The Nevada Supreme Court sided with the NFL against Jon Gruden, ruling that he was required to file his claim through league arbitration and thus ineligible to sue the NFL for his termination.
Green Bay is expected to hire sports media personality Doug Gottlieb, who doesn't have any college coaching experience, as its basketball coach, sources told ESPN.
Four-time PGA Championship winner Tiger Woods will tee off at 8:04 a.m. at Valhalla Country Club on Thursday, while defending champion Brooks Koepka tees off just 33 minutes later.
The veteran goalie has the Panthers in a prime position -- although his postseason numbers aren't looking too great.
With half of the round complete, here's what we've learned about the remaining teams, and what it means for the conference finals and beyond.
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Part of Google’s vision at its I/O developer conference this year has involved transforming its Gemini AI chatbot into more of a digital assistant that specializes in dealing with our day-to-day tedium. One of the new ways it’s doing that is by integrating Gemini with Google Calendar, Tasks, and Keep.
The new integrations, which Google says are coming “soon” come by way of the extensions the company added to Bard last year and have...
Veo demos show that Google’s AI-generated video capabilities have come a long way. | Image: Google
It’s been three months since OpenAI demoed its captivating text-to-video AI, Sora, and now Google is trying to steal some of that spotlight. Announced during its I/O developer conference on Tuesday, Google says Veo — its latest generative AI video model — can generate “high-quality” 1080p resolution videos over a minute in length in a wide variety of visual and cinematic...
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Google is working on new protections to help prevent Android users from falling victim to phone scams. During its I/O developer conference on Tuesday, Google announced that it’s testing a new call monitoring feature that will warn users if the person they’re talking to is likely attempting to scam them and encourage them to end such calls.
Google says the feature utilizes Gemini Nano — a reduced version of the company’s Gemini large...
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Gemini, Google’s ChatGPT competitor, is getting new trip planning capabilities, the company announced today at its I/O developer conference.
Based on the user’s prompt, the AI model will now research publicly available information as well as tap into specific details like flight times and hotel bookings to work up a custom, multiday vacation itinerary “in a matter of seconds.”
In a briefing with reporters, Google VP and general manager of Gemini,...
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Google is building its Gemini AI into Chrome on desktop. During its I/O event on Tuesday, Google announced that Chrome 126 will use Gemini Nano to power on-device AI features, such as text generation.
Gemini Nano is the lightweight large language model Google introduced to the Pixel 8 Pro last year — and, later, the Pixel 8. To get Gemini Nano on Chrome, Google says it tweaked the model and optimized the browser to “load the model quickly.”
The integration will...
Google might tell you f = ma, or something. I haven’t been to school for a long time. | Image: Google
Google is enhancing Android’s Circle to Search — the feature that lets you literally circle something on your Android phone’s screen to search it on Google — with a new ability to generate instructions on how to solve school math and physics problems.
Using an Android phone or tablet, students can now use Circle to Search to get AI assistance on mathematical word problems...
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Google is updating Gemini on Android to let its AI better tap into what’s on your screen. The update should allow Gemini to lean into one of its best use cases, helping you make sense of a limited set of data as you go about your day.
If you set Gemini as the default assist on your Android phone, it can already summarize or answer questions about a webpage or a screenshot. Soon, it’ll also be...
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Google is adding a bunch of new features to its Gemini AI, and one of the most powerful is a personalization option called “Gems” that allows users to create custom versions of the Gemini assistant with varying personalties.
Gems lets you create iterations of chatbots that can help you with certain tasks and retain specific characteristics, kind of like making your own bot in Character.AI, the service that lets you talk to virtualized versions of popular...
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Among Google’s swath of new AI models and tools announced today, the company is also expanding its AI content watermarking and detection technology to work across two new mediums.
Google’s DeepMind CEO, Demis Hassabis, took the stage for the first time at the Google I/O developer conference on Tuesday to talk not only about the team’s new AI tools, like the Veo video generator, but also about the new upgraded SynthID watermark imprinting...
The new Blink Mini 2 adds weather resistance so you can use it indoors and outdoors. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge
If you’ve got vacation plans for Memorial Day weekend, a security camera can help you keep an eye on valuables back home so you can really relax during your time off. And right now, one of the least expensive options on the market is even more affordable, with the new Blink Mini 2 selling for just $29.99 ($10 off) at Amazon, Best Buy, and The Home...
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There are nine MLS-affiliated teams left in the tournament. Who has the best chance of winning?
The 2024 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup has hit the Round of 32, and the competition resumes with 16 matches. For the first time in this year’s edition of the tournament, the MLS teams will enter the competition, but only 8 of them will fight for the oldest trophy in American soccer.
Atlanta United, Houston Dynamo, FC Dallas, San Jose...
SAVE $60: The Carrera Smart Sunglasses with Alexa are on sale at Amazon for $329.99, marked down from the normal price of $389.99. That's a 15% discount.
Opens in a new window ...SAVE $119.01: As of May 14, get the Google Pixel Tablet (128GB) with charging speaker dock at Woot for $379.99, which is $119.01 off its normal price of $499 (when you buy the tablet and speaker separately). That's $20 less than the typical price of $399 for a Google Pixel Tablet alone.
Opens in a new window ...The first teaser for The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Season 2 is here, promising Sauron like you've never seen him before. (Blond.)
J.R.R. Tolkien's legendary villain (played by Charlie Vickers) spent most of The Rings of Power Season 1 disguised as human Halbrand, only revealing his true nature in the Season 1 finale. But now that Sauron is officially back in action, it won't be long until his darkness threatens to corrupt all of Middle-earth for good.
SEE ALSO: ...The new DJ mode for Google's Music FX got the best presentation possible ahead of its Google I/O 2024 event. Featuring acclaimed DJ Marc Rebillet, the new addition to the tech giant musical generative AI lets anyone become a middle-aged DJ in real-time.
SEE ALSO: Google I/O 2024 keynote: How to watch liveThe DJ mode was first introduced in March, just months after Google released Music FX in December of last year. DJ Mode allows users to...