Gemini just made some new friends, and they're actually pretty useful.

Google has also refreshed its foldable smartphone lineup with the Pixel 11 Pro Fold and it is officially coming to Malaysia alongside the rest of the Pixel 11 series next week. The new bookstyle foldable Made by Google gets a thinner and lighter design, improved performance with Google’s new Tensor G6 chip and an upgraded […]

Made By Google launches a suite of new Gemini tools for Pixel phones, as the AI assistant hits one billion monthly users.

Ukraine says thousands of foreign components remain inside Russian weapons, while indirect supply networks continue supporting Moscows expanding drone production.

Google's Pixel 11 lineup is finally here, along with the Pixel Watch 5 and a rival to Apple's AirTag . Here's what debuted at the 'Made by Google' event

Every Pixel 11, Pro, Pro XL, Pro Fold, and Pixel Watch 5 spec and feature Google officially announced at Made by Google.

The Pixel 11 and Pixel 11 Pro were announced ahead of Made by Google

Google unveiled the Pixel Tag, Apple AirTag competitor, ahead of its Made by Google event

Google announced the Pixel Watch 5 at its Made by Google event Wednesday

The Pixel Tag uses Google's Find Hub network for tracking. It's made out of stainless steel designed to resist flexing and cracking, and it's IP67-rated for water and dust resistance

At its Made by Google 2026 event today, Google unveiled a slew of new devices, headlined by the Pixel 11, Pixel 11 Pro, and Pixel 11 Pro Fold

With the Made by Google event now in full force, the internet search giant has unveiled its newest wave of devices

Alongside the Pixel 11 series, Google also unveiled the Pixel Watch 5 at its Made by Google event

Ahead of its annual Made By Google event, Google has officially lifted the veil from the Pixel 11 family

Made By Google will likely see the launch of the Pixel 11, Pixel Watch, and more

Internet search giant Google has scheduled its Made by Google event for 6AM of 13 August local time

The Pixel 11 Pro XL was just announced at Made By Google 2026.

Google has officially unveiled its latest Made by Google hardware for 2026 which includes the latest Pixel 11 series smartphones, a new Pixel 11 Pro Fold and the new Pixel Watch 5

Google's Pixel 11 is very similar to the Pixel 10, and it's missing the most interesting new feature of the overall lineup.

Google is rolling out new Pixel accessories as part of Made by Google

Check out the latest announcements about Pixel devices at Made by Google 2026.

Ive spent time with Googles new Pixel 11, Pixel 11 Pro, and Pixel 11 Pro XL to see how the trio stacks up, from the refined designs and standout colors to the new Tensor G6 chip, upgraded cameras, and Pro-exclusive HiLight feature.

Google is launching a new color and upgraded features for Pixel Buds Pro 2 and Pixel Buds 2a as part of Made by Google.

Samsung has made it a tradition to release a new ringtone with every flagship launch

After multiple public appearances and even some leaks, the HONOR Robot Phone has made its commercial debut in China

Details of their work are published in the journal npg Asia Materials. To build the robots, researchers started with microscopic MXene particles made of ultrathin, stacked layers

Gearing up to shred the slopes or dive into the seas? These photography tools are made for danger.

Bookstores in Europe receive massive online purchases for obscure titles that haven't seen interest in years. They fear that these orders were made by AI firms looking to find more data to train their LLMs.

sciencehabit shares a report from Science Magazine: For more than half a century, physicists have searched for one of the strangest particles predicted by modern theory. It would be made almost entirely of gluons, the elusive subatomic particles that carry the strong nuclear force

Let's all go a bit mad scientist and see if software can validate our wildest theories

You may have seen watermarks on AI-generated images to indicate that they were indeed made with AI

As we near the Made By Google Pixel 11 launch which will happen in NYC on 12 August 2026, Google has already revealed whats going to happen with their own teaser videos

MyGOV’s AI chatbot is back, almost a year after the original chatbot was shut down for providing inaccurate and nonsensical answers. When we tested the original MyGOV Beta AI Chat in August 2025, it made several factual mistakes

Pixel 11, Pixel 11 Pro Fold, Watch 5, Gemini AI, and more: everything expected at Made by Google, Aug 12.

