Verily, the health and life sciences subsidiary of Google parent Alphabet, has asked the US Environmental Protection Agency for permission to release up to 64 million lab-bred mosquitoes across Florida and California over two years. The proposal, submi…
Verily, the health and life sciences subsidiary of Google parent Alphabet, has asked the US Environmental Protection Agency for permission to release up to 64 million lab-bred mosquitoes across Florida and California over two years. The proposal, submi…
Alphabet is raising $80bn in equity, an unusually large sum for a company that has rarely needed to ask. The Google parent announced the plan on Monday to help fund what it called investment in world-class AI compute infrastructure to meet unprecedente…
We may just have gotten an early look at the Google Pixel Watch 5 – and from an unusual source. Randy Pitchford, the creator of the Borderlands game franchise, posted a pair of images of a watch on X, saying that his friend found it underwater while scuba diving near Saint Martin, as reported earlier […]
Google’s new “24/7” AI agent, Gemini Spark, can be shockingly good at doing things on your behalf. But I’m not sure it’s worth the financial cost and potential privacy tradeoffs. The company gave me access to Spark last week. Google advertises Spark as an AI agent that can take on tasks and work on them […]
Alternative search engine DuckDuckGo launches ‘no AI’ web extensions for Chrome and Firefox users.
On the latest episode of Equity, we debate whether tech CEOs are “uniquely prone to AI psychosis.”
LG Electronics shares surged as much as 23.95% after the company announced a range of automotive solutions built on Google’s Android Automotive operating system. The stock last traded at 279,500 won. It was one of the largest single-day moves for the c…
DuckDuckGo US app installs jumped by an average of 18% week over week between 20 and 25 May. The growth sustained for six consecutive days, peaking at 30% on Memorial Day Monday. On Apple devices, weekly install growth reached 33%, with a single-day pe…