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Image Source : FILE Google's 8th Startups Accelerator India Batch targeting AI and ML startups Google has announced the opening of applications for the eighth batch of its startup accelerator program in India, focused on nurturing startups leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML). The program, called Google for Startups Accelerator: India, aims…

Apple has the Find My app which can come in really handy to track lost/stolen devices. While one may not always find their lost devices, there’s the option to track devices. At its annual developer conference, Google announced that it is expanding its Find My Device network. Now, Google has said that its plan has been delayed. “At this time we’ve made the decision to hold the rollout of the Find My Device network until Apple has implemented protections for iOS,” said Erik Kay, vice president, engineering, Google. Apple…

The Google Chromecast patent case has been standing for some time now. After a legal trial, the court found that Google is guilty of the charges laid against it and must pay. Total damages from this case amount to $338.7 million as decided by the court last week. This case brings to light certain software elements on the Chromecast that are patents belonging to a tech company. The exact feature at the centre of this dispute is remote-sharing technology. With this feature, users can stream content across various screens…

Samsung followed through on its promise to reveal its two latest foldables during its Unpacked event in Seoul today. We now know that the new flagship foldable, the Galaxy Z Fold 5, indeed uses a new Flex Hinge to narrow the gap between the two halves of the screen, shaving more than two millimeters off the folded thickness. The new model also employs the second-generation Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 processor and the internal screen got a brightness boost.   As our reviewer Sam Rutherford notes in his hands-on, that's where…

Mark Zuckerberg dubbed 2023 as Meta’s “year of efficiency", corporate-speak for admitting that his social-media empire was bloated. Since November Meta has cut 21,000 jobs, or about a quarter of its workforce. Bosses of its fellow tech titans have also embraced the efficiency mantra. Alphabet (Google’s corporate parent), Amazon and Microsoft have collectively shed more than 50,000 jobs since October. As big tech reports its earnings this week expect more talk of “re-engineering the cost base".…

Once trained, the model could reconstruct music from an fMRI employing the use of MusicLM. Since MusicLM generates music from text, it was conditioned to create music similar to the original music stimuli on a semantic level. When put to the test, the generated music resembled the musical stimuli that the participant initially listened to in features such as  genre, instrumentation, mood, and more. On the research page's site, you can listen to several clips of the original music stimuli and compare them to the…

We’re all used to the current look of Google Photos, but there’s a chance that it could change. Thanks to a popular Telegram channel, it seems that Google is testing a new UI for Google Photos. Google’s defining and redefining its Material You interface, and this means several redesigns for its apps. The company is working on creating a more unified look across its apps. Apps like the Google Play Store, Google Wallet, Google Chat, and others have seen subtle changes over the past couple of months. Google Photos could be…

Google rolled out the Android 13 OS last year and now it is set to introduce the next Android version, Android 14, later this year. While Android 14 is still in the beta phase, expected features and improvements included with the next version of Google's mobile operating system have already emerged on the Internet. Android 14 has now been tipped to bring satellite connectivity support to smartphones, which will let users send emergency message alerts without using cellular or WiFi coverage. The feature was also introduced…

In a move that will surely add pressure on Apple to do the same, Google says it's folding a new interoperable messaging specification into its Messages app.The recent publication of the IETF’s Message Layer Security (MLS) specification is another step on the road to major messaging platforms being interoperable, allowing people to send messages between services for the first time. Google says it's applying MLS to the Messages app on Android, but what comes next?Whether Apple will choose to follow suit is a big question…

As months go by, the debates about the merits or demerits of artificial intelligence (AI) continue, while developments simultaneously carry on at their own pace. Notably, Google co-founder Sergey Brin has made a return to the company to work on a secret AI project called Gemini. On the other hand, seven big tech companies including Google, OpenAI, Microsoft and Meta have agreed to voluntary regulations on the rapid development of AI.All this, and more in our roundup of the 5 big things in AI that you may have missed…