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Academic journals, archives, and repositories are seeing an increasing number of questionable research papers clearly produced using generative AI. They are often created with widely available, general-purpose AI applications, most likely ChatGPT, and mimic scientific writing. Google Scholar easily ...

"You know when you drive through a sequence of five green lights? We want to make that feeling more common." Google launches cutting-edge AI initiative that uses stop lights to fight traffic: 'We can already see the tremendous potential' first appeared on The Cool Down.

When a new gadget is introduced into the tech world, it is usually sold out before it goes to market. Pre-sales and user test data are the best indicators of how successful the technology will be. When Google announced its cool eyewear known as “Google Glass” in 2012, it was touted as the next great...

Google Analytics is often on a “need to know” basis, but why not flip the script? Paul Scanlon shares how he wrote a GitHub Action that queries Google Analytics to automatically generate and post a top ten page views report to Slack, making it incredibly easy to track page performance and share insi...

On today’s episode we speak with Kohsuke Kawaguchi, who won the Google-O’Reilly Open Source award for his work on the Hudson/Jenkins project. Kohsuke began his career at Sun Microsystems. He shares insights on the balance between community-driven open source and the need to monetize through enterpri...

Shaylee here, from Datawrapper’s Customer Success & Support team. This week, I’m searching for common...

Illustration: The Verge Google is testing its new “Ask Photos” feature that lets you explore your library of pictures in new ways. The feature, which Google first previewed in May, is rolling out to select Google Labs users in the US and will let you ask things like, “Where did we camp last time we ...

Way back in March of this year, I took a look at using Google's Gemini APIs to analyze PDF documents ("Using PDF Content with Google Gemini"). At the time, the Gemini API didn't support PDF documents, so I made use of our (Adobe) PDF Extract service to get the text content out from the document. Thi...

The Nest Cam with floodlight comes in just one color, so hopefully white goes well with your home’s exterior. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge If you’re looking for a nice discount on a great outdoor smart home camera right now (and you don’t mind Google’s ecosystem), look no further t...

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge The next generation of Bluetooth could make it easier to track down lost tech. On Tuesday, the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) announced the release of Bluetooth 6.0, which includes a new precision tracking feature that could improve the Find My networks from...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The partnership announced by Samsung, Qualcomm, and Google last year is developing a pair of mixed reality smart glasses that link to the wearer’s smartphone, according to Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon. “It’s going to be a new product,” Amon told CNBC in a recen...

The budget-friendly projector company that successfully crowdfunded a phone-sized movie thrower in 2022 has landed at IFA 2024 to launch the flagship K3 Pro. The all-in-one entertainment hub features Google TV and a sound system with satisfying low end. Continue Reading Category: Home Entertainment,...

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Google has released the September 2024 Android security updates to fix 34 vulnerabilities, including CVE-2024-32896, an actively exploited elevation of privilege flaw that was previously fixed on Pixel devices. [...]

Image: Qualcomm Google has committed to releasing an Arm64 version of Google Drive on Windows later this year, after Microsoft and Qualcomm have been working hard to convince app developers to port their applications over to Windows on Arm. Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon made the announcement onstage a...

Jason Koebler, 404 Media: The chats show 22 instances in which one Google employee told another Google employee to turn chat history off. In total, the court has dozens of specific employees who have told others to turn history off in DMs or broader group chats and channels. The document includes ex...

Photo by Allison Johnson / The Verge Last month, it was discovered that an inactive piece of software that ships on all Google Pixel smartphones presented a potential security vulnerability for device owners. The company quickly said it would remove “Showcase.apk,” which was created years ago “for V...

Barnes and Noble have just pushed an update for the iPad and iPhone to bring Dark Mode to the Nook App. The update is also available via the B&N NOOK Hub for the new NOOK Tablet 9. The Google Play version of the NOOK app will be available in the next few days. Dark Mode […] The post Dark Mode is now...

Plus, one of Android's most essential accessibility features is also getting an update with Gemini infusion.

The Google Pixel 9. | Photo: Allison Johnson / The Verge Android 15 has officially arrived — for developers, at least. Google’s next-gen operating system is available in the Android Open Source Project, with support for Pixel phones due to roll out in the coming weeks. You’ll have to wait a little l...

The Google Pixel 9 Pro Fold brings a lot of updates and improvements over last year’s model, but it still has some work to do.

Europe's biggest consumer tech show is just around the corner, and Dangbei is flying in to launch its first ultra-portable projector. The Freedo is a lot like Samsung's Freestyle model, but with one important difference. Continue Reading Category: Home Entertainment, Technology Tags: Portable, HD, P...

