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Google mentioned the word "AI" 121 times and produced 1.5 "Gemini" per minute during its nearly 2-hour I/O presentation

On May 14, the Google I/O conference took place - a traditional annual event for developers at which the company presents its innovations in the field of web technologies and services. This time, the conference lasted 110 minutes and was entirely ded...

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Google is adding AI to general search - for now in the US and by the end of the year in other countries

Google is incorporating artificial intelligence into its search. At the Google I/O 2024 presentation, the company announced major changes based on artificial intelligence in the most popular search engine. Through new features, Google is making searc...

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Google showed off Project Astra, an AI assistant with voice and visual recognition similar to GPT-4o

At the Google I/O 2024 presentation, the company showcased the virtual assistant Project Astra with artificial intelligence and visual recognition based on Google Gemini, which is currently in development. Speaking about Astra, the CEO of the experim...

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Gemini 1.5 Flash - Google's fast multimodal model with a contextual window of 2 million tokens

Google has announced the release of Gemini 1.5 Flash - a small multimodal model designed for scaling and solving narrow high-frequency tasks. The model comes with a "breakthrough" contextual window of 2 million tokens and is available from today in a...

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The Ask Photos feature in Google Photos will allow you to search for images using voice and text contextual queries

Google intends to integrate artificial intelligence deeper into the photo and video storage service Google Photos. As part of this integration, a new feature called Ask Photos will be introduced. It will allow users to search for the required images ...

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A full scan of 1 mm³ of the human brain using AI took 1.4 PB - Harvard and Google researchers scanned 57,000 cells and 150 million synapses

The data from full scanning of 1 cubic mm of the human brain required 1.4 petabytes of memory just to store sample images. In-depth exploration into neural mapping was done by researchers from Harvard and artificial intelligence experts from Google. ...

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YouTube for Android TV has received a revamped sidebar interface

The YouTube app for Android TV has received an interface update. Developers have added new animation when accessing the side menu panel with updated highlighting of elements during navigation. When accessing the YouTube side panel in the Android TV a...

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Google Pixel 8a gets a Tensor G3 chip, 120Hz display, 7 years of OS updates and a price of $499

Google is preparing to release a more affordable version in its smartphone lineup - Pixel 8a. Despite some updates, the novelty has maintained the price of its predecessor. The Pixel 8a smartphone features a 6.1-inch display with a resolution of 240...

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Google will teach you how to create chatbots with Gemini for free. All you need is knowledge of Python

Google Corporation has launched registration for participation in the free Startup School program: Gen AI. The program is free and aims to create applications, agents, and chatbots using the Gemini artificial intelligence. This was announced in a mes...

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The Verge's AI-generated and SEO-optimized article on the "best printer 2024" tops Google's top "best printer" query for a month

The Verge's technology publication published an article in early April entitled "Best printer of 2024," which is still the top result on Google for the query "best printer." In reality, this material, created by Google Gemini language model and SEO-o...

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Wi-Fi and cable at the same time: Google plans to speed up data transfer when setting up a new Android device

When setting up a new Android phone, there are usually three options for transferring data from the old device: you can simply copy the data by connecting the two devices with a compatible cable, use Wi-Fi, or restore data from a Google One backup. H...

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Google programmer fired for protesting at office - says he just came to watch (company denies)

A programmer who was fired from Google due to protests at the company's offices says that he was simply observing the disobedience action against the Israeli defense contract. The former employee anonymously revealed that he went to the hall of Googl...

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Google Phone now has Audio Emoji - sound effects (from laughter to farts) that can be inserted into conversations

Google has updated the Google Phone app and added sound effects to the dialer for Android. This allows the user to press one of the six Audio Emoji buttons during a phone call to play a short sound signal for both participants. As a result, the user...

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Apple poaches AI specialists from Google and has a secret lab in Zurich - Financial Times

According to Financial Times, Apple has poached dozens of artificial intelligence experts from Google and created a "secret European laboratory" in Zurich. There, a new team of employees is working on creating new AI models and products. Based on Lin...

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Google has removed most 3D models of animals and other objects from Search

Over the past few years, Google has created a multitude of 3D models of animals and other objects that can be viewed in augmented reality. However, recently Google has removed the vast majority of these fun models from Search. In 2019, Google introd...

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