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Google Gemini advised to 'light up' photofilm in smart search demo

During the Google I/O 2024 presentation, in addition to new artificial intelligence technologies, the software giant inadvertently demonstrated the main drawback of modern AI - errors, incorrect, and harmful advice. The Google presentation "Search in...

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Project Gameface ─ cursor control using facial and head movements ─ now available for Android apps

Google has announced that the code for Project Gameface is now available to Android developers. Project Gameface is positioned as a gaming mouse that allows people to control the cursor using head movements and facial gestures. This is an open-source...

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Boeing postpones 'cursed' Starliner mission - valve fixed but there was a 'small helium leak'

The Starliner launch was halted a week ago due to a faulty oxygen valve. However, it turns out that the spacecraft has other issues. On Tuesday, Boeing announced that the first manned flight of the Starliner has been postponed to May 21 - the missio...

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Ex-director of Google Ukraine launches Strichka project - a digital community for Ukrainians abroad

Dmitry Sholomko, who headed Google's office in Ukraine for 17 years and resigned in October last year, announced his new job (and not just one). Dmitry Sholomko joined the National Public Broadcasting Company of Ukraine, where he took on the positio...

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Fallout 4 launched on Android at 30 fps - it took a Winlator solution and a few minutes of tweaking to make it happen

A PC is an impressive gaming platform. However, devices with Arm architecture and excellent operating systems are becoming increasingly popular. Nevertheless, due to differences in OS and platform, they are mostly confined to their own gaming ecosyst...

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Monster-spot on the Sun "gave out" the most powerful flare for the last 11 years - class X8.7

A gigantic sunspot on the Sun, designated as AR3664, left us a parting gift, but this time without the bonus of the Northern Lights. On May 10, AR3664 produced a class X5.8 flare, and over the past 24 hours flares of X1.7, X1.3, and a colossal X8.7 ...

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Intel introduced Thunderbolt Share, a program to easily share files and peripherals across multiple PCs

Intel has introduced the Thunderbolt Share program, which allows for sharing screens, keyboards, mice, and files between different computers. The software uses Thunderbolt technology for fast connections. It provides fast and efficient connection bet...

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Gemini will be integrated with Calendar, Tasks and Keep, and mobile Gmail will get 3 new artificial intelligence features

During the Google I/O conference, the company announced the further transformation of its chatbot Gemini into a digital assistant specializing in daily tasks. One of the new ways to do this is the integration of Gemini with Google Calendar, Tasks, an...

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Ilya Sutskever, the chief scientist who wanted to "overthrow" Sam Altman and changed his mind, is leaving OpenAI

The co-founder and chief scientist of OpenAI, Ilya Sutskever, is officially leaving the company - he is best known for leading the infamous and unsuccessful coup to overthrow Sam Altman as CEO. Both Altman and Sutskever have released statements annou...

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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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"Cringe-inducing": Ilon Musk reacted to the launch of OpenAI's GPT-4o

Elon Musk is not impressed by the AI language model GPT-4o presented by OpenAI. The billionaire criticized the demonstration of the company's new artificial intelligence model named GPT-4o, which he believes is "cringeworthy." OpenAI presented the ne...

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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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