Credit: Google On December 6 Google unveiled Gemini, a new large language model (LLM) that has three different modes: Nano, Pro, and Ultra. The new Gemini Pro variant now powers Bard in the United States and over 170 other countries, but the European Union and the UK are left out of the mix for now.
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority WhatsApp is bringing its View Once feature to voice messages. View Once voice messages will self-delete after the first time they are played. View Once voice messages are marked with a “one-time” icon to clearly indicate they can only be played once. Wish that you could make your voice
Read More[Daniel Geng] and others have an interesting system of generating multi-view optical illusions, or visual anagrams. Such images have more than one “correct” view and visual interpretation. What’s more, there are quite a few different methods on display: 90 degree flips and other (orthogonal) image rotations, color inversions, jigsaw permutations, and more. The project page
Read MoreYouTube TV has introduced a way for users to reduce the broadcast delay on the live events they watch. The setting will allow the user to reduce broadcast delays for the next 48 hours. Enabling the feature will reduce the broadcast delay but may increase playback interruptions. For those who watch live broadcast TV, you’ll
Read MoreKyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Users say Google’s Gemini Pro is loathe to comment on some controversial news topics, fails to get basic facts right, and struggles with basic coding functions — This week, Google took the wraps off of Gemini, its new flagship generative AI model meant to power a range of products …
Read MoreMark Zuckerberg personally promised that the privacy feature would launch by default on Messenger and Instagram chat. WIRED goes behind the scenes of the company’s colossal effort to get it right.
Read MoreAnnie Palmer / CNBC: Amazon tells users that the service plans to stop accepting Venmo as a payment method on January 10, 2024, after rolling out Venmo support in October 2022 — – Amazon will no longer allow users to pay with Venmo beginning Jan. 10, according to a notice sent to users.
Read MoreVideos featuring Elijah Wood, Mike Tyson, and Priscilla Presley have been edited to push anti-Ukraine disinformation, according to Microsoft researchers.
Read MoreBen Weiss / Fortune: Block opens preorders for its self-custodial Bitcoin hardware wallet Bitkey in 95+ countries, coming to the US in early 2024 for $150, after a beta in June 2023 — Block, the payments company led by former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, announced on Thursday that Bitkey, a physical device …
Read MoreThe Teal Mask — Pokémon Scarlet and Violet’s first DLC drop — was short and sweet and felt more like an encapsulated side quest experience than a significant update to the overall game. But the latest trailer for The Indigo Disk — the second planned DLC — makes its many new features seem like the
Read MoreVictoria Song / The Verge: A review of Amazon’s $315 Echo Frames Carrera Cruiser: more stylish and better battery life, but pricey, bass isn’t great, audio leaks, and Alexa isn’t the best — I felt like a Kardashian reject roaming the streets of New York City, but hey, Alexa could tell me the weather.
Read MoreDuncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: Microsoft announces a major security leadership reshuffle as part of its Secure Future Initiative, replacing Bret Arsenault with Igor Tsyganskiy as Global CISO — Microsoft Corp. has announced a significant shakeup of its security team, with its long-time leader being put into a new role …
Read MoreMackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: TSMC and Arizona labor unions reach a deal covering foreign workers and more, to resolve labor disputes that have dogged TSMC’s fab construction in Phoenix — – Agreement covers workforce training, safety, foreign workers — TSMC widely expected to get federal money for $40 billion site
Read MoreWall Street Journal: Sources: Montenegro’s Justice Minister has privately said he plans to extradite Do Kwon to the US rather than South Korea to face criminal charges — Alexander Osipovich and Marko Vešović — Montenegro’s top justice official has privately said he plans to send disgraced crypto tycoon …
Read MoreImage: Meta WhatsApp has officially announced that you’ll soon be able to set voice messages to disappear after their recipient hears them. The “View Once” feature has been available for photos and videos since 2021, but it’s now expanding to cover audio messages. While it’s a little confusing that WhatsApp is using the “View Once”
Read MoreA new AI model from Google—called Gemini—is fresh competition for OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The AI rivals are now working on even more radical ideas.
Read MoreGoogle’s 4K-ready Chromecast makes for a great gift under $50. | Image: The Verge I don’t know about you, but now that I’m finally starting my holiday shopping, I’m kicking myself for not taking advantage of all those great Cyber Monday deals. Yet, while many of the best have since disappeared, one of our favorites
Read MoreCredit: Google Google Gemini represents a step forward for Google’s AI efforts, as it is a brand-new large language model (LLM) made by Alphabet’s Brain Team and DeepMind. The new LLM has a lot of potential, built from the ground up to be multimodal. Previously creating multimodal models involved a lot of tweaking and stitching
Read MoreIllustration by Sisi Kim for The Verge Networks spent years telling us that 5G would change everything. But the flashiest use cases are nowhere to be found — and the race to deploy the tech was costly in more ways than one. Continue reading…
Read MoreFinancial Times: A profile of Chinese whistleblower Tang Mingfang, who is still paying the price for calling out injustices at a Foxconn factory making Amazon devices in 2019 — Four years after Tang Mingfang called out the injustices he witnessed at a Foxconn factory in China, nothing has changed — except for him
Read MoreFirst responders say that Apple’s devices are “100%” saving lives thanks to their emergency features.
Read MoreMike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Meta announces Purple Llama, an initiative to promote responsible AI development through the release of tools and evaluations to build open generative AI models — Meta Platforms Inc. is looking to promote the responsible development of artificial intelligence systems with a new initiative called Purple Llama.
Read MorePresidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy boosted multiple far-right conspiracy theories during the GOP debate on Wednesday night, in a dangerous mainstreaming of once-fringe claims.
Read MoreI felt like a Kardashian reject roaming the streets of New York City, but hey, Alexa could tell me the weather. Continue reading…
Read MorePhoto by Alberto E. Rodriguez / Getty Images Geoff Keighley’s Happy Holiday Game-a-palooza, also known as The Game Awards (but that’s less fun), kicks off Thursday, December 7th, at 7:30PM ET / 4:30PM PT. You can watch the show on just about anything that permits livestreaming events. The list of participating platforms is actually pretty
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