Table Of Contents Free Speech and Political Correctness Political Correctness in Business Coinbase Basecamp Google Changes Course Elon Musk and AI Conclusion Free Speech and Political Correctness The USA is the land of free speech. I think that’s amazing. And think that people sh … | Continue reading
Google says the new “Platform and Devices” team will let it move faster. | Continue reading
A legitimate-looking Google Search advertisement for the crypto trading platform 'Whales Market' redirects visitors to a wallet-draining phishing site that steals all of your assets. [...] | Continue reading
The development of a Smart City in Toronto, in partnership with Google, should be the realization of the tech utopia we’d been imagining. Complete with robots, autonomous cars, and the latest tech integrated into the city itself, it seems as if the residents are the lucky benefic … | Continue reading
Despite their ever-present controversy, trackers, particularly Apple’s AirTags, have proved helpful over the past three years since their first release. We now see Google entering the fray with its own Find My Device network, and it seems only a matter of time before it makes its … | Continue reading
Google says it terminated 28 employees associated with protests of the company’s $1.2 billion cloud computing contracts with the Israeli government on Wednesday. The firings follow the arrests of nine Google employees for trespassing in the company’s New York and California offic … | Continue reading
llm-reka My new plugin for running LLM prompts against the Reka family of API hosted LLM models: reka-core ($10 per million input), reka-flash (80c per million) and reka-edge (40c per million). All three of those models are trained from scratch by a team that includes several Goo … | Continue reading
Forgive the somewhat alliterative title there, but today's post covers something that's been on my mind since I started playing with Google Gemini, specifically, how to get the results of your API calls in JSON. To be clear, the REST API returns a result in JSON, but I'm talking … | Continue reading
Got amazing feedback on the first brutally honest BUSINESS advice email… so we’re back with PART 2!! If you’re new, my business (AppSumo.com) is about to do $100M in revenue this year. But before that, I was rejected by Microsoft and Google (twice!). Fired by both Facebook and Mi … | Continue reading
Back in January, researchers showed off the kitchen skills of an open-source Aloha housekeeping robot. Now the Unleashed project gets to grips with knotting shoelaces, hanging shirts and even repairing other robots. Continue Reading Category: Robotics, Technology Tags: Machine Le … | Continue reading
Nine Google workers were arrested for trespassing in New York City and Sunnyvale, California on Tuesday night after an hours-long sit-in protest against their company’s contracts with Israel, a spokesperson from No Tech For Apartheid tells Gizmodo. Google says it has cut the prot … | Continue reading
The update will first roll out to cars with Google Maps built-in. | Continue reading
It’s been a wild ride with Google’s total pivot toward infusing AI into every bit of its products, and I need a break. The company released Gemini for the Pixel phones a few months ago, and it’s already wreaking havoc on my life and the lives of others on Reddit. Gemini doesn’t d … | Continue reading
"It's been 10 years of blood, sweat, and tears." Google co-founder to test massive zeppelin-like airship with electric motors: 'Now we must show that this can reliably fly' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Ben talks with Shane McAllister, lead developer advocate at MongoDB, Stanimira Vlaeva, senior developer advocate at MongoDB, and Miku Jha, director, AI/ML and generative AI at Google Cloud, about the challenges and opportunities of operationalizing and scaling generative AI model … | Continue reading
Google NotebookLM Data Exfiltration NotebookLM is a Google Labs product that lets you store information as sources (mainly text files in PDF) and then ask questions against those sources - effectively an interface for building your own custom RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) … | Continue reading
It's encouraging that these massive global companies are now supporting new ways to produce clean energy. Microsoft and Google team up for massive project to fund 'next-generation' clean energy technology: 'We are eager' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
YouTube announced yesterday that third-party applications that block ads while watching YouTube videos violates its Terms of Service (ToS), and it will soon start taking action against the apps. [...] | Continue reading
Google workers in California and New York are planning a sit-in protest of the company’s ties to Israel on Tuesday, organizers from “No Tech for Apartheid” tell Gizmodo. The protestors demand their company drop Project Nimbus, a $1.2 billion contract held by Google and Amazon to … | Continue reading
Google would really like it if everyone just paid for YouTube Premium instead. | Continue reading
The three Core Web Vitals metrics don’t only tell you how visitors experience your website but also impact your Google search result rankings. In this article, we’ll look at what Core Web Vitals are, how they are measured, and how you can use DebugBear to monitor them continuousl … | Continue reading
FYI. Google and MIT RAISE have partnered to create a free course for teachers and educators, one designed to show teachers how they can use generative AI tools to save “time on everyday tasks, personaliz[e] instruction to meet student needs, and enhanc[e] lessons and activities i … | Continue reading
No one wants to build an Android satellite phone, so Google is going to do it. | Continue reading
The one with the Lead Dev webinar and lots of Renovate: My Google Pixel Watch got stuck on the bootloader after doing an update, so I had to factory reset it. Very annoying that I didn't notice until after a trip to Lidl, so I missed out on some steps 😩 We've noticed that … | Continue reading
