Month: October 2023

It will have seven years of Android updates for the Pixel 8 series

Google on Tuesday unveiled Pixel 8 and 8 Pro smartphones which will get seven years of OS, security, and feature drops updates. Users will receive the latest updates every few months and new features with Feature Drops every few months, Google said. The Pixel 8 and 8 Pro support face unlocking with the same amount of security as fingerprint unlocking.

Kevin Scott talked about Bing’s quest to beat Google and their future

Kevin McReynolds, the creative director of YouTube, spoke about the future of AI and said, “You’re almost Certainly going to want to use some of these AI tools to help produce content.” He added, “What you want from a search engine and what you’re going to want from an agent is a little more complicated than just asking a question and getting an answer.”

Silicon Valley is falling for frauds

FTX Co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried, who was arrested in August this year, had told The New York Times before his arrest that he “didn’t ever try to commit fraud on anyone”. “I didn’t ever try to enter into a criminal enterprise,” he had said. Bankman-Fried has pleaded not guilty to seven counts including securities fraud, wire fraud and conspiracy to launder money.

Bing is worse than GOOGLE, and Apple could fix it, according to Nadella

Google CEO Satya Nadella, in a recent interview, said that search engines “are the organising layer of the internet” and added that they’re looking at artificial intelligence (AI) to “improve it”. He added that AI has the potential to shake up the market a bit but also believes it could further entrench Google’s dominance.