🤖 AI's groundbreaking Gemini model, Android Text Bridge, Rolls-Royce's Lunar Reactor
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Introducing Gemini: our largest and most capable AI model. Every technology shift is an opportunity to advance scientific discovery, accelerate human progress, and improve lives. I believe the transition we are seeing right now with AI will be the most profound in our lifetimes, far bigger than the shift to mobile or to the web before it. By Sundar Pichai via Google Blog
𝕏: The Gemini era is here. Thrilled to launch Gemini 1.0, our most capable & general AI model. Built to be natively multimodal, it can understand many types of info. Efficient & flexible, it comes in 3 sizes each best-in-class & optimized for different uses - Demis Hassabis (@demishassabis)
Beeper Is the Latest App to Let Android Phones Join the Blue Bubble Texting Party. Eric Migicovsky has long been a believer in open source software. The mild-mannered but intense Canadian systems engineer is most known for creating—and very successfully crowdfunding—the cultish Pebble smartwatch. By Lauren Goode via WIRED
𝕏: For 3 years @ericmigi, the founder of Pebble & an OS advocate, has been trying to figure out how to make green bubble texts play nice with blue bubble texts. His newest hack: A Python-based proof-of-concept developed by a 16 y/o coder. - Lauren Goode (@LaurenGoode)
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Rolls-Royce unveils concept nuclear reactor that could power colony on moon. Rolls-Royce unveiled a concept model for a miniature nuclear reactor that could go to the moon. The reactor could one day power a colony of lunar astronauts. The company aims to have a reactor ready by the early 2030s. By Marianne Guenot via Business Insider
Robinhood launches E.U. crypto-trading app in renewed push for global expansion. Robinhood Markets on Thursday launched a new commission-free crypto trading app for customers in the European Union as it makes a renewed push to expand its business outside the U.S. The E.U. launch comes just a week after the California company outlined plans to launch a new, commission-free stock trading app in the U.K. By Louis Goss via MarketWatch
From Unicorns to Zombies: Tech Start-Ups Run Out of Time and Money. WeWork raised more than $11 billion in funding as a private company. Olive AI, a health care start-up, gathered $852 million. Convoy, a freight start-up, raised $900 million. And Veev, a home construction start-up, amassed $647 million. In the last six weeks, they all filed for bankruptcy or shut down. By Erin Griffith via The New York Times
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