Google weighing ‘Project Ellmann,’ uses Gemini AI to tell life stories

Google weighing ‘Project Ellmann,’ uses Gemini AI to tell life stories

A team at Google has proposed using artificial intelligence technology to create a “bird’s-eye” view of users’ lives using mobile phone data such as photographs and searches. Dubbed “Project Ellmann,” after biographer and literary critic Richard David Ellmann, the idea would be to use LLMs like Gemini to ingest search results, spot patterns in a … Read more

New Google AI Model “Outperforms” ChatGPT in Most Tests

New Google AI Model “Outperforms” ChatGPT in Most Tests

A new Google artificial intelligence (AI) model, referred to as Gemini, reportedly outperforms ChatGPT in most tests and displays “advanced reasoning” across multiple formats. Described by Google as “its most capable model yet”, Gemini is the first to be announced since last month’s global AI safety summit, at which tech firms agreed to collaborate with … Read more

Google, Amazon Ask UK’s CMA To Take Action Against Microsoft’s Anticompetitive Business Practices

Google, Amazon Ask UK’s CMA To Take Action Against Microsoft’s Anticompetitive Business Practices

Google has reportedly reached out to the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) through a letter, requesting the competition regulator to clamp down on the “anticompetitive” business practices Microsoft adopts in cloud computing. A new letter posted on CMA’s website indicates Amazon has shown its support for the search giant’s criticism of Microsoft’s business practices … Read more

Google Pixel 8 series gaming performance receives big boost, courtesy of first Feature Drop update

Google Pixel 8 series gaming performance receives big boost, courtesy of first Feature Drop update

However, the Mountain View giant is trying to fix the issues to a large extent with the December 2023 Pixel Feature drop. The new update is said to boost the CPU performance significantly. Pixel 8 performance reportedly improved Courtesy of the latest update, Google is updating the ARM Mali’s kernel driver to a more recent … Read more

McDonald’s China pushes development of native apps based on HarmonyOS, as adoption of Huawei’s mobile operating system accelerates

McDonald’s China pushes development of native apps based on HarmonyOS, as adoption of Huawei’s mobile operating system accelerates

The Chinese arm of McDonald’s – with a network of more than 5,500 restaurants and over 200,000 employees serving more than 1 billion customers each year – is part of the first batch of multinational food companies on the mainland that have committed to develop native apps on HarmonyOS, according to a statement by the … Read more

Android owners receive free phone upgrade as Google releases a ‘Christmas present’ with big camera boost

Android owners receive free phone upgrade as Google releases a ‘Christmas present’ with big camera boost

GOOGLE has released a huge upgrade for millions of Android fans including some big improvements for video and photography. The tech giant described the massive feature drop as a “present” to Pixel owners for Christmas. 2 Before and after shows more detail and colour in Pixel 8 Pro videosCredit: Google Most of the changes come … Read more