your favorite video player! Your browser does not support the audio element. Listen to article [[duration]] minutes Stunning cityscapes. Serene shots of flowers. And vibrant underwater scenes.
Looking back on 10 generations of Pixel
Yesterday at Made by Google, we unveiled the 10th generation of Pixel. The Pixel 10 series — as well as the new Pixel Watch 4 and Pixel Buds 2a — are the latest devices to join the Pixel family. And things have progressed quickly since we introduced our first Pixels nearly a decade ago. On October 4, 2016, we debuted Pixel and Pixel XL. The phones came in an elegant two-tone design and were available in Quite Black, Very Silver and Really Blue — with that subtle “G” on the back.
How Google developed and tested NotebookLM
In mid 2022, a small team within Google Labs had a big idea: an app that would deploy our advanced language models to help people with research, thinking and writing, all grounded in sources they had on hand. Trawling through the docs and slides and links you deemed relevant to a project, it would helpfully find and synthesize the info you needed. Then known as Project Tailwind, it would be released the following July as NotebookLM.
How we built one of the most ambitious datasets in brain activity research
For almost a decade, Michał Januszewski has been thinking about what fish are thinking about. Michał is part of Google Research, which has been working with collaborators at HHMI Janelia and Harvard University to build one of the most ambitious datasets in brain activity research yet: a dataset that tracks both the neural activity and nanoscale structure of an entire brain of single larval zebrafish — which could lead to major breakthroughs for how we understand our own brains.
How we built one of the most ambitious datasets in brain activity research
Now Four new iPad apps are coming in iPadOS 26 later this year Today at WWDC, Apple announced a major new iPadOS 26 software update. Among the many new features, the iPad is getting four new apps in iPadOS 26. Here’s what’s coming.
A Pixel's tale of survival after months in the snow
Last February, Andrew Prag was skiing in Serre Chevalier, France, where he has family, when he lost his Pixel 6a in the snow at the end of his last day on the mountain. While he was able to geolocate it that afternoon and planned to track it down the next day, an overnight snowfall eliminated any hope he’d ever find it again. At least, that’s what he thought. Six months later, Andrew was again visiting family, and decided to try to find his wayward phone.
How we built AlphaFold 3 to predict the structure and interaction of all of life’s molecules
Since its launch in 2020, more than 2 million researchers have used Google DeepMind’s AlphaFold 2 model for protein predictions in their work on vaccine development, cancer treatments and more — helping solve a problem that researchers had been working on for over 50 years. After helping scientists predict hundreds of millions of structures, it would’ve been easy for the team to rest on their laurels. Instead, they got started on AlphaFold 3.
I tried 8 of Google's newest AI products and updates at I/O 2024
At I/O, we don’t just announce a bunch of news, like new Gemini models, AI agents and Android updates — we let developers, reporters and partners experience some of that newness in action for the very first time through product demos. This year, I was lucky enough to spend the day at Shoreline Amphitheatre, where I/O happens, and dive into all of the demos. Here’s the inside scoop on a few of them.
I tried 8 of our newest AI products and updates
Costco admits to a key strategy change that will surprise members Costco has been almost stubborn in how slow it has been to adopt new technology. The company embraced the internet years after rivals like Walmart …
Google designers explain why Chromebook keyboards have lowercase letters
If you’re reading this article on a Chromebook, look down. You’ll probably notice that all the keys on a Chromebook keyboard are lowercase. And they've been that way since the first Chromebook prototype, the CR-48, was launched in 2010. “Early on, we realized it would be great if the keyboard was really approachable,” says Alexander Kuscher, a senior director on the ChromeOS team who was involved with early Chromebook designs. “So we asked ourselves, ‘What can we take away?
What is a long context window?
Yesterday we announced our next-generation Gemini model: Gemini 1.5. In addition to big improvements to speed and efficiency, one of Gemini 1.5’s innovations is its long context window, which measures how many tokens — the smallest building blocks, like part of a word, image or video — that the model can process at once.
Hear that? How we developed the charging sound for ChromeOS
What does ChromeOS sound like? It’s a trick question — because until recently, the operating system powering Chromebooks hasn’t actually sounded like anything at all. Unlike Android or most other desktop operating systems, there have been no system sounds in ChromeOS: No noise when you empty the trash, when you move a file to a folder or adjust the volume.