The Google Pixel 11 series is going official tomorrow at the Made by Google event

Spotify wrote in its announcement that, "while we believe all artists have creative choice in determining how they present themselves, Spotify's programming is focused on elevating music from authentic artists building careers in music." "Although there's a broad spectrum in how artists use AI as a creative tool, the question of whether a profile represents an actual human is one where Spotify can help make a clear determination. This badge is about the artist's public identity, not about how the music was made," the company said

British Navy drones fitted with Chinese-made camera parts were found secretly sending signals back to China, prompting sovereignty concerns.

Before the Duo, there was this.

Google will unveil the Pixel 11 series at its Made by Google event tomorrow

Google officially scheduled its Made by Google 2026 event for August 12, and we expect to finally see the Google Pixel 11 series as well as the Pixel Watch 5

iOS 27 beta 5 adds more Search settings, redesigned app icons, and more. On Monday, three weeks after the release of iOS 27 beta 4, Apple made the fifth developer beta available for download

While there is certainly a crisis at hand, not every major supply chain-related claim will be completely true. On August 10, TF Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo wrote about market rumors that TSMC had a stockpile of 2-nanometer chips made for Apple

Still, there are larger problems. Generative AI companies suffer from leadership failures and decisions being made for the wrong reasons

And such deals will come with financial penalties to Paramount should it break such agreements with theaters. Again, this is all about Ellison standing behind his promises made at CinemaCon to maintain a hefty theatrical output and excellent windows to theaters

A new report reveals the rather obvious fact that Apple has been testing CXMT memory in more than the iPhone , but also says that competitors are shipping hardware overseas with the controversial RAM already. CMXT is rapidly becoming a major player in memory - image credit: CXMT The global chip shortage has seen Apple looking to use memory made by China's CXMT, even though the firm is blacklisted by the US

Getting bored of all the new smartphones out there? This one will be the one to pique your fancy

Willy Myco has made over 120 videos showing people his exact process for making everything from LSD to DMT vapes

The public pushback against data center construction projects is only growing stronger, even as some protesting local residents have been arrested in the process.

Typhoon Dolphin has weakened after it made landfall twice in east China's Zhejiang Province on August 9

Flock's cameras also missed vehicles altogether... At one point, Flock's product director for machine learning suggested that officers ask drivers to remove license plate frames that made it "very difficult for the machine vision to tell it is actually a 'E' and not an 'F.'" Roseville told Flock at the time that it wouldn't do so, according to the department spokesman

Hes not thrilled, but wont let it delay the release of version 7.2

The app's creator says it's a "social problem" that "we don't value privacy, that we feel entitled to use others for our entertainment or our private gain, and technology amplifies that." The American Civil Liberties Union than 70 organizations even sent a letter urging Meta to promise they'd leave facial recognition features out of their smart glasses, according to the article. But a Meta spokesperson said "no final decision has been made." Read more of this story at Slashdot.

(Dark mode, Reader, Neubrutalist, Broadsheet, Blueprint, Comic book, Punk zine, Notebook, Chalkboard, Receipt, Teletext, System 7, Wes Anderson, Cyber neon, Clay, Frosted, Geocities, Matrix, Museum, Windows 95, Terminal, Vaporwave, and Hide images...) "The frontend morphed before my eyes. Every new edit took practically no time to load, and within a second or two, the same XDA articles would reappear wearing a completely different skin..." For another site, it kept the article headlines, but then rewrote all the text! And after entering an address they knew didn't exist their own name in two seconds the browser whipped up a slick portfolio "genuinely been better than some of what those tools produced with far more time and context to work with." But its link to a LinkedIn profile led to a lookalike page, because Gem "had simply generated its own version of it, complete with a made-up follower number and details I never wrote...." Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Decision makers may also mistake their own 'light-user experience' for universal experience and believe all platforms are fungible. And while it's one thing for a business to delay their delivery dates and increase costs of by introducing a switch in computing environments that's of unquantified and possibly dubious value, how about when a switch in computing environments is made that affects schoolchildren's ability to learn for a period of time? While a MacBook Neo is indeed cute, what might be the possible consequences of a decision to move 25,000 students off Windows and onto MacBook Neos...? Or even the impact on a single kid who moves from a MacBook school to a Windows or Chrome school (or whose home computing environment isn't aligned with their school)

