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Google adds 13 third-party apps to Gemini, letting the assistant book appointments and stream music
Google announced on August 12, at its Made by Google event, that a new slate of connected apps is coming to Gemini…
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Google uses AI and 3D building models to deliver GPS twice as accurate on Pixel Watch 5
Google announced the Pixel Watch 5 on August 12 and set a general availability date of August 20. The company says the…
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A social app launched two and a half years ago as a “zany idea” has now posted 141.5 million daily mobile users, and the rival it surged past still claims a bigger monthly audience that hides a startling daily-use collapse
It started as what Instagram head Adam Mosseri called a zany idea. Two and a half years later, it has redrawn the…
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Meta’s Threads crossed 400 million monthly users as new data showed its rival posting a 15 percent annual decline in daily users, and the September tipping point that already edged the text-social race
Something big shifted in the text-social market, and it happened on two fronts at once. Two numbers landed in close succession: one…
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D-Wave publishes two-qubit gate result in Nature with ~99.9% fidelity as first-half bookings surge 1,120%
D-Wave Quantum published a peer-reviewed paper in Nature on August 5 demonstrating a two-qubit entangling gate built on its dual-rail superconducting architecture.…
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D-Wave’s first-half bookings surge 1,120 percent to $35.5 million as quantum demand accelerates
D-Wave Quantum posted first-half 2026 bookings of $35.5 million on August 6, a more than 1,120 percent surge year-over-year that signals accelerating…
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A free messaging app that serves no ads just crossed 3 billion monthly users, and the AI role it landed almost overnight that nobody in the United States saw coming
Most Americans still open a different app to send a text. They have no idea a rival has just done something no…
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A chat app that launched as a research preview crossed 1 billion monthly users faster than any app in history, and the speed record it just broke that no messaging platform, social network or search engine had ever managed before it
It launched as a research preview in November 2022, and the people who first tried it mostly expected it to stay a…
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LinkedIn adds “Seems like AI slop” reporting button as platform blocks billions of automation attempts
LinkedIn has launched a crowdsourced tool against the flood of machine-written posts filling its feed, adding a user-facing reporting button labeled "Seems…
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Facebook overhauls its feed with five changes in its biggest redesign in years
Meta pushed five simultaneous changes to Facebook's feed around August 8, marking what the company describes as its most significant visual and…
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A set of earbuds that sits loosely on the outside of your ear delivered Apple’s first active noise cancellation without a seal, and the 48,000-times-per-second loop hidden inside the chip that made it happen
Most people who own a pair of wireless earbuds have noticed the same ritual: press the tip into your ear canal, feel…
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A pair of earbuds slipped into hundreds of millions of ears blocks out the roar of a packed subway car, and the single chip running a calculation 48,000 times every second that almost nobody knows is buried inside
You slide them in on a crowded subway platform and press a button. The rumble of the train, the chatter of a…