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Meta is launching a new Mac app dedicated to its AI chatbot. In an announcement on Wednesday, Meta says you can share your window with its AI chatbot, which can provide suggestions, answer questions, or create content based on what’s on your screen. Meta AI on the Mac also supports dictation across all apps.Along with the new app, Meta is introducing new AI capabilities for businesses and creators. The company says its app across the web, on mobile, and on Mac can now work directly with Instagram and Facebook accounts, Meta ad campaigns, and Google Workspace.As an example, Meta says…

As we’re gearing up for back-to-school season, Google is rolling out a new dedicated student hub in Gemini. It’s a one-stop repository for collecting research in a study notebook, creating flashcards, taking practice quizzes, and more. Google is also enhancing its study notebooks with support for graphs and images. It can even add test dates and deadlines to your Google Calendar based on your syllabus.Google is also adding Deep Research to Gemini Live. You can ask Gemini to generate complicated research reports and talk through the results. If it’s taking a while, you can close the chat and lock your…

Google is trying to get you off your phone. The Pixel 11 Pro is “A Phone Designed to Help You Use It Less,” the company promises. It can proactively help you book restaurant reservations, take the best frames from a video, and help you voice-text significantly faster. The pitch is that the new features bundled with the Pixel 11 series of phones can help fix your relationship with technology — one that Google knows has badly degraded in recent years.But the hardware of the Pixel 11 Pro and 11 Pro XL is very similar to last year’s models — and…

Google has announced a dedicated event for its new line of Gemini Intelligence-based Googlebook laptops – and it’s happening within the next month. Invites have been sent to the media for a showcase in New York on September 15 where the company will reveal the new hardware, enable attendees to go hands-on with the new products, and capture photos and videos with the first devices to launch. So far, we know that hardware partners like Acer, Dell, Lenovo, ASUS, and HP have committed to make Googlebooks so it’s likely we’ll see machines from those companies officially unveiled during the event.…

Valve just leaked several new videos showing the Steam Frame’s unboxing, setup process, and various accessories. The videos apparently appeared on the ARM Steam client following an update, but they were “quickly pulled after that,” according to the Steam Hardware Updates account on X.The Steam Frame is Valve’s virtual-reality headset that can stream games from a PC or play them locally. Valve first took the wraps off the headset last year, and it offers LCD screens with 2160 x 2160 resolution per eye, a Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chip, and an up to 110-degree field of view. But these leaked…

The foldable phone market is in the middle of a huge transformation, but no one told Google.Last year, Samsung transformed its Galaxy Z Fold 7 with a dramatically thinner design. This year, it made its phones thinner and lighter again, almost eliminated the crease, and introduced a new passport-sized form factor that feels like the future. Next month, Apple is expected to enter the market with a foldable iPhone that, rumor has it, includes all of the above and adds iOS too.In the face of all that flux, Google’s Pixel 11 Pro Fold has hardly changed a thing.Like the other…

Amazon has revealed its Prime Air drone delivery service is expanding to reach almost 500 towns and cities across the United States by the end of the year. The service, which currently offers delivery as fast as 30 minutes, is currently available in 11 hubs, serving towns and cities within a 175 square mile radius. However, the forthcoming expansion is going to increase the footprint six-fold, giving access to tens of millions more consumers, Amazon says. Right now Amazon offers drone deliveries in: Tolleson, Arizona (Phoenix metro area) Ruskin, Florida (Tampa metro area) Kansas City, Kansas Papillion, Nebraska (Omaha metro…

Apple’s CarPlay Ultra infotainment system is finally starting to make it into luxury vehicles, giving everyone else a glimpse at the technology that is likely to succeed CarPlay as time goes on. The future of in-car connectivity is finally making its way into vehicles in the US, UK and Canada with a host of other manufacturers committed to adopting the tech, which unites all of the car’s systems under one neat and tidy Apple aesthetic that spans all of the vehicles screens. Let’s take a deeper look at the upgrades… What is CarPlay? Traditional CarPlay is an iPhone-based experience that…

With a looming IPO, intense competition from Anthropic, and Chinese and open-weight rivals nipping at its heels, OpenAI has plenty of reasons to move fast. Instead, it hit the brakes.On Tuesday, the company said it had slowed the pace of some AI development while it tightened security and safeguards. That included a two-week pause in reinforcement learning training on its “latest models intended for deployment,” and an ongoing delay to its “largest planned frontier RL run.”The decision is a very public test of an idea AI safety advocates have pushed for for years: that companies should be willing to bow…

The Google Pixel Watch 5 has, in many ways, been the hardest Pixel Watch to accurately review. Barely anything has changed in terms of hardware. The sizes are the same, the chips and battery got an itty-bitty boost, and there’s a new pyrite satin case finish. Instead, the big updates are all software-related: This year’s watch gets ambitious new health features that expand on the overhauled Google Health app and its AI coach introduced with the Fitbit Air earlier this year.The only problem is those health updates aren’t here. The watch’s most interesting new features — blood pressure and insulin…

There are some jobs where replacing a human with a robot feels fairly unremarkable. Building a car? Fine. Shifting boxes around a warehouse? We’ve seen it before. Injecting a single sperm cell into a human egg to help create an embryo? That one’s a little more novel, and it’s already happening, thanks to the advent of AI IVF robots. One of the most ambitious attempts comes from New York-based Conceivable Life Sciences, which has spent the past few years developing AURA – an automation-assisted IVF laboratory designed to carry out much of the painstaking work traditionally performed by highly trained…

Introduction You don’t have to be a fan of Google’s Gemini voice assistant to appreciate the Pixel 11 Pro XL – but it certainly helps. The plus-sized flagship phone is now so keen to let you know its AI brain is listening or thinking that it glows. HiLight might be the headline act, but that’s partly because Google has spent the last few years streamlining its Pro-grade Pixel line to within an inch of its life. It means you’re getting slightly tweaked styling, a next-gen chipset, and one or two welcome improvements to the camera hardware – in your choice…