I’ve noticed a lot more businesses using AI agents to process customer support requests. But now it’s getting weird. Google’s Live Avatar feature is now available for those with Gemini Enterprise. This comes days after Google announced Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking. What exactly is Live Avatar? It combines an interactive
It’s been over 30 years since Ang Lee’s “Sense and Sensibility” became (for this critic, as for many) the Platonic ideal of the Jane Austen adaptation. Lush but controlled, dryly funny (thanks to Emma Thompson’s Oscar-winning script) in that chatty, cheeky, keenly perceptive Austen way, Lee’s classic also boasted a formidable cast to unleash a
One in five reptile species and two in five amphibian species are threatened with extinction1,2, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). In Central America, for instance, numbers of variable harlequin frogs (Atelopus varius) have fallen by more than 80% since the 1980s. In the Seychelles, the population of giant bronze geckos
Still in the bottom two in the table despite an upturn in form, Leicestershire need fortune to favour them after learning before play began that they had been charged with breaching ECB regulations over what was deemed a sub-standard pitch prepared for last month’s win over Glamorgan at Grace Road. They face losing all of
Derbyshire had earlier resumed their first innings on 162-2 and Montgomery looked in fine fettle as he posted a half century with seven fours and dominated a stand of 43 for the third wicket with nightwatchman Jack Morley. But Derbyshire’s smooth progress was rudely interrupted by the clatter of three wickets in six overs as
Dyson has spent six years trying to solve a problem most of us already know we have. We brush too quickly, skip the gaps between our teeth, and treat flossing as optional homework. The company’s answer is the Dyson CameraJet, a toothbrush that watches those gaps in real time and fires a burst of mouthrinse
