When an AI model release immediately spawns memes and treatises declaring the rest of the industry cooked, you know you’ve got something worth dissecting. Google’s Gemini 3 was released Tuesday to widespread fanfare. The company called the model a “new era of intelligence,” integrating it into Google Search on day one for the first time. […]
Where’s the Trump Phone? We’re going to keep talking about it every week. While we wait, we tried to order a Trump Mobile SIM card so we can test the service on a different device. Here’s how that went. Signing up for Trump Mobile’s wireless service felt a little like engaging in espionage. Let’s say […]
It’s pretty rare when a cool new gadget feature gets announced that you can try right away on your own devices. But that’s exactly what happened yesterday when, out of the blue, Google announced it had engineered a way to bring AirDrop interoperability to Pixel 10 phones – all without Apple’s involvement. After the news […]
It was really easy getting Google’s Gemini app to make an image of a second shooter at Dealey Plaza, the White House ablaze, and Mickey Mouse flying a plane into the Twin Towers. We asked and it complied. There were few filters or guardrails, another sign that the battle over generative AI content moderation and […]
Google set the bar high for Gemini 3. It’s promising a bunch of upgraded features in its shiny new AI model, from generating code that produces interactive 3D visualizations to “agentic” capabilities that complete tasks. But as we’ve seen in the past, what’s advertised doesn’t always match up to reality. So we put some of […]
Suno, the AI music startup being sued by the big three major labels, the RIAA, and even some indie acts for illegally training its model on copyrighted material, just raised $250 million (which might help pay its legal bills). What caught my eye in the Wall Street Journal article about the funding round and the […]
The details are fuzzy, but I think my husband and I downloaded the YouTube Kids app to our TV sometime in 2022, when between one and three members of the household came down with the flu at the same time. Like countless parents of toddlers before us, we needed something, anything, that would buy us […]
After one of the biggest telecom hacks in US history, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) moved to enforce strict standards on carriers’ cybersecurity measures. On Thursday, the agency is set to vote to roll back those requirements, arguing they were an unnecessary overstep of its authority. The China-linked Salt Typhoon hack revealed last year impacted […]
It’s finally happening. Three years after Matter launched, the interoperability standard now includes the most popular smart home devices: cameras. The Matter 1.5 spec, announced today, adds support for all types of video cameras – from indoor and outdoor, wired and battery-powered cameras, to video doorbells, baby monitors, pet cams, and more. Matter support should […]
Google has announced it’s testing a new AI-powered search tool, Scholar Labs, that’s designed to answer detailed research questions. But its demonstration highlighted a bigger question about finding “good” science studies. How much will scientists trust a tool that forgoes typical ways of gauging a study’s popularity with the scientific establishment in favor of reading […]