The FCC is proposing a retroactive sales ban on previously approved foreign-made drones with LiDAR and other military-grade features, potentially removing several popular DJI models from U.S

Deputies reported the damage appeared to have been caused by a blunt object." - On July 31, "Police said two camera poles had been intentionally cut in half, causing an estimated $10,000 in damage to the system." In West Virginia 20-year-old Wesley Jackson has been arrested for allegedly vandalizing Flock cameras, with another 20-year-old (a university student) now arrested for being his accomplice, according to a local news report. Ironically, Jackson's arrest was made possible partly by information from..

More details from Ars Technica: This is part of a series of new campaign chapters, all developed by MachineGames "in collaboration with id Software." MachineGames is best known for making the games in the relatively recent Wolfenstein reboot series, as well as Indiana Jones and the Great Circle. The Quake maps are made by a team dubbed "Quake Club," which includes several MachineGames employees who work on Quake maps in their spare time

A new generation of philanthropists made rich by artificial intelligence are preparing to give away their vast wealth

"This represents an exciting moonshot for Kimberly-Clark and the culmination of more than two decades of materials and plant science expertise," said Craig Slavtcheff, who is helping develop the new toilet paper. However, the company said products made from hesperaloe remained years away from supermarket shelves, with further research needed before the fibre could be produced at the scale required for global manufacturing

At a Hiroshima memorial ceremony, Japan's prime minister said the country "maintains" its three long-standing non-nuclear principles, reports UPI. But the prime minister "stopped short of promising that the policy would remain unchanged, fueling speculation that her government could review a longstanding ban on allowing nuclear weapons into the country." [Prime Minister Sanae] Takaichi made the remarks Thursday at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Ceremony marking the 81st anniversary of the U.S

The Associated Press reports: The Korea Aerospace Research Institute's Danuri spacecraft flew over the impact site soon after the Falcon 9 upper stage inadvertently plowed into the moon on Wednesday. Danuri made multiple passes, snapping photos from lunar orbit that were released by the space agency Thursday

The photograph, taken in visible light, made it possible to observe for the first time the tiny plasma vortices that had been predicted for more than a century.

Google is all set to announce some new flagship phones soon

Yiyang Zhuge was already an intellectual celebrity in China. Her viral interview with Christopher Nolan made her famous in the USand quickly turned her into a political Rorschach test.

Take-Two Interactive has reported earnings of $1.39 billion during Grand Theft Auto 6's pre-order period.

President Trump has ordered a 15% tariff on imported products made with polysilicon, a key material for semiconductors and solar panels

The original Mac Pro is 20 years old today and even though the whole range is now gone, people are still celebrating this old, favorite workhorse from a time when it was the clear top of Apple's lineup

Now, theres a report of another generative AI model making another virus, but this one is making real-life ones, not virtual ones. And since its […] The post AI Models Made Real Life Viruses That Spread By Infecting Bacteria appeared first on Lowyat.NET .

Climate change made Spain's fire weather 20 times more likely: study

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Future Soldier is free to keep right now.

Chinese AI companies have made recent leaps in closing the performance gap with U.S

"The new data leave only one conclusion. The bacterial and archaeal lineages made the transition to the free-living state independently

Save $300 on this Newegg-made ABS Cyclone Aqua gaming PC, featuring an RTX 5060 Ti 16GB, Intel Core i7-14700F, 16GB DDR5, and a 1TB SSD for $1,399.99 right now.

Researchers in China have developed a living mycelium textile that can self-clean, renew its surface, and partially repair holes when treated with a nutrient solution and fresh fungus

Leaks of the Google Pixel Watch 5 from last month already showed what it would look like, and to some degree, its spec sheet. A more recent leak sheds light on some of the features that you can expect from the smartwatch made by the internet search giant