Google’s Pixel Pawtraits brings Pixel photography to animal shelters
Every dog deserves a home, and while the pandemic spurred a surge of adoptions, things have slowed in the following years. Something that can help? A great pet picture. According to the ASPCA, good photos can make a big difference in helping shelters find dogs a new home. “We are a company of dog lovers at Google,” says Leanne Johnson, head of social media for devices at Google.
Today's AirPods launch underscores Apple's latest AirPower misfire - Circuit Breaker
By Chaim Gartenberg Today, Apple finally announced its second-generation AirPods, most notably adding wireless charging to the popular headphones. Apple is even selling the wireless charging case separately, so that existing AirPod owners can join in the fun. The move brings Apple in line with its main competitors, whose phones and earbuds support similar Qi charging functionality, but there was one piece missing: Apple’s long-absent AirPower charger.
How to take great ID photos with your Google Pixel
Just started a new job and need a photo for your work profile? Want a nice-looking photo for your ID badge that you’ll be happy to look at every day? For both instances, you'll need a slick, professional-looking portrait. The secret to getting one that's just right — without a pro photographer or fancy DSLR — might be right in your pocket: Just pull out your Pixel.
The meaning of I/O: How Google's annual event got its name
May 09, 2023 min read What’s in a name? The inside scoop on where “I/O” gets its origins. Every spring for more than a decade, Googlers begin gearing up for I/O in May — but there’s an extra special buzz around the Shoreline Amphitheatre this year, because I/O 2023 marks the event’s fifteenth anniversary. “I/O is representative of everything that Google has to offer for developers and beyond,” says Mike Pegg, who helped lead I/O on the marketing side from 2011 through 2017.
How Google Meet’s high-tech backgrounds work
May 02, 2023 min read Here’s how the team brought you lots of options for disguising your messy home office. Recently, you may have noticed a colleague taking their meetings in front of a glowing, lantern-filled market or showing up to a casual chat as an animated moon. Those Google Meet effects were created to celebrate Ramadan, the month where Muslims around the world celebrate, fast, reflect, and come together as a community.
The BlackBerry Storm showed why you should never turn a touchscreen into a button
In 2007, the iPhone ushered in an era of touchscreen gadgets that caused most buttons to vanish from our phones forever. But there was one brief moment in the gray, transitory haze between buttons and touchscreens that an unlikely company tried to fuse the two together. BlackBerry split the difference by boldly asking, “What if a touchscreen was also a hardware button?” Thus was born the BlackBerry Storm, a device whose entire touchscreen doubled as a pressable button.
Intel's Arc GPUs debuted today for laptops, but the company hasn't forgotten its highly anticipated re-entry into the world of desktop graphics cards, either: the company showed off a first look at the final Arc hardware, along with a reveal that the first GPUs will arrive this summer as a "limited edition" release.
Intel’s first Arc GPUs are launching today for laptops
Intel’s discrete GPU revolution is finally beginning after months of previews and teasers, with the company launching its first Arc A-series GPUs for laptops today. They bring support for DirectX 12, dedicated ray-tracing hardware, and — at least for the first batch of GPUs — only around twice the power of Intel’s integrated Xe graphics.
Dyson is getting into headphones in the most Dyson way possible: the Zone, a pair of noise-canceling Bluetooth headphones with air purification technology built in, thanks to a bizarre-looking magnetic face visor. It's both the strangest and most ambitious product that the company has ever made.
The still-unnamed sequel to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild has been delayed to spring 2023, producer Eiji Aonuma announced today in a video update. The game had previously been set for a 2022 release window. “We have decided to extend our development a bit and change the release to Spring 2023,” Aonuma said.
Intel’s unlocked Core i9-12900KS processor claims to be the ‘world’s fastest desktop processor’ with 5.5GHz speeds
Intel has officially announced its new Core i9-12900KS processor, an unlocked version of its flagship Core i9-12900K that ups the maximum boosted clock speed even higher to 5.5GHz for what the company claims is “the world’s fastest desktop processor” and “the ultimate gaming experience.” The Core i9-12900KS has a lot in common with its predecessors’ hardware, including the same 16 cores (split up between eight Performance-cores and eight Efficient-cores) and 24 threads and 30MB of L3 cache...
