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Google Has Renamed Its AI Chatbot Bard As Gemini, And It Now Has an Android App

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Google Has Renamed Its AI Chatbot Bard As Gemini, And It Now Has an Android App

Google is rebranding Bard and Duet AI in the same way that Microsoft did with Bing Chat to Copilot in order to streamline their generative AI branding. Now, the services are called Gemini, after the multimodal AI model developed by Google. This month, a leak about the name change occurred. In addition, Google unveiled a Gemini Android app and a premium version of the chatbot with more advanced features.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai stated in a blog post that “Bard has been the best way for people to directly experience our most capable models.” In order to better represent the cutting-edge technology at its heart, Bard will now go by Gemini. It’s accessible on the web in forty languages, and soon it will be available on the Google app for iOS and the new Gemini app for Android.”

It is possible to change Google Assistant to become the default assistant on a device by downloading the Gemini Android app. Thus, your phone or tablet may launch Gemini rather than Assistant when you long press the home button or say “Hey Google.” By choosing to opt in through Assistant, you may also make this change.

By doing this, a new conversational overlay will appear on your screen. In addition to providing quick access to Gemini, the overlay will provide contextual recommendations, including the option to create a caption for a picture you just shot or inquire about further details about an item that is currently displayed on your screen.

Through the Gemini app, you can also access frequently used Assistant services, such as managing smart home devices and placing calls and timers. In the future, Google promises to add more Assistant features to Gemini. That does seem to indicate that Google is gradually replacing Assistant with Gemini. Additionally, Gemini Advanced is accessible through the app (more on that in a bit).

There won’t be a separate Gemini app for iOS at this time. Alternatively, by pressing the Gemini toggle in the Google app, you can access it.

Starting today, Gemini is accessible in English on both Android and iOS in the United States. Google is going to begin providing the chatbot with more locations in English, along with Japanese and Korean, starting next week. Gemini is eventually expanding to other nations and languages, as one could anticipate.

Furthermore, Google is making Ultra 1.0, their largest and most powerful AI model, available through Gemini Advanced. According to the business, this can hold lengthier, more in-depth discussions and remember context from earlier exchanges. It claims that Gemini Advanced “is far more capable at highly complex tasks like coding, logical reasoning, following nuanced instructions and collaborating on creative projects.”

Gemini Advanced is currently accessible in 150 countries and territories in English. You must enroll in the new Google One AI Premium Plan in order to access it. This comes with a two-month free trial and costs $20 per month, which is the same as Copilot Pro. This subscription comes with Gemini Advanced in addition to all the features of the Google One Premium Plan, such as 2TB of storage and a VPN. In the near future, subscribers will also be able to utilize Gemini in programs like Gmail, Docs, Slides, and Sheets (this will replace Duet AI).

Notably, Google says that when developing Gemini Advanced and other AI products, it tried to allay worries about things like prejudice and harmful content. The business claims to have tested Gemini Advanced via “extensive trust and safety checks, including external red-teaming”—that is, testing by outside ethical hackers—before fine-tuning and using reinforcement learning to improve the model.

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Apple’s own 5G modem-equipped iPhone SE 4 is “confirmed” to launch in March

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Tom O’Malley, an analyst at Barclays, recently visited Asia with his colleagues to speak with suppliers and makers of electronics. The analysts said they had “confirmed” that a fourth-generation iPhone SE with an Apple-designed 5G modem is scheduled to launch near the end of the first quarter next year in a research note they released this week that outlines the main conclusions from the trip. That timeline implies that the next iPhone SE will be unveiled in March, similar to when the present model was unveiled in 2022, in keeping with earlier rumors.

The rumored features of the fourth-generation iPhone SE include a 6.1-inch OLED display, Face ID, a newer A-series chip, a USB-C port, a single 48-megapixel rear camera, 8GB of RAM to enable Apple Intelligence support, and the previously mentioned Apple-designed 5G modem. The SE is anticipated to have a similar design to the base iPhone 14.

