Cybersecurity The Pixel 8 launched in 2023 (Image credit: Future | Alex Walker-Todd) With the Google Pixel 8a now out in the world, the next Google phone off the production line should be the Pixel 9 – and we may now know the colors it’ll come in, and the wallpapers that will come supplied with...
Ohio Welcome back to TechCrunch’s Week in Review. This week had two major events from OpenAI and Google. OpenAI’s spring update event saw the reveal of its new model, GPT-4o, which has voice and vision capabilities that can turn ChatGPT into a virtual assistant seemingly aspiring to be “Her.” Hot off OpenAI’s tail, Google’s I/O...
Cincinnati Unless you can find the Pixel 6 series for $300 or less, you’re better off buying one of the newer phones we recommend above. Any older Pixel is not worth buying anymore. (The Pixel 5’s support window ended.) You can still find some of them at various retailers, but unless they’re practically free, stick...
Cybersecurity Bringing new meaning to “Killed By Google” — UniSuper, a $135 billion pension account, details its cloud compute nightmare. Ron Amadeo – May 17, 2024 8:22 pm UTC Buried under the news from Google I/O this week is one of Google Cloud’s biggest blunders ever: Google’s Amazon Web Services competitor accidentally deleted a giant...
Cybersecurity Andy Boxall / Digital Trends What is one of the hottest, most interesting mobile devices around at the moment? It’s Ray-Ban Meta, smart glasses that not only look great but work really well too. They’re suitably incognito yet still highly functional, giving you a reason to wear them all the time if the mood...
Cincinnati (Image credit: Google) Google has announced Gemini Education, a new generative AI suite designed to cater to the needs of learning facilities and students. The program, which is only available to those over 18 years old, offers eligible Google Workspace accounts access to Gemini’s GenAI functionalities. The broadened access to Google’s AI will give...
Ohio (Image credit: Future | Alex Walker-Todd) Google is rolling out several new accessibility-focused features to platforms like Android and ChromeOS, timed to Global Accessibility Awareness Day, May 16. Leading the long list is the arrival of Project Gameface on Android. If you’re unfamiliar, Gameface is software that lets people use “head movement and facial...
Cybersecurity Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. In context: Google has drawn rising criticism over the added features of its search engine in recent years. As the company introduces fully AI-generated summaries of search results, it has also added a mode that strips those results down to...
Cincinnati This week, Google and OpenAI both announced they’ve built supercharged AI assistants: tools that can converse with you in real time and recover when you interrupt them, analyze your surroundings via live video, and translate conversations on the fly. OpenAI struck first on Monday, when it debuted its new flagship model GPT-4o. The live...
Cybersecurity Google has released a new emergency Chrome security update to address the third zero-day vulnerability exploited in attacks within a week. “Google is aware that an exploit for CVE-2024-4947 exists in the wild,” the search giant said in a security advisory published on Wednesday. The high-severity zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2024-4947) is caused by a type...