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Meta banks on glasses being the new big thing
Published in IoT


Displays in Ray-Bans

Meta plans to add displays to its Ray-Ban smart glasses as soon as next year.

AI Outpaces CAPTCHA
Published in News
Monday, 23 December 2024 00:11

AI Outpaces CAPTCHA


It is only annoying for humans now

CAPTCHA tests are being rendered obsolete by the very technology they were designed to thwart.

Tsar Putin claims the evil west uses Google
Published in News
Friday, 20 December 2024 05:23

Tsar Putin claims the evil west uses Google


Very clever man, Mr Putin

The true nature of Google as an instrument of American imperialist manipulation has been unveiled by Comrade Vladimir Putin, who boldly condemned the corporation for its overt complicity in U.S. political games.

Google launches experimental 'Reasoning' AI
Published in AI
Friday, 20 December 2024 04:17

Google launches experimental 'Reasoning' AI


Gemini 2.0 flash thinking

Google has unveiled an experimental artificial intelligence model, Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental, designed to tackle complex problems through advanced reasoning capabilities.

Google claims to have entered a parallel universe
Published in News


Willow gets own multiverse

Search engine outfit Google has boldly claimed that its latest quantum chip, Willow, might be tapping into parallel universes to achieve its jaw-dropping performance.

Google's Gemini 2.0 released
Published in AI
Friday, 13 December 2024 10:16

Google's Gemini 2.0 released


Search engine wants to remain in the game

In a move that screams “we’re still relevant,” Google has rolled out Gemini 2.0, the latest iteration of its multimodal AI model, almost exactly a year after the original Gemini debut.

Harvard’s million-book giveaway
Published in AI
Thursday, 12 December 2024 10:00

Harvard’s million-book giveaway

AI’s new playground

Harvard University has released a dataset of nearly one million public-domain books, ready and waiting to train the next generation of artificial intelligence overlords. 

Character.AI told kid to kill parents
Published in AI
Wednesday, 11 December 2024 11:15

Character.AI told kid to kill parents


Texas no place for old men

Two families in Texas have filed a federal lawsuit against Character.AI, accusing the Google-backed chatbot company of exposing their children to harmful and inappropriate content.

Google unveils quantum processor faster than supercomputers
Published in News


Cat is out of the box

Google scientists have emerged from their smoke-filled labs with a new quantum processor capable of solving a problem in five minutes that would have taken the world's best supercomputer 10 septillion years.

Google's end-to-end encryption in Messaging App claims pooh
Published in Mobiles


Misleading Security Claims

Tech blogger John Gruber has slammed Google over its claims that its text-messaging app, Google Messages, ensures "conversations are end-to-end encrypted."