The Pixel 9 is the Android flagship for anyone who just wants a dang phone. Continue reading…

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This Target Labor Day sale has two 50-inch-plus big screens going for under $300 - do not miss to grab TCL S class smart TV for your football schedule

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Sign-on systems from Big Tech companies have been incorporated into deepfake generators.

A campaign that started on August 5, 2024, is spreading a previously undocumented malware named "Voldemort" to organizations worldwide, impersonating tax agencies from the U.S., Europe, and Asia. [...]

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google Play Store can now download, install, and update multiple Android apps simultaneously. Previously, if you attempted to run all your updates manually, Play Store would only process a single app at a time. Now, as we’ve tested, it can do up to three. As r...

I had just posted about a glitch update, and then what happened? No Access to my blog at all. So I went through the Google Chrome helpline and was advised to clear all browsing history and cache. I did that, and now I have to log in to every site I regularly use. Naturally, WordPress … Continue read...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google recently started letting you use its Gemini AI chatbot to ask questions about your Gmail inbox on the web, and now, that feature is coming to mobile. The company says its Gmail Q&A feature is starting to roll out on Android and that the feature will be ...

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What is JSON Mode in Google Gemini? I recently blogged about JSON Mode and Structured Outputs in OpenAI APIs. Today, I’ve examined the OpenAI competitor Google Gemini and tested whether it can adhere to the requested schema. The JSON Mode is a feature that helps enforce the output of Chatbots to be ...

Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge Yelp, one of Google’s most persistent and outspoken rivals, has finally filed its own antitrust lawsuit against the search giant, less than a month after a federal judge ruled Google an illegal monopolist. Yelp alleges that Google has created or preserved it...

Ars testing shows some historical prompts no longer generate artificially diverse scenes.

Google has more than doubled payouts for Google Chrome security flaws reported through its Vulnerability Reward Program, with the maximum possible reward for a single bug now exceeding $250,000. [...]

Following the success of 2021's award-winning Theater ultra-short-throw laser projector, China's Formovie has added a cheaper model called the Cinema Edge. This brighter family member comes packing Google TV with Netflix cooked in. Continue Reading Category: Home Entertainment, Technology Tags: Proj...

Google’s Imagen 3 is capable of generating photorealistic images of people. | Image: Imagen 3 Google is letting its users generate images of people through its Gemini AI chatbot again after pulling the feature earlier this year amid reports of historically inaccurate images, like racially diverse Na...

Illustration: The Verge Google will soon let Gemini subscribers create custom chatbots that can serve as a gym buddy, cooking partner, writing editor, and more. Users can give the chatbots — called Gems — distinct personalities and specialties by simply describing a set of instructions. Google first...

I found myself asking myself the question, "What's every new feature Java has introduced since the last time I really cared about new Java language features?", and didn't find an easy answer via Google. So, I decided to create that list. Note that most JDK releases are a combination of new language ...

Gemini Chat App Google released three new Gemini models today: improved versions of Gemini 1.5 Pro and Gemini 1.5 Flash plus a new model, Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B, which is significantly faster (and will presumably be cheaper) than the regular Flash model. The Flash-8B model is described in the Gemini 1....

You might not have to worry about taking meeting notes ever again. | Image: Google Google Meet’s newest AI-powered feature, “take notes for me,” has started rolling out today to Google Workspace customers with the Gemini Enterprise, Gemini Education Premium, or AI Meetings & Messaging add-ons. It’s ...

Joseph Cox, 404 Media: Media giant Cox Media Group (CMG) says it can target adverts based on what potential customers said out loud near device microphones, and explicitly points to Facebook, Google, Amazon, and Bing as CMG partners, according to a CMG presentation obtained by 404 Media. The deck sa...

I’ve been thinking about all the generative AI slop that’s appearing, especially with tools like “Reimagine”, and I think it’s going to be a great thing for the open web. Why? Because Google is unwittingly shooting itself in the foot in a way that will change the character of the web. How? The web h...

I often use surfing as a metaphor for new technology. Go too early and you don't catch the wave. Go too late and you don't catch it either. Similarly next generation hardware or software may be too early for its time. I found myself wondering if this was the case for Google Glass and AI. For those w...

Today, Google revealed that it patched the tenth zero-day exploited in the wild in 2024 by attackers or security researchers during hacking contests. [...]

Illustration: The Verge Google is making it easier to keep track of Google Meet calls — which can easily get buried in your tabs — while you’re using desktop Chrome. The company is now rolling out a feature that automatically opens a Google Meet call in picture-in-picture mode when you switch tabs i...

We have finally reached the final week of GSoC. It has been an amazing journey! Let’s summarize what was done, the current state of the project and what’s next. Introduction This summer, I had the opportunity to work as a student developer under the Google Summer of Code 2024 program with the GNOME ...