Google DeepMind, the company’s AI research wing, first unveiled Project Astra at I/O this year. Now, more than six months later, the tech giant announced new capabilities and improvements in the artificial intelligence (AI) agent. Drawing upon Gemini 2.0 AI models, it can now converse in multiple languages, access multiple Google platforms, and has improved
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Google introduced the successor of the Gemini 1.5 family of AI models, dubbed Gemini 2.0, on Wednesday. The new AI models come with improved capabilities including native support for image generation and audio generation, the company highlighted. Currently, the Gemini 2.0 model is available in beta to select developers and testers, whereas the Gemini 2.0
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PlayStation Plus Game Catalog titles for December have been revealed. Open-world platformer Sonic Frontiers leads the slate of games arriving on PS Plus this month. The game brings traditional platforming from past Sonic titles in an open world setting for the first time. Other titles joining the Game Catalog in December include action-adventure title Forspoken,
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Apple rolled out the iOS 18.2 update for iPhone globally on Wednesday. It arrives a day after the release of iOS 18.2 Release Candidate (RC) 2, expanding the set of Apple Intelligence features that the Cupertino-based technology giant previously introduced. Its latest update brings Image Playground, Genmoji, and ChatGPT integration. It also bundles a new
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Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a novel surveillance program that’s suspected to be used by Chinese police departments as a lawful intercept tool to gather a wide range of information from mobile devices. The Android tool, codenamed EagleMsgSpy by Lookout, has been operational since at least 2017, with artifacts uploaded to the VirusTotal malware scanning platform
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Dec 11, 2024Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Authentication Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a “critical” security vulnerability in Microsoft’s multi-factor authentication (MFA) implementation that allows an attacker to trivially sidestep the protection and gain unauthorized access to a victim’s account. “The bypass was simple: it took around an hour to execute, required no user interaction and did not
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Apple Watch Ultra 3 is expected to be unveiled in 2025. As we wait for an official confirmation about its existence, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman has claimed that Apple is working on incorporating a satellite-based messaging feature on its upcoming Watch Ultra model. This will allow users to send and receive short messages without cellular or
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A recent study published in Nature has detailed a major achievement by Google’s Quantum AI team. Their latest quantum processor, named “Willow,” solved a computational problem in five minutes that would have taken the world’s most advanced supercomputer an estimated 10 septillion years. This achievement marks significant progress in overcoming one of the greatest challenges
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