Who are you, and what do you do? My name is Jude Doyle ("Jude Ellison S. Doyle" if you publish me, because Google Reader tells me there are a thousand 65-year-old Irish traffic cops named "Jude Doyle" in the world) and I have, at present, two roughly parallel careers. I started a … | Continue reading
If you take the time to create content online, you probably want people to read it. It doesn't have to go viral, but it'd be nice if some folks read it, right? But for people to read your stuff, they must know about it. And for this, Google (or other search engines) must index yo … | Continue reading
This new feature could help promote electrification between drivers and gas stations nationwide. Google Maps quietly made a major change for millions of users — and drivers are torn first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Google should be barred from “treating Epic differently,” Epic Games says. | Continue reading
Google began blocking access to California news outlets for some users in the state, according to an announcement from the tech giant on Friday. And it’s all because Google is upset about proposed legislation that would force the company to pay some publishers for their content, … | Continue reading
Did anyone want a VPN from the Internet's largest data collector? | Continue reading
How we built JSR Really interesting deep dive by Luca Casonato into the engineering behind the new JSR alternative JavaScript package registry launched recently by Deno. The backend uses PostgreSQL and a Rust API server hosted on Google Cloud Run. The frontend uses Fresh, Deno's … | Continue reading
Lately, for my Generative AI powered Java apps, I've used the Gemini multimodal large language model from Google. But there's also Gemma, its little sister model. The post Calling Gemma with Ollama, TestContainers, and LangChain4j appeared first on foojay. | Continue reading
Imagine two anthropologists, Willard and Orman, who stumble over some never-before-seen tribe. There is the usual first-contact kind of behavior: pointing, laughing, and frustrated misunderstandings. It becomes apparent that the anthropologists need to decipher this tribe’s langu … | Continue reading
Photo Unblur and AI-erase are now free, while the editor offers 10 free saves a month. | Continue reading
Supantha Mukherjee and Foo Yun Chee, Reuters: Independent browser companies in the European Union are seeing a spike in users in the first month after EU legislation forced Alphabet’s Google, Microsoft, and Apple to make it easier for users to switch to rivals, according to data … | Continue reading
Google announced on Wednesday that it will extend its AI-powered editing features in Google Photos, previously exclusive to Pixel devices… Continue reading Google expands AI-powered editing tools to all Google Photos users The post Google expands AI-powered editing tools to all G … | Continue reading
Google Axion-based VMs will be out in preview in the coming months. | Continue reading
AppSumo is about to do $100M in revenue this year. But before that: Rejected by Microsoft and Google (twice!) Fired by both Facebook and Mint after less than a year And built 20+ startups that didn’t work out In short… I’ve made A LOT of mistakes. Today, I want to share 9 pieces … | Continue reading
Google Cloud Next 2024 was Google's most impressive assertion yet that it has the AI scale advantage and is determined to use it. | Continue reading
Google has unveiled the details of a new version of its data center artificial intelligence chips and announced an Arm-based… Continue reading Google launches advanced Arm-based ‘Axion’ chip The post Google launches advanced Arm-based ‘Axion’ chip appeared first on ReadWrite. | Continue reading
Smaller browser companies are starting to grab market share in Europe following the EU legislation that forced Google, Microsoft, and… Continue reading Small browser companies like DuckDuckGo and Ecosia see user surge in Europe The post Small browser companies like DuckDuckGo and … | Continue reading
I'm a bit behind on my weeknotes, so there's a lot to cover here. But first... a review of the last 24 hours of Large Language Model news. All times are in US Pacific. 11:01am: Google Gemini Pro 1.5 hits general availability, here's the blog post - their 1 million token context G … | Continue reading
Gemini 1.5 Pro public preview Huge release from Google: Gemini 1.5 Pro - the GPT-4 competitive model with the incredible 1 million token context length - is now available without a waitlist in 180+ countries (including the USA but not Europe or the UK as far as I can tell)... and … | Continue reading
Google's "video editor" feels more like a souped-up version of Google Slides. | Continue reading
Some of the first words I wrote yesterday were “please remember not to stare directly at the sun.” As the eclipse moved across North America, Google searches spiked for “eyes hurt” and “I looked at the eclipse without glasses.” We all had a laugh about it! But here’s a confession … | Continue reading
It will now be easier than ever to find your misplaced phone or tablet if you’re an Android user as… Continue reading Google launches Find My Device for Android users The post Google launches Find My Device for Android users appeared first on ReadWrite. | Continue reading
The Israeli assault on Gaza has sparked conflict at companies throughout the world. At Google, a company that has often tried to foster a public reputation of openness, the war seems to have sparked a growing number of staff to protest or quit. Read more... | Continue reading
A Cryptocurrency investor has alleged that two ‘weird extensions’ have drained $800,000 from multiple of his wallet apps. The trading… Continue reading Trader loses $800k in crypto to malicious Google Chrome extension The post Trader loses $800k in crypto to malicious Google Chro … | Continue reading