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Google Rolling Out New Features Across Its Platforms to Help Users Plan Vacations
Google announced the rollout of several new features across its platforms on Thursday. Some of these features are powered by artificial intelligence (AI), while others are regular updates and language expansions. The Mountain View-based tech giant said that all of these features are aimed at helping users better plan their vacations and trips.
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Blobfish, World's Ugliest Animal, Wins New Zealand's Fish Of The Year Award
The blobfish, once dubbed the "world's ugliest animal," has been named "Fish of the Year" by a New Zealand environmental group, the Mountain to Sea Conservation Trust, in an effort to raise awareness for marine life.
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Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro AI Model Launched; Tops Leaderboard, Outperforms OpenAI’s o3 Mini
Google released the successor to its Gemini 2.0 series artificial intelligence (AI) models on Wednesday. Dubbed Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental, it is the first model the company is releasing from the 2.5 family. The Mountain View-based tech giant says that this series of models will have “thinking” or reasoning capability built directly into the m...
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Pilot Killed As South Korea Firefighting Helicopter Crashes In Mountain
At least 19 people have been killed in one of South Korea's worst wildfire outbreaks, with multiple raging blazes causing "unprecedented damage", the acting president said Wednesday.
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As Glaciers Melt, Risk Of Catastrophic Flash Floods Rises For Millions
In mountain ranges around the world, glaciers are melting as global temperatures rise. Europe's Alps and Pyrenees lost 40% of their glacier volume from 2000 to 2023.
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Google Vids Video Creation App Gets Updated With an AI Voiceovers Feature
Google Vids, the company's artificial intelligence (AI) video creation tool, is getting a new feature. Announced last week, the Mountain View-based tech giant is now adding AI-powered voiceovers to its ‘Help me create’ feature. With this, the tool will automatically add voiceovers for each scene generated by it. Users will have granular control...
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Google Reportedly Rolling Out Gemini Live Video and Screen-Sharing Features
Google is reportedly rolling out its two major Gemini features — live video and screen-sharing. The Mountain View-based tech giant first unveiled these features at Google I/O 2024. Developed by Google DeepMind under Project Astra, these features come with live multimodal data processing capabilities and allows the artificial intelligence (AI) cha...
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Chinese Man Disappears Into The Wild For A Year. Returns Looking 2 Decades Older
The man had walked 3,300 km across mountains and valleys, through snowstorms and typhoons, sleeping under the open sky, rarely bathing, and cooking frugal meals to survive.
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Gemini Is Getting Upgraded With Audio Overview and Canvas Features
Gemini is getting two new artificial intelligence (AI) features, Google announced on Tuesday. The Mountain View-based tech giant is adding Canvas, an interactive space that lets human users and AI collaborate on projects involving documents and coding-related tasks. Another feature making its way to Gemini is Audio Overview, which lets users genera...
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Gear Up For Adventure: Explore 10 Top-Rated Geared Cycles On Flipkart
Whether you're cycling through city streets or taking on rugged mountain trails, these top Flipkart deals on geared cycles. From mountain bikes to road bikes, these options will make every ride feel like an adventure.
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Google Assistant on Android Smartphones Being Replaced by AI-Powered Gemini
Google is now upgrading the virtual assistant experience for Android smartphone users to Gemini. Announced on Friday, the Mountain View-based tech giant is now slowly retiring Google Assistant in favour of the artificial intelligence (AI) assistant Gemini. The company said that the shift will be made over the next few months as more devices are shi...
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Google Reportedly Working on Adding a Second Language for Gemini Live
Google is reportedly working on adding support for a second language with Gemini Live. As per the report, the Mountain View-based tech giant is planning to allow users to speak with the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot in two different languages across speech and text modalities. With this, Gemini Live is said to not only understand what the us...
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Video Of Bus Journey In Himachal Goes Viral, Internet Says "Riding On Edge Of Your Lives"
The viral travel video shows a risky bus ride on a hilly road in Himachal Pradesh.
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Google DeepMind Unveils Gemini Robotics AI Models That Can Control Robots in the Real World
Google DeepMind unveiled two new artificial intelligence (AI) models on Thursday, which can control robots to make them perform a wide range of tasks in real-world environments. Dubbed Gemini Robotics and Gemini Robotics-ER (embodied reasoning), these are advanced vision language models capable of displaying spatial intelligence and performing acti...
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Google Addresses Slowdown Issues in Messages; ‘Significantly’ Improves Media Receiving Performance
Google has addressed several issues within its Messages app which caused it to suffer “slowdowns and failures”. The Mountain View-based technology giant says its team has been actively working to fix the problems and has rolled out several recent updates aimed at improving the media receiving performance “significantly”.