Apple will reportedly sell the iPhone as a subscription service
Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Loading your audio article Apple is reportedly working on selling iPhones and iPads themselves as part of a hardware subscription service, according to a new report from Bloomberg, whose author Mark Gurman writes the service could arrive next year. The move would fit into Apple’s ongoing push towards subscription services as a whole.
Spotify’s 2021 royalty report paints a rose-tinted vision of the music streaming industry
Spotify is continuing its effort to offer some transparency to musicians who are unhappy with its streaming rates. The company updated its “Loud & Clear” website today, providing a breakdown of some 2021 metrics for how artists, publishers, and rights holders actually make money off Spotify streams. As one might expect, Spotify chooses to call out here are positive improvements over 2020.
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League has officially been delayed to spring 2023, according to an announcement from Rocksteady Games creative director Sefton Hill on Twitter. "We've made the difficult decision to delay Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League to Spring 2023," Hill's tweet reads.
Ikea's forays into connected audio continue with its new $65 Vappeby Bluetooth speaker lamp, which resembles a futuristic-looking lantern and is the first speaker to feature Spotify Tap (which had previously only been available on a variety of headphones) for one-touch access to the streaming music service.
Intel looks on track to fix its core problems
Intel is finally on the right track again. That’s the biggest takeaway of the first year of the company’s reboot, brought on by its new CEO Pat Gelsinger when he took over the reins in early 2021. Intel has a new vision for the future: its “IDM 2.0” approach. Its introduction was exactly a year ago today. That makes today a great time to check in and see how the new Intel — which looks a lot like the old Intel — is shaping up.
Apple’s Studio Display has 64GB of storage in addition to its iPhone 11-caliber processor
Apple’s new Studio Display is a fascinating piece of technology, largely due to the A13 Bionic chipset that powers it — making it as powerful as an entire iPhone 11. But it turns out the internal hardware of the Studio Display is even odder: not only does the Studio Display have an A13 chipset, but it also comes with a whopping 64GB of internal memory, as spotted by Twitter user Khaos Tian.
Nintendo’s original mobile gacha game Dragalia Lost is shutting down Original
Dragalia Lost, one of Nintendo’s increasingly dwindling stable of mobile games for iOS and Android, is shutting down. The company announced today that the game’s main campaign will be ending in July and that it’ll cease adding new characters or content updates (outside of the main campaign) at the end of March when its final set of characters is introduced. Nintendo hasn’t said when exactly Dragalia Lost will be fully shutting down.
The Mac Studio’s removable SSD is reportedly blocked by Apple on a software level
Apple’s new Mac Studio was revealed to have an interesting secret over the weekend: it has removable SSD storage. But a subsequent video from YouTuber Luke Miani reveals that the Mac Studio still can’t be upgraded: not because of hardware limitations, but because Apple appears to be blocking replacement SSDs on a software level, via AppleTrack.
CD Projekt Red has announced that it's working on a brand-new Witcher game, which will "kick off a new saga for the franchise," and the first new mainstream title in the series since The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt was released all the way back in 2015.
T-Mobile’s new prepaid $10 per month Connect plan is its cheapest yet
T-Mobile has refreshed its prepaid Connect plan offerings, including a new $10 per month plan that the company says is its “lowest price smartphone plan ever,” offering customers 1,000 minutes of talk, 1,000 texts, and 1GB of data each month. The company’s prepaid Connect plans launched in 2020 and were part of T-Mobile’s efforts to butter up regulators to allow its massive merger with Sprint to go through.
Halo is coming to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate. Not the games (which, after all, are already available on the streaming service), but Halo: The Series - the upcoming live-action Paramount Plus adaptation of the sci-fi shooter, which debuts on March 24th.
Hogwarts Legacy, the upcoming open-world Harry Potter RPG, got its first proper gameplay reveal from developer Avalanche Software ahead of its release date later this year at a special PlayStation State of Play stream that showed off 14 minutes of footage from the game.
TikTok’s experiment with Snapchat-style stories is continuing, with the company further rolling out the feature to a larger group of users today. If you’ve gotten the feature, you’ll be greeted with a new banner when you launch the app encouraging you to create a story.