Since 2018, Apple is said to have been developing its own 5G modem for iPhones, a move that will let it lessen and eventually do away with its reliance on Qualcomm. With Qualcomm’s 5G modem supply arrangement for iPhone launches extended through 2026 earlier this year, Apple still has plenty of time to finish switching to its own modem. In addition to the fourth-generation iPhone SE, Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo earlier stated that the so-called “iPhone 17 Air” would come with a 5G modem that was created by Apple.

Whether Apple’s initial 5G modem would offer any advantages to consumers over Qualcomm’s modems, such quicker speeds, is uncertain.

Qualcomm was sued by Apple in 2017 for anticompetitive behavior and $1 billion in unpaid royalties. In 2019, Apple purchased the majority of Intel’s smartphone modem business after the two firms reached a settlement in the dispute. Apple was able to support its development by acquiring a portfolio of patents relating to cellular technology. It appears that we will eventually be able to enjoy the results of our effort in four more months.

On March 8, 2022, Apple made the announcement of the third-generation iPhone SE online. With antiquated features like a Touch ID button, a Lightning port, and large bezels surrounding the screen, the handset resembles the iPhone 8. The iPhone SE presently retails for $429 in the United States, but the new model may see a price increase of at least a little.

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Google is said to be discontinuing the Pixel Tablet 2 and may be leaving the market once more

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Google terminated the development of the Pixel Tablet 3 yesterday, according to Android Headlines, even before a second-generation model was announced. The second-generation Pixel Tablet has actually been canceled, according to the report. This means that the gadget that was released last year will likely be a one-off, and Google is abandoning the tablet market for the second time in just over five years.

If accurate, the report indicates that Google has determined that it is not worth investing more money in a follow-up because of the dismal sales of the Pixel Tablet. Rumors of a keyboard accessory and more functionality for the now-defunct project surfaced as recently as last week.

It’s important to keep in mind that Google’s Nest subsidiary may abandon its plans for large-screen products in favor of developing technologies like the Nest Hub and Hub Max rather than standalone tablets.

Google has always had difficulty making a significant impact in the tablet market and creating a competitor that can match Apple’s iPad in terms of sales and general performance, not helped in the least by its inconsistent approach. Even though the hardware was good, it never really fought back after getting off to a promising start with the Nexus 7 eons ago. Another problem that has hampered Google’s efforts is that Android significantly trails iPadOS in terms of the quantity of third-party apps that are tablet-optimized.

After the Pixel Slate received tremendously unfavorable reviews, the firm first declared that it was finished producing tablets in 2019. Two tablets that were still in development at the time were discarded.

By 2022, however, Google had altered its mind and declared that a tablet was being developed by its Pixel hardware team. The $499 Pixel Tablet was the final version of the gadget, which came with a speaker dock that the tablet could magnetically connect to. (Google would subsequently charge $399 for the tablet alone.)

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Windows 11 PCs with Arm Processors now have an Official ISO for Clean Installations

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Power users occasionally prefer to start over when they acquire a new computer, so they follow the pro-gamers’ advice and reinstall Windows using a brand-new ISO image that comes straight from Microsoft and is free of bloatware and needlessly complex “driver management programs.” Up until recently, the new Snapdragon laptops’ more specialized version of Windows 11 didn’t support that.

The Windows 11 build on these new laptops is unusual because of the Arm64-based hardware, which differs from the typical x86 and x64 innards found in most laptops and desktops. Microsoft has finally released a disk image (or ISO file) for these devices after several months of waiting. To perform a direct reinstallation or make a bootable flash drive for a different device, you may now download it straight from Microsoft’s website. It is identical to the installation media utility that is currently available.

Be aware that there may be some glitches if you use this method for a fresh install. Compared to previous designs, the Snapdragon X system-on-a-chip has a lot fewer hardware variables, but because it’s so new, Windows Update might not include all the necessary components. You may need to use an Ethernet connection or the old-fashioned sneakernet to manually load drivers from another computer. You may also need to do some Googling to locate all the files you require for that.

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