Best Google Pixel Fold deals in 2024
These are some of the best deals you're going to find on the Google Pixel Fold so don't miss out.
These are some of the best deals you're going to find on the Google Pixel Fold so don't miss out.
Apple's track record with AI and ML in Siri doesn't mode well for the future. Outsourcing to a company like Google or OpenAI is a far better solution.
Artificial intelligence is part of the conversation when talking about virtually all parts of the tech industry in 2024. Despite that being the case, Apple has been relatively quiet on the AI/ML front. This is all while competitors like OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft are racing to ship AI products. In fact, although the measure did not pass, 37.5% of Apple shareholders voted in favor of conducting a report concerning the company's AI efforts. People are concerned that Apple may be asleep at the wheel when it comes to AI, but that isn't exactly the case. Apple CEO Tim Cook has been steadfast in his claim that the company will ship AI features on the iPhone 16 series later this year. To do so, Apple might follow an old adage: if you can't beat 'em, join 'em.
Claude 3 Opus is a groundbreaking new AI model that manages to really impress.
In the world of large language models, it's been dominated by ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, and Google Gemini. If you've heard of Anthropic, its new LLM dubbed "Claude" has been doing rounds as a potential major competitor in the space. Claude 3 Opus recently launched, and it's managed to really, really impress. This is how it stacks up against Google Gemini Advanced in particular.
Android 15's second developer preview definitely feels bigger than the first.
Android 15 had its first developer preview arrive a little while ago, and with it came features and improvements that were rather small in scope but still managed to improve quality of life significantly. That's the case with Android 15 Developer Preview 2 as well, though there's arguably more inside than in the first devleoper preview. Plus, that's without even getting into all of the under-the-hood changes that are probably there too.
Google's newest Pixel 8 Pro looks to be a great smartphone, but you'll want to keep it safe with these amazing cases.
The Google Pixel 8 Pro debuted in October 2023 and has since maintained its spot as one of the best smartphones on the market in terms of design, functionality, and camera versatility. While it did get a price bump, there's no denying that it's still a great-value Pixel and one of the top Android phones you can get, especially now that Google is offering seven years of software and security updates. However, what Google isn't giving you is a case, and you'll want to pick up one for your Pixel 8 Pro as soon as you get it. Whether you're looking for protection, style, or something else altogether, the cases we've listed below have got you covered.
Avoiding phishing attacks just got easier.
Oftentimes, your browser is the first point of defense between your PC and the viruses strewn across the internet. There are other ways you can catch a nasty computer virus, but for the most part, clicking a shady download link or falling for a convincing phishing email are the main ways people end up with something bad on their system.
Here are all the options for running Steam on your Chromebook for gaming.
Steam is one of the most popular gaming platforms on the Windows, Mac, and Linux operating systems. If you recently purchased a new Chromebook, you might feel a bit excluded from the gaming party, but it turns out there are actually several methods to run Steam on ChromeOS. In fact, Google and Steam partnered together to make it possible to run Steam on ChromeOS through the Beta channel. There are also some other ways to get Steam games on your Chromebook, which we'll cover in this guide.
In this tutorial we demonstrate how to enable developer mode in ChromeOS. This is very useful if you want to unlock advanced functionality.
Although many users pick up a quality Chromebook because of the simple browser-based experience, there's much more you can do with it if you're comfortable tweaking more advanced settings. For example, you can join the Beta or Dev channel or enable Chrome Flags to try out new features before they launch. If you're a developer, you can also put your Chromebook into Developer Mode to install applications and gain overall deeper access to the ChromeOS system.
The future of AI is almost certainly going to be models trained for specific tasks, rather than general-purpose LLMs.
Large Language Models (LLMs) are powerful tools, and ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, and Google Gemini consistently manage to blow me away. Their capabilities are extensive, but they're not without their faults. Hallucinations are a big problem with LLMs like these, though companies are aware of them and try to stamp them out whereveer possible. However, I don't think these models are the future of LLMs. I think the future of AI are the smaller, specialized models, rather than the general purpose tools that these are.
Google's Gemini 1.5 Pro model wowed us, and the Ultra model could be even better.