ESPN gets updated with support for Apple’s SharePlay feature
The ESPN app has been updated with support for Apple’s SharePlay feature, which lets you watch videos over FaceTime together with family and friends. The feature is particularly well suited for live sports, which the ESPN app (by virtue of offering built-in access to Disney’s ESPN Plus streaming service) offers a fairly considerable amount of.
Tile’s new ‘Scan & Secure’ feature will let you use its app to find unwanted tracking tags
Tile has announced that it’s rolling out its new “Scan & Secure” feature in its app this week, allowing anyone with the Tile app to run a scan to see if there are any unwanted Tile tags or trackers near you that shouldn’t be there. The safety feature (which was announced last fall alongside Tile’s newest tracking tags) has been a long time coming and offers both iOS and Android users the ability to check for unwanted tags.
Apple put its M1 Ultra processor up against the Nvidia RTX 3090 - setting up its best chip yet for a GPU battle it never stood a chance at winning, with wacky charts that tried to tilt the tables in Apple's favor.
T-Mobile teams up with BMW for the first 5G-connected cars in the US
T-Mobile and BMW are partnering to debut the first 5G-connected cars available in the United States: as of today, the new 2022 BMW iX and i4 models now work with the company’s 5G network, essentially allowing owners to use their cars as a gigantic Wi-Fi hotspot. Adding a BMW to your T-Mobile plan will tack on $20 a month and will allow your car to get unlimited data and voice calls — even if you don’t happen to have a phone with you.
Lego’s new Back to the Future set finally does the DeLorean right
Lego has debuted a new Back to the Future DeLorean set, recreating the time-traveling car from the film series with its most accurate brick model yet — one that, unlike the original 2013 version, actually looks like the iconic vehicle. The $169 set has 1,856 pieces (compared to the 401 pieces in the original model) and is considerably bigger and more detailed in virtually every way.
AMD’s new Ryzen 7 5800X3D processor will be available on April 20th for $449
AMD’s latest desktop processor, the Ryzen 7 5800X3D, has finally gotten a release date and price after being announced earlier this year at CES 2022. It’ll hit stores next month on April 20th for $449, ushering in what AMD proudly declares to be the “world’s fastest gaming processor. The new Ryzen 7 5800X3D is extremely similar to the original Ryzen 7 5800X model, with eight cores, 16 threads, and compatibility with AMD’s AM4 socket.
The "Nintendo GameCube Advance" is a strange piece of internet gaming history: a fanciful render of a portable version of the GameCube that has made the rounds online since 2005. But while the render has long been dismissed as a fan-made fake, YouTuber GingerOfOz has taken matters into his own hands and built a real, functional version of the concept, as spotted by Eurogamer .
Apple’s chips are on the table
Apple’s dramatic introduction to the M1 Ultra. Image: Apple Filed under: Apple The shape of Apple’s silicon strategy is clear By Chaim Gartenberg@cgartenberg Mar 12, 2022, 6:00am EST Apple’s transition to its own processors is nearly complete. The company’s recent spring event saw the debut of the Mac Studio and its M1 Ultra processor — its most powerful piece of silicon yet. But it also revealed what the future of Apple’s computers could look like.
Returnal is getting co-op and a survival mode in a free 'Ascension' update
Returnal is getting cooperative multiplayer and a new survival mode (dubbed "The Tower of Sisyphus") in its upcoming 3.0 "Ascension" update, developer Housemarque announced at Sony's latest State of Play livestream. The update marks the first significant addition of new content to the challenging sci-fi roguelike.
Paramount has debuted the first trailer for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, the latest Star Trek series that's centered on the USS Enterprise (the first time that a show has returned full-time to the iconic ship since Star Trek: Enterprise ended in 2005.
The first trailer for Obi-Wan Kenobi teases the ultimate Star Wars rematch
The first teaser for the upcoming Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi series on Disney Plus has arrived, giving a first look at Ewan McGregor’s return as the exiled Jedi. Obi-Wan Kenobi will pick up with its eponymous hero ten years after the events of Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith — which saw the Jedi Master take refuge on the desolate planet of Tatooine, both to hide from the Empire’s regime and to keep an eye on the infant Luke Skywalker.
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