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Google Rolling Out New Features Across Its Platforms to Help Users Plan Vacations
Google announced the rollout of several new features across its platforms on Thursday. Some of these features are powered by artificial intelligence (AI), while others are regular updates and language expansions. The Mountain View-based tech giant said that all of these features are aimed at helping users better plan their vacations and trips.
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Blobfish, World's Ugliest Animal, Wins New Zealand's Fish Of The Year Award
The blobfish, once dubbed the "world's ugliest animal," has been named "Fish of the Year" by a New Zealand environmental group, the Mountain to Sea Conservation Trust, in an effort to raise awareness for marine life.
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Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro AI Model Launched; Tops Leaderboard, Outperforms OpenAI’s o3 Mini
Google released the successor to its Gemini 2.0 series artificial intelligence (AI) models on Wednesday. Dubbed Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental, it is the first model the company is releasing from the 2.5 family. The Mountain View-based tech giant says that this series of models will have “thinking” or reasoning capability built directly into the m...
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Pilot Killed As South Korea Firefighting Helicopter Crashes In Mountain
At least 19 people have been killed in one of South Korea's worst wildfire outbreaks, with multiple raging blazes causing "unprecedented damage", the acting president said Wednesday.
-
As Glaciers Melt, Risk Of Catastrophic Flash Floods Rises For Millions
In mountain ranges around the world, glaciers are melting as global temperatures rise. Europe's Alps and Pyrenees lost 40% of their glacier volume from 2000 to 2023.
-
Google Vids Video Creation App Gets Updated With an AI Voiceovers Feature
Google Vids, the company's artificial intelligence (AI) video creation tool, is getting a new feature. Announced last week, the Mountain View-based tech giant is now adding AI-powered voiceovers to its ‘Help me create’ feature. With this, the tool will automatically add voiceovers for each scene generated by it. Users will have granular control...
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Google Reportedly Rolling Out Gemini Live Video and Screen-Sharing Features
Google is reportedly rolling out its two major Gemini features — live video and screen-sharing. The Mountain View-based tech giant first unveiled these features at Google I/O 2024. Developed by Google DeepMind under Project Astra, these features come with live multimodal data processing capabilities and allows the artificial intelligence (AI) cha...
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Chinese Man Disappears Into The Wild For A Year. Returns Looking 2 Decades Older
The man had walked 3,300 km across mountains and valleys, through snowstorms and typhoons, sleeping under the open sky, rarely bathing, and cooking frugal meals to survive.
-
Gemini Is Getting Upgraded With Audio Overview and Canvas Features
Gemini is getting two new artificial intelligence (AI) features, Google announced on Tuesday. The Mountain View-based tech giant is adding Canvas, an interactive space that lets human users and AI collaborate on projects involving documents and coding-related tasks. Another feature making its way to Gemini is Audio Overview, which lets users genera...
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Gear Up For Adventure: Explore 10 Top-Rated Geared Cycles On Flipkart
Whether you're cycling through city streets or taking on rugged mountain trails, these top Flipkart deals on geared cycles. From mountain bikes to road bikes, these options will make every ride feel like an adventure.
-
Google Assistant on Android Smartphones Being Replaced by AI-Powered Gemini
Google is now upgrading the virtual assistant experience for Android smartphone users to Gemini. Announced on Friday, the Mountain View-based tech giant is now slowly retiring Google Assistant in favour of the artificial intelligence (AI) assistant Gemini. The company said that the shift will be made over the next few months as more devices are shi...
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Google Reportedly Working on Adding a Second Language for Gemini Live
Google is reportedly working on adding support for a second language with Gemini Live. As per the report, the Mountain View-based tech giant is planning to allow users to speak with the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot in two different languages across speech and text modalities. With this, Gemini Live is said to not only understand what the us...
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Video Of Bus Journey In Himachal Goes Viral, Internet Says "Riding On Edge Of Your Lives"
The viral travel video shows a risky bus ride on a hilly road in Himachal Pradesh.
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Google DeepMind Unveils Gemini Robotics AI Models That Can Control Robots in the Real World
Google DeepMind unveiled two new artificial intelligence (AI) models on Thursday, which can control robots to make them perform a wide range of tasks in real-world environments. Dubbed Gemini Robotics and Gemini Robotics-ER (embodied reasoning), these are advanced vision language models capable of displaying spatial intelligence and performing acti...
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Google Addresses Slowdown Issues in Messages; ‘Significantly’ Improves Media Receiving Performance
Google has addressed several issues within its Messages app which caused it to suffer “slowdowns and failures”. The Mountain View-based technology giant says its team has been actively working to fix the problems and has rolled out several recent updates aimed at improving the media receiving performance “significantly”.
