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LetinAR, a South Korean startup backed by LG Electronics, has developed an optical lens technology called PinTILT that aims to make AI-powered smart glasses thinner, lighter, and more power-efficient by directing light p…
Despite claims that "vibecoding" (using AI to generate software via prompts) has lowered barriers to creating complex software, no evidence exists of AI-generated applications requiring architectural judgment, such as a …
Six progressive levels of complexity for using Codex's AI to create a morning brief, starting with a simple prompt that connects Slack, Gmail, and Calendar to summarize the user's day. It then advances through adding per…
Project Genie, a general-purpose world model from Google, now integrates Google Street View imagery to ground AI-generated virtual environments in real-world locations. This new capability allows users to select a real p…
Based on the provided text, Google has introduced Gemini Omni, a new multimodal model that can generate and edit videos from combined inputs like images, audio, and text. The model allows users to edit videos through nat…
Co-packaged optics (CPO), a technology that integrates optical components directly with switch ASICs or AI accelerators to reduce power consumption and increase bandwidth density for AI data centers. It identifies key su…
Google has introduced **Gemini for Science**, a suite of AI-powered experimental tools designed to accelerate scientific discovery by helping researchers generate hypotheses, run computational experiments, and analyze li…
Google is expanding its content transparency tools across Search, Gemini, Chrome, Pixel, and Cloud to help users understand the origin and editing history of digital media. The company is scaling its SynthID watermarking…
Libertas Software Research Ltd, founded one year ago, has grown from a concept into a business with real clients and products, focusing on building custom software tailored to how businesses operate. Founder Adrian empha…
Google's new AI-powered Health Coach, integrated into Fitbit products as a paid replacement for Fitbit Premium, immediately generated false data during its first use, including fabricating a run and then suggesting the u…
CSS gap decorations are now available in Chrome and Edge starting in version 149, allowing developers to style gaps between grid, flexbox, and multi-column layouts without using borders or pseudo-elements. The feature in…
A medium-sized technology company recently used a coding agent to rewrite both its legacy iPhone and Android apps in React Native, citing the framework's recent improvements and full coverage of their needs. The decision…
A zero-day exploit called YellowKey allows attackers with physical access to a Windows 11 system to bypass default BitLocker encryption protections and access encrypted drive contents within seconds. The exploit involves…
The article describes how GitHub's Issues Performance team modernized navigation by shifting from server-rendered pages to a client-side caching system. They built a caching layer using IndexedDB, implemented a preheatin…
Google announced managed and remote MCP support for its Cloud databases (AlloyDB, Spanner, Cloud SQL, Bigtable, and Firestore) to enable AI agents to interact with customer databases. The company also reimagined Firestor…
As AI (LLMs) improve at logical, data-driven tasks, tech companies must increasingly hire "contra-logical" creatives like poets and philosophers to handle questions of brand, taste, and innovation—areas where there is no…
Google Cloud has developed a method to significantly accelerate and reduce the cost of LLM-powered SQL functions in databases by using lightweight "proxy models." These proxy models, which are trained on-the-fly and util…
The article announces that Browser Run has been rebuilt on Cloudflare's Containers platform, resulting in higher usage limits, faster performance, and improved reliability. Users can now launch 60 browsers per minute and…
At the Android Show, Google announced "Googlebooks," a new category of premium laptops built with Gemini Intelligence to provide personalized, proactive support and agentic capabilities. The company reaffirmed its commit…
A JavaScript script called `tripo3d_model_downloader.js` that extracts 3D models from the Tripo3D.ai website. The script works by accessing the site's Vue 3 and TresJS/Three.js renderer components through the browser con…