Google on Wednesday revealed plans to infuse its powerful search engine with more advanced artificial intelligence technology, a response to major threats to its long-established position as the main gateway to the Internet. The gradual change in how Google’s search engine operates is emerging three months after Microsoft’s Bing search engine began tapping the technology … Read more
Google has taken a page from Samsung’s book and made its own foldable phone. In fact, the newly announced Google Pixel Fold, shown alongside the Pixel 7A and Pixel Tablet at Google I/O 2023, appears to have borrowed a few chapters from Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold 4. The foldables from Google share quite a striking … Read more
While Henry Cejudo’s trainer is making some big claims about UFC 288, champion Almaine Sterling disagrees. Cejudo challenged Sterling for the bantamweight title in the main event of UFC 288. The fight was a good one, with Sterling winning a contested split decision to retain his title, and afterward, the champion celebrated his record victory, … Read more
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory Science Newsletter. Explore the world with fascinating discoveries, scientific breakthroughs and more news. CNN – VAST — a California-based startup and one of the newest entrants into the world of privatized spaceflight — plans to use a SpaceX rocket to launch it. Think shuttle passengers to and from the … Read more
It’s been two years since Google introduced its Project Starline holographic video conferencing experiment, and while we didn’t hear much about it in today’s keynote at I/O 2023, there is indeed an update. The company quietly announced that new prototypes of the Starline booth are smaller and easier to deploy. I was able to check … Read more
Not many features from Google I/O, but a huge list of patches The first beta version of Android 14 was riddled with bugs, only two weeks later Google rolled out the beta 1.1 update. Trouble is, that update only fixed the most egregious bugs, leaving plenty of problems to plague users. Fortunately, Google has started … Read more
At the heart of this Hubble Space Telescope image lies a giant cluster of galaxies. (Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, H. Ebeling) A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope looks into the lair of Cosmic Leviathan, a gigantic cluster of galaxies nine billion light-years away in the Draco galaxy. Like the sea monster in … Read more
MESA, Ariz. – On an 80-degree morning, a group of world-class swimmers stood in their Speedos and swim caps on a pebbly beach east of Phoenix. They gathered on the shores of Saguaro Lake on April 25 to compete in the SCAR Swim, a four-day, 40-mile open water race along the Salt River in central … Read more
We knew Pixel tablet was coming. In fact, we’ve known it for over a year. Google teased the device at last year’s I/O. It’s one of those “don’t worry, we’re working on stuff” kind of deals with a very broad 2023 release date. The company gave a (slightly) better look at the system at its … Read more
In a laboratory in Atlanta, thousands of yeast cells fight for their lives every day. Those that live another day grow faster, reproduce faster and form larger clumps. For about a decade, cells have evolved to hang on top of each other, forming branching snowflake shapes. These strange snowflakes are at the heart of experiments … Read more