There's an ongoing arms race in the artificial intelligence sphere, particularly between big players like OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google. These three companies are locked into a never-ending battle of advancement, and Google is especially an outsider given that it doesn't use OpenAI's GPT technology at all. Google instead has been using its own home-grown technology, initially starting with PaLM and Bard and now more recently switching to Gemini 1.0 and Gemini 1.5. With Gemini 1.5 Pro already seemingly doing the impossible, we've never been more excited for Gemini 1.5 Ultra.
You can now make Google Gemini's prompts the best they can be.
It can be annoying when an AI generates a prompt that's almost there. Perhaps a specific section seems a bit off, or it goes on for a little too long. Fortunately, Google has updated its Gemini AI to allow you to re-generate any part of a prompt that you're unsure about.
Google is making changes to the way search results are surfaced in a bid to reduce low-quality and unoriginal content being served to users.
While Generative AI (GenAI) is a particularly impressive and useful technology in the right hands, it can be used for malicious purposes by bad actors. Companies that develop GenAI tools typically build guardrails around their products to prevent malicious actors from misusing the technology, but even those are circumvented sometimes. This means that firms and services that can potentially be negatively impacted by AI software also need to have protection against this kind of use. Now, Google has announced some ways it will combat AI-generated spam and low-quality content in search results.
With the Digital Markets Act (DMA) coming into effect in the European Union this week, Google is making major changes to its products and services.
The Digital Markets Act (DMA) is coming into effect soon in the European Union (EU) with six big tech firms, described as "gatekeepers", primarily being impacted. These include Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, ByteDance, Meta, and Microsoft. The aforementioned firms have already started implementing changes to their affected services in anticipation of the law, and now, Google has shared some ways in which it is improving its compliance status in accordance with the DMA.
Ambient computing is underlying a lot of our technology today, but what is it?
Devices all around us are getting smarter, and part of that perceived intelligence is the fact that so many of them are practically autonomous. If you have a Google Pixel, for example, you'll be familiar with features like Now Playing that just run in the background without any input. It's essentially invisible tech.
Google is preparing for a future where Gemini is king as it slowly phases out Google Assistant
Google's Gemini is all the rage these days, with the company ramping up the pace at which it pushes more improvements down the pipeline to eager users. As a matter of fact, Gemini 1.5 was released only one week after Google ushered in the Gemini era with its rebranding.
Google is making it easier to collaborate on Google Docs with the addition of markups, which allow you to leave notes for your colleagues.
Google is rolling out a new feature for Docs, allowing users to mark up documents in order to leave notes and comments on documents. The goal is to make it easier to leave feedback for your colleagues when you're working on something collaboratively using a more intuitive input method than just typing on a keyboard.
It's a scary error to see pop up on your Chromebook, but in many cases it's quite easy to fix.
Google's ChromeOS is an intuitively simple interface to navigate, but even the best operating systems experience an occasional hiccup. One particularly concerning issue is the ChromeOS is Missing or Damaged error, but thankfully, it's a relatively easy issue to troubleshoot.
If you don't want to use ChatGPT but still want to use a chatbot, then these are the best ChatGPT alternatives out there.
If you're eyeing up an LLM but don't want to use ChatGPT, then there are a few alternatives that you can use. You can either run something locally or use another online service, but there's something for everyone in the world of AI.
Google will not allow you to generate imagery of people in Gemini for the time being as it works on fixing certain glaring issues.
It's clear that the AI chatbot market is getting saturated as tech companies flood the space with multi-purpose conversational interfaces powered by large language models (LLMs). A few weeks ago, Google announced that it is rebranding Bard to Gemini, along with offering an advanced version of the model via a paid subscription. Gemini also packs the ImageFX utility based on the Imagen 2 AI model for image-generation capabilities, but now, Google has decided to nerf access to this tool following widespread reports of inaccurate and potentially offensive imagery being generated by the service.
If you find yourself being overwhelmed by the choices on the market, then you're not alone.
The market for AI chatbots is rapidly filling up, with no indication that its growth will slow down soon. The rise of ChatGPT, followed by the advent of Microsoft's Copilot and Google's Gemini, has made it difficult for users to choose the language model that best meets their needs. Furthermore, with programs like LM Studio enabling users to launch various models on their own powerful computers, the question of "Which AI chatbot is the right one for me?" has become even more complex to answer.
Why not have an AI write your next email?
With tech companies around the world racing to introduce their own artificial intelligence, we're also seeing the rise of paid plans. These grant the company's AI assistant some useful additional features, and if they manage to take off, they could become a reliable and secure source of revenue for tech companies.