Three hikers were rescued from California’s Mount Shasta this week after using Google’s AI chatbot Gemini to plan their expedition, according to the Chicago Tribune. A report from the Siskiyou County sheriff’s office said that three young men set off on their hike at 3am and — although hikers are told to turn around if
We have all been caught out by a vague weekend forecast. You check your phone on a Saturday morning, see a generic prediction of possible showers across regional Victoria or coastal New South Wales, decide to wash your car or plan a road trip, and within two hours a rogue storm cell dumps rain straight
Getting a smart home audio setup to sync perfectly across different rooms and platforms is often a frustrating experience. For years, the audio industry has pushed consumers into proprietary ecosystems, severely limiting how we interact with our own hardware. Sonos is attempting to dismantle some of that friction with the introduction of its Sonos 27
Google just released a new AI model this month. Its employees are already testing the next one. Some staff have begun using a preview version of Gemini 3.8 Flash, highlighting the breakneck pace of the AI race as Google pushes out new models just weeks apart to keep up with OpenAI and Anthropic. The new
Google gets something right in its Wednesday announcement about new Gemini Live voice features when it says, “You shouldn’t have to guess whether a task requires Spark, a Daily Brief, or a quick inbox search.” Google means that as a promise — that the updated Gemini app can handle a variety of tasks via voice
ChatGPT is the most well-known AI chatbot around, but Gemini has been gaining popularity for the past few years. Both models are great with text, but we’re in a multimodal world now, and using your camera to help AI identify objects is becoming increasingly common. Both ChatGPT and Gemini Flash have seen upgrades in the