What’s the point of chatting with a human-like bot if it’s an unreliable narrator — and has a colorless personality? That’s the question I’ve been turning over in my head since I began testing Gemini Live, Google’s take on OpenAI’s Advanced Voice Mode, last week. Gemini Live is an attempt at a more engaging chatbot […]
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Made by Google was this week, featuring a full range of reveals from Google’s biggest hardware event. Google unveiled its new lineup of Pixel 9 phones, including the $1,799 Pixel 9 Fold Pro; advanced AI-powered photo-editing tools; and the new Pixel Buds Pro 2, which are infused with Gemini AI. The company also announced Gemini
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After bringing AI overviews to the U.S., Google is expanding the AI-powered search summaries to six more countries: India, Brazil, Japan, the U.K., Indonesia and Mexico. These markets will also get local language support for AI overviews. The search giant is rethinking how it displays source material links, as well. It’s adding a view on
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Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, who has since moved on to greener and perhaps more dangerous pastures, told an audience of Stanford students recently that “Google decided that work-life balance and going home early and working from home was more important than winning.” Evidently this hot take was not for wider consumption, as Stanford —
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On Tuesday at its Made by Google event, Google announced that the new Pixel 9 line is coming to India. The news also finds the company’s new foldable launching in the world’s second largest smartphone market for the first time. Google is expanding its sales channels in the country by partnering with two offline retail
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Google’s annual Made by Google hardware event was held earlier Tuesday, and because the company announced so much stuff, a lot got lost in the shuffle. We rounded up some of the more intriguing AI-related announcements that didn’t get a ton of play, like the image-generating Pixel Studio and Pixel Screenshots, which helps save and
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Google launched Gemini Live during its Made By Google event in Mountain View, California, on Tuesday. The feature allows you to have a semi-natural spoken conversation, not typed out, with an AI chatbot powered by Google’s latest large language model. TechCrunch was there to test it out firsthand. Gemini Live is Google’s answer to OpenAI’s
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With the introduction of the Pixel Watch 3 smartwatches, which now come in two sizes, Google is also introducing a new, potentially life-saving feature: loss of pulse detection. At the Made by Google 2024 event Tuesday, the company announced the watch’s added ability to sense this particular health emergency alongside other new tools and features,
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Most of the new camera features Google has brought to Pixel devices in recent years have involved AI-based post-processing. Made You Look, announced at Tuesday’s Made by Google 2024 event, is different. It’s reaches back into the history of photography to tap into a perennial favorite: tricking fussy children into smiling. Sure, there are already
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Alongside the launch of new Pixel devices, the Pixel phone lineup is getting its own new weather app, powered by AI. Introduced Tuesday at the Made by Google 2024 event, the tech giant briefly showed off the app, which offers a custom AI weather report created by Gemini Nano — Google’s AI model designed for
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