Google’s Gemini lets you chat with your smart home
“Hey Google, set bedroom lamp to 50 percent.” Such stilted voice commands have been the stuff of smart home for years, but with Gemini for Home, Google is promising a smart home you can have an…
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You can now chat with Google’s Gemini on select TCL smart TVs
Google’s Gemini is poised to take root in your home this fall, from a new Gemini-powered smart speaker to a series of refreshed Nest Cams. But first, Gemini is eyeing a staple of the living…
Google’s new AI app searches ‘anything,’ including your PC
Google said Tuesday that it’s testing a new experimental search app for Windows that will search your PC as well as the web, applying Google Lens when needed. Google classified its new app as an…
Google’s former security leads raise $13M to fight email threats before they reach you
As AI is increasingly helping hackers to launch mass-scale email attacks, former Google security leaders have joined forces to build autonomous AI agents that aim to stop phishing, malware, and business email compromise threats before…
Google’s Gemini AI can now make 1080p videos and costs half as much
Google’s video-generating AI model, called Veo 3, can now generate videos in Full HD. The company announced yesterday that it has updated the AI model to support both a higher resolution and a new format.…
Oops! Google’s unannounced new Nest Cams spotted in Google Home app
The big smart home manufacturers have been leaking like sieves as of late, giving us juicy early previews of their super-secret upcoming releases. Philips Hue recently fell victim to its own leak that revealed its…
With Gemini, Google’s smart home dreams are finally getting back on track
Google’s smart home efforts were in a sorry state as late as May. Google touted Gemini AI assistant throughout the entire keynote of its annual I/O developers conference, demonstrating how it would come to permeate…
Google’s in-house AI agent discovers critical vulnerability in Chrome
Google has fixed a critical vulnerability in Chrome versions 139.0.7258.154/155 for Windows and macOS and 139.0.7258.154 for Linux. According to Google, the vulnerability has not yet been exploited for attacks in the wild. The manufacturers…
Experts are skeptical about Google’s AI water consumption claims
Yesterday, we covered Google’s report that a typical query to its Gemini AI consumes only “five drops of water.” That figure is now facing criticism from several AI experts, according to The Verge… and that…
Google’s mysterious Gemini smart speaker: What we know, and don’t know
Blink and you may have missed it, but Google gave us a peek at what sure looks like a new smart speaker during its Made by Google event on Wednesday. Was it a leak? Not…