Google is open-sourcing its 3D emoji
Google is open-sourcing its 3D emoji

Now, if you want to, you can use Google’s 3D emoji in your own creations. The company shared some details about how it went about designing the little pictograms and why, as part of World Emoji Day on Friday. Things you might not necessarily worry about in a 2D illustration suddenly become very important when […]

Google used Veo and Gemini to reconstruct the greatest goal Pelé ever scored, which was never filmed
Google used Veo and Gemini to reconstruct the greatest goal Pelé ever scored, which was never filmed

On August 2, 1959, Pelé scored what he called the greatest goal of his career: three consecutive sombreros over defenders, a knee flick past the goalkeeper, and a header into the net, all without the ball ever touching the ground. It was never filmed. …

Google’s AI just recreated the best goal ever by Pele that was never actually filmed

Google used live stadium capture, and combined it with archival material to bring Pele’s legendary goal to life. The Veo video engine, Gemini Omni, and Nano Banana Pro AI tools tagged alongside in the journey to revive a lost marvel.

Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 8: Everything we know

Samsung’s clamshell foldable is no longer a rumor. Here’s everything officially confirmed about the Galaxy Z Flip 8, from pricing to cameras to release date.

Google Contacts borrows a handy iPhone trick to make sharing your number easier

Google is rolling out a small but useful update to the Contacts app on Android that makes it much easier to find and share your own contact details. Instead of digging through settings or creating a separate contact for yourself, you’ll now see a dedic…

Apple and Google ordered to purge ‘nudify’ apps from App Stores

In letters sent to Apple and Google, San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu said that both companies have long been aware that they are hosting apps in violation of state law.

An Oversight Board study says top AI models are stifling political speech
An Oversight Board study says top AI models are stifling political speech

Ask a leading AI model to criticise a government with strong free-speech protections, and it usually will. Ask it to criticise a repressive one, and it is far more likely to refuse. That is the finding of a new study from the Oversight Board. The board…

AI’s fiercest rivals just agreed on one thing: regulate frontier AI now
AI’s fiercest rivals just agreed on one thing: regulate frontier AI now

The people building the most powerful AI rarely agree on much. This week, three of them agreed on one big thing. The frontier needs regulating, and soon. Over five weeks, the chiefs of Google DeepMind, OpenAI and Anthropic each published a memo on how …

Google workers rally at Mountain View HQ, demanding a floor under their jobs
Google workers rally at Mountain View HQ, demanding a floor under their jobs

Just after 9am on Thursday, roughly 100 Google workers gathered outside the company’s Mountain View headquarters, placards in hand, to press a demand that would once have sounded quaint: let us keep our jobs. The rally, organised by the Alphabet Worker…

DeepMind’s Hassabis says a STEM degree makes you 10x better with AI
DeepMind’s Hassabis says a STEM degree makes you 10x better with AI

AI is reshaping tech careers. But it will not kill off the value of a STEM degree, according to Google DeepMind chief Demis Hassabis. He made the comments at a London business conference, in a video published on Wednesday. Knowing the fundamentals of s…