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...The company described “Gemini” as its “largest, most capable and most general” AI system, which can analyse information from images and audio and has sophisticated reasoning and “planning” capabilities....
...“We see an incredible potential [for smart glasses], especially as you use audio and large language models as an interface,” said Cristiano Amon, chief executive of Qualcomm, the mobile chipmaker whose processors...
...The smaller Gemini Nano is matched against systems such as the smallest version of LLaMa 2, Facebook’s open-source model, making it capable of being run on a mobile device....
...The increasing popularity of “low code/no code” software platforms, for example, will enable increasing numbers of non-expert users to create their own powerful mobile and web apps....
...JH: I remember doing mobile maps on the generation of smartphones before the iPhone — [when] they were just starting to add GPS to mobile phones. And it didn’t work very well....
...Tech tools — Alexander app Alexander is a mobile app and digital storytelling platform that fuses audio, writing, and film formats to intriguing effect, writes Saskia Solomon....
...new podcast buy, another Swedish streamerSpotify has agreed to buy podcasting company Megaphone for about $235m, the music streaming group’s latest move in its quest to become the leader of all things audio...
...Brussels is also looking at whether Google unfairly banned competitors from websites that used its search bar and ads; and how Google pays and limits mobile phone providers who use its Android software and...
...From digital photography to GPS navigation systems, audio players to fitness monitors, discrete services that used to count towards gross domestic product were now largely bundled into smartphones and uncounted...
...The mobile revolution that was touched off by the iPhone is 11 years old. The computing era is coming into sight....
...I want the sensors of Lenovo’s Mirage, the games, audio and usability of the Oculus Go, and the full-fledged console graphics of the PlayStation VR — that really would be a breakthrough....
...Looked at another way, though, all we are doing by pecking away at our mobile phones like so many digital battery hens is generating massive data sets for machine-learning programs to work out how to sell...
...Massive investments in mobile broadband and a highly competitive handset market means that nearly all of China’s approximately 750m internet users use smartphones....
...It uses ultrasound technology called Audio QR to enable transactions between phones that are next to each other, in a method that works like Bluetooth....
...When I read an incoming email on a mobile device, Google suggests three possible replies. “What?”, “I know!”, “I’ll check it out,” for example. Or: “You’re welcome!”, “Great!”...
...Brussels is also looking at whether Google unfairly banned competitors from websites that used its search bar and ads; and how it pays and limits mobile phone providers that use its Android software and...
...The third case examines how Google pays and limits mobile phone providers who use its Android software and play app store....
...Google is adding podcasts to its digital music service in a move that audio producers hope will expand their audience on Android, the world’s largest mobile platform....
...Scripps, which owns 33 TV stations and 34 radio stations across the US, has invested in digital video but is now looking to branch into audio content, particularly on mobile devices....
...“It’s a mobile-first medium: 70 per cent of our listening is on mobile devices....
...The company took steps to change this last year when it paid $3bn for Beats Electronics, the audio group founded by entrepreneur Jimmy Iovine and hip-hop star Dr Dre....
...Advances in peer-to-peer technology, coupled with sophisticated audio compression technology, permitted average users to reproduce files easily, and share them with millions....
...Hang out at any fashion conference – as I do – and you’ll realise: the future of shopping is mobile....
...That was more than double the $300m that Twitter spent on its largest acquisition so far, the mobile advertising exchange MoPub, which it bought in September 2013....
...Before that, Beats was primarily known for its headphones and audio equipment....
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