Experimental wine bottle tracks oxygen moving through the cork
…By regulating the oxygen transfer into and out of the wine bottle, it works almost as another ingredient. “Twenty years ago, our group focused on the oxidation and aging of wine and…
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Google's Android-powered laptops are called Googlebooks, and they're coming this year
…Magic Cue, which has been available on Pixel phones since last year, will also be part of Googlebooks. This feature can recommend actions and surface information based on context like messages and…
Google starts lowering Play Store fees, making good on Epic Games settlement
…for non-game content in Google Play. These programs will be available to developers in Europe, the UK, Australia, and the US on September 30 of this year. They will open to…
Android verification is coming: Google confirms timeline and supported app stores
…contentious change for myriad reasons. In the new blog post , Google’s Matthew Forsythe confirms that the developer verification system is slated to come online on September 30 of this year. The…
RIP social media. What comes next is messy.
…Not a culprit, but a cure Consistent with last year’s results, echo chambers emerge naturally from the basic architecture of social media platforms. “One surprising finding is the fact that we…
Fox’s $22B Roku acquisition aims to expand its reach into smart TVs, advertising
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Nobody needs AI to search the Internet, court says in ruling against Google
…Last year, one chatbot maker even argued that AI speech is its own category of “pure speech” and the First Amendment should protect it. According to a Google translation of the German…
Google sues Chinese cybercrime network that used Gemini to automate scams
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Allegedly trashing Airbnbs to test robots puts startup in legal trouble
…signs include cabinets and drawers emptied of their contents and moved elsewhere, along with decorative items and books moved from shelves to drawers. One shoe rack, along with a pair of shoes…
Google's latest DiffusionGemma open AI model comes with a 4x speed boost
…to right one token at a time. DiffusionGemma has more in common with image generation models, which start with static and then denoise it to create the desired content. This model takes…