Mark Rober

Google unveiled its new AI model Gemini on Wednesday, giving the public a first look at a technology that’s had the tech press mired in rumors. Gemini, the company’s most powerful AI to date, comes to Bard and Pixel 8 Pro smartphones starting today, and will soon integrate with other products across Google’s services including Chrome, Search, Ads, and more. Google has a top-line message it wants you to hear: this thing is way better than anything you’ll get from OpenAI. Zillow Says You’ll Buy Your Next House With… AI? |…

The top videos on YouTube for 2022 included eulogies for a passed Minecraft star, a coming out video, and a real-life Chocolate Factory.Screenshot: Technoblade/Jaiden Animations/Mr. BeastAs annoying as existing on YouTube seems to be in this day and age—when you’re halted ever three to five minutes by a State Farm ad—I still come back to the platform regularly. I can’t help it. There are many different video platforms, but as agonizing as it is to notice the increasing number of ads or know how little your decisions…

Although it’s a game that can trace its origins back over 700 years, most people know Dominoes as a fun chain reaction toy that’s actually only fun when it comes to knocking them down, not the stressful process of stacking them up. With that in mind, Grant Davis built a self-stacking and self-toppling domino machine using nothing but Lego, and it’s an engineering marvel.Building machines that can stack domino tiles in long chains is relatively simple. In fact, there have been battery-powered toys that can do that since…