Archive: August 2019

Researchers and artificial intelligence work together to collect experimental materials science data from papers worldwide and build a database. Credit: Kenji Tashiro. Instagram: ripplemarkmaker. CC-BY-4.0 Technologies that underpin modern society, such as smartphones and automobiles, rely on a diverse range of functional materials. Materials scientists are therefore working to develop and improve new materials, but predicting material properties is no sim

Google has announced a big expansion of its Gemini AI model family today. After months of tweaking and tuning, the high-power Gemini 2.5 Pro is leaving preview and is ready for developers to build on. Meanwhile, Google is offering a peek at its upcoming high-efficiency model, known as Gemini 2.5 Pro Flash-Lite. Try as it might, Google can’t get away from confusing model names. Google’s AI aspirations have been looking up in 2025 with the debut of Gemini 2.

Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Email Share this article 8 Join the conversation Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter FBI Director Kash Patel just stated in an interview that he's responsible for a "605% increase" in the bureau's usage of AI. The problem is that while the pattern-recognition abilities of AI models make them an ideal candidate for use in law enforcement agencies, and It's a r

Selling smartphones used to be easy—everyone wanted one, and every new phone was a lot better than the one that came before. Things are different now that smartphones are mature products. Plenty of manufacturers have thrown in the towel, leaving big players like Samsung to sell a new phone every couple of years. But even Samsung may find it tough to turn a profit in 2026 due to the ongoing race to build more AI capacity. According to Money Today (Korean),

Smartwatches can track your health stats, but they also do a lot of other things you might not always want or need. The $100 Fitbit Air tracker ditches the screens that have become common on people’s wrists, leaving behind a tiny puck of health sensors you can often forget you’re wearing. You will not, however, forget that Google’s new health platform is built around AI. The Air has no speaker, and there’s only one LED on the side to indicate battery level

Aflac Life Insurance announced on June 30 that systems including the customer-exclusive website “Aflac Yorisounet” had been accessed without authorization by a third party, resulting in the leak of some information, including customers’ personal information. Approximately 4.38 million people were affected. As of the present, the company said no improper use of the leaked information or similar misuse had been identified. Timeline from the occurrence of una

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News of the staff cuts comes from Reuters, which reported that Flock is reducing its staff by 18%, or around 270 employees, across the board. The publication said the employees are leaving at the end of October following a voluntary buyout program. Wired reported last month that Flock was asking some of its employees to leave, citing the need to shrink its staff to avoid mandatory layoffs. Flock spokesperson Paris Lewbel told TechCrunch in a statement on F

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