Month: May 2024
The 7 biggest AI announcements from Google I/O 2024 – from Gemini to Project Astra
The Google I/O 2024 keynote was a jam-packed Gemini fest, and CEO Sundar Pichai was right to describe it as its version of The Eras Tour – specifically, the “Gemini Era” – at the very top. The entire keynote was about Gemini and AI; in fact, Google said the latter…
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Everything Google Announced at I/O 2024: Gemini, Search, Project Astra, Scam Detection
It was AI all day at Google’s developer keynote. The company showed off new AI-powered chatbot tools, new search capabilities, and a bunch of machine intelligence upgrades for Android. Source
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Biden Is Trying to Buy EVs Time With New Tariffs on China. It Might Not Work
America now has 100 percent tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles, but with US automakers struggling to compete and its reliance on China’s materials, will this help? Mercedes, BMW and VW think not. Source
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Blink and you missed it: Google has a new pair of prototype AR glasses
But we may have written off Google’s Glasses too soon — because Google just revealed a new prototype pair in a blink-and-you-missed-it moment at Google I/O. In the heat of the moment, I thought the Googler simply donned a pair of normal glasses before pulling out their smartphone at 1:30…
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No thanks Google, I don’t want an AI yoga bestie
Like many TechRadar readers, I’ve just finished up watching Google IO 2024, and seeing all the new stuff that the Gemini AI is capable of. As I was listening, I was very interested from a layman’s point of view, but as TechRadar’s Fitness and Wearables Editor, I didn’t think there…
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The US moves to stop buying uranium from Russia and start producing it at home
President Joe Biden signed a new law that bars the US from importing uranium from Russia, in the hopes of jumpstarting domestic mining to fuel nuclear reactors. The law also unlocks $2.7 billion in federal funding to shore up that domestic supply chain, which Congress previously approved pending limits on…
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