New Google AI Model Said to Narrow Gap on Coding Ability
Internal tests of Gemini 3.8 Flash show progress in an area where the company has lagged behind Anthropic and OpenAI. A release is expected this week.
Apple follows Google in adopting Trump’s ‘Lake America’ name
Apple Maps is following President Trump’s executive order to change the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America.
Apple Maps follows Google in renaming Lake Ontario
Apple Maps has officially changed the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America, as reported earlier by Bloomberg. The company joins Google in re-labeling the Great Lake following an executive order signed by President Donald Trump in the midst of a trade dispute with Canada. The Canadian version of Apple Maps still shows “Lake Ontario”…
AMD MI355X Goes Live in Saudi Arabia: 1GW by 2030 [2026]
AMD, Cisco and the Saudi state-backed AI firm HUMAIN flipped the switch on a production AI computing cluster in Saudi Arabia on August 31, 2026, running AMD Instinct MI355X GPUs over a Cisco Silicon One network fabric. The announcement, distributed via GlobeNewswire and picked up by outlets including The National and Network World, marks the…
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Google’s Android update tackles motion sickness, accessibility, and more
The new features coming to Android are aimed at reducing motion sickness, helping blind users navigate their surroundings, and more.
How to Set Up DMARC, SPF & DKIM: 12 Steps, 90 Min [2026]
A domain with no SPF, DKIM, or DMARC record is an open invitation for scammers to send email that looks like it came from you. Business email compromise remains one of the costliest categories of cybercrime tracked by the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center, and most of those attacks start with a spoofed or look-alike…
Frontier models can recover up to 65% of facts they can't directly recall — just by thinking longer
When large language models (LLMs) hallucinate, developers typically assume the model lacks the required facts. Engineering teams diagnose the error as missing knowledge. The standard response is to increase model size, expand training data, or build complex retrieval architectures.A new study by researchers at Google Research and Technion demonstrates that the knowledge is often not…
Pokemon GO Joystick on PC: 12-Step Emulator Setup [2026]
Walking is still the point of Pokémon GO, but not every player can rack up kilometers on demand. Some are recovering from an injury, some live somewhere with zero spawns, and a growing number just want to check raids and events from a bigger screen while they work. That demand is why “pokemon go joystick”…
Ask a Scientist: How do researchers use AI to predict a cyclone?
A Google DeepMind scientist explains how AI weather prediction works and how it can help warn communities earlier than ever.