Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos from Getty Images Eight TikTok creators are suing to stop a law that would ban the app unless its Chinese parent company divests it , arguing that the measure would strip them of their livelihoods and creative outlets. The suit is similar
Photo: Sonos A week after introducing a redesigned, sleeker app that omitted many core features , Sonos held an Ask Me Anything event on its forums today . The purpose was partly to make it clear that customer frustrations are being heard. But as has been the case since last
The billboard ads contained messages that seemingly mocked celibate women. | Image: The Verge Dating app company Bumble has issued an apology for running an ad campaign that seemingly shamed women for not being sexually active and mocked people for choosing celibacy instead
On the southwest side of Calexico, a border town in California’s Imperial Valley, a surveillance tower casts a shadow over a baseball field and a residential neighborhood. In 2000, the Immigration and Naturalization Service (the precursor to the Department of Homeland Security
EFF is an organization of lawyers, technologists, policy professionals, and importantly–full-time activists–who fight to make sure that technology enhances rather than threatens civil liberties on a global scale. EFF’s activism team includes experienced issue experts, master
AI model updates galore at Google I/O, including 2M context window, Imagen 3, Veo, and more.
Image: Google Google I/O just ended — and it was packed with AI announcements. As expected, the event focused heavily on Google’s Gemini AI models, along with the ways they’re being integrated into apps like Workspace and Chrome. If you didn’t get to tune in to the event
OpenAI has unveiled the latest version of ChatGPT. It's called GPT-4o, and is faster and sounds more conversational than previous versions.
Illustration by Haein Jeong / The Verge Among Google’s swath of new AI models and tools announced today, the company is also expanding its AI content watermarking and detection technology to work across two new mediums. Google’s DeepMind CEO, Demis Hassabis, took the stage
Image: The Verge Google is building its Gemini AI into Chrome on desktop. During its I/O event on Tuesday, Google announced that Chrome 126 will use Gemini Nano to power on-device AI features such as text generation. Gemini Nano is the lightweight large language model Google
Interviewer: Jillian York Mohamed El Gohary is an open-knowledge enthusiast. After majoring in Biomedical Engineering in October 2010, he switched careers to work as a Social Media manager for Al-Masry Al-Youm newspaper until October 2011, when he joined Global Voices
Illustration: The Verge Gemini, Google’s ChatGPT competitor, is getting new trip planning capabilities, the company announced today at its I/O developer conference . Based on the user’s prompt, the AI model will now research publicly available information as well as tap into
Illustration: The Verge Part of Google’s vision at its I/O developer conference this year has involved transforming its Gemini AI chatbot into more of a digital assistant that specializes in dealing with our day-to-day tedium. One of the new ways it’s doing that is by
Ask multipart questions and get a single answer –that’s AI search at work. | Image: Google A year ago, Google said that it believed AI was the future of search . That future is apparently here: Google is starting to roll out “AI Overviews,” previously known as the Search
Illustration: The Verge Google’s Gemini AI assistant is getting new voice chat capabilities for Gemini Advanced subscribers this year. The feature, called Gemini Live, will enable two-way spoken conversation with the chatbot, smart assistant capabilities, and vision features
Searching with Lens is now as simple as pointing and shooting. | Image: Google Google’s adding a nifty new feature to Lens, its visual search tool : you can now search by shooting a video. Previously, Lens only captured still images, but now you can use both video and audio
Image: Google The future of Gemini, Search, Android, and more. Continue reading…
The internet outage in East Africa highlights the fragility of the continent's online connections.
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Workers are producing structural components of EV batteries at a production workshop in Qingkou Automobile Industrial Park in Fuzhou, Fujian province, China, on February 23rd, 2024. | Photo by Costfoto / NurPhoto via Getty Images The Biden administration announced much higher
Rare bitcoin fragments are worth many times their face value.
Setapp Mobile makes every app available for one subscription. A subscription-based alternative offering nag-free software. Continue reading…
Image: Google It’s Google’s most AI-focused developer conference yet, presenting a faster Gemini, more capable Search, and a scam call detector. Continue reading…
The auction house's website is down as it seeks to sell items ranging from high art to rare wine.
The role has been split into two separate top jobs, dividing up hardware and software.
Mega Matrix and FlexTV want to succeed where Quibi has failed by embracing the allure of “so bad it’s good” shows.
Chinese firm MineOne Partners has been ordered to sell land it owns near a US nuclear missile site.
India is hoping that biogas, produced from farm waste, will curb its reliance on imported gas.
