AI video has gotten good at making impressive clips. Google’s latest Gemini update is about making those clips obey the creator. Announced on Aug. 27, Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash gives developers several new ways to control what happens between the beginning and end of a generated sequence, including extending existing footage and generating motion between
As the new Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope heads for deep space, the public can follow its three‑month trip in near-real time with NASA‘s online tracker. The spacecraft launched on Sunday, Aug. 30, from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket. It’s now cruising on its own toward its final orbit about 1
Sonos has a new app. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. The smart speaker company, long a darling of the audio industry, undid much of the goodwill it earned with its multiroom speakers through a bevy of software updates that broke its app in 2024. Almost all app users hated it, citing the
The founders behind Starcloud, a startup with plans to operate a fleet of GPUs in orbit, have a new pitch for potential investors: A plan to send a tiny spacecraft on an 80,000 year journey to Alpha Centauri. If they do it, it will be the first human-built object explicitly aimed for another star, and
The Mac mini and Mac Studio, once beloved by video editors and coders, have become the unlikely workhorses of Silicon Valley’s most advanced artificial intelligence labs. OpenAI has purchased tens of thousands of Mac mini and Mac Studio computers in recent months, according to The Information, with the machines being used for reinforcement learning and
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Squarespace helps small businesses and regular Joe Schmoes to get software help to build their own websites (for both personal and business), even including the commerce side of things with point of sale, inventory, and customer data features (both online or in person). In the age where literally everything is digitized and accessed through the
Prominent solo investor Lachy Groom has backed a Bengaluru startup attempting an ambitious feat: keeping an aircraft in the sky for more than a year by harvesting energy from ocean winds. Alteon, founded by 20-year-old Samay Sanghvi, announced Tuesday that it raised $2.5 million in a pre-seed round led by Groom, with participation from Together
Google Maps users on opposite sides of the US-Canada border can now look at the same lake and see two different names. Google has begun displaying Lake Ontario as “Lake America” to users in the United States after President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the federal government to rename Lake Ontario and update
Updated at 4:53 p.m. CT: In a statement provided to Mashable through email, a Microsoft spokesperson issued the following statement: “We’re aware of an issue affecting access to Exchange Online and some other services. We know this is disruptive for customers and we appreciate their patience while we work to restore